Photoshop illustration tips for artists

Photoshop illustration tips for artistsHere are some cool PS tips for everyone from one of our friends/ readers, Petter Amland.Dear Xia.You're a nice guy and you blog is getting better and better along with you. :)If you didn't know them already, here's some tips to finish up your artwork. Hope it can help:Photoshop illustration tips for finishing up your image.* Go to Image > Adjustments >

How to create color harmony for artist, The tetradic (double complementary) scheme.

The tetradic (double complementary) scheme is the richest of all the schemes because it uses four colors arranged into two complementary color pairs. This scheme is hard to harmonize; if all four colors are used in equal amounts, the scheme may look unbalanced, so you should choose a color to be dominant or subdue the colors.Pros: The tetradic scheme offers more color variety than any other

Concept Artist in Video Game, Artist Job descriptions in general, tips on how to

Concept Artist in Video Game, Artist Job descriptions in general, tips on how and what to focus on if you want to get your foot into the Door as artist in Entertainment and Video game industry.Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, or comic books before it is put into the final

Manga Artist tips, shape and form learning how to see

Manga Artist tips, shape and form learning how to see. Visually breaking complexity of form into simple shapes.You have to be able to look at object, people, animals then rationally analyze if you can break it down into simple geometric shape or a group of simple geometric shapes. It is a lot easier once you realize what you really see are just combination of shape and form arrange in its own

Drawing Technique, Positive and Negative Spaces understanding silhouettes

Drawing Technique, Positive and Negative Spaces understanding silhouettes in concept design and composition.Your ability to draw will be greatly enhanced when you know how to identify and create silhouettes or positive and negative space, visually measure distances, and apply the resulting information to your drawings.A silhouette is a view of some object or scene consisting of the outline and a

Triadic Color Scheme, tips and technique for artists, illustrators, mangakas and concept artists.

Triadic Color Scheme, tips and technique for artists, illustrators, mangakas and concept artists.The triadic color scheme uses three colors equally spaced around the color wheel. This scheme is popular among graphic designers, photographers, and some artists because it offers strong visual contrast while retaining balance, and color richness. The triadic scheme is not as contrasting as the

Choosing color in photoshop tutorial and tips for beginner artists and illustrator

Guide for choosing color in photoshop tutorial and tips for beginner artists and illustrator. Photoshop for drawing, painting Manga, Anime, comics, and concept art tutorial.OK, I usually have my own palette whenever I work on a piece. But occasionally I will need to add some more color and hue to my new work.Here is my color palette: It's not much, just a bunch of scribble paint of my favorite

How to set up canvas size in Photoshop for illustration and concept art. Artist tips.

How to set up canvas size in Photoshop for illustration and concept art for artist and illustrator. Basic tutorial for beginner.Q: Please can you post someday the way you set up an illustration....for example the canvas size, the layers (rough sketch, detailed line drawing, colour layer etc...) and other main things.OK, here are the step by step how to set up your illustration and concept art

Basic Color Schemes for artist, illustrator, complementary color scheme.

Basic Color Schemes for artist, illustrator, complementary color scheme.The complementary color scheme is made of two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. This scheme looks best when you put a warm color against a cool color, for example, red versus green-blue. The complementary scheme is intrinsically high-contrast.Here is a traditional Color Wheel: The opposite pole are the

What kind of pencil is best for drawing and sketch, how to pick pencil for artist and illustrator.

What kind of pencil is best for drawing and sketch, how to pick pencil for artist and illustrator.How to choose a pencil to draw for yourself?Many people ask me what kind of pencil I use, well I really have no favorite, really. But if I recalled a few years back, it was probably a Clutch pencils (mechanical with big leads), then sometimes I would use thin lead mechanical pencil. But in life

Color Schemes and harmony for artists, illustrators, Analogous Color scheme

Color Harmony: Analogous Color scheme, basic Color Schemes for artists, illustrators, concept design.The analogous color scheme uses colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. One color is used as a dominant color while others are used to enrich the scheme. The analogous scheme is similar to the monochromatic one, but offers more nuances.Pros: The analogous color scheme is as

Basic Color Schemes for artist, Monochromatic Color scheme.

Monochromatic Color scheme and its meaning. What is monochromatic.The monochromatic color scheme uses variations in lightness and saturation of a single color. This scheme looks clean and elegant. Monochromatic colors go well together, producing a soothing effect. The monochromatic scheme is very easy on the eyes, especially with blue or green hues. You can use it to establish an overall mood.

Art tutorial color temperature, warm vs cool for illustration, concept art, anime, comics, and painting

Art tutorial and lesson: color temperature, warm vs cool for illustration, concept art, anime, comics, and paintingColor temperature: Warm vs. cool colorsTIPS: Using the opposite as compliment to each other.Cool Light ---> produce Warm ShadowWarm Light ---> produce Cool ShadowThe distinction between warm and cool colors has been important since at least the late 18th century but is generally not

Art and drawing lessons: the basic elements and principles of design

Concept Art lessons: THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DESIGNThe Elements of Design are the things that artists and designers work with to create a design, or composition. To make a successful piece, there are important core elements we need to know. The Elements are: line, shape, space, value, color and texture.Line … The Graphic Unifier, Curved, Straight. Directional Thrust: Horizontal, Vertical,

Drawing tutorial and Tips, 5 step to improve your drawing skill fast

Drawing tutorial and Tips, 5 steps to improve your drawing skill fast.1) Draw! You have to spend at least 2 hours a day drawing everyday.  You can either draw from things you see or things you think of, . *Remember, when you are a professional, you will be drawing at least about +8 hours a day.*  You have to practice a lot to become art ninja.2) Go to life drawing session at least ONCE a week,

Drawing lesson Technique, Shading, Tone and Value. Artist tips.

Drawing lesson, Shading, Tone and Value or gray-scale rendering. Artist technique and tutorial.Shading, Value & Tone in Pencil and Charcoal DrawingShading, Value and Tone - developing your realist drawing skills using pencil, charcoal, or gray-scale painting (digital and traditional) shading to create value or tone.Many basic questions from many viewer so...here we are. :)Value / ToneImage