Part 1: Digital Environment Painting with Noah Bradley
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2010
- This is the first part of four segments on digital environment painting.
Part 1: • Part 1: Digital Enviro...
Part 2: • Part 2: Digital Enviro...
Part 3: • Part 3: Digital Enviro...
Part 4: • Part 4: Digital Enviro...
View the final painting here: noahbradley.deviantart.com/#/d...
View my complete portfolio here: www.noahbradley.com/
I hope you enjoy watching this video, and if you've got any questions feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer them. Also, if you do any environment pieces after watching this I'd love to take a look at them. Thanks!
This series is one of the best tutorials ever! I love that you talk how to do art in general. I've shared this series tons already. Hope you do more like this.
Thanks Noah! I really enjoyed this video.
I've noticed what you mentioned with the smudge tool is very true! when I first started my digital paintings and using the smudge tool I didn't enjoy it at all! I stayed clear of that tool for while but once I got back into it I learnt how to use it properly.
I watched this series a couple years ago and fell in love with your approach. Then I lost it and couldn't find the video for ages (despite watching you in DeviantArt, how silly am I?) Now I have found the video again and am super happy. One of my favourite art advice came from watching this video. Start with the hardest/least favourite part first. It really, really changes how one approaches the drawing.
OOh this channel is what I've been looking for!
I really want to do digital environment art I'm decent at things with anatomy such as horses or birds but environment art is something that amazes me beyond words
now I'm going to watch every video you have and probably not sleep for a week
Nostalgia... Seen this video 5 years ago which showed me a different path. If you still read comments for this video I would like to thank you for helping me making me who I am now...I still remember the first time I saw this painting with open mouth wondering "Wowww".
Thanks for the great video! I have watched a lot of tutorials, but I actually found yours the best! I really appreciate how you explain things beyond the painting itself, like the shadows, color - and how to get started with painting enviroments. I'll definetly come back to watch more of your tutorials! Keep up the amazing work man!
you have helped me so much in realizing what I can do and see what I can work on your just amazing thank you so much, I live in Seward Alaska there's not a lot to do and knowing that I can just like go out there and paint it will help me and digital painting to is awesome!
I like to look at the trees on the leaves as well. It's fun when Autumn comes around and the bark begins to fall off.
I'm just bustin' your chops, dude. Nice video, Great advice.
UA-cam has been my best tutor for digital arts. Thanks for posting friend! much appreciated!
Thanks for posting this video! Now I want to jump into a speedpaint and do a watercolor en plein air. And yes, seeing the paintings in person is much more breathtaking. I went to see David's "Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe" in a museum the other day, and it was just gorgeous!
these 4 videos were a great watch, and very informative. please do more.
much appreciated!
It was awesome to watch this to develop while listening to your words! Thanks so much for the upload!
Gosh i am so glad to have found your channel, you are amazing! I've loved this video!
Fantastic work and great vid, I learn alot from your way of working. Keep
Up the great work.
cant thank you enough for this vid man!! great way of just showing the concept of it!
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Very informative and lots of helpful advice here. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us!
Great tutorial. So many people have trouble stepping back. I think its great that one of your focal points is staying with the whole picture.
Thank you Noah, great instruction. Very helpful!
I hope you decide to do more of these tutorials. I'd love to learn more about subsurface scattering and multiple light sources.
If anyone is wondering what he did at 3:13 he used "Copy visible and paste in a new layer".
Press Ctrl (Cmd) + Alt (Opt) + Shift + E will copy the visible layers and paste in a new layer. The stuff in brackets are the keys on a Mac.
Great advice. Totally helped me with my roadbumps.
I can draw decently, but it's things like this that just absolutely blow me away. From the outside perspective it seems more than complicated. But, it sounds like the basics are fairly simple. Just outstanding. :D
Its great to see that you explain your work,
we need more people like you :)
Yet another amazing thing I've found thanks to reddit :). You are extraordinarily talented.
Wow, that flip image is really nice idea!
This is soooo useful. Thank you so much :)
Funny you said how you are driving around and pay attention to elements of nature in the real world around you. Just today, I was driving home from work and looking at the trees to get visual reference for my art, and suddenly I noticed how the shading on a tree trunk is NOT just on one side from top to bottom, but includes cast shadows from its own branches and only specks of light on the other side from the light peeking through the leaves. Now next time I paint a tree I will be thinking about that.
Hello Noah, your are really a good tutor! I really learn alot just fromt his part 1 :) Thanks alot! :)
What is the best way to control opacity and flow? Like 20-30% opacity and 100% flow?
As well as being an amazingly informative video it was like a peaceful meditation whilst improving my own work, thanks :)
Wow amazing ! Thank you for sharing and explaining along the way--I really enjoyed your lesson:-)
This is really late but if no one knew, there is a cool other makeshift navigator that you can use. Say if you have two screens. When you want to really do details but want a larger scope of your image but the navigator is to small or cumbersome, you can use a new window for the same file. You can go to Window > Arrange > New Window for "Your File Name". This is useful because essentially its is your current project but you can throw this window up anywhere, like a twin window. Try it out.
hi
i have recently started digital painting and i already have some assignment so if you could give me some pointers...
I just got a book ( Digital Painting in Photoshop for beginners) with this exact tutorial in it. Its fantastic
Please do more of these videos where you talk over the recording. I love your work, especially your clouds!! haha :D
this tutorial is great! thanks a lot, btw can you give some advice to some basic brush settings that are good for painting rocks and other surfaces?
Great tutorial. What is the distinction between rendering and applying?
awesome tutorial. great final image too XD
I loved the comment about the smudge tool being evil. Even more sinful is the burn and dodge tools, lol. Interesting tutorial sir.
do u draw in a sketch book before you bring it into Photoshop? If so, do you redraw or scan?
What about references? Do you use them? Is it useful to paint from photos? Thx)
uhh mr. bradley
if i ever become an environment designer one day youll be a major contributor in my list of influences
hey noah you dont have to shift copy, you can Cmd or Control J to duplicate its ways quicker
@noahbradley At the moment I have big problems with comming up with a really interesting enviroment design. I was wondering how you came up with the interesting composition and design for your enviroment, since it has a big deal to say in a picture as well.
learned so much thanks for sharing !
where can we download that kind of brushes that you used in this video...
Hi, i have a question, i see a lot of chalk brush here did you modified it any way? coz flow and opacity are set on 100% but lines if leaves definitely dont look like they were 100% also they look very soft:/ is it just my bad eye or you set something specific?
may i know what kind of brushes do you use?
because i see that you use circle brush and oval brush..
Hello Noah,
What a wonderful landscape. I just had a question about blocking in (the beginnings of your paintings). The way I've learnt is self taught and also through some help of a friend who is also an artist. I'm now trying to learn to paint better by watching video tutorials, like yours and try to use the block-in method. However I can't seem to get anything out and it just looks like a mess.
Have you got any tips to pick up this method better? I'm really desperate to improve as an artist
Hey Noah, awesome stuff man! For most of your projects what resolution do you set up to work on?
How do I add custom shortcuts? I want to make a shortcut to flip my image too, it's a hassle to go ctrl+T flip.
He's hitting the Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) key to bring up the color sampler. The color on top is the color he's picking from the painting, and the bottom color is the current color that he's replacing.
I love your painting! but I would like to know which brushes you use, specially the one for the big parts. I´ve been looking for them for a long time but cant find the brushes like your. I´ll apreciate the help. :)
I am so sorry for the possibly noob question, but sometimes when you paint a large grey circle pops with two colors up while you are painting (8:41-8:43 is an example)....What is that and how do you get it?
what is the shortcut keys for plipping the image?
how are you able to constantly change colors and shades so quickly?
What is he doing to make the circle with the colours come up in the middle of the screen?
how exactly do you spell "George enos" I tried to look it up couldn't find it...thanks btw your r awesome at painting ....
Try googling for "George Ennis Art"
Could you write down the names of the old masters you mentioned, thx
I feel like landscape painting is all values..... do you have any insights or tips into seeing or comprehending all the little value shifts in a landscape?
brushes...what type of brushes do you use?
I second this question. I can get kinda demotivated when I just don't know where to begin. Are there books or whatever which have a step by step method of painting landscapes?
How often do you use references in your paintings?
Could you please tell me how you get those kind of shady brushes? The only problem I have are with the brushes
What is the Bob Ross brush at 6:31?
looks like fun
Did you scan in the sketch then make a duplicate layer of the sketch? I'm terribly new to painting in PS sorry.
I'm trying to learn how to paint .I have like many , Many Paint tool and brushes along with The Paints .
It's so hard .
And I'm trying to do so on the computer also . It always turn into a stick figure !
What software do u use? Please tell meeeee
One day i hope to achieve this level, i practice speed painting every day
Would recomend some place to trade some ideias with painters or just dispaying your work? Specially speed paintings. I was in the daily speed paint on facebook :c but they got me banned because I could never stay on the limit and that I was always open and honest about it lol. I need a new place to get inspired and motivated... So that would help a lot, thanks!
Gabriela Araújo You could try the facebook group called "Virtual Plein Air", I joined about two weeks ago and haven't gotten around to actually painting anything but it seems like a nice community and a great way to practice
Badass man thanks
you seem to be using a lot of different brushes, are they the standard ones or where did you find them? :P
How can you see the sketch under your paint when it says the opacity is at 100% for the brush and the layer?
+Finn Cooper
there are layer options at the top of layers window. its set to "normal" but you can try other options like multiply,soft light etc. just try it and you'll find out.
Brilliant thanks
u sir are amazing
How do i send you paintings for critique?
Which software you used?
Nice project, wanted to see it slightly darker and harder in the foreground - maybe the monks walking; as this would have given much more light beyond and also been a great contrast for the soft snow. A relay good effort though, well done.
What is the program you use?
Is there any requirements to begin digital painting?
I mean, do I need to have skills on oil, watercolor or any kind of traditional painting, or I can just skip directly into digital painting?
I know I'm not Noah, but I would say you don't have to know any other forms of painting to get into digital painting first. A lot of younger digital artists have never done any traditional painting before and are still able to produce some amazing work. BUT!!!.... knowing some of the fundamentals of oils, acrylics, etc. can come in very handy in digital painting, because a lot of the same rules still apply, but just in a slightly altered way. Good luck with your art! :)
Thank you for answering my question. The reason I asked that is because I have no time to start a course on traditional painting, so I was thinking about starting on Digital Painting.
You are definitely in the right place! You can learn everything there is to know right here on UA-cam, for sure. Noah's videos are awesome, and you should check out these as well: CUBEBRUSH, FZDSCHOOL, Matt Kohr, Sycra, Tyler Edlin, & Xia Taptara. There are many more, but the information these guys above give out in their videos is amazing. I learn something new from each of them every day. Have fun!
Karl King thanks for the references :D I cang give you one more, draw with jazza is good too ;)
what do you mean by flip?
Thanks!!
Really great commentary.
First thing I noticed at the start of the video was that you have a Bob Ross brush. :P Awesome!
Thanks for the video
Love your videos Noah, but would you mind adding the artists names you're suggesting in the comments section? Not necessarily links, but their proper spelling would help immensely. Thanks much and keep up the amazing work.
Hi! I follow you on deviantart, but i didn't know that you got a youtube channel! subscribed! XD
What program is this o.O
Really nice! you remind me of Feng Zhu :)
Believe it or not that is the eyedrop tool. It's a feature that was introduced in CS5... it's not that useful to be honest. Hope that helps!
I have a question.
I have observed a lot of people painting tutorial online. Most of them (including you) seem to paint with low opacity colors for most of the time, but I don't see the pen pressure opacity button was not triggered, or the percentage of opacity itself dropped lower than 100%
Did I miss something here ?
Or is it just my imagination. I'm seeing an illusion ?
+Thaibiohazard123 probably using a pen with pressure sensitivity controlling the opacity
Oh my goodness!! :O
What is the name of the program?
Very helpful thank u
Great Stuff! :)
If I had the monitor for that (a second one even),I´d prefer opening an own window and havin it a LITTLE bigger,to the navigator function..nice work anyway!
He paints for Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering). I believe he also has many small personal projects as well. I think he has quit doing freelance work.
If we do want you to critique our work what would be the best way to get a hold of you?
Just came across your tweet about practice so I went to check out your channel. This advice is life changing