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#945: The Shiny Pug, Or Coloring Line Art
Wednesday • April 27th 2022 • 11:06:58 pm • 2KB

When drawing on the computer,or tracing a real pencil sketch... Use a very thin brush,as think as you can go. Because when coloring a circle for example,you simply use the contiguous selection tool... With a grow setting,so that the selection that is...

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#944: The Great Pajama Ride, Or How To Finish Your Art
Tuesday • April 26th 2022 • 6:14:13 pm • 2KB

Before you know it,you’ll build a scene you will wish to photo-manipulate, sketch, illustrate, and paint. It will be something cute an funny,and extremely relaxing to work on. Photo manipulation,actually includes painted elements. Here you are painting...

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#943: Never Pugnacious, Always Gracious
Monday • April 25th 2022 • 1:51:20 pm • 1KB

The Queen Of Queens who never Bows To Kings,and a keeper of all the doggie things. She who united squirrels, dogs and cats,and to this day encourages them to wear tiny little hats. It is a golden age of pet fashion,and all should dress with a passion. She...

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#942: Of Poses And Worlds
Sunday • April 24th 2022 • 5:38:13 pm • 2KB

There actually is,a good use for drawing simplified models. Where you draw a face model on your source image,mark all the distances, and make all the relative measurements. And then repaint the super-simplified model again,but this time on your empty...

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#941: The Photo Manipulator
Sunday • April 24th 2022 • 3:50:17 pm • 3KB

Digital Photo Forensics: How To analyze Fake Photos Photo Forensics Tutorial Forensically, free online photo forensics tools - 29a.ch Forensically, free online photo forensics tools - 29a.ch » Imago Forensics - Image Forensics Tutorial Why people think...

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#940: Lecture Two: Enhancing Your Reference Images
Saturday • April 23rd 2022 • 7:08:21 pm • 5KB

The secret of good art is Laughter,make your friends and classmates laugh. Use the Warp Transform Tool in GIMP,but keep hardness and strength low. You want to make gradual changes,aim to revisit areas of the face multiple times, be gentle. With a large...

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#939: Tiny Little Art Lice: Don't Let Liars Stop You From Learning
Friday • April 22nd 2022 • 2:05:48 pm • 6KB

What comes next may sting a little,as it may include an attack from other artists. Practicing on photos, is only as step away from using GIMP's Warp Transform,to beautify your source photos, photos that you MUST now take yourself. As using that as...

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#938: A Tiny Little Introduction To Digital Paining (Recap And Lecture Practice)
Thursday • April 21st 2022 • 6:37:16 pm • 3KB

Digital Painting is such a wonderful thing,that it will let you start with Hyperrealism. What an amazing gift,learning by painting perfect portraits on day one. Use Open Source Krita,and watch a few beginner tutorials. Get a $40-$70 pen and tablet...

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#937: Hyperrealism vs. Super Realism
Wednesday • April 20th 2022 • 10:40:59 pm • 3KB

You must use photo reference, at least at first, or you will get stuck,our brains use some extra processing for faces. You can’t just copy a face on a canvas,because you are not seeing the person correctly. Similar thing happens with the moon when it grows...

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#936: What The Doodle Is A Value Study?
Tuesday • April 19th 2022 • 7:15:02 pm • 3KB

It is 95% of a digital painting,it is a major part of fast painting technique. The word value in art,means the darkness or brightness of a color. So shadow and light,It is a study of shadows, mid-tones, light, and highlights. Someone chose the world value...

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#935: Why Snow: Summer Will Be Delayed Until The Groundhog Gets Paid
Monday • April 18th 2022 • 4:27:07 pm • 1KB

Sorry, the weather won't turn,until after, the Groundhog gets his tax return. Our Dear Groundhog Leader,may be a mind reader. All hail, the Beautiful Groundhog,the leader of all, from human to dog. Like Santa he maybe able to hear your every thought,and he...

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#934: United Countries Of The World
Sunday • April 17th 2022 • 8:37:10 pm • 3KB

Please no more war,no more imaginary borders. Poverty makes it hard to see,and not everybody notices. If you were born to a different place,your religion, intelligence, and level of safety would change. All those things that change,when you are born...

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#933: The Chiptune Composer
Sunday • April 17th 2022 • 3:16:04 pm • 3KB

How Oldschool Sound/Music worked Basic Waveforms FM SYNTHS in under 4 minutes Sound Design and Synth Fundamentals (don't pay for closed source software, ZynAddSubFX has Unison) ZynAddSubFX in LMMS How To Use ZynAddSubFX! - LMMS Tutorial Advanced Sound...

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#932: The Right Angle: The Biggest Problem In Art
Saturday • April 16th 2022 • 3:42:57 pm • 2KB

Face recognition,sometimes photos don't capture the right angle. When we know someone personally,we recognize them based on a series of angles. In a photo,we only get one angle. And what is worse,lenses can distort the face even more. As well as software...

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#931: Your Art Journals Are Precious
Friday • April 15th 2022 • 9:18:56 pm • 1KB

There are as many directions,as there are artists. And each painting is a gateway,to a new story that must be told. It isn't just the story though,but also how it is told. Be it night and moonlight,or mountains and mist. Or maybe sunlight,on a cheerful...

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#930: Artistic Meows
Thursday • April 14th 2022 • 8:27:17 pm • 2KB

I freehand painted a blue nose,and I got pretty gosh darn close. The nose did not look like a cucumber.So twenty portraits must be a magic number. It was actually easy to sculpt,and it came out without a fault. Still, at the end of the day,freehand is not...

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#929: Three Scary For Me: How Art Can Bite You
Wednesday • April 13th 2022 • 10:37:29 pm • 3KB

I don’t know what got into me today,as I arrived home from the gym... Even before,I got out of my car... I already searched for,“digital painting glowing eyes”. I was recently looking at fantasy art,and everything is glowing in their world. So I made...

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#928: Fixing Programming, Or, Building Your First Trillion Dollar Company
Tuesday • April 12th 2022 • 5:18:22 pm • 7KB

There are low level languages,and high level languages. In a low level language,you talk to a hard drive in a way that hard drives like to be talked to. In a high level language,you open a Desktop Window with a simple bit of code. High level languages...

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#927: Don't Let Art-Liars Trick You: You Are Already An Artist
Monday • April 11th 2022 • 4:05:12 pm • 3KB

The school taught,artists... Are forced to thinkthat using original colors is wrong. And they call this beautiful invention,color picking. They don't see the beauty,of the process. The light coming through the lens,the microchip and being captured in a...

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#926: Building Masterpiece Paintings
Sunday • April 10th 2022 • 7:34:53 pm • 2KB

Abandon sketches, think in layers,and strategist layer after layer. For example, face, body, and a basic background,form three layers. The magic of building paintings,begins the moment you look behind your first character. It maybe an idea to hold the...

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#925: The Pixel Artist
Sunday • April 10th 2022 • 3:43:38 pm • 3KB

8088 Domination 8088 MPH by Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE (SOME SERIOUS ⭐!?⭐) 8088 MPH Revision 2015 Live Audience Reaction MindCandy: The Best of the PC DOS Demoscene Pixel Art Class - Art Styles for Indie Games Pixelart 101 FREE College Course: Styles A...

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#924: Seventy Five Days And Seventeen Paintings
Saturday • April 9th 2022 • 12:24:21 pm • 2KB1

Two days of painting, two days of resting,a new painting every four days, for about 75 I am only showing sixteen here,because every time I look at that damn Groundhog, it snows. I don’t feel welcome in the art community,and I got banned from one forum...

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#923: Sitting In A Chair Learning To Paint Hair
Friday • April 8th 2022 • 2:22:19 pm • 1KB

You definitely don't want to stand for it,cause this one takes a little bit. If something goes wrong,delete, try again, and stay strong. Hair is not painted with a hair brush,you actually use the air brush. You don't need to get each and every hair,as that...

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#922: The Triumphant Painter
Thursday • April 7th 2022 • 9:37:58 pm • 3KB

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” - Sun Tzu. The creation of an expensive series of paintings,is a multi-step process. It begins with creation of a theme,for a series of four...