Ten Minute Drawing Techniques Painting Tutorials - Upd. Sep9

[lemec]

Hey guys,

I'm beginning to expand my tutorial series from drawing into painting. I'm now using -- you guessed it -- TVPaint for these, and I'll be recording more and more episodes over the week.

First up - a chapter on silhouettes...

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=E_vSQGjDG ... 69&index=4

[lemec]

The series continues... This time a chapter on Direct Lighting.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nmKkXAPjp ... 69&index=6

[Fabrice]

Hi Mark,

Those tutorials are really cool ...
Excellent job !

See you soon

[lemec]

Thanks Fabrice, I just recorded another chapter - this one on Indirect Lighting!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... hting.html

[lemec]

And now, this is how I start all of my paintings!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... ether.html

[lemec]

One hour lecture on exposure, colour and specularity. Don't watch it all in one sitting!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... arity.html

[lemec]

One Hour Painting Demo...

[Fabrice]

Your are listing Nausicaa from the Valley of wind from Joe Hisaishi !

Where can we get this new version of the PPalette ??

[Peter Wassink]

Your are listing Nausicaa from the Valley of wind from Joe Hisaishi !

Fabrice i'm pretty sure its not the Nausicaa soundtrack, although its does sound a bit Hisaishi-ish (...oooh nice word) especially around 5:00.


i am also very intrigued by that popup-palette.
it seems to work in the same vein as the maya direct menu, always there where you are.

[Fabrice]

Mark,

People are asking some questions about the software you are using in the youtube comments

[lemec]

Your are listing Nausicaa from the Valley of wind from Joe Hisaishi !

The 2nd track is by Joe Hisaishi, the main theme from the "Le Petit Poucet" soundtrack. The 7th track is also a Hisaishi track, the main theme from "Laputa, The Castle In The Sky"

Fabrice i'm pretty sure its not the Nausicaa soundtrack, although its does sound a bit Hisaishi-ish (...oooh nice word) especially around 5:00.

Where can we get this new version of the PPalette ??

Check your email.

I am also very intrigued by that popup-palette.
it seems to work in the same vein as the maya direct menu, always there where you are.

Send me your email if you are interested. For the time being, I am only sending it to beta testers upon request.

People are asking some questions about the software you are using in the youtube comments

And I keep saying during the tutorials, "It's TVPaint, it's TVPaint!"

[musrami]

Congratulation, it's a good project.
"To be continues..."

[malcooning]

Mark, how are you getting the pop up PPalette color circles?
is it an unpublished version of ppalette?
(I saw as well you are somehow collapsing the ppalette window downwards)

[lemec]

The pop up palette is a recent addition I made called the "Dartboard". Here's what it is:

- It's a saturation/value colour picker.
- You call it up when your cursor is positioned over some part of the image. Doing this grabs the colour under your stylus (just like the eyedropper tool)
- the Dartboard's HUE is set to whatever colour is under your stylus.
- On the left side of the Dartboard, the further towards the edge you go, the less saturated the colours are than the current colour
- On the right side of the Dartboard, the further towards the edge you go, the more saturated the colours are than the current colour
- Value is arranged radially around on the Dartboard
- Channel clip indicators show wherever an RGB channel is completely saturated (255) or bottomed-out (0).
- Dragging outside the Dartboard allows you to perform a Hue shift
- Dragging the center of the Dartboard lets you move it around and select a new colour.
- To use it effectively, you have to have an idea of what colour you'd like to have in the first place.
- When I work from photo reference, I glance first at a portion of the photo to tell what hue that region is. Then I call up the Dartboard, perform a hue shift, and then examine the Dartboard to see if the colour I want is on it. I grab that colour, and lay down one or two brush strokes and compare that colour against the rest of my painting. If it's a bit off, then I'll call up the Dartboard again on the brushstrokes I just made, and examine the Dartboard to find the colour I need.
- Usually my first attempt at picking colour is about 95% accurate (in the ballpark). Calling up the Dartboard a second time lets me make that final adjustment.
- If you see me pop it up and dismiss it without choosing a colour, I'm just using it like a regular eyedropper.

As for PPalette, I found I can close the interface completely, relying solely on the Dartboard. That little window you see at the bottom is RocknRoll, which takes care of rolling/flipping automation for animation, drawing my full-screen crosshair and the Paper Trail effect(if I'm sketching).

Although I don't have an official sales page for PPalette yet, I can make individual sales. Just PM me your email address. It's $10.00 for noncommercial/educational licenses and $50.00 for a commercial license.

[hisko]

Thanks Fabrice, I just recorded another chapter - this one on Indirect Lighting!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... hting.html

What brush do you use when you make the sphere in this indirectlighting-film, if I may ask?
And what are the settings?