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DIGTIAL PAINTING: EXPERIMENTING WITH BACKGROUND COLORS

I hate working on a painting for hours and hours only to realize that my background completely sucks and I can’t stand the painting anymore.  I used to think that painting preliminary backgrounds or testing different colors was a waste of time…until………I spent hours and hours painting a crappy background 😉  So this video post …

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DIGITAL PAINTING|CREATING FORM SWATCHES USING PHOTOSHOP

Sometimes it’s easier to create form “swatches” which are just small samples of “painted” random forms to explore form language. When drawing a car, form swatches can help with “happy accidents.”  Happy accidents usually occur when you don’t really intend to find something interesting or purposeful.  It sort of happens as a result of finding …

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