Thursday
Feb232012
Still Life Demo: Custom Brushes in Action
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 8:41AM This video shows me painting a loose still life, start to finish. All of the brushes are made using techniques found in the upcoming "Custom Brush Design" series - and have gritty, naturalistic texture.
Reader Comments (15)
another great video thanks!
This kind of instruction is always the best. Its really nice to see the snapshots of your workflow and hear some of the key points behind your thought process as well as technical execution. I had never really thought about finding texture in specular highlights before to better define a surface texture.
Really can't wait to pick up and check out your custom brush video.
Out of curiosity, I know we're seeing this video at a sped up pace but what would you say is your typical amount of time spent on a study? For more polished production work?
Nice video I'll be checking out the store 2moro for sure
also matt i was wondering if i could ask you about putting some of these videos in a folder i'm making for college to show where im learning new things out of class
Don't worry, the only people who will see them are the examiners, and if you'd rather, i could just take some screen shots.
thanks
@ Churchx : Would you mind sending me an email so we can talk about the logistics? Generally speaking, I love the idea of you showing ctrl+Paint videos to classmates and instructors. Thanks!
@ Evan: I hate to talk about the amount of time a piece takes to complete. I know that when I was first learning to digital paint the idea of a 'speed paint' was very alluring, and created some bad, sloppy, habits in my work. Since then I've tried my hardest to work on a painting as long as it needs to be 'complete'. Of course, 'complete' will change its definition based on your design requirements.
The short answer is that some of my paintings are a half hour, while others take many days. The result is most important, and patience is key :)
Excellent video as usual and great answer to Evan's question, Matt. I've been through all your videos now and I have to say that the major thing I have learned is to take things a whole lot slower that I have in the past.
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
This was my favorite and MOST useful video I've seen!
I really enjoyed this video I think it is one of the best on the site.
Wow.
Thanks Matt
Looking forward till tomorrow as I have a few Paintings I need to have done and wanted to wait for this set to come into your store. Your tips have reminded me of the fundamentals I have forgotten after going to art college and it's great to get back into it like I did then.
On a note today I was practising "loosening up" with the 5 pages of ovals, but using Photoshop and found that it I changed the angle of my tablet to be the same angle I normally have my easel AND remove my left arm from my computer chair it gives me more room to be loose and I do not WANT to put my arm on and draw from my fingers...
Do you have ANY tips for left handers and photoshop and right handed keyboards?
That was a great demo, Matt. I have been waiting for this demo ever since I got Basic Photoshop Rendering. I know, I should have said something but honestly I did not do all of my home work as yet. I only did the globe after the initial content. The piece I did after flowing along with you was great but It just did not have that textural life feel to it. Then I saw the Machine Gun pack video and it seemed like custom brushes had a more practical use.
I don’t write a lot of comments but I’m a big supporter. After I found the Digital Painting 101 series on Youtube I could not help but to say that ‘this guy knows his stuff ’. I copied the link and ever since then it has enjoyed a permanent home on my book mark bar on Safari. I think I can safety say that I have seen all of your videos and bought all of your premium content videos. All of that said I cannot wait to see what you do with the Custom Brushes.
What I want to know is when exactly I can buy that brush demo.
Looking forward to the Future*
*Now with really great secular highlights
That was a real tease to say the custom brush video was available in the store when it wasn't available yet ;D
The reason the new premium content is not for sale. Is it is only JUST 24th Feb in the US, let Matt sleep please. ;) I'm sure by 2pm GMT it'll be up and get record sales. ;)
Hey Matt,
Thanks for sharing all this valuable info. This website make the journey through the world of art very enjoyable! I will definitely visit the store as soon as I get some technical things straight on my end.
What I would really love to see is how you design environment concepts. To be more specific, natural environments (because nature tends to be more ... tricky, right?). One of my plans involves some 2D animation in a jungle-like environment and it would be very useful for me to have a little insight on such work done by you. Basically, what I want to do is an animation that would start with a slow descent, from above the clouds (night time), pass through the layer of clouds (with some thunderstorm going on) and end up entering a thick rainforest. But what I see as the main challenge is picturing this jungle from like, a helicopter perspective.
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
- Q
This was great. But How I know what brush to use? My all drawings looks "flat" because I dont have skills to use right kind of texture or/and use colors so that it gives right kind of depth, feel and material look :(
I still wanna know for a new artist what of your tutorials can be practiced right away and what do you need more experience for?
Great video Matt, one of the best recently. Although you said that you aren't a fan of time-lapse videos you made this one work very well. It wasn't like many of the low quality ones on YouTube, this felt catered towards your viewers and the dialogue goes great with it. I think the reason you'll find people enjoy this video over others specifically is because of the actual painting (I know it's just a sort of sketch to you but for some of us it's as far as we can get).