A fun little progression video I put together of a painting I created last week. I started with a free stock photo of a male model, used the Liquify filter to push his face around, and then painted over top with the Wacom tablet and a small default Photoshop brush.

What you’re seeing here is all of the layers I used, turned on sequentially until the whole painting is shown. I didn’t add colour until nearly the end of the painting process, as that made it easier to determine the value and tone of the shapes on the alien – particularly the bumps and holes.

Full-sized, uncompressed painting when you click on the image below!

Don’t forget, our students are encouraged to post their work in the DArTT Flickr pool. Above image is a digital painting – NOT a photograph – by Tanya Brown, Video Game Art & Illustration student. (See Full-Size)

I probably can’t express properly my adoration of the artwork furiae.com. The site navigation needs some work (the confined box is way too small!) but Linda Bergkvist, the genius behind it all, hasn’t posted or updated since January 2007, so I suppose she can be forgiven!

The whole site is gem after gem of brilliant digital painting and artistry, but what I really want to point your attention to is the tutorials. It’s not obvious right off that she has them, but if you choose Gallery, you’ll then get an option for Tutorials. Then you can choose from a nose tutorial, thoughts on skintones, a lip tutorial, painting an eye, textured brushes, painting hair, & smooth blending. Every now and again I go back to these pages as a refresher, and I’m always inspired to paint something new.

Furiae.com –>

NotCot.org has put together a great collection of images from illustrator Koren Shadmi. His official site is here, but as noted at NotCot, his LiveJournal, packed full of the process it takes to get a finished piece together, is much more interesting to me – but we all know I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for in-progress pics!

Koren Shadmi –>

Marta Dahlig is the artist responsible for the cover art of the beautiful Exotique 3 masterpiece I showed you yesterday, called Umbrella Sky. She obligingly takes us through some of the steps she followed to create this work of art over at CGSociety.

Umbrella Sky –>