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This installment includes everything from black and white painting, cg cinematography, capturing the story of a pose, painting skin and more so let's not waste any more time and get stuck into my resources, thoughts, 'aha moments' and announcements from this past week.
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- Resources
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Video - Grissailee Paintingβ
This is a great little video of Stephen Bauman on Grisaille painting which is a style of painting that is usually done in black and white or neutrals.
The cool thing about this style of painting, is that you can transition the Grisaille version into a fully finished coloured piece.
It's what I'm trying to get better at in digital, so I thought it'd be a good idea to get familiar with it in traditional as well.
I really love Stephens command of value, definitely worth a watch
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Video - Skin paintingβ
This is a great new video by Sinix on painting skin.
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I love the way Sinix adds colour variety into his skin tones which makes this video a must watch!
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Reel - Tiling exampleβ
This is a beautiful example of how you'd go about the 'tiling' technique in oil paints.
I find It amazing how blocks of colours layed next to each other can all of a sudden begin to create an image, it's like a magic trick!
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A quick one, but worth a watch.
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Website - CG Cinematographyβ
Just found out about this absolute gold mine of a website today! Shout out to Juelz1996 for giving me the heads up.
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This site is a library of everything that Chris Brejon knows about lighting, computer graphics and cinematography.
All of which are so applicable to getting better as a 2D artist as well.
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This is a resource I'm going to have fun mining!
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Online Tool - Virtual Lighting Studioβ
Of the back of perusing Chris Brejon's website (mentioned above) I came across this tool that he mentioned to play around with different lighting scenarios in your browser. It's a cool little tool and worth checking out for sure!
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βBook Snippet - Walt Stanchfield's Drawn To Lifeβ
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βFor those that aren't familiar with this book, it's a collection of lectures from long-time Disney animator Walt Stanchfield.
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Walt helped breathe life into the golden age of animation, and this book is a staple for me that I keep coming back to time and time again.
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A couple of take aways from this weeks readings...
p 195 (on learning)
- The learning process should be fun
- Walt considers a person who's not ahamed to seek help to be wise
The first point resonates with me 100%, and the second is an interesting one.
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In recent years, I've been more deliberate about having a beginners mind set about learning new skills/techniques and I'll actively seek out the answers instead of just being frustrated that I can't do the thing and give up (which is what I used to be prone to doing).
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p 196 (on capturing story in a drawing)
- "Draw ideas, not things; action, not poses; gestures, not anatomical structures"
This is a great reminder when first trying to capture a figure (whether live or with reference) that you should leave the structure till later, because without the gesture/story, the drawing has no life!
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Something I need to be reminded of over and over again because I love getting into drawing the structure of things.
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βThinking about starting a Patreon and need your help
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βAlong side the release of the secret project I've been working on for the last couple of months, I'm thinking about starting a Patreon.
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Now...If I were to do that, I'd love to hear what you'd like to get out of the subscription OR what you like or dislike about Patreon's you're appart of / have been apart of in the past.
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Anything I put out, I want it to be as valuable as possible, so hearing your thoughts about it would be awesome!
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That's all from me for this week!
As always... stay consistent, use reference, have fun with it and remember, it's only pixels baybee!
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Cheers,
Ben
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