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In this course, you will learn:
- How to create breathtaking perspective, lighten the background to create a visible distance, paint in light and shadows, composite 3D objects into the scene, and create realistic lens flares without using any filters, plugins, or external software! It all starts with a little imagination
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- Advantages of painting digitally
1. Expressive Input Devices
- Customizing mouse behaviors
- Introducing the concept of axes of motion
- Using the pen tablet and stylus
- Understanding the Intuos and Cintiq options
2. Expressive Painting Applications
- A world of options
- Emulating analog media with Painter
- Going beyond traditional image editing with Photoshop
- Painting with the iPad app Procreate 2
- 3. Digital Paintbrush Mechanics
- Introduction to brush mechanics
- Brush tips: Variations on a theme
- Brush color behavior
- Brush and surface interaction
- Emulating media via physical modeling
- Through the looking glass
- 4. Painting Abstractly
- Introduction to abstract painting
- A great way to explore brush qualities
- Using color to express emotion
- Layers as a compositional tool
- 5. Painting What's in Your Mind's Eye
- Introduction to sketching as creative self-expression
- Preliminary sketching
- Paint to your skill level
- Going back in time: Undo
- 6. Painting from Life
- Interpreting reality with digital painting
- Working from a still life in a home or studio
- Using a photo to capture and edit a still life
- Exploring some tips for working on a portable tablet en plein air
- 7. The Photograph as Wet Paint
- Dipping a paintbrush into a photograph
- Separating brush work from color and composition
- Use a dry brush to smear a wet photograph
- Work nondestructively using layers
- 8. Clone Painting
- Funnel a photo through your brush
- Using the funnel method to act as a paint reservoir
- Sit back and let the app do the heavy lifting
