Let's (digital)Paint! - Step1 - Preparation

Hi people, this tutorial is a step by step guide about digital painting for "real" beginners.

In this STEP1: Starting from a simple drawing i will explain how to prepare your works to be ready for digital paint!

It will be awesome to see your results so feel free to send me a sample via message (remember to sign it), with your permission i could even public use some of those in here!

This tutorial was requested by Ian Bourlin (Drakath) as a price of his best answer on the last post on this blog. The drawing used for this tutorial is an original work of Ian Bourlin (Drakath).

ITA: Salve gente, questo tutorial è una guida passo per passo sulla pittura digitale per "veri" principianti.
In questo STEP1: Partendo da un semplice disegno vi spiegherò come preparare i vostri lavori per essere pronti per la pittura digitale!

Sarebbe fantastico vedere i vostri risultati perciò sentitevi liberi di inviarmi via messaggio i vostri lavori (ricordatevi di firmarli), con il vostro permesso potrei anche pubblicarli qua!

Questo tutorial è stato richiesto da Ian Bourlin (Drakath) come compenso per la sua miglior risposta nell'ultimo post di questo blog. Il disegno usato per questo tutorial è un lavoro originale di Ian Bourlin (Drakath)

Ghost Pirate Boy (and some talking about visual details)

Nice, really nice! I've received some answers about what details are and how you're supposed to use them to draw attention and all of them where right so, nice work! Unfortunately i had to choose only one and the best answer was the following:


Ian Bourlin (Drakath) says:

• You can use detail to show concentration parts, to create a focus point, to create a very neat outline work, to show what is the main object / character in the drawing.

  For concentrated parts, eg: a human face, if the drawing is to show a stare, either both or one of the eye can be drawn detailed while other remain blurry or not so neat.

  Focus point can be shown through the same technique.

  Neat outline work usually involves mecha, where small detail matters, or a skyline view of a big city.

  In a messy drawing condition, EG: crowded with people, people / things around the main character / object can be not so detailed, while the details goes to the main character where it can be clearly seen / stand out. Quite similar to focus point and concentrated.

  
  

  
  

  Correct! But what are visual details? Well most of you told me that details are marks and scratches or the quantity of something... well all those answers where... Wrong! :D Well not wrong because sure of course scratches and marks or stains and something like that are details but the correct answers is: variation of light!

  
  

  Here's an example:
  

  

  
  

  As you can see in the selected region (and pretty much in the whole paint)  i'm not really drawing anything but the light variation alone is enough to trick your brain to think that there's something going on there. So the next time you're going to observe something think about it, you would be surprised on how much that you think is a complex detail can be simplified with a variation of light in a painting ;)

  
  

  
  

  Oh  yeah, Ian wanted me to teach him how to make a painting starting from a linedrawing! So in the next days i will post a step by step tutorial based on one of his drawings, with some video too ;) Grats man!

  
  

  
  

  And now... Enjoy the Ghost Pirate Boy!

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

A new video and a little game for you!

Here's another speed painting, 26 minutes for this one. You can probably see that i didn't have a clue of what i was drawing at the beginning of this sketch ( i like to jump into the drawing and see what it comes out sometime) and as a result this one is more loose than the average sketches that i show you here in my blog. Anyway this is a good example to show you that details are not so important when you're designing, if you're able to communicate your ideas trough simple and/or rough lines and shapes then details will assume a totally different meanings than just adding interesting stuff into a poor design.

(10 Points to the one who can tell me what you can use detail for and how, to the one who can give me the best answer i'll show off your stuff in here or i'll draw a subject you want to see maybe ;) i can even talk about a specific technique that you want to know, we'll see! Drop me a line with the answer via mail or facebook or whatever you like)

Time for the video now! Have fun ;)

(Italiano): Ecco a voi un'altro speedpainting, 26 minuti per questo. Potreste notare che all'inizio di questo disegno non avevo la minima idea di cosa stavo per disegnare ( a volte mi piace buttarmi nella mischia e vedere cosa ne vien fuori ) e come risultato quest'ultimo è un po' meno rifinito della media dei disegni che mostro qui nel blog. Comunque sia è un ottimo esempio per mostrarvi che i dettagli non sono affatto importanti quando si parla di design, se sei in grado di comunicare le tue idee con delle semplici linee o forme allora i dettagli assumeranno un significato totalmente diverso che quello di aggiungere qualcosa di interessante in un design scadente.

(10 Punti a chi mi sa dire per cosa si possono usare i dettagli in e in che modo, a chi mi saprà dare la miglior risposta mostrerò i propri lavori qui sul blog o magari potrei disegnare un soggetto che vi interessa ;) potrei anche parlare di una tecnica specifica che vi piacerebbe conoscere, vedremo! Lasciatemi due righe con la risposta alla mia email o sulla pagina di facebook o quel che preferite)

First video!

So, lately i've been registering speed paintings but i didn't manage to get the software work till today that i found MS Expression Encoder! Very great software indeed. Anyway today i'm not showing you the most recent video, i've decided to show you an old one that doesn't work so well but you can still see some cool stuff :)

Have Fun! (Watch it in HD!)

(Italiano): Allora, recentemente ho cominciato a registrare qualche speed paint ma non sono riuscito a far funzionare i software e i codec come si deve fino ad oggi che ho trovato MS Expression Encoder! Un gran bel software senza dubbio. Comunque oggi non vi mostro il video più recente, ho deciso di mostrarvi uno dei precedenti che non funziona benissimo ma comunque si vede abbastanza da esser fico :)

Buon Divertimento! (Guardatelo in HD!)

BadassSamurai

Updates updates updates... done the same day of the previous one actually but still unpublished though.

(Italiano): Ecco un' altro disegno.... fatto lo stesso giorno del precedente a dire il vero ma non ancora pubblicato comunque.

Tech Doll

I've decided to develop some new brushes recently so i've something new to show you here and there ;)

(Italiano):  Ultimamente ho deciso di creare qualche nuovo brush percio' ho qualche nuovo lavoro da mostrarvi sparso qua e la ;)

Pretty witch!

My website is almost ready, i'm just doing some voodoo on it to make it steal all of your candies!

Bhwahahaha!!