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Pre-order
The book features painting tutorials on a number of subjects, including one by me on painting a historically inspired Masquerade Ball Gown, free brushes included. It's available now for pre-order on the 3Dtotal website - right here - and will be shipped worldwide in October.
Reference Photos and Copyrights
Copyright Weekend
Oh, that age-old saga… a tale of woes and witch hunts, of legal nightmares and people getting their knickers into a twist.
While some sorrowfully misguided people adamantly claim it is cheating to use reference photos, the majority of the art community agrees: Reference photos are a must-have when you want to paint something you have never painted before, and to paint something you want to get right, even if you have painted it many times before. Because, how can you know what something looks like and recreate it truthfully when you don't know what it looks like? - Exactly. You need references.
While some say a true
Mixing Soft Pastels and Oils
Trad Art: Tools of your Trade Week
I love inks. I also love oils. And it’s always irked me that it’s near impossible to achieve an inky look with oils. Oil paint, when mixed with medium like Mineral Spirit or Turpentine, runs, but not like ink would. It bleeds, much like a wet on wet approach with ink does. Just worse.
In the past few years I've made several attempts at getting this elusive inky oil look, but nothing really panned out. Then, not too long ago, I was in one of those moods where I wanted to try again after I had had an idea that I was pretty sure could actually work...
It's not exactly like ink, no. But it also do
Software Introduction Week: It's a Wrap!
Software Introduction Week
Hello everyone,
and goodbye!
This was it, the first ever Software Introduction Week here at projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate).
We hope you enjoyed it, learnt some new things, and got tickled into trying some programs that you thought you would never work with (or had never heard of).
To wrap up the week, here's a rundown of all the articles that were written, and we would like to send out a huge THANK YOU to the contributors: You are beyond awesome for putting it all together!
Intro
A Guide to PaintTool SAI by @MidnitellaAn Introduction to DAZ 3D by ImaginaryRosseArt (https://www.deviantart.com/imaginaryrosseart)
Adobe Illustrator - Nice to meet you! by @TheGalleryOfEveGe
Introduction to SketchBook
Software Introduction Week
This article is animated gif heavy. If you have a slow internet connection, some of these gifs may take a moment to load. Also, the article is quite long, so get comfortable!
Use it everywhere!
Autodesk SketchBook is one of those programs that exist not just for computers (Mac and Windows), but also mobile devices. And not only as a simplified app of the desktop version. No. The whole thing. And while until recently you had to pay for the “Pro” version of it, which offered more features, it is now completely free. Well, except some brush packs you may want to get, but really, that’s besides the p
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I would love to have this, however I'm broke. 