19.05.06. MAP Monthly & More Lessons
First off, Thanks again to everyone that follows the news here! Behold my grumpy fish! 9 New Videos Added Today! The Practical Follow Along Project for 1 Point Perspective First of all, I added in 4 more lessons to the practical follow along project for 1 Point Perspective! These will help you work with circles and ellipses, cones
19.04.29. Huge Update! New Lessons!
First off, Thanks to everyone that follows the news here! 10 New Videos Added Today! Sorry that it’s been so quiet here as I’ve been catching up with some necessary external efforts and while I’ve been cooking up some plans to make the current content even easier to learn! I put together a follow along project that
19.03.25 2 New Lessons on Space Added to 2 Pt
Today I added 2 new lessons to the 2 Point Perspective course on discovering distance and locations and creating irregular but specific features on a wall (in this case, doors and windows) in 2 Point Perspective. Lesson descriptions were added and assignments are still pending. While these may not look as exciting as some other lessons, they do make it
19.03.18 New Lessons Added!
Today I added in 2 new lessons to the 2 Point Perspective course on creating compound circular (elliptical) objects and rotating circles & ellipses in 2 Point Perspective. Lesson descriptions were added and assignments are still pending. The lesson on compound objects is a bit…way too…long at the moment. And edited version is forthcoming once I can come up for
19.02.18 New Lessons Added
Today I added in 5 new lessons to the 2 Point Perspective course on creating & rotating perfect cubes, ellipses (horizontal & vertical), how too embed ellipses and create the basic circular primitives in 2 Point Perspective. Lesson descriptions were added and assignments are still pending. If you haven’t yet, try out the forums and post your projects in progress
Back to Lesson Production!
Added 5 lessons to 2 Point Perspective today!
Copy after Anders Zorn’s Portrait of Ols Maria (youtube)
Copy after Anders Zorn’s portrait of Ols Maria that I did during my digital illustration class as a demo for my student. I can’t say often enough how much doing master copies of works I respect has improved my skills. I think that it may be one, if not THE, fastest way to improve your skills. There are different types
Copy After Velasquez’ Portrait of Juan Pareja (youtube)
I’ve been adding videos to youtube! Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had my students doing master copies as a way of practicing their newly acquired digital painting skills. This is one I did in class using Corel Painter and some old school brushes I’ve been using for over 15 years! Actual time spent was around 40 minutes (I
Manipulating Edges (youtube)
I’ve been adding videos to youtube! This is a freewheeling unedited discussion given during a recent class on how to work with edges, perhaps one of the most abused subjects in painting! I break it down into interior/exterior edges, round/flat/cornered edges, surface textures, and material qualities. For me, this really simplifies things down. I’m painting a picture of a mushroom