Digital Painting Photo Study - How to Study Effectively
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2024
- Link to full tutorial: artstn.co/m/JgrlB
In this digital painting tutorial I'll show you how we can use a photo (or in this specifica case, a movie still from the 1984 adaptation of A Christmas Carol) to get better at painting by studying it effectively.
I used to really suffer in the beginning of my art Journey when I studied from photos because I used all the wrong reference photos and didn't quite know what I was supposed to even do with the study. Often I just spent days copying the reference until it was almost pixel perfect.
This felt like a very long and boring process and wasn't my idea of how to get better at digital painting as I had no idea if my skills were even better after doing such studies!
Watch this condensed 13 minute timelapse or click this link to buy the full 3.5 hour tutorial where I go into minute detail on how I painted this image. I also include my brushes...
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perfectly in time for my pleinair april studies
I had the same thought 😭
DUDE!! this was awesome. I love it when an artist says how long it took to do a piece. Time lapses can really give a false sense of how long something took. your work is fantastic!
Thanks man, glad it helped!
Hey Andy!
I was watching the whole thing and I was so so sure, that you were a youtube giant, with millions of followers and when I saw your profile I was shocked!
You video is so professional, your art so well made. You deserve so much more views but I am convinced you have a great growth and youtube carreer in front of you!
Thank you for the amazing and inspiring video and I am looking forward to the next.
Cheers.
well, you win comment of the year Benjamin! hehe, many thanks! CZcams is HAAARD man. I used to chuck up a video lazily a year or three ago and it would get thousands of views. Now I put tons of effort in and I'm lucky if it gets hundreds. But I'll keep soldiering on. Really appreciate the feedback!
This was really helpful !
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Thanks for sharing, Great video!
Thanks for sharing this, even sped up it was quite helpful!
most welcome
Craftsmanship !!! love the video mate .
Cheers Anik :)
this image makes me miss painting, well done! the feel of it is very painterly
did you get caught in the 3d trap?
Thank you for the tutorial, Andy! I really needed to see this. I've always spent far too much time copying details that were essentially a waste of time. Not to mention my final paintings always looked lifeless or inorganic, and therefore I'd never share them. I need to loosen up and not be afraid of obvious brush strokes (my weakness is removing brush strokes and over-rendering everything to death). Cheers!
yeah man, it was once explained to me by a fellow artist, you have to do a brush stroke and as he put it 'let it breathe'.
@@AndyWalsh that is an awesome way to put it. Cheers
very insightful andy. Incredibly nice of you to put this out for free
it was supposed to be a teaser to encourage people to buy the full tutorial. But it backfired and no one bought it lol.
Oh damn, well im sorry i must admit i have been studying this video for hours. If it helps you in anyway in your "market analysis" , i believe the main selling point of these videos is your commentary, the explanation of your thought process. Perhaps thats where you should put the paywall bcus if i can get your voice over explanation of your creative process i dont really need the rest of the non-spedup speedpainting, specially given that im poor (as most artists are heh)
@@AndyWalshin fact, i was considering buying the tutorial just for the brushes, bcus i transitioned to Photoshop not too long ago and im really struggling to find some decent brushes like the ones you use. I Know this sounds cliche but i really feel like im at a point where my brushwork desperately needs an upgrade and the round base brush doesnt cut it in some instances
@@pyrefly7575 yes, fair point! Thanks for the feedback :D
Incredible study Andy :D
aw thanks Grady, I really appreciate that. I'm really enjoying your stuff big time lately. I live in Wales, so appreciate your moody castle/cottage/Scotland themes enormously :) hope you keep those coming!
@@AndyWalsh Thanks man, means alot. Not sure why I wasn't already subscribed, but I am now so better late than never. Also, your recent video about the state of the industry and creating independence was really great man, I think there is alot of value in sharing your experience in that regard. I wish you much success in your endeavors, your work is certainly deserving of that. Maybe our paths will cross someday and we can do something together :)
@@gradyfrederickart Ah yes, appreciate the input on that video. I get a lot of people saying they agree wholeheartedly and then a few complaints here and there, so it can make me a little uncertain at times if I'm on the right track. So it's reassuring to get affirmative feedback!
And yes, I'm starting to think of the idea of interviewing other artists with targeted and specific questions, mainly about business and how to improve one's art. Two large factors that can save an artist from oblivion. I see a lot of interviews with artists that just aren't very interesting so I hope I can add somethign there. Perhaps that might interest you at some point? No worries if not of course! :)
I would love to see a series of videos with much smaller and less detailed scenes for an organic progression. Great great video tho
Can you explain more? I guess a smaller scene would be a less complex scene? and when you say organic progression, do you mean from less complex to more complex?
@@AndyWalsh Yes, from less complex to more complex. Less details to more details.
A whole wall of hanging frozen chickens! Butchers in Victorian England weren't messing around. Kind of a nice contrast conceptually to the well-dressed people leisurely walking about and the overall coziness of the scene. You picked a VERY good reference, whoever was in charge of the photography for the movie was the real deal. Warm and cool balance, soft edges in the upper half contrasted with hard and dark silhouettes in the bottom half, figures placed in S curves leading the eye, grouping of figures in irregular pleasing ratios, tonal balance, big to small shape play with silhouttes, placement of lights that suggests movement along compositional lines. Man, it's ALL there. And you did a good job with that study, even enhancing it!
indeed they weren't messing around :)
Many thanks for the kind words. Y'know though, I don't reckon there was that much intent behind the artistic-ness of the cinematography (I could be wrong), because movies in that era with that budget just kept it simple, which in itself might be why it looks like good painting material. Newer movie, higher budget and it would get all kinds of digital treatment to make it more pleasing to the general audiences, but would have been all kinds of artificial. Maybe we need to look at more low budget early 80s TV movies :P
@@AndyWalsh Yes, I agree, modern movies go way overboard with enhancements, strong colors, graphic look, stylization and playing with design principles. The visual excess begins to cross the uncanny valley. Sometimes you just need a cup of strong black coffee, not a fancy sugary mochaccino.
@@AndyWalsh Just to make this conversation extra weird I went ahead and looked up the director of cinematography: it says it was Tony Imi, his other credit includes Enemy Mine, and apparently he served as president of the British Society of Cinematographers in 1984. I skimmed through the movie on the channel New Castle After Dark here on CZcams, and at 1:45:15 (timestamp will not work for anything else, New Castle guys added some skits and extra minutes of talking to their upload) there is a very interesting scene that echoes the opening from the study. Another interesting bit of trivia from imdb: [Tony Imi] "Held a clerical job with Mobil Oil before becoming an assistant trainee projectionist with the BBC. Worked his way up to cameraman, then left the BBC in 1968 to freelance."
@@Yuri-np5ru I always find the career paths of old school film workers interesting. They tend to just, almost effortlessly, glide through the industry, hopping from one rung of the career ladder to the next. The days when you could just knock on a door and say "gimme a job!" and they'd just hire you because of your 'moxy'.
These days it's several years at university, then starting off on less than minimum wage working 70 hours per week in the middle of London, then spending 20 years slowly working your way up to producer, then the industry collapses or something :P
great stuff andy, do you always use pen tool instead of polygonal lasso?
well, my photoshop has a bug where about one in twenty times it'll insta-hang Photoshop when I use the lasso using the wacom tablet.
So to be clear are you color sampling at all? Or are you eyeballing the colors best you can and just going with it?
just eyeballing. No need to colour sample, there just isn't any point to it. I mean, unless my calibration is just used to it but like, the snow for example, we should all know that that snow is blue and not white.
awesome video, but the music is a little too loud compared to your voice
reaaally?? naaah. It's way down!
It looks so easy but nope
well, that's what the paid tutorial is for :)