Archive for October, 2008
Tutorial Heaven: Philip Straub’s tutorials
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | Filed under Inspiration, Lessons, Resources | 2 Comments
Tutorial Heaven will be the title of a series of articles dealing with tutorials done by other artists rather than myself. We’re starting off with Philip Straub (PhilipStraub.com) who is Electronic Arts’ Concept Art Director with many valuable tips to share on composition and colour that will be useful in manips just as well as in paintings.
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Manip Critique: arrsistable’s “The Earth Goddess”
Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Filed under Articles, Lessons | 6 Comments
In my recent journal on deviantart, I asked fellow manippers if they wanted one image of their critiqued extensively on my blog, so that not only they could get some insight, but other readers might learn a bit, too — the response was overwhelming and so this will be the first critique in a whole series.
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Digital Darkroom: Colour Gradients
Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 5 Comments
Today we’re taking a look at a basic darkroom technique that can help you greatly in setting a mood for your images – be it in photography or photomanipulation.
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Originality in Art
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Filed under Articles | 10 Comments
Sometimes I just feel I have to let out a loud cry of “Not another one of those!” even though it’s ultimately no use. But today, it is just too tempting a topic to ignore and I’m in the mood to write down some thoughts on the subject.
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Golden Text with Layer Styles
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 | Filed under Lessons | 2 Comments
Layer styles have the reputation of making things look cheap. You can often see proof of that, but to leave them untouched just because some people don’t know how to use them to their full potential would be a shame. So today, I’ll show you a little trick to make text look all shiny using layer styles.
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