Light and Colour in Photomanipulation by ImaginaryRosseArt, journal
Light and Colour in Photomanipulation
People and Portraits WeekHello everyone, my name is Andreea, also known as ImaginaryRosse.I'm a digital & 3d artist and my work is mostly known for the creative lighting and vibrant colors. Today I'm gonna walk you through how to achieve a portrait, using several resources: stock images, brushes and many techniques that will be achieved using Photoshop.
The way I go whenever I create an artwork can be broken down into 3 main steps. The "skeleton" The main process The final details First, I want to apologize as I never name my layers, and I have a very messy workflow. Yep! Guilty. Second, I want to show you the tools we will work with. ...
Digital Art WeekIn this guide I'd like to introduce you to timed studies, including a guide on how to effectively do timed practise studies, as well as some do's and don'ts. What is a timed study? A timed study is exactly what the name suggests: a painting study done during a set time. That time limit can be anything from a few seconds to an hour or two, depending on what it is you want to practise. "Study" can mean: 1) from a reference image and/or 2) preparatory drawing for a "full" piece (to practise a certain element of the future artwork or as a way to experiment before beginning the "real" artwork). Usually reference images are invol...
How to avoid common mistakes while drawing horses by Astralseed, journal
How to avoid common mistakes while drawing horses
Digital Art WeekHi everyone,
Today I'll be writing about how to avoid common mistakes while drawing horses.
If you're not used to drawing horses, or you haven't studied their anatomy extensively, you're likely to make one or more of these common mistakes. Let's learn how to avoid them so that your horse doesn't end up an eccentric mess like this guy below. (gif by @thetadonaldson) References This kind of applies to anything you intend to draw and not just horses, but I can't stress this enough so I felt the need to include this here.
When I talk about using references, I mean work from photos or real life. Please don't use other art...
Fur and Hair: Types and How To by ArtCrumbss, journal
Fur and Hair: Types and How To
Digital Art WeekHello everyone and welcome to Digital Art Week! I'm @Ahkward, a digital and traditional artist. I'm currently a freelancer and resident artist for Wacom and Graphixly (Clip Studio). Essentially I help out at conventions by demoing the tablets and art software. :'D @efelidi invited me to talk to you guys, so here I am! Our Digital Art Week this time will focus on animals, creatures and humans! I'll be covering fur and hair done digitally, specifically in Clip Studio, but if you are savvy enough, this will all apply to other digital programs as well! Let's get started. Digital Fur: A Variety of Looks Fur is something tha...
Intro to Photobashing (Textures) by Gaidenlight, journal
Intro to Photobashing (Textures)
Digital Art Week Intro Photographs can be used in a variety of different ways to help speed up your painting process. Some example of these uses are: to get an initial color palette, to fuse multiple images together to create a new one, or to use a photo to add textures to forms you have already established on your canvas. Working with deadlines doesn't typically allow you time to spend 20 hours in rendering a painting to completion, especially when working on products that require near photo realistic level in details. This is just a basic guide to show you a few tools, to add some texture to forms in a quick and easy way. How to use Clip...
Digital Art WeekIn this tutorial I'll show you the process of drawing people, using a base of basic shapes which can be used to draw different types of figures. The Base First, we'll create the base. For this, remember that in their most basic form, every person is composed by a head, a torso, and two legs and arms, so we're going to create a structure composed of simple shapes resembling these: Draw a circle, this will be the head. For the neck, simply draw two little lines at the bottom of the circle. For the torso, draw a rectangle beneath the neck. It doesn't need to be a perfect rectangle, in fact is best if it's slightly modified so ...
Anatomy of the Human Face by NykolaiAleksander, journal
Anatomy of the Human Face
Digital Art Week Mirror, Mirror... Faces are most definitely the one thing we see a lot of in our life, and yet, many artists struggle with drawing them.To be fair, faces are one of the hardest things to draw, as they are not like landscapes, where it doesn’t matter if a tree is a few centimetres off in height or width or even position in the painting. If you move any of the facial features just a little too much to the right or left, up or down, a portrait immediately looks strange, if not completely wrong. And that’s just one hurdle, because the individual parts that make up the face pose a challenge, too.In this article, I’ll be going o...
Posing 3D Figures Part II - Non-humanoid Figures by weyrwoman-lessa, journal
Posing 3D Figures Part II - Non-humanoid Figures
Digital Art Week Preliminaries To avoid misunderstandings: My 3D coordinates widget runs as follows:
X-Axis from left to right. Movement around this axis will be called BEND (as if you bend your knee).
Y Axis from top to bottom. Movement around this axis will be called TWIST (like the dance).
Z Axis from front to back. Movement around this axis will be called TURN (as in turning your hand upside down). Non-Humanoid Figures General tips on posing Remember that even fantasy creatures and aliens should have a skeleton, tendons and muscles (or anything else that supports, connects and moves their body). If you have a creature whose design is ...
Posing Figures in 3D Part I - Humanoid Figures by weyrwoman-lessa, journal
Posing Figures in 3D Part I - Humanoid Figures
Digital Art WeekHi,
it’s Lessa again, this time smartassing about one of my favourite hobbies – 3D rendering.A good render relies on the same things as a traditional or digital painting: good lighting, good textures and a convincing subject. One of the most important factors for a convincing subject is a convincing pose. And unfortunately, that’s difficult to do. But fortunately, it’s just a matter of knowledge about bones, muscles and a little physics (or a little experimentation).Boo! Did I scare you off already? No? I’m impressed. Then, Brave Adventurers, follow me. I won’t talk about a specific software or a specific model but give hin...
Bringing emotion through values by SarcasmNymph, journal
Bringing emotion through values
Landscape Art WeekendEvery painting has a feeling associated with it, a central theme, an emotion, a mood. However, when it comes to landscape paintings, the mood of the painting takes center stage. In a large setting, the mood is one of the fundamental ways you can grab the attention of your audience. This could mean the lighting, color palette, composition and of course subject matter. Now subject matter is often the most influential aspect and the main thing that will determine what mood you want to set for your painting. However, it is just as important to make sure that the rest of the elements compliment that mood rather than confli...
Project Educate: Photojournalism Overview by kinipelahh, journal
Project Educate: Photojournalism Overview
This week ^ Kaz-D and myself are bringing you an overview of the Photography Galleries on deviantART. This won't replace the full weeks planned by the specific community volunteers for specific galleries - but instead it will help to give you a mini introduction into what's out there. Photojournalism Photojournalism gives us newsworthy photographs wherein the primary motivation is to recount a story not assist a story. :bigthumb280159948:Photojournalism photos aim to capture a moment that tells a story, without the aid of posing the subjects or the use of post processing. Sub-Categories Concerts and Musicians Photographs of concerts, lis...
Project Educate - Darkroom Overview by kinipelahh, journal
Project Educate - Darkroom Overview
This week ^ Kaz-D and myself are bringing you an overview of the Photography Galleries on deviantART. This won't replace the full weeks planned by the specific community volunteers for specific galleries - but instead it will help to give you a mini introduction into what's out there. Darkroom Photographs manipulated in a film darkroom or digitally enhanced with the use of computer software to emulate traditional darkroom techniques. :bigthumb118214114: Sub-Categories Traditional Scans of traditional film prints and negatives that have been produced using traditional darkroom techniques. :bulletpurple: Alternative Process
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Project Educate: Interview with love4art by kinipelahh, journal
Project Educate: Interview with love4art
:devlove4art: has a stunning gallery which varies greatly. A while ago, :devlove4art: agreed to an interview, and as her People & Portraits gallery is particularly beautiful, today is the perfect day to post it!:bigthumb283569611: If you could bring one deceased legendary artist back to the current time, who would it be and why them? This is a toughie... but I'd probably say Leonardo Da Vinci, as he wasn't just known as a painter/sculptor, but as an inventor, mathematician, architect, musician etc, known for his brilliant mind. I would bring him back so I could ask him a million questions about his work. Fore mostly, the painting of Mona L...
Project Educate - Architecture Overview by kinipelahh, journal
Project Educate - Architecture Overview
This week :devkaz-d: and myself are bringing you an overview of the Photography Galleries on deviantART. This won't replace the full weeks planned by the specific community volunteers for specific galleries - but instead it will help to give you a mini introduction into what's out there. Architecture :bigthumb278145331: Sub-Categories :bulletpurple: Bridges & Suspended Structures:thumb278744407: Photographs of bridges and other suspended architectural structures. :bulletpurple: Exterior:thumb283473028: Photographs depicting the exterior of a building or any finished architectural construction. :bulletpurple: Interior:thumb277967940: Pho...
PE: Deviant Street Books-Inspirational links by StamatisGR, journal
PE: Deviant Street Books-Inspirational links
First it was film, darkroom, paper. Then it became pixels, software, screen. And for some paper too.
A big thanks to those who decided to let us enjoy their pictures in paper and get the feel of the real thing.
It needs time, devotion and trust to set a street photo book of your own. Let's see who did it!:devsimonsawsunlight:
HAPHAZARD ANTHROPOLOGY - By Simon Becker from 46,74 €
HAPHAZARD ANTHROPOLOGY in short - By Simon Becker from 30,64 € I finally got around to putting together a new book. And because it turned out kind of big and rather expensive, I thought I'd add a smaller, reduced "pocket" version (64 frames instead of ~100 i...
Project Educate: Naked-In-The-Rain by Kaz-D, journal
Project Educate: Naked-In-The-Rain
Project Educate: An Interview with :devnaked-in-the-rain: :bigthumb163904050:
:devNaked-In-The-Rain: has one of those galleries that is just bursting with colour and life. From APN to Still Life she covers it all in a vibrant and creative way If you could bring one deceased legendary artist back to the current time, who would it be and why them? :bigthumb283960528:It’s hard to pick only one character to reunite all the creative minds I’d like to see in current time. First person that comes to my mind is Salvador Dalí – simply ‘cos he was different and original, and the effect of his art will be present for many years in the future. W...
Project Educate - Horror and Macabre Overview by kinipelahh, journal
Project Educate - Horror and Macabre Overview
This week ^ Kaz-D and myself are bringing you an overview of the Photography Galleries on deviantART. This won't replace the full weeks planned by the specific community volunteers for specific galleries - but instead it will help to give you a mini introduction into what's out there. Horror and Macabre Photographs which focus on the frightening, grotesque and disturbing. :bigthumb264282396:Horror is described as a combination of terror and revulsion, whilst macabre is defined as having a quality that is grim and ghastly. Couple these together with photography and the results are often terrifying.Horror and Macabre photography consists o...
Project Educate: People and Portraits Overview by kinipelahh, journal
Project Educate: People and Portraits Overview
This week ^ Kaz-D and myself are bringing you an overview of the Photography Galleries on deviantART. This won't replace the full weeks planned by the specific community volunteers for specific galleries - but instead it will help to give you a mini introduction into what's out there. People and Portraits Photographs of people, including portraits and photographs depicting human nature and emotion. :bigthumb267090278:People and Portraits is one of the larger photography galleries. There are fifteen sub categories within the People and Portraits gallery, so this article will be one of the longer ones :lol: Sub-Categories Artistic Nude Hig...
PE: Street Photography Week by StamatisGR, journal
PE: Street Photography Week
Street Photography* Week 23rd - 29th, April Welcome to Street Photography Week
It is a great pleasure and honor for me to be your host.
:devstamatisgr: OVERVIEW (Themes will turn to links as the articles are posted):bulletblack: Monday, April 23
Street Photography: The origins - Defining "Street" :bulletblack: Tuesday, April 24
Street Photography for dummies - A brief guide for beginners :bulletblack: Wednesday, April 25
Street Photography for experts :bulletblack: Thursday, April 26
52 Street tips from the Masters :bulletblack: Friday, April 27
- dA Street shooters share their tips - - Friday night Street Specials v4.4 :bulletblac...
Macro Photography Sub-Categories :bigthumb86490152: :bulletgreen: Human :bigthumb163473246: :bulletgreen: Nature :bigthumb155357865: :bulletgreen: Objects Contrary to old wives tales - Macro isn't just about animals. However it is about the sort of lens and the sort of focus you use when capturing a shot. Macro can be just about anything if you are closing in on something - generally very small subjects or small parts of things. The term is applied to the majority of close up photographs but technically it should only apply to those that have a 1:1 or closer magnification. Spotlight Artist :develiseenchanted: has a beautiful ...
Whats in a Name? Contest Winners + Group Revival by moonbeam13, journal
Whats in a Name? Contest Winners + Group Revival
Hello everyone!
Before we talk about the future, let’s take care of something long overdue. Back in December, our group hosted the What’s in a Name? art challenge, asking you to create something inspired by your username. The contest closed, but the results were never officially announced.
So, let’s set things right!
🎉 Contest Winners
From the entries, we’ve selected 4 random draw winners and 1 overall winner:
🌟 Random Draw Winners (500 points + Hype badge)
@UszatyArbuz
@WDWParksGal
@teddybearcholla
@Pixlhaufen
🏆 Overall Winner
@Pixlhaufen (500 points + Diamond badge)
Congratulations to all of you, and thank you for your creativity and patience with this very delayed announcement!
🌱 Group Revival
With that wrapped up, let’s talk about what’s next: the group is officially under reconstruction and redevelopment!
I’m working behind the scenes to refresh our look, reorganize things, and plan some new challenges and features. Think of this as a soft reset
i started making ai artwork and since there are so many techniques and styles in art i just want to share these links with everyone for making your ai artwork