Hi Pushav
Thank you very much for the brush tutorial. Doesn’t sound too hard the way you describe it.
I will put it to use as soon as I figure it out. I’ll try it out on one of my old paintings to start with and let you know how it goes.
If I figure it out and it works for me, you will have proven that :
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Thanks again!
Glenn
o.f.d 06 (openCanvas 3)
Zhu Zhu your work is exceptional. Fantastic stuff. Love the lost and found edges in this piece, it really keeps my eye flowing about.
I also like how you place emphasis on the torso by deconstructing the face and limbs. Very cool.
Spiritdreamer, Make sure that you finder your brushes in your programfiles\painter folder so you can save them. There should be a whateveryourbrushmaneis.xml file (.xml file with your brush name) and there should sometimes be a jpeg with the name of your brush (that depends of painter uses a jpeg capture of your brush) If there is one then you will need to save that also. If your are in the newer painters such as 8 or 9 there will also be a whateverthenameofyourbrush.stk file and you will need to save that also. And there you go.
If you want me to I can send you some of my “VDZ blending brushes”.
Oh, yeah, somewhere in the thread there was mention of starting a traditional painting thread…great idea! Time to pull the easel out of storage.
Yeah this place is lacking traditional works here.
That is why sometimes I go to the wetcanvas.com forums. (good traditional artist there also. It is like cgtalk but traditional works wil little digital)
Hi Pushav
Thanks Pushav, it would be great if you could send me the brushes. I tend to get frustrated when I am dealing with new things (anywhere) but especially in these art programs!:eek:
Looks like you are having the same problem I had on that figure…it ends up being a
frontal view of the back (oxymoron?)
when it should be a 3/4 view.
What I did was take the liquid lens brush tool with a circle and compress that left side of her back , hip and left “cheek” down to about 1/2 of what they are now in your picture, and then blended and corrected til it looked right. Didn’t lose too much of my detail on the shoulder blade by using the liquid lens.
Glenn
Alright I just sent the brushs to your wife’s email account. I even placed instructions in the email message.
So it looks like it will have to smudge the back in more and add a darker line for the spine and them smudge some more.
Your right spirit, It is like molding a clay figure.
I’ve fallen behind again. I am reading all the posts, though. Hopefully I’ll get this consignment I’m working on so I can get to the fun stuff this weekend. 
SpiritDreamer, a good blend tool in Painter is hidden a bit in the Tinting brush, called Blender :).
The nice thing about it is it uses the grain setting which you don’t get in Just Add Water. What version of Painter are you using? I have 7 at home, but 9 at work. 9 has several blenders that I’ve yet to mess with.
-David
Looking forward to this weekend to see your work. I have painter 7 and 9 also but I found out that the older painters are faster and more stable. I kind of left vesion 9 due to crashes.
Well, here’s what I’ve got so far. May work on it some more on the weekend. Should I loose the line work and just go for straight painting?
i just gave it a try to keep up with all this good work and to do it in greyscale. the values arent right though and the hands and feet… but i am too tired to work on it right now.
wow~! this thread is moving so fast! great works everyone.
[ofd 07] (pencil on sketchbook)
why zhuzhu? why? Why must you be so great:bowdown:
is that color pencil or prismacolor.
I would like to see you paint over this.
thank you,i used Photoshop to adjust the color,let it getting warm,just look like classical sketch.
but i think it is not perfect yet,i will practice more. i have painted in digital for 3 years,so i should try to remember something on the real paper.
It is better to sketch on paper rather than digital. Plus you can make prelims for a painting faster. nice and soft feel to your work.
I atempted to make a vintage pinup girl like your from the tutorialand get that painting pastelish feel but I was unsucessful.
Oh yeah I also liked that female face that you did. The woman with the orange flower in her hair.
Wow, I don’t really deserve to post with all these amazing sketches 
Well, I finally got my Tablet PC a couple days ago! And now I can sketch properly. At least it feels proper to me, contrary to what pushav just posted…
Here’s my sketch. 15-20 mins, ArtRage. Did a sort of a figure sketch at first, and then the sketch sketch. Following Rebecca’s advice to trace, of course 
I’m not really pleased with the head or hands. Then again, I’m not really pleased with much of what I do now, since I’m a rather big noob.
Edit: ahh, might as well put the figure sketch as well:
Thats the ticket drake. I wish I had a tablet pc to sketch on every once in a while but there is something magical about using paper and pencil and a scanner. Yeah a tablet pc you can se what you are doing. With a normal table it is almost like you are playing a videogame. It really helps with the hand and eye coordination.
Yeah you learn things by tracing first but me I like to challenge myself and do everything freehand. My creative side of the brain is being overloaded when I do stuff like that.
Wow, guys, some really great work going on here! 
danielh68,
Welcome to the Anatomy forum! Good to see you here. :)
allenatl,
Great start so far!! I would say, keep the linework for the time being. It’ll be a good guide, but don’t be completely dependent upon it ~ and, if you see something new, alter it by cutting, pasting, and tweaking it to taste, or by simply redrawing it. Good to see you keeping the piece with as few colors as possible so far…I would get the values in order first, and then gradually introduce color…or you may wish to use blending modes to introduce color over a completely grayscale image. Choose the method with which you feel the most comfortable.
The other thing I would advise would be to give her more of a neck ~ right now, her head is sitting a bit low, and if you draw a more elongated neck and a fully articulated head without the hair, you will see that her neck needs to be longer to match the proportions of her body.
Good luck, and looking forward to your update!
Llynna,
Great to see you working only in Grayscale! I would caution against using the same white everywhere for highlights ~ tho you can easily tone these down with a low opacity layer filled with gray over parts of the figure. Use more contrast between light and dark to draw attention to specific areas of the figure, and use less contrast to lessen the visual importance of others.
I would also suggest stepping back and looking at your painting from the standpoint of doing a drawing, and rethink the lower portion of the figure. As have most folks who have chosen this pose, you have made the buttocks and thigh far too large for her upper torso. So I recommend doing a new line drawing on a new layer to re~think the proportions.
But great start, and keep going, and post your results! :)
zhuzhu,
Nice to see your traditional work! I don't think I've seen it before, so it is a refreshing change. :)
I think her left arm is a bit thin. Her lower right arm is a bit short, I believe. There are just a few minor problems which could be fixed ~ I’ll do a short review later, tho your work is really beautiful!
DrakeX,
Glad to see you posting your work! :) I would recommend taking a look at the first part of [b][Lesson 002: Opposing Curves](http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=255700)[/b]. I think that the key missing ingredient to your drawing is rhythm and flow, which can be easily introduced by offsetting the major curves of the body in a rhythmic fashion. You have a good start here, and I'd like you to take a look at Lesson 002 briefly, and then try to rework your first image. If you have any questions, don't be shy about asking ~ it's what we're all here for! :)
Great stuff, guys, and keep it up! :bounce:
~RebeccakHere is a little demo originally posted in Lesson 002: Opposing Curves. It demonstrates the use of flowing, organic, Opposing Curves which serve to create form:
[left]Whether you are working digitally or traditionally, it really helps to just fill a few ‘pages’ with random, organic lines such as these. Look at trees, and draw them ~ you will notice that nature is full of Opposing Curves. Start out just drawing random, flowing lines, without trying to create anything in particular. This just helps you to loosen up, and to start to find a rhythm in your pen/pencil/brush strokes.
The key to PAINTING is NOT to FORGET the lessons you learn about DRAWING.
Hope this helps!
~Rebeccak
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