Painting an eye (tutorial/exercise)

#61

Thanks for the tutorial, mate. I’m really gonna try and practice it!! :smiley:

#62

Great tutorial, thank you very much for sharing your technique.

#63

this is so great thanks for sharing, Its so helpul to see it step by step like this.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

#64

You are le bomb. Thanks for a great tutorial!!

#65

Just wanted to add my own “hoozah” to the others’ to thank you for this wonderful tutorial. Hands might be a very good one to do sometime… or I guess any of the topics you mentioned.

I hope this doesn’t sound silly… but ears might be another good one. I always have trouble with ears.

#66

Thank you so, so much. This gonna help me to improve my tech hugs tnx again! And personally I have lots, but LOTS of troubles painting fabrics, lace and foliage o.O, I hope you can do a tutorial about one of this themes some day =)

#67

Thank you, it is a very good tut :smiley:

#68

hehe, look at all these critters eager to soak up more knowledge… :lightbulb

Great tutorial Linda! I learned something cool today about using the right colours and will definitely implement it in my next illo. :slight_smile:

#69

Greta stuff, I love the addition of “common mistakes” that helps out a lot, great job.

-Eoin

#70

wow… thanx… this is really helpful

#71

thx for this tutorial. nice done mate.

#72

Hi Linda

I have a Question…

When you say “Use a small brush with pressure set to opacity and shape”, how do you do this?

I use Photoshop 7 and cant find these controls anywhere! Can you (or anyone) help me out here?

Great Tutorial Linda. I’d love to hear more about the tools you use and the settings you have things at as well.

Cheers

#73

Thanks for taking the time to do the tut Linda. So that’s how it’s done. Great stuff

#74

Whee! Thanks, everyone, again. :love:

ANARKY – Hope that helps :]

For some other questions - I use a Wacom Intuos size A5, I’m working in Adobe Photoshop CS at the moment, or 7, depending on whether I’m at my home job, or my, er, ‘job’ job.

#75

Aaaaah, thankyou Linda. Thats great. I was looking at those controls yesterday when I was reading your Tutorial and trying to figure out which controls you where talking about. But I couldnt work it out.

Which of these Brush controls do you find you use the most/find most useful?

And call me Andy!

#76

Okay, Andy, then :] I know the feeling, I always prefer to be called Linda, over my old nick Enayla.

As for the question – Most useful?

Well, that depends wildly on what I’m painting. I like the spacing setting (under ‘brush tip shape’) because it helps to bring texture to a brush, I love the shape settings for when I paint strands of hair, eyelashes, sharp highlights, or fur. The setting I use the most is pressure set to opacity, I think, in combination with all manners of brushes, but that doesn’t mean any of the others are any less useful.

These are just some examples of the awesome possibilities of the brush settings. You have absolute control of them and one good brush can become twenty excellent brushes if one just puts a little work into it and learns to understand the functions.

#77

:love: Woah O_o I should play around with the brush opacity and settings more… NOW I see how much it can change a brush.

And, eheheh, I tried your tutorial, and erm, here’s the result:

I know it’s not quite worked out (…I am late for schoooool…), and I’ve never tried this ‘realistic’ painting thing… I prefer to stick to comic book style (as in, I’m desperate without lines… just plain lines)… that’s why the lines are there nod

I just have a slight problem - color picking. I don’t like just picking color off a random picture (unless I spot a color I REALLY like), but I still suck at picking (and combining) colors alone.
Any general color picking tips, Linda? puppy dog eyes Since you’re a master of colors :applause:

Uh-oh… school… >_>;;

:bounce:

#78

Thats cool, Linda then. (One of my housemates is called Linda! But she’s a Geneticist, not an Artist :wink: )

So, by pressue set to opacity, you mean the “Opacity Jitter” set to “Pen Pressure”. And then move the slider about.
(I noticed that that makes big strokes have a slight delay to them, but thats partly my machine I guess)

Im slowly learning the more intricate nuances of the Photoshop program now, things like custom Brushes etc.
Do you make a lot of your own brushes? Something that I really should be trying out.
Would you be willing to share some of your favorite Brushes with us?

The range of different strokes you can get with that one brush is quite amazing. The variations are astounding. Im going to be experimenting with this on my current Image im doing for work.

Thanks again Linda!

EDIT; LINDA, I LOVE YOU!!! Ive been messing with these custom brushes and the Pressure/opacity thingy and its GREAT, I have instant texture!
A’hem, right, i’ll stop embarassing myself and get back to my Art, byeee!

#79

Great tutorial, thank you so much. :slight_smile:

#80

wooooooow
good tutorial

thank you:thumbsup: