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how to paint

Created By: jayse

Last Modified: 01/02/07

Summary: Tutorials on how to paint - mainly digital with Photoshop or Corel Painter - but also oldschool techniques

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Skintone Tut - longest ever by =cypherx on deviantART

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http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34222893/?qo=12&q=by%3Acypherx&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

Red Queen Wip by *Kyena on deviantART

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http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35104608/

A VERY Basic Balloon Tutorial by =cypherx on deviantART

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http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44497692/?qo=2&q=by%3Acypherx&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

Link: http://www.artandcoffee.com/contact.html

THEORY (#401-406)

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http://hometown.aol.com/vegaspaint/401_406.html

Link: http://hometown.aol.com/vegaspaint/051_059.html

Portrait Painting Class Demonstration

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http://www.fineartportrait.com/workshop_demo_4.html

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http://www.furiae.com/popup.php?text=smoothtutorial

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http://www.furiae.com/popup.php?text=skintutorial

Link: http://www.furiae.com/tutorials.php

Classical Oil Portrait Technique Demonstration

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http://www.fineartportrait.com/workshop_demo_1.html

Link: http://www.fineartportrait.com/portrait_painting_demos.html

Portrait Painting Class Demonstration

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http://www.fineartportrait.com/workshop_demo_4.html

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Link: http://www.fineartportrait.com/workshop_demo_4.html

Portrait Painting Class Demonstration

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http://www.fineartportrait.com/workshop_demo_4.html

Audrey's technique

Today, in preparation for a new project i’ll be working on, i bought large wood panels, about four foot. tall. It’s going to be a panel of four. One for each girl. Sisters. Life size. i’ve never worked this big on wood, so this should be fun. Anyways, it’s plywood, and the patterns and grains didn’t look very smooth and pretty when purchased, but i took them home, and cut the edges round, and sanded the surface down real hard with my electric circular sanding tool (which i love and adore) and VOILA! They look absolutely silky beautiful now. i must say, this is one of my favorite parts in the process: sanding the wood down so fine, so smooth. i love running my fingers down the surface.

So then, i need to plan what to draw. i draw directly on with pencil. i usually don’t do sketches or transfer an already drawn image and this is why the drawing process sometime takes the longest time (or at least it feels like it) and most of my energy. i do lots of rough drawing on there, lots of erasing, lots of sanding down to clear out the un-erasable pencil marks. Sometimes this takes all day or two or three. After the complete drawing, i seal the wood and pencil with acrylic gel medium. This makes the wood surface paintable. i then use oil paint. thin layers and washes at first. i like to leave the wood grains and patterns divisible and translucent, the concentration on her face and eyes, lips, expression, then embellish her with decorative patterns and colors. The piece is complete once i coat a couple layers of polyurethane, which is wood furniture gloss/sealer.

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http://www.lifelounge.com/content/detail.aspx?id=1215

http://www.dibujando.com - Figura Femenina

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http://www.dreamers.com/dibujando/tutoriales.php?opt=print&idtut=116

http://www.dibujando.com - Figura Femenina

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http://www.dreamers.com/dibujando/tutoriales.php?opt=print&idtut=116

http://www.dibujando.com - Figura Femenina

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http://www.dreamers.com/dibujando/tutoriales.php?opt=print&idtut=116

http://www.dibujando.com - Figura Femenina

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http://www.dreamers.com/dibujando/tutoriales.php?opt=print&idtut=116

Link: http://www.dreamers.com/dibujando/tutoriales.php?opt=print&idtut=116

Link: http://www.dreamers.com/dibujando/tutoriales.php?opt=read&idtut=116&page=1

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once I figured out that while layers are your friends, they can be backstabbing friends, I stopped using them as extensively as I had. It's better to create a layer, paint what you like on it, and then flatten them down. Otherwise the painting often ends up looking as if though you HAVE used layers. Not a very good thing at all. For the most part, I'll have the character on a layer until the background is sort of done - then I flatten it down. I'll paint features on a separate layer and as soon as I have the shape I want, I flatten them down. I work in such a large format that I really can't keep too many layers even if I wanted to.

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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=229522&page=4&pp=15

I used to make that mistake of shading pink skin with pink and adding white highlights. I sometimes used dodge or multiply or burn to get my colours 'right' and the end result was always plastic, or clay-like. I know now that even if the skin is blue it calls for shadows and highlights of different colours to be believable. This is a lesson I've been continuing to work on this past year - which has been what I'd like to call 'skin tone' year where I've been trying to teach myself about all manners of different skin variations.

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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=229522&page=3&pp=15

these are the brushes I'm using for my current picture. Take a look and see if you find anything good there - a warning though, they're in terrible disarray (unnamed for added confusion) http://www.furiae.com/images/linda.abr

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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=229522&page=3&pp=15