Digital art and Techniques for Enthusiasts

I was fascinated by professional artists' work when I was a kid.I trained in fine arts only to realize later how confined my idea of art was back then. After a break of about 5 years, one night sitting in my hostel room, surfing through internet I landed on a page that made me feel whatever I know about art was peanuts compared to what was out there. I was watching Nico Di Mattia's works on Youtube. Digital art had so much more to offer. Of course I didn't get any sleep that night.

Thursday, March 10

Discovering my potential

The Cute Bunny

After a few tries on Adobe Photoshop I returned to grafitti. I wanted to draw something that was closer to reality than what I had done before. I searched for one such pic online and finalised on this one. The ease and flexibility that Digital art offered amazed me. I did experiment a little and found that the freedom of being able to use darker colors on lighter ones and vice versa was a bliss.

The bunny looks complicated but is very simple. An outline in black of moderate opacity. Quick stroking moves to make the fur look hairy keeping in mind the darkness of the shade in various places. At the junction of white and black a little merging had to be done. Somepart of it was done in black and some in white so that the blend is proper. The eyes took me some time to make. Complete black base then the brown pupil and finally the shine was done in white. First in less opacity and then bright shine in more opaque color.

Familiarizing myself with the tool

Friends forever

I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at drawing with the new tablet. The very evening that I bought it I sat down and started doodling and made this one.I was in awe of the tablet since it made my job so easy. That can be seen from the fact that this one has lines of smallest possible thickness all over. Of course it took me a while before I could actually feel comfortable drawing with it.
Work here is simple enough. gradient background and a little darker shade for the water. Then comes the moon, the land and the dolphins follow next in black and opacity set to halfway. The finishing part was fun because of the ease with which I could now do it. A little highlights to the land,trees and dolphins concluded the work.