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By Les Pardew
Modern-day electronic artists know the way very important it truly is to benefit all facets of electronic paintings in the event that they desire to reach modern-day market. "Mastering electronic 2nd and 3D paintings" is the 1st publication of its variety, assisting intermediate to complex readers grasp the high-quality issues of either 2nd and 3D paintings creation--two parts which are quick merging. a sophisticated ebook on electronic paintings production, this publication focuses specifially on growing nice paintings on a working laptop or computer and contains a number of examples and hands-on tutorials. It methods the subject in a step by step style, comprehensively explaining the best way to create a wide diversity of electronic artwork.
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Find a photograph that you are fond of and let’s have some fun making it into something different. The techniques that are demonstrated will work best with a photograph that is not too large or too small. The size of the image is important only because the settings shown for the tutorial are for an image that is about 1500 pixels in the largest dimension. If you use a photograph that is larger or smaller, you will need to adjust the settings to get similar results. The photograph that you choose should have the following attributes: ■ A good and wide range of values.
Z-Brush is like nothing else out there. It is a relatively expensive program with an unusual interface that can be confusing when learning it. It is not only a painting program, but also a true 3D modeling program that excels at creating creatures and organic shapes. When not creating in 3D, you can paint with this program but the difference is that your pixels not only have an x and y orientation, but also will paint with true depth. Z-Brush calls its pixels “pixols” to indicate that they have z-axis information.
This will remove the self-imposed pressure on our drawing and painting skills and let us concentrate on becoming more familiar with the new tools we will be using. Let’s leave the drawing and painting skills to further development in later chapters and just have a bit of fun in this one. Without further delay let’s start making digital art based on a photograph. The current generation of digital painting software makes the creation of art from photographs very easy. You can create an image that looks like a traditional oil painting, a watercolor, a pencil sketch, a pastel painting, and even creations that look like something entirely new and different.