here's a new one: speedracer's mach 7 (transformable) LOL

Fyonne, kasi finish laa weh!




here's a new piece i just managed to finish:



dark gotham

took about 3 hours using painter 9.5. influence from stephane levallois, a french concept artist for the incredible hulk.

batman lagi... this time, batzombie! muahahhaha!

painter 9.5, about 3 hours.

here's another one:



a collaboration with bohrtaag. he did the line art, typeface and overall effects, i did the painting. it's a spoof of a classic western clint eastwood film "the good, the bad and the ugly".

saja boring2, using painter 9.5

viewer discretion is adviced



produced using manga studio 3.0. about 4 hours, mainly spent on explorations. this is my first time using manga studio 3.0.

sekali pandang i thought i saw a nipple.

but apparently not

claire bennet joins x-men

pencils by Prem_Chopra, digital painting by me.

ryuku scissorhands

painter 9.5, 2 hours.

oh no, this thread already fell to page 2!

here's something to bump it up:



Hell TOYO

(yes, puns intended)

a collaboration with irkusydamha (pencils), painted by yours truly.

my merdeka themed artwork. ideas from soggie.

sorry, been busy for too long. yesterday my tablet begged to be used. what to do...

nope. more like a hobbyist.

i'm an architect though.

i havent visited this thread for a while. by the way, thanks stereomaniac for the compliments!

on the other hand, here's my latest scribble:



grimlock concept

painter 9.5, about an hour.

cant see ur image, frostfox!

i'm thoroughly bored. something's wrong with my tablet. i accidentally dropped a magnet on my tablet, and a portion of the tablet is now screwed. perhaps time to get a new tablet. i've had my graphire 2 for too long hehe.

this is the end product when i tried to figure out the extend of the damage on my tablet:



it's grimlock sock boy.

its part of the ink effects in painter 9.5. it's a scratchy ink brush, which is then topped of with manually scratching the inks with the knife tool to enhance the... urm... scratchiness.

naah not yet. i'm coming back to msia for christmas. i'll probably shop in lowyat or something.

hmmm... i'm not sure how to say this without actually showing u how. certain things are better explained by example rather than description .

lets start with:

painter is subtly different from photoshop in terms of brushes. basically, what painter does is to imitate natural media as close as possible. this includes how each bristle behaves, the paint mixture and texture, how the paint interacts with the paper, and the paper itself. meaning, u can control the moisture absorption of the paper to produce different results. but i never get to use that.

if u're more of a photoshop user, u tend to immediately adopt photoshop style in painter. nothing wrong with that, but it might be why u cant grasp that natural feel to it. there's no real way to do this, other than to practice, familiarize, and practice again. it took me about 6 months to complete my transition to painter.

what i'm trying to say is, photoshop and painter can both achieve the exact same result. but the method of achieving can be very different. there are brushes in PS that could easily imitate acrylic on knife effects. painter on the other hand attempts to mathematically recreate the acrylic on knife effects. u may need to manually mix the colours gradually in PS, but painter will mix the colours just as the it would mix in the real world.

susah gila nak explain without demo

familiarizing with painter:

workspace

one thing u might wanna try when u start playing with painter is to customize ur workspace. photoshop also allows u to do this, although painter is much more intuitive.


By azarimy

the image above is my workspace. pretty simple. i just sort all the brushes that i frequently use into groups and arrange them around the workspace. u can see the pencils window, inks, acrylics, blenders, oils and knives.

to create ur own brush shortcuts, just pick a brush u like, and drag and drop onto the workspace. a new group will be created. drag more brushes into the same group if u want, or create a new group.

shortcuts

ok, if u're used to PS, then this will need the most getting used to. one thing i like about painter is that they grouped all the shortcuts at the bottom part of the keyboard. u dont have to lift ur left hand at all.

space - pan
c - crop/select
v - straight line using the selected brush
b - analog brush (the usual brush strokes)
n - eraser
m - magnify (zoom)
l - lasso
k - fill
backspace - undo

i hardly use the rest. but one of the biggest thing that PS cant do, is arbitrarily rotating the canvas at ease. the shortcut is:

space + alt + mouse drag

what it does is to rotate the canvas on-the-fly just as when u draw on paper. so instead of rotating ur tablet (which can be very bulky), u rotate ur canvas. it's brilliant. in PS, u gotta access the drop down menu and u'd have to key in the degree of rotation. try it to know what i really mean by how easy this shortcut is!

By azarimy

a play between bane and osama bin laden...

are u using a tablet?

if u are, i recommend changing the brush setting to take advantage of the pressure sensitivity.

use dodge brush, or paint the fire on another layer and play around with the layer setting.