never loved a person as much as i love this guy. even though i don't know his name but i respect this guy so much. the info he is willing to share and the amount of time he puts to teach us rookies is just amazing. much respect and love , love you man cant express how much this video helped me . #FanForLife
You don't realize how much I love these videos. You are such an incredible artist, and It's amazing to be able to see how you draw and the techniques you use.
As always Feng proves to be the most active, helpful artist out there. I've been following his work since 2001 when he used to have a tutorial for markers and perspective on his website and without doubt he always helped me evolve as an artist with his smart and well thought teaching. Thank you for your continued interest in showing tips, techniques and "secrets" of how to be a better concept artist.
I started painting recently and almost all brushes had pressure opacity on and I am so thankful for this video. Something had been feeling off to me but I didn't want to question what others were doing too much because I was new. It is getting late here now but I am looking forward to waking up and painting again tomorrow without opacity jitter. Great videos
Thank you so much for your insightful approach to design. I find your demos to be very helpful and confirm a lot of techniques I've developed throughout the years. It's inspiring to know there is a Design School dedicated primarily for vehicle and character design such as yourself.
Thanks for the video, it's really great that you started uploading this, I never can wait for the next one to come. It gives so much inspiration and motivation and that's probably not just me.
Good tips for getting used to your Wacom pen in addition to just drawing a lot is to use your tablet for browsing the web and in "mouse mode" for gaming (especially fps, etc). This helps you learn to use your whole arm. Also do some handwriting practice in Photoshop. Copying a long text like writing an essay into Photoshop trains your finger dexterity very fast. You can't always be drawing 6 hours per day so this helps you learn to use the tablet a lot faster.
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The opacity thing that messes with values has been an awesome tip. Thanks a lot! I've always wondered why my paintings look muddy and less solid when it comes to shapes and depth and all that, but this is it. Brush settings and how it affects value in quite bad ways. Now it's time to re-adjust to using none-opacity sensitive brush settings like you've shown and add bounce light and other stuff in afterwards instead of relying on the 'random' stuff that messes the value up. Thanks. xD
This is brilliant - in ten minutes, you've taught me some basic artistic technique, some common pitfalls, and given me some valuable advice and insight into adjusting and learning to use digital the Wacom. All valuable, insightful and succinct. Instant subscriber :-)
I can also highly recommend Clip Studio Paint - it's beautiful for line drawings, has the BEST free brushes and the ability to create (or download) even very complex, colored brushes (e.g. that create realistic flower garlands or clothing patterns), AND it has integrated 3D models which you can put into any position, light, rotate, and then even transform into a line art or value sketch with a single click. It really has everything I want from a drawing and painting software. What I don't know is if its photo bashing functionality is as good as Photoshop's because I don't use it myself.
Right, points taken. To me it is like whether one should learn to ride a bike with training wheels, and then learn to ride it without them, or just learn how to ride it from the beginning. My point was that achieving good, sharp results with use of transfer brushes is actually much faster than solid colors, and won't look as muddy as this video makes it out to, and something worth learning from the start, because it takes more practice.
Hi guys, you can actually rotate your canvas in the photoshop (Im using CS6 dont know if its working in previuos versions). Just press R and drag. If it is not working maybe you need to go to preferences-> performance and activate your video hardware acceleration. Btw, thanks Feng for your tutorials, Im learning a lot!
@Fengdesigns Would you please explain and show us your personal Painter/Photoshop Workspaces and also what you recommend to your new students? Thank you. Very grateful for the time and work you put into these videos. Great value!
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I agree with you completely that we can learn to use it the right way but Feng has advised us not to use it because there most be a really harsh learning curve to that might as well take up a lot of our time. He managed to master it and since you and I could be potential students, he has advised us to do it the way that still produces really good results. For now the best thing to do would be to try both techniques until you feel comfortable with one. Then later on try the other ^_^
hey feng big fan here... love the tutorials! learned a lot from it... really hoping to come and study at fzd when i can and meet you... love all your work and really look forward to more of your paintings!! cheers mate! awesome stuff!
i've been trying to figure out how the hell to make straight lines that aren't horizontal or vertical with the brush tool instead of the line tool for so long. i wanted to make quick precise perspective lines in PS and the line tool is so cumbersome. thanks so much for the great tips! your videos have been such a great help on my projects
@dableutyef those are feng's custom colours he has chosen to add to his "swatches" over his time in working in the industry if you press F6 and select swatches you will get something similar to feng's colours. (you could also go into the window menu and select swatches) and from there u can add custom swatches (colours) by using the Colour Picker tool.
@Fengdesigns Well I'm guessing the most needed tricks would be -Finding good photo references. -Setting our color palette with good colors -Creating brushes , like the noise brush you mentioned in a previous video
Hey Feng, Thanks for another great contribution! I was wondering if you had uploaded your set of brushes somewhere? looks like a great collection with bits of everything in it
Hey everyone. I'm back in the office today. New Design Cinema will be up later this week. Btw, these "basic wacom" techniques seem to be popular. Would you guys want to see more videos along these lines? Give me some ideas :) I was thinking: - How to setup PS brush (including making custom brush) - Photoshop workspace - Collecting References - Quick paintings to learn PS - etc.
He's self thought, he didn't have any teachers telling what do to, he learned it by books, reading, observing and practice. These are the words from the man himself.
Never had a intous tablet. Originally I had a bamboo but hated not looking at my drawing where I'm actually drawing do I jumped straight to the cintiq. Greatest creation ever. I love my cintiq and plan on updating it soon cause the colors are a bit wack but otherwise it's amazing
Also, check out 'EPISODE 18 Character Sketching part1' where Feng uses Transfer extensively, and makes the same point as my experience with clients has taught me - that they more often show a positive reaction to loose, sketchy designs that express energy, and too often get caught up in little details if the finish is too clean, tight and stiff.
hi Feng ! 9 ans later, your videos still really instructive ! Is is possible for you to make a part photoshop & wacom Part 03 ?!? I'd like to know what shortcuts and key you use. Thanks very much !
It's because of the steep learning curve I suggested practicing it from the beginning, along with other techniques. If you don't put time into it, you'll not get there. I reckon I use it on about 90% of my brushes, and in work for clients ranging from loose sketches to final art, and if I'd never practiced it I think I'd be screwed.
What I really would like to see is how you set up your brushes to draw something like grass or clouds. I don't mean the brush itself, but how you use it. Let me illustrate that for you: When I watch your drawing videos and you draw clouds, it seems like you move along the sky and suddenly there is a natural appearance of smaller and bigger clouds originating from the brush you use. When I try to draw clouds with a fitting brush, all I get is a line or blotch, only with the brush's outlines.
@petercourt He's using the number keys (or keypad) as short-cuts for 10%, 20%,30%,40%,50%,60%,70%,80%,90% and 100% opacity. You might have to edit the shortkey settings in Photoshop, not sure. I think these are default short cuts actually.
That's actually a brighter way of looking at it, well I guess it's what we learn huh? No worries, at the end of the way it's the design that matters not the tools, and a tool is as good as it's master.
Personally, "messy values" is what makes art interesting, as opposed to computer generated vector stuff which is perfect and sterile. With the right swing of the brush, "messy values" generate life and breath, only it takes more practice, so my advice would be to learn it from the start...
Thanks for the comments everyone. I don't use the Cintiq. The glass height and my arm blocking the image are the two main reasons. But I'm sure with time, one can overcome these factors. But for now, I'm happy with the Intuos 3 and 4s.
Your videos are insanely helpful, especially to someone like me who has been concentrating too much on web/graphic design and neglecting to progress my illustrative/painting skills. You mentioned that you manually control opacity with your brushes and not use pen pressure. It seems that you can still run the risk of creating muddy values and forms even using manual opacity changes, how do you combat this?
Excellent channel. One point here though. I disagree about easily moving from traditional drawing to a standard Wacom tablet. There is a hand eye coordination problem that you will not fully get used to. I don't think your brain ever really gets used to it. You can even see Feng struggling with this occasionally. I found this frustrating and hence I got a second hand 21 inch Cintiq. This is a joy to use. Yes, unfortunately they are expensive but that's just the way it is.
I'm not talking about plopping textures onto your work, I'm talking about brush strokes. Visible brush strokes. Look at some analogue art - you know, the kind on paper and canvas? Then you should know what I mean. Those texniques can be used in Photoshop too, provided you got some transfer on your brush, and practice it to achieve a style of expression in the strokes.
Thanks.. I was feeling pretty angry today because of my PS lines and stuff compared to my pencil lines. But this gave me a lot of confidence that I'm going the right direction, it is just about practise and time! I'm beginner and I usually working with pencil and sketchbook to learn the movement of my arm etc. I have to start doing more exercise in PS as well though.. Btw your set-up is kind of out of common range though :D .. 7k PC hmm I can dream about that :P
Feng Zhu, I really hope you are reading this. You say a ton of times in your videos that you don't show detailing because it's not important and it's boring, the thing is I can easily block out things , like mountains, buildings, etc.. but for some reason I always get stuck with the detailing part, then I'm like "Okay, what now ? , How do I continue from here ?" . My paintings usually read in terms of composition, value, etc,.. from a distance but my detailing feels bad and it seems like I always mess up my paintings from that point,.. could you do a video about how to detail ? Some examples, detail a mountain, a building, water,... Thank you ! Love your videos, been watching them for a few years now.
Instead of Painter i use Paint Tool SAI. It's a very fast software, the lines are very fluid, doesnt have any lag whatsoever.It has a lazymouse feature like ZBrush. The mixing of color is not based on opacity like PS, it actually mixes colors like in reality.Also it works very well with PS, you can save .psd files, it keeps layers, masks, clipping masks, groups, blending modes.You can't do paths, texts or even elipse marquees but for sketching and painting is the best.Have you guys tried it ?
Thank You for the tutorial - very helpful ;) Do You think, You could give us some tips on basic desk setup? I mean the work environment - I still haven't found a perfect setup for me, maybe You have some precious little tips on that?
Love your channel Feng. Watch out of curiosity and interest from a Viz FX point of view but am trying to digitally paint now for enjoyment, and to enhance my own work. I am having problems though with mixing colours. Can anyone tell me, in CS5.1 do you have to use the mixer brush to mix two colours. Ie. Using the picker tool to take one colour and mix it over the other...without using opacity?
I made my own by using the text tool and typing out on a blank canvas the numbers 01... 02...03 etc. Then I went to Edit-Define Brush Preset. So basically I made a brush out of the numbers. His our the same because I have downloaded brush sets before that have numbers like that and if you click on the number it is an actual brush. Hope this helps
noted you draw by hand straight lines but you can draw straight lines with point1-shift- then point two without break in line by change pen pressure (thick/thin) to 100% I know this is a cheat- still practicing to do it the way you do- but works for underlying grids- peace
hey feng! when you have value changes mapped to your keys can you only use this when you're working with black and white? or does it allow you to do it during color paintings as well? also how do you program the values as shortcuts on the keys?
is there a tablet that compares with the cintiq for a more affordable price? I like the idea of being able to look at what I'm drawing directly rather writing on one thing while looking at another?
to those that are asking about cintiqs not to answer for feng but from what I heard, you can't work on those for long periods of time and feng seems to spend hours a day so his hands would burn on a cintiq
Thanks for the videos. I'm looking to learn the fundamentals and so want to use your technique of not using opacity. I would also like to blend colours on in the painting, which would be very difficult without opacity. If a beginner wanted to follow your way, would you say using the opacity in a controlled manner like you say in the video (with numbers on keyboard) they could use that way to blend colors, just so long as it isn't pen pressure. Sorry this was surprisingly hard to word. Basically how should beginners blend colours on the fly, can they use controlled opacity as opposed to pen pressure or would you suggest actually painting all the graduations with seperate colors? THANKS love the vids!
Some don't like to blend colours with opacity as this does not actually mix the colour, rather it blocks and greys out the colour underneath to a mutual tone, which makes colours muddy and streaky. You are far better learning to pick colours which work, and for this you need to learn some colour theory. Also, if you have some flow variation on your brush with flow jitter turned on, you can just hold alt and pick out the new colour between colours. Try a soft brush and lay down some red then some yellow over a part of it. You should be able to pick the perfect mixed orange from the middle and blend the two together. The more you understand what colours to use in the first place, the less you will have to blend.
can you export the corel brush and post a link to it here? also can you tell us what the quick keys were called when you switched the screen rotation in corel?
A question, how do you set up a Wacom Bamboo Tablet to have pen pressure painting? Mine has to be changed manually. Is there a setting or another of the discs I have to install? Thanks
I've got a strange question to you, I'm watching alot of your and other people videos, about photoshop paintings, and i learned alot, its my inspiration, but when i try to invent something, when im drawing there is always a piece of technique or idea from your videos, and that i think is bad, i cant invent anything truly made by myself. And my question is what to do, did you have the same when you learned to draw? Thank You Tom
Very good that you explain all this stuff feng tnx alot! A have looked around to find the brush from painter 4.5 but i couldnt fint it. Anyone know where to fint it ? / Finndahl
I wish you had this as episodes 1... I feel like all my progress will be reset now if I switch over to constrained proportions and 100% controlled opacity..
never loved a person as much as i love this guy. even though i don't know his name but i respect this guy so much. the info he is willing to share and the amount of time he puts to teach us rookies is just amazing. much respect and love , love you man cant express how much this video helped me . #FanForLife
name is Feng Zhu
You don't realize how much I love these videos. You are such an incredible artist, and It's amazing to be able to see how you draw and the techniques you use.
As always Feng proves to be the most active, helpful artist out there. I've been following his work since 2001 when he used to have a tutorial for markers and perspective on his website and without doubt he always helped me evolve as an artist with his smart and well thought teaching.
Thank you for your continued interest in showing tips, techniques and "secrets" of how to be a better concept artist.
I started painting recently and almost all brushes had pressure opacity on and I am so thankful for this video. Something had been feeling off to me but I didn't want to question what others were doing too much because I was new. It is getting late here now but I am looking forward to waking up and painting again tomorrow without opacity jitter. Great videos
Thank you so much for your insightful approach to design. I find your demos to be very helpful and confirm a lot of techniques I've developed throughout the years. It's inspiring to know there is a Design School dedicated primarily for vehicle and character design such as yourself.
Very impressive video!
That's how I like tutorials. Not going into awful details, but more talking about the "understanding" of things.
So useful, Id love to see more of these simple tutorials to teach us basics of value/colour etc
Thanks for the video, it's really great that you started uploading this, I never can wait for the next one to come. It gives so much inspiration and motivation and that's probably not just me.
Good tips for getting used to your Wacom pen in addition to just drawing a lot is to use your tablet for browsing the web and in "mouse mode" for gaming (especially fps, etc). This helps you learn to use your whole arm. Also do some handwriting practice in Photoshop. Copying a long text like writing an essay into Photoshop trains your finger dexterity very fast. You can't always be drawing 6 hours per day so this helps you learn to use the tablet a lot faster.
I loved the "Just continue detailing until you get something like this."
I was like, daaaang. :)
These tutorials are very helpful, especially for my portfolio preparation. Thanks!
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The opacity thing that messes with values has been an awesome tip. Thanks a lot!
I've always wondered why my paintings look muddy and less solid when it comes to shapes and depth and all that, but this is it. Brush settings and how it affects value in quite bad ways. Now it's time to re-adjust to using none-opacity sensitive brush settings like you've shown and add bounce light and other stuff in afterwards instead of relying on the 'random' stuff that messes the value up. Thanks. xD
Thanks for the video, it's really great that you started uploading this, I never can wait for the next one to come.
This is brilliant - in ten minutes, you've taught me some basic artistic technique, some common pitfalls, and given me some valuable advice and insight into adjusting and learning to use digital the Wacom. All valuable, insightful and succinct. Instant subscriber :-)
One of the most helpful tutorials yet! Thank you.
I can also highly recommend Clip Studio Paint - it's beautiful for line drawings, has the BEST free brushes and the ability to create (or download) even very complex, colored brushes (e.g. that create realistic flower garlands or clothing patterns), AND it has integrated 3D models which you can put into any position, light, rotate, and then even transform into a line art or value sketch with a single click. It really has everything I want from a drawing and painting software. What I don't know is if its photo bashing functionality is as good as Photoshop's because I don't use it myself.
great videos and really helpful, getting all the basics is just as important as all the other stuff too!!
Right, points taken. To me it is like whether one should learn to ride a bike with training wheels, and then learn to ride it without them, or just learn how to ride it from the beginning. My point was that achieving good, sharp results with use of transfer brushes is actually much faster than solid colors, and won't look as muddy as this video makes it out to, and something worth learning from the start, because it takes more practice.
Appreciate all your work put into these videos, thank you!
In one minute, I learned more than I could have taught myself in a week.
Hi guys, you can actually rotate your canvas in the photoshop (Im using CS6 dont know if its working in previuos versions). Just press R and drag. If it is not working maybe you need to go to preferences-> performance and activate your video hardware acceleration.
Btw, thanks Feng for your tutorials, Im learning a lot!
@Fengdesigns
Would you please explain and show us your personal Painter/Photoshop Workspaces and also what you recommend to your new students? Thank you. Very grateful for the time and work you put into these videos. Great value!
The FZD Design Cinema Contest deadline is approaching soon. Be sure to submit your entry by September 30, 2013 to win a trip to Singapore. Good luck to you all~~
I agree with you completely that we can learn to use it the right way but Feng has advised us not to use it because there most be a really harsh learning curve to that might as well take up a lot of our time. He managed to master it and since you and I could be potential students, he has advised us to do it the way that still produces really good results. For now the best thing to do would be to try both techniques until you feel comfortable with one. Then later on try the other ^_^
hey feng big fan here... love the tutorials! learned a lot from it... really hoping to come and study at fzd when i can and meet you... love all your work and really look forward to more of your paintings!! cheers mate! awesome stuff!
i've been trying to figure out how the hell to make straight lines that aren't horizontal or vertical with the brush tool instead of the line tool for so long. i wanted to make quick precise perspective lines in PS and the line tool is so cumbersome. thanks so much for the great tips! your videos have been such a great help on my projects
"so we don't feel like Wooooaaaaaaaaaahhhhh"
@dableutyef
those are feng's custom colours he has chosen to add to his "swatches" over his time in working in the industry
if you press F6 and select swatches you will get something similar to feng's colours. (you could also go into the window menu and select swatches)
and from there u can add custom swatches (colours) by using the Colour Picker tool.
@Fengdesigns
Well I'm guessing the most needed tricks would be
-Finding good photo references.
-Setting our color palette with good colors
-Creating brushes , like the noise brush you mentioned in a previous video
Hey, you're almost getting into fundamentals, Thanks for providing some good entrainment while I'm working.
Hey Feng, Thanks for another great contribution! I was wondering if you had uploaded your set of brushes somewhere? looks like a great collection with bits of everything in it
it was very funny moment when you voiced that part about drawing lines to the different direction than you want ;DD hularious and very accurate note.
It would be amazing if you could do more specific stuff like this! this was really helpful
Hey everyone. I'm back in the office today. New Design Cinema will be up later this week.
Btw, these "basic wacom" techniques seem to be popular. Would you guys want to see more videos along these lines? Give me some ideas :) I was thinking:
- How to setup PS brush (including making custom brush)
- Photoshop workspace
- Collecting References
- Quick paintings to learn PS
- etc.
He's self thought, he didn't have any teachers telling what do to, he learned it by books, reading, observing and practice. These are the words from the man himself.
@Fengdesigns I think quick paintings to learn would be nice and especially an explanation on changing lighting and everything with adjustments
Thankyou so much for this breakdown of wacom and painting !!!
Great videos again. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
I think best ideas are : "Photoshop workspace" and "Quick paintings to learn PS" because These bases will help many beginning artist
Never had a intous tablet. Originally I had a bamboo but hated not looking at my drawing where I'm actually drawing do I jumped straight to the cintiq. Greatest creation ever. I love my cintiq and plan on updating it soon cause the colors are a bit wack but otherwise it's amazing
Also, check out 'EPISODE 18 Character Sketching part1' where Feng uses Transfer extensively, and makes the same point as my experience with clients has taught me - that they more often show a positive reaction to loose, sketchy designs that express energy, and too often get caught up in little details if the finish is too clean, tight and stiff.
hi Feng ! 9 ans later, your videos still really instructive ! Is is possible for you to make a part photoshop & wacom Part 03 ?!? I'd like to know what shortcuts and key you use. Thanks very much !
It's because of the steep learning curve I suggested practicing it from the beginning, along with other techniques. If you don't put time into it, you'll not get there. I reckon I use it on about 90% of my brushes, and in work for clients ranging from loose sketches to final art, and if I'd never practiced it I think I'd be screwed.
What I really would like to see is how you set up your brushes to draw something like grass or clouds. I don't mean the brush itself, but how you use it. Let me illustrate that for you: When I watch your drawing videos and you draw clouds, it seems like you move along the sky and suddenly there is a natural appearance of smaller and bigger clouds originating from the brush you use. When I try to draw clouds with a fitting brush, all I get is a line or blotch, only with the brush's outlines.
@petercourt He's using the number keys (or keypad) as short-cuts for 10%, 20%,30%,40%,50%,60%,70%,80%,90% and 100% opacity.
You might have to edit the shortkey settings in Photoshop, not sure. I think these are default short cuts actually.
by pressing and holding "alt" when brush tool is selected, the pointer will change to eyedropper icon
That's actually a brighter way of looking at it, well I guess it's what we learn huh? No worries, at the end of the way it's the design that matters not the tools, and a tool is as good as it's master.
great explaination and BIG thank you for sharing with us keep your great work on here i love your vids ;)
Personally, "messy values" is what makes art interesting, as opposed to computer generated vector stuff which is perfect and sterile. With the right swing of the brush, "messy values" generate life and breath, only it takes more practice, so my advice would be to learn it from the start...
Thanks for the comments everyone.
I don't use the Cintiq. The glass height and my arm blocking the image are the two main reasons. But I'm sure with time, one can overcome these factors. But for now, I'm happy with the Intuos 3 and 4s.
Your videos are insanely helpful, especially to someone like me who has been concentrating too much on web/graphic design and neglecting to progress my illustrative/painting skills. You mentioned that you manually control opacity with your brushes and not use pen pressure. It seems that you can still run the risk of creating muddy values and forms even using manual opacity changes, how do you combat this?
*Wasn't sure if I 'liked' this the last time I watched; scrolled down just to make sure.*
Excellent channel. One point here though. I disagree about easily moving from traditional drawing to a standard Wacom tablet. There is a hand eye coordination problem that you will not fully get used to. I don't think your brain ever really gets used to it. You can even see Feng struggling with this occasionally. I found this frustrating and hence I got a second hand 21 inch Cintiq. This is a joy to use. Yes, unfortunately they are expensive but that's just the way it is.
I'm not talking about plopping textures onto your work, I'm talking about brush strokes. Visible brush strokes. Look at some analogue art - you know, the kind on paper and canvas? Then you should know what I mean. Those texniques can be used in Photoshop too, provided you got some transfer on your brush, and practice it to achieve a style of expression in the strokes.
Thanks.. I was feeling pretty angry today because of my PS lines and stuff compared to my pencil lines. But this gave me a lot of confidence that I'm going the right direction, it is just about practise and time! I'm beginner and I usually working with pencil and sketchbook to learn the movement of my arm etc. I have to start doing more exercise in PS as well though.. Btw your set-up is kind of out of common range though :D .. 7k PC hmm I can dream about that :P
These are helping me so much.
nailed it! exactly whats going wrong with my work. Thanks so much
thank you for the basics, very helpfull...
Hi feng!
my vote:
- How to setup PS brush (including making custom brush)
Ah found it under Transfer. Thanks anyway, loving the videos!
Feng Zhu, I really hope you are reading this. You say a ton of times in your videos that you don't show detailing because it's not important and it's boring, the thing is I can easily block out things , like mountains, buildings, etc.. but for some reason I always get stuck with the detailing part, then I'm like "Okay, what now ? , How do I continue from here ?" . My paintings usually read in terms of composition, value, etc,.. from a distance but my detailing feels bad and it seems like I always mess up my paintings from that point,.. could you do a video about how to detail ? Some examples, detail a mountain, a building, water,... Thank you ! Love your videos, been watching them for a few years now.
Instead of Painter i use Paint Tool SAI. It's a very fast software, the lines are very fluid, doesnt have any lag whatsoever.It has a lazymouse feature like ZBrush.
The mixing of color is not based on opacity like PS, it actually mixes colors like in reality.Also it works very well with PS, you can save .psd files, it keeps layers, masks, clipping masks, groups, blending modes.You can't do paths, texts or even elipse marquees but for sketching and painting is the best.Have you guys tried it ?
Thank You for the tutorial - very helpful ;) Do You think, You could give us some tips on basic desk setup? I mean the work environment - I still haven't found a perfect setup for me, maybe You have some precious little tips on that?
Love your channel Feng. Watch out of curiosity and interest from a Viz FX point of view but am trying to digitally paint now for enjoyment, and to enhance my own work.
I am having problems though with mixing colours. Can anyone tell me, in CS5.1 do you have to use the mixer brush to mix two colours. Ie. Using the picker tool to take one colour and mix it over the other...without using opacity?
@tamniboo its really good but with sai you have a max number of pixels so you can't go larger then 8x11 400 dpi
I made my own by using the text tool and typing out on a blank canvas the numbers 01... 02...03 etc. Then I went to Edit-Define Brush Preset. So basically I made a brush out of the numbers. His our the same because I have downloaded brush sets before that have numbers like that and if you click on the number it is an actual brush. Hope this helps
thanks lots of help and inspiration
thank you for this video. God bless you!
noted you draw by hand straight lines but you can draw straight lines with point1-shift- then point two without break in line by change pen pressure (thick/thin) to 100% I know this is a cheat- still practicing to do it the way you do- but works for underlying grids- peace
Collecting Refernces and Color Palettes Please
Also what are your thoughts on the Wacom Cintiqs?
Good vids, thanks for uploading! :D "How to setup PS brush (including making custom brush)" would be great!!
hey feng! when you have value changes mapped to your keys can you only use this when you're working with black and white? or does it allow you to do it during color paintings as well? also how do you program the values as shortcuts on the keys?
really useful video, thanks a lot
is there a tablet that compares with the cintiq for a more affordable price? I like the idea of being able to look at what I'm drawing directly rather writing on one thing while looking at another?
I would love to have that swatch collection, it's not so easy to make great colors in PS
to those that are asking about cintiqs not to answer for feng but from what I heard, you can't work on those for long periods of time and feng seems to spend hours a day so his hands would burn on a cintiq
How do you set up those useful colours on the right hand side of photoshop like that?
How do you spin the screen? from your cintiq or from photoshop?
thank you for your tutorials!!
Thanks for the videos. I'm looking to learn the fundamentals and so want to use your technique of not using opacity. I would also like to blend colours on in the painting, which would be very difficult without opacity. If a beginner wanted to follow your way, would you say using the opacity in a controlled manner like you say in the video (with numbers on keyboard) they could use that way to blend colors, just so long as it isn't pen pressure. Sorry this was surprisingly hard to word. Basically how should beginners blend colours on the fly, can they use controlled opacity as opposed to pen pressure or would you suggest actually painting all the graduations with seperate colors? THANKS love the vids!
Some don't like to blend colours with opacity as this does not actually mix the colour, rather it blocks and greys out the colour underneath to a mutual tone, which makes colours muddy and streaky. You are far better learning to pick colours which work, and for this you need to learn some colour theory. Also, if you have some flow variation on your brush with flow jitter turned on, you can just hold alt and pick out the new colour between colours. Try a soft brush and lay down some red then some yellow over a part of it. You should be able to pick the perfect mixed orange from the middle and blend the two together. The more you understand what colours to use in the first place, the less you will have to blend.
@Fengdesigns Hey man, I really like your style. May I ask what color swatches you are using?
i believe it was implemented in cs 6, press r, then click on the screen and drag. Press escape to recenter screen.
I understand what you're saying about hard surface coloring. But would you do the same with organic characters? skin?
can you export the corel brush and post a link to it here? also can you tell us what the quick keys were called when you switched the screen rotation in corel?
if you click, hold shift and then click a second point the line created inbetween will be straight.
A question, how do you set up a Wacom Bamboo Tablet to have pen pressure painting? Mine has to be changed manually. Is there a setting or another of the discs I have to install? Thanks
That's what it's suppose to do. You want to control the opacity manually by using the number keys 1-0
I use the painttool in adobe illustrator, and "send to back" for colouring in. Is photoshop better to draw in?
Man you are REALLY good at teaching!
How old are you? Where did you learned all of this?
thanks for sharing you info with us
Hey Feng, I don't know if you'll ever see this, but what do you think of paint tool SAI?
Thanks for all your videos, you're a huge inspiration for me.
How do you mix/blend the "paint" on the canvas? Transitioning one value into another smoothly...?
I've got a strange question to you,
I'm watching alot of your and other people videos, about photoshop paintings, and i learned alot, its my inspiration, but when i try to invent something, when im drawing there is always a piece of technique or idea from your videos, and that i think is bad, i cant invent anything truly made by myself. And my question is what to do, did you have the same when you learned to draw?
Thank You
Tom
Very good that you explain all this stuff feng tnx alot! A have looked around to find the brush from painter 4.5 but i couldnt fint it. Anyone know where to fint it ? / Finndahl
Could you do a video on brush modes? (Darken, Multiply, Color dodge, etc)
Infinitely better. Or at least, think of how much better Illustrator is to MS Paint. That's how much better Pshop will seem for drawing.
I think from cs5 they removed it and left only the Flow controller, when they introduced the mixer brushes
interesting, thank you so much.
And btw, we can't update Design Cinema until my video editor returns from Chinese New Year vacation. So new videos will be coming after next week.
I wish you had this as episodes 1... I feel like all my progress will be reset now if I switch over to constrained proportions and 100% controlled opacity..