The Gods of Harvest Work in Progress
Again, another cool Work In Progress tutorial of a piece from the book Exotique 4 by Ballistic Publishing. This time, the artowork is titled “The Gods of Harvest” and it is by Chester Ocampo, one of the group Imaginary Friends.
The tutorial is published at CGSociety as a featured article. Here you will find a step-by-step description of the author work, with correlated images. It is really interesting because it explains one way to approach a painting where more different characters appears. It is really intersting to see how he works on the different characters one by one, and how he achieves this amazing lightinh effect.
At the page article, you can find an animated flash of the work in progress.
Chester Ocampo: [homepage]
The Gods of Harvest: [full image]
The Tutorial page: [CGSociety]
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Video Tutorials III – Andantonius
So, another article for the Video Tutorials Series (as you may have seen, I changed the Portrait Video Tutorials series to simple Video Tutorials, to collect more tutorials in the same category).
This time, I featured a simple but really interesting video about Basic Blending in digital painting. When I start learning digital painting, I see that one of my major problems was to blend colours togethere to create a smooth but textured surface. Also, I got the problem of selecting the colours for lights and shadow, to enrich the palette, avoiding plain lights/shadows.
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Video Tutorials II – Hoang Minh Le
The second article of this video tutorials series is dedicated to an amazing painting video created by Hoang Minh Le (Aurory). He’s a really amazing illustrator and photographer; his main characters are beautiful girls, portrayed with absolute great reality. We can see that, at first sight, you can confuse his digital painting with his photos.
At his DeviantArt Account he published different tutorials and walkthroughs of his working process, till the day he recorded this amazing two-parts video tutorial, where you can see the whole, complete, painting process of an eye.
This time, I’m so sorry for this, you cannot see the two tutorials directly on this bog, because they haven’t been uploaded on Youtube. But you can download them, so that you can watch them from your hard-drive!
I truly think this is a really useful tutorial, for beginner and advanced, because it achieve a great photorealistic look for the illustration. The techniques learnt can also be applied to the rest of the skin.
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Video Tutorials I – Stéphanie Valentin
Since I started browsing tutorials and videos on the web, I discovered a great amount of video tutorials about Digital Painting. I find that video tutorials, if well done, can be more useful than normal written tutorials, because they show the real work in process of the author.
I think that in a good video tutorial the work in process shouldn’t be too fast, otherwise you cannot see many interesting and useful techinques. Also, I think that author comments about the steps would be really great!
I’ve decided that I’m going to start a new series of articles dedicated to Portrait Video Tutorials, where I will collect all the more interesting video tutorials about portraits that I find in the web. I’ve already posted an articles, the Hanagumori Digital Painting Tutorial, which contains video, but I prefer to took this out of this series, because it is a complete, video and written tutorial.
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