Sunday 19 July 2015

Disneys Inside Out 'Anger' digital painting time lapse

Thew new Disney film Inside Out comes out in a couple of days here in the UK and I have noticed recently a fair bit of art work dedicated to the film, so I decided to my own fan art of the character Anger and use it as a study i.e improve my general illustration, digital painting, and choice of colour skills etc..

I actually started off thinking this Anger character looks fairly basic and easy to draw so I could do a how to draw Anger from Disneys Inside Out movie video, they seem to be popular on Youtube, but I realised I am too slow to get him looking decent and way he is supposed to look so decided I would just make a time lapse painting. That way it doesn't really matter how long it takes as I can just speed up the video. The only down side is I don't give instructions, meaning it is not so much a tutorial like I initially wanted. When I improve my illustration skill I would definitely like to make more tutorials on 'How to draw' characters.

Anyway.. I couldn't decide whether to stick a voice over on the video or whether to just use a song from the Youtube library, I was feeling lazy so I went with the Youtube library :). The video is below so I hope you enjoy it, also what do you think to the new thumbnail on the video? My hand drawing the Anger character and half of it being a sketch.. figured I would try something new like that and I really like it!


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Friday 3 July 2015

How to draw a dragon in Photoshop tips and paint over

Hi everyone, haven't posted here for a little while, I have made 2-3 videos since I last posted so I thought.. maybe it's time to catch up, starting with my dragon painting video.

The reason for me making this video was that a fan sent me a message on my facebook page, showing me their illustration of a dragon they had drawn / painting from a side profile after watching my 'drawing a dragon from a side profile' video ( which I will post further down ). They asked me for some tips and advice on how to make the dragon look less flat and cartoony and more 3d and realistic. I am by no means an expert at drawing dragons but I tried my best to give some tips, I was also due another Youtube video so decided I would do a paint over. Meaning I took the original dragon drawing sent to me, and painted over the top of it showing how to make the dragon look more 3d and realistic. For this I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 and my graphics tablet, a Wacom Cintiq 13hd, that being said, the program and tablet you use aren't that important, you could probably pick up some tips even if you are working digital. Bare in mine this dragon paint over video is in real time so get comfy for the next half an hour :)

Hopefully this video was not too boring, some people love long real time video tutorials like this when it comes to drawing, others prefer quick 2 min video tutorials, it can be difficult to please everyone :P See the before and after picture below.

Here is one of my older painting a dragon video in Photoshop, this one was a little random and I was going for an armoured dragon, maybe it's time I learn how to draw a dragon head from more then just the side profile ;)

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