Session 34

Session 34, Digital Painting: Stuff I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago Part IV: "Masks and Adjustment Layers Make You Faster" is a three video session in which I'll explore characters, environments, and world design. The theme of this segment focuses on applying filters to enhance and strengthen your images. I will cover techniques to paint quicker and more efficiently as well as must have strategies for amping up finished art. I'll discuss guidelines for coherency as well as art direction techniques to elicit emotional responses to your work based on design decisions.

*Fourth of an Eight Part Series

Here is everything you get!!

-THREE Structured HD Video Tutorials with commentary, annotations, and detailed process demonstration:

1) Filters: Bigger, Better, and Uncut (45 min.)

2) Artistic Filters (35 min.)

3) Escalante (33 min)

-Explanations and demonstrations on stylization process, color application, and step by step instruction on all things design.

4) Process Video Timelapse (3 MOVs)

5) Full Res Images (3 JPGs)

5) Raw PSD Files, including all layers!!! (3 PSD Files)

7) BrushPack 3.0: Some of my favorites plus my bonus brushes!!!

8) Texture Brush Set: Some of my favorite Materials brushes!!!

9) Recommended Book List PDF

10) Assignments for Practice

You'll learn:

-to create your own filters efficiently 

-to enhance your images

-to expand your visual style

-to economize your layers

-to paint stylized effects using filters

-to paint textured materials using filters

-to stylize designs in color and light

-to identify which filters are best to use in a given situation

-to break down good and bad design

-to proportion a character in appealing ways

-to exaggerate or push a design

-to balance design using the rules, principles and elements of design

-to use color as a design

-to gain inspiration through art history

-to research reference images effectively

-to embrace lighting as a design element

-to emphasize volume with fill and rim light

-to paint light direction into form

-to build shapes conducive to appeal

-to reveal form using shadow shapes

-to create a story moment

-to paint characters within a scene

-to light a scene using literal warm and cool lights

-to paint with active and passive color

-to build up a focal point

-to light a scene using an off screen light source

-to create rhythm/balance within your work

-to build a composition from line, shapes, patterns and temperatures

-to conceptualize ideas for an executive or director

-to compose a final "moment" with color and light

-to render complex shapes

-to retain vivid colors from rough to finish

-to add final touches using modes and PS adjustment layers

-to provide the best option for presentation

-to commit to an idea and carry it through

-to facilitate coherent technique throughout a piece