i saw this girl somewhere before..
is she the hollywood artist?

Actually what he means is that you need to study how to paint things by hand first before you should use custom brushes. The point of the custom brushes are to speed up the painting process. BUT if they don't have a good "base", no spiffy brush is going to make your painting look good e.g. if the face does not look like a face, even the most realistic skin texture in the world won't make it look right, and if you don't shade/colour a material properly, it won't look like soft cloth/linen/leather/eilk/metal/what-have-you.

custom brushes speed up the workflow. good for production but not all that good in the learning phase.

she is the famous, siti nurhaliza, malay performance,doing the cover for magazine..


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dumping...

owh i see..
now i get it

rofl..i thot she Eva Mendes..

Wah, nice thread

Quite interested in those Photoshop paintings~
Where do a noobie start? Any advices sifu-sifu?

I know a little bit about drawing with hand, but virtually zero knowledge on drawing or painting with a computer

Thanks in advance

@ TJ

Not sure what you're asking about, exactly. Do you want to know the software/hardware needed, how to use digital programs etc?

yeah not sure what are asking about...
if u dont really have the skills on both medium,u gotta learn from the very basic...pencil and paper.

This.

Art skills/knowledge are still a must. Colour theory, composition, anatomy etc. The computer is just a tool, just as paints and brushes and pencils are tools.

The computer doesn't have a "make pretty art" filter/plugin. Yet and I'm quite sure that requires some pretty advanced artificial intelligence

i love the mid character expression..look so macho for a girl..hehehe

haha.. when the see the real picture compare tp the skecthes,
many part didnt turn out well..

Thanks for the reply guys, appreciate it
I do know a little bit on how to draw on paper with pencil
I was just wondering how to draw/ paint using a computer? Sorry for the noob question but I don't really know how else to put it

Usually you guys just start off drawing with the computer? Or do you draw on paper and then scan the picture?

Sorry if my questions sound stupid
Thanks in advance for your replies

there's a few methods.

- draw on paper, scan, doing outlines and colors in photoshop/other graphic program
- input directly using tablet (eg. wacom bamboo, cintiq) and do the rest in graphics program

I start with first method before switch to second method after getting myself a tablet.

Wah bro! Din't expect to see you here
I see, so I better start of with the 1st method I guess~ Thanks for the reply!

You guys draw and paint using mouse for the 1st method?

hehe
yup, using mouse. But of course you need time to get hang on it.

Using mouse to draw sounds scary T____T
Anyway, any idea how a noob should start?
I've read through some of the links shared here... I think that most of them are too advanced for my "level"

using tablet is easier than using mouse.

but it's good man..