With 2014 nearly upon us, I'm making a clean break. Blogger, it's been real.
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Bot Demo
Here's a demonstration of variation to be found within a single thrumbnail, created from a square brush and selections in Photoshop. #147 is broken up internally three different ways, with no drastic departures from the original plan.
Friday, November 1, 2013
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
pixelate > pointillize, gaussian blur, motion blur
In this Frazetta crop, I tried to come up with a way of synthesizing that grain texture he did. Kinda didn't get it -- at all -- but using this effect on a layer set to "Exlusion" yieled this.
Monday, October 28, 2013
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
New Lines
Lena astutely pointed out that I was creating "new lines" or unwanted edges into my stuff, and showed how gradients could fix this. I have to make sure that sharpness I add into my paintings serves a purpose (changing plane, etc.) and isn't just there for its own sake.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Pencil Test
Painting under lines hasn't been working out for me -- was always getting away from the spirit of the drawing -- so I decided what I needed was something halfway between lines and shadow data. By working under/over/within this "pattern mask" (i.e. the darkest darks) and keeping the original drawing nearby for comparison, I came up with this.
