The Mixtape: The Anatomy Art of Pusha V

#21

the rookie,

Hey there, sounds like you have some good advice. Thanks for the tips. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#22

I am a noobie when it comes to lighting and shading. I use white to light up my drawings lol. No lie.

#23

Thatā€™s still good thoe, I use to get chewed on about using white and black to color certain areas and was forced to use alternative colors to implement that and it works fine to some degree, but monochrome is what everybody wants and uses, I messin with painter now, trying to still adjust to the brushes still having a tad bit hard time, but pusha v your ahead of the game, you have to experiment with those smaller brushes, I got a ton of stuff to show you, but Iā€™ll try to find sites thatā€™s best or close to some of the things Iā€™m speaking of, Iā€™m trying to build up to this steve mcqueen piece Iā€™m working on, itā€™s based on the movie bullitt

#24

Lol i still use white and gey to darken my colors. I think the key is to change the opacity or light glaze as done in traditional work.

I created an arsenal of brushes in painter and I am never satisfyied.

I think that I have like 20 and counting. I have even more in photoshop.

#25

I really didnā€™t want to post this, but I did this in a couple of minutes, everything is way off and until I get a better handle on the brushes it will take some time, I thought this was kinda of commicial piece, which lead me to Steve Mcqueen, but this is a image produced with no reference and off the top of my head in a couple of minutes or seconds, Iā€™m trying various things in these piece, but the focus was the brushes, I use my own brush set 5, 9, 15, 25, 30, and so on, Iā€™m gonna work on some still life stuff, to try to manipulate light more like you did on one of the pieces pusha v, but weā€™ll see where it goesā€¦(Now that I look at it, itā€™s pretty terribleā€¦)

#26

Pretty horriedā€¦ but maybe iā€™ll polish it up with more depth, i got some materials i got to cover, but i did experiment alot of things in that one that will help thee other ones for future reference(Iā€™ll go over it later, Iā€™m trying some new character design stuff for Illustrations painting with oilsā€¦hmmā€¦maybe Iā€™ll try a figure once to give it a shot) pusha v you did pretty good on some of the full figure ones, but Iā€™m still experimenting :D!!

#27

the rookie,

Hey there, I donā€™t think this is terrible ~ have you ever tried doing purely a value study?

You ought to take some time to go through this thread:

Anatomy Review 003: SHADING TUTORIAL AND HUMAN SKULL EXERCISE

[left]if you have not already. It discusses the importance of value over color in a painting, and there is some amazing work from a range of people with different abilities in there ~ great stuff. I really recommend at least looking at the beginning tutorial, and then using the links on the first page to find work and smaller tutorials scattered throughout the lesson.

Let me know if you have any questions. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak
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#28

That is how my stuf looks lol. The next step is to picasso it by using painterā€™s blending tools. That is the secret. OOps it is not a secret any more.:smiley:
You know that it is time forā€¦
The anatomy thread of the rookie.
I can see it now.

On my next post I will post an unsmoothed version.

#29

pushav. How about less talk / spam, more action, eh?

#30

Lol. I do have life drawing gestures that I did today. I will post. them soon.

I am trying to help the rookie. Donā€™t worry Rebecca. I have lods of work done but I am too lazy to post them and scan them. I should set a day in the week for scanner day. Lol.

#31

Here ya go Rook.
I made this to show you how I approach this.

I made strokes going in various directions to help build him. It is kinda easy worm me to do it due to my experience as a sketch/portrait artist. The key is to trick they eye into seeing one thing that is not really there. Kind of like those paintings where you stand far from it and you will say wow until you get close to it and you will say wtf?

#32

Rebecka, there some great stuff on there, here let me share some of these, I normally donā€™t show anybody theseā€¦but hereā€¦ http://spanz.ctshare.com/At-Key/IMAG0017.JPG this is a older still life, I have tons more, but this all I had on disc for the time being, been very busy, also hereā€™s a site I reference from if this helps anyone http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/14030 but Iā€™ll post some more once I get a handle on these brushes, may even join in on some of the sessions :D!!

#33

I like the blends on it, various indeed, blend for me doesnā€™t work like that, itā€™s the first time I really tried digital painting all the way, but I like painting with the new painter IX and if i can get the tools to catch up with my retarded-ness, maybe I can get some stuff done, Iā€™ll try some thingā€¦

#34

I used my image host to post drawings but maybe Iā€™ll resized them later, hereā€™s a older drapery study http://spanz.ctshare.com/At-Key/IMAG0018.JPG

#35

It takes a while and you have to get the pressure right when doing it on the Wacom tablet or any other graphic tablet. I never use the default blenders. I tend to make my own so I could have my own distinct style.

You can color galze over those pencils you did and then smude it in painter to make it look like oils.

Yeah we had to do something like that in my drawing class. We had to take crumppled paper towels and draw and shade it. Thooses were the days. Lol. Still lifes and all. Man it was boring. I got by drawing wolverine a lot lol.

Nice sketches.

#36

yup, i got a wacom tablet, but it sucks, it throws my natural hand off, I got a older tablet wacom graphire tablet, it it just wouldnā€™t go for me, so now I am forced like yoda and his cane to use the mouseā€¦ :D!! it sucks for the time being and very time consuming but Iā€™ll get the hang off it, Iā€™m planning to buy a bigger size tablet and maybe introus tablet, Iā€™ve been back and forth with between the tablet and the mouse, my tablet is 4x3 or something like that,very some and sucks bad, just like my work LOL :D!!

#37

Thanks V on the comment, those are way older sketches but I still do them just to keep fine tuned, Iā€™ve gotten a hundred times better thoe, and maybe it is overdue for new pictures, I got tons of stuff layin around, just been busy as all hell, the concepts I do have down , itā€™s a matter of time for mastery, Iā€™m trying to give Wacom a chance, I want it to function the way I want it but itā€™s going to take time

#38

Lol. What I did was set my graphire to soft under the wacom setting. I turned it all the way down. Now when you work in painter the opacity flow is more natrual. Yeah I have a graphire also. Lol. it is 4x5 somthing like that.the small one. I wanted a small one to fit next to my keyboard. I normally draw my work traditionally the paint my work like a comic colorist would then tweak it a lot. The mouse does fell better to me when i am flatting colors.

#39

Iā€™ll try that right now and see what I can get, Iā€™m probley gonna be up pretty late working on various stuff, man I do have a bunch of crap laying around, Iā€™m gonna work on some short still life stuff, but the soft mode on the wacom sounds like a success point, Iā€™ll give it a shot, thanks!!

#40

Yeah I was frustrated also and I basically said to my self f$@# it time to me up my settings to see what works for me. It is easier to get the various pressures better in painter. Photoshop on the other had is not as good when it comes to the natural feel. Your welcome for the tips!