Design Cinema - EP 102 - Intro to Digital Painting
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Digital painting is a broad term. Too many students tend to jump into Photoshop and attempt to emulate what they see online, without first understanding the fundamentals. Instead of focusing on brush types, layer settings and other PS tricks, we discuss the basics of lighting and value.
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This intro to digital painting has much more value than most paid content/videos about digital painting.
true!!!
"this is not a piece for your portofolio"
believe me if I drew this I would put it in my portofolio 6 different times
With 6 different color pallets.
i love how feng zhu is just like 110% committed professional. like he doesn't even mess with powerpoint or other presentation softwares for presenting... just builds his presentations in photoshop as layers and stuff because he spends so much time there and knows it so well that it's just second nature. it's actually a much better presentation style than most any slide deck I've seen too.
Feng you are THE PEOPLE'S CHAMP INSTRUCTOR. Unparalleled in the whole youtube universe and beyond. I will be thankful to you until i die.
The only guy who actually made me improve. Unmatchable.
Episode 150: - How to actually hold the pen.
This is actually a somewhat good point. A lot of painters and people who draw do not know how to hold the pen / pencil properly. I do know he has talked about this in past videos though, most notably how the smooth long curved lines are things that come from proper shoulder movement and speed in a stroke and not 'from the wrist clinching to a pencil for that perfect line'. In fact, don't draw 'from the wrist' at all, as you'll develop carpal tunnel syndrome within days. No joke. If you do find yourself in a lot of 'wrist clinching' for details or whatever, make sure you find a hobby that allows you to loosen up the wrist and hands, like playing guitar or playing piano. Yes, no joke! This helps a 100%! While you're at it.. Also make sure your chair is a high quality one, with enough features to get in a healthy pose. Got lower back pains? Get a proper support pillow or better yet get a better chair that comes with a support pillow for the lower back. It'll make it far more comfortable spending hours behind a desk.
PHeMoX in retrospect I was only halfway joking. I did and do struggle with digital pens, they just handle inferior to real pens. And I couldnt get used to other ways of holding them without breaking my hand. It wouldnt require a full episode, but some insights from a professional are always nice
You'd be surprised how many young people are coming up the ranks streaming etc that don't know how to hold a pen/pencil. In fact you cannot see the piece they're working on because their hand covers it. They're not holding the pen with their index finger and thumb. Holding it any other way will eventually cause RSI.And if you comment about it, you get a barrage of hate. I even wrote a blog post about it: www.rightasrainstudios.com/blog/why-oh-why.
not pen *pens. Highly convinced he evolves into Octaman when he's not being filmed
he actually mentions it on one of those drawing tips vids cmiiw. theres quite a few of those drawing tips vids..im not sure which one tho sorry...
regardless each one of his vids are all extremely useful.
uses Photoshop as presentation slides.
Feng level.
Honestly, literally why not?? It's faster than putting together any kind of Powerpoint nonsense. It's real time, so you can draw to explain things like it's a whiteboard and you have access to everything else digital painting related. The weird thing would be not to use Photoshop... explaining things related to Photoshop.
I'm 12 minutes in at 23:21 and I have 2 pages of notes, god I'm happy I finally have a little direction and can build some fundamental knowledge to build off of. Going off of nothing was terrifying. Thanks a lot man.
It took 102 episodes to get to the intro to digital painting lol
That´s how hard our industry are hahaha
@@rafaelsasasuki3253 The industry is so hard that you have to be a pro before you can start learning haha
@@MohanaHarvey Haahahaha Good one!
X Justaguy X I was watching his intros to painting many years ago, so he does have other videos way back about the basics.
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Yea... and it's beautiful.
I love how Fengs like "Yeah kinda rough painting whatever" and its better than something i could do in 10 hours
It's due to the values and lighting being spot on. It barely matters how rough the suggestion of trees or rocks are. It's why the fundamentals are so important. :)
Thank you so much for all of these fantastic and very helpful lessons! Being 16 years old, I do not have a job that allows me to go to art school. However through taking the advice offered here and practicing everyday, I have seen dramatic improvements in my designs. For anyone new to this channel, watch as many lessons as you can and apply your new knowledge. You will improve greatly. Thank you Mr. Zhu for all you give to aspiring artists :).
I feel like I learn more watching an hour of your videos than I do in a year of college. Thank you so much, keep up the amazing content, I hope one day I can be a pro!
So thankful for this video. I love that Feng is taking us back to the fundamentals since as beginners we tend to rush into trying to paint like the pros and don’t put in the work and hours to actually get there. Awesome video.
I'm loving the back to basics videos. Very well done and informative yet concise; most of all they're getting me super motivated to continue to improve my understanding of the basics.
I also like that Feng goes just a little into why we paint light how we do, I think understanding at least a little of the "why" is very important. I feel it primes you to correlate the "how" and "why", making it easier to prescribe it to new scenarios. I think knowing the "why" makes the transition into believable imaginative work possible.
I am following the steps from the previous video at this very moment and now this pops up, those are really making me even more excited to draw.
Feng, I've been following Design Cinema for ... how many years now? Well, since episode 1, anyway! The consistent honesty and progressively quality of your videos in an age of inflated content and click-baiting yelling bullshitters on UA-cam always reminds me of what this platform is supposed to all about: creating community and sharing ideas and content actually worth watching.
I especially enjoy the fact that you, a seasoned and busy industry professional, probably wearing many hats all at once, chose to do another fundamentals series, basically starting at square one with episode 101 ... and now this. That's simply great and shows how much you care about concept art and entertainment design.
So this is a huge THANK YOU to you! Keep it coming whenever you can.
All the best from Germany!
I always get excited when I get a notification for these videos! Thanks for the great content!
you've no clue how much I've been looking forward to this ''new series' of yours! Thank you for your time and everything you do!'
Thanks Feng! Love the recent Design Studios. Great content & commentary. We can all benefit from hearing these concepts. I see the beginner mistakes all the time - no underlying structure/ forms, rehashed color palettes & lighting scenarios, etc. I have noticed lately many folks start painting before they can "see forms in 3D" so they are just copying colors & brush strokes of other artists, or worse, pasting photos. Back in traditional days (& for me), paint was pricy & burdensome so we kept drawing but now the barrier to digital painting is so low, we see artists who never learned fundamentals
Really enjoying these videos. Going back to basics is very important to review no matter how “senior” one titles themselves. I think you do a great job with careful explanations and empathy for beginners.
Thank you for creating these!
Really appreciate your videos Feng, your genuine interest in helping young concept artists is evident👍👍
Oh boy, welcome back Feng! I've missed you man! I missed you in the pack of inspirations that line my subscription list, Love the more beginner centric videos lately. I'm so glad you're back and can't wait to see more brother :)
This is just what I needed, thank you! I’ll take as many of these intro videos as you can think of. I’m a student, I think about intermediate skills but I really need to go back and relearn some basics
This is awesome, would love to see more like this. Thanks for all of the work on these videos! I know it must be tough finding the time but it's really appreciated.
Mad respect and gratitude for spending your invaluable time teaching people (who are broke maybe like i am ) some basic knowledge.
Why i couldnt have this kind of resources 15 years ago instead of wasting my life at high school and university, best thing humans ever invented, the internet.
"That´s a joke right there" :D
I love your videos so much. I started getting into concept art i think 1 year ago, and discovered your videos very early on my journee and the motivated me so much. I am not very consistent on practising because i am very lazy, but i still watch the videos and i am very happy to see the new videos! Thank you very much for putting all this stuff online for us and sharing your professional knowledge!!
literally the only 1 hour videos i can watch start to finish...i'll try to utilize everything in my practice
Hey Feng!
I don't know if you will read this, but if you do, I just wanted to say: THANK YOU!
I just realised that it's almost 20yrs! since I started following you and your lectures, back when the first Gnomon Workshop DVDs released. It was you who made me buy my first tablet and want to learn more about digital art, improving myself and.. well, just create worlds! Over those two decades I've met incredibly people, that worked on the MCU/DCU, Avatar, major game titles and what not. It was such an inspiring journey.. today I'm "just" a photographer, or photo artist. I'm getting older and that job is less stressfull *haha. But whenever I do edit a photo, or think of cool composition stuff, I try to remember your teachings.
Seeing now that you have over 100 lectures up on youtube, and god knows how many more you must've hold for your students and they still are soooo beautyful and inspiring to watch.. it just wow's me!
Wish you all the best! My life and career startet with you! Thanks!
-Alex
Always great to hear your tips, thank you for spending the time to share with everyone.
Thanks you I didn't give up to become concept artist, I really appreciate your generous lessons
Feng you are the Guardian Angel of Concept Art Rouge Students !!
this video isnt for artists.. its for everyone.. enjoyed lot!
These are always an instant like for me, thank you feng.
I've been free loading here for the past 10 years, the least I can do is buy you a dinner!
Love that back to basics series. Awesome stuff
Excellent video! Can’t wait for episode 103 and beyond.
This is super helpful! Since being deprived of my illustration class due to Covid, this makes me feel like I’m right back in it
I would love a video on finding/ photographing and using reference. Thanks for the content Feng!
Thank you for this great hard work!!! I learn a lot from your lessons!
Watching you explain how fog in games can make the in-game environment feel vaster in scope was magical, especially after the GTA Trilogy. This whole video is fantastic, thank you for these brilliant resources
This was a fantastic video, helped me understand so much, thank you! Literally sat with a notepad throughout the whole thing
what an insane episode. Thank you feng! Rockstar!
Thank you feng zhu! Valuable lessons! Helped me a looot🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you, Feng Zhu! Amazing Episode! I understand this very well
Since you are kinda going back to the beginning, I was wondering if you could do more student art paint overs like you did way back when. Those are my favorite. I always learn so much from those!!
Great to go back to basics, thanks!
This video help me a lot, thank you so much for your time and for sharing your knowledge. You are a great profesor!
This is some serious premium stuff.
Thank you so much, you're the best teacher !
Woah, new episode!! ♥
Thanks for all you do.
God bless you.
Still have the first Gnomon DVDs and fondly remember Feng Zhu's early website with some type of reactor-looking painting on the startpage (believe it was an upright format image). Everyone I knew, artist or not, visited the site.
Thank you so much for this valuable episode. We find it much informative stuff here.
Most helpful video because you can also apply it for traditional media.
Thank you for putting the software aside and focusing on the science
Oioioioi 😍😍😍
What did we do to deserve this 😍
Awesome, I've wait this for ages :D
I watched all your videos back in the day, it took me an hour to find your videos again lmao.
This art pieces at the end were amazing holy crap
Thank you so much for posting this video. I learned a lot
Very helpful video, thanks.
Awesome! Hope next basic video is on the concept design process.
very helpful THANKS for your efforts to sharing knowledge many schools don't teach t his stuff.
You find the BEST references!
Thanks so much Feng!
Amazing episode! Can you do an episode walking us through the "Draw-Through Method" even if it's for something simple like a Bug, Animal, or Car? Thank you Feng!
way to break down value! I almost feel like I can tackle digital painting now !
Amazing content, thank you !
Thank you Feng!!
Thank you for the content. If you have time it’d be great to get into colouring a value painting !
Great videos so far and I know I'm going to learn a lot!
One issue though for me is I can't even get my head round getting the base down, you make that look so dam easy.
Absolute beginner here, think I'm going to have to look for more basic tutorials 😅
So much usefull information, I love it!
Thanks for this. Really appreciate it.
Thanks a lot Feng!
Valuable stuff!
i love how feng says fundamentals.
Thanks for the videos
Thank you sir! Thank you.
Dude, this video is awesome!
You do a great work! Best regards!
thank you so much for sharing your knowlege for free
Very very useful as usual, thank you very much :)
I finally got to understand value of values.
Damn, Feng's on a roll right now!
its grinding time!!
This was in my recommended. If you need me, I'll be in episode 1.
Thank you
Yeah the whole speedpainting thing is rarely a thing when people produce high quality artworks. It's rare to see people pull off an amazing composition, proper value distribution and so on, on top of details where it matters. I do agree so much that it's better to paint on a piece for 10 to 20+ hours and really fix all issues along the way. It's why I kind of like using traditional painting to learn the basics, as that kind of forces you to not skip through what is essential and the emotional attachment towards making a good piece in physical form is a bit bigger. You'll be annoyed if you mess up with traditional media, meaning likely you'll invest more time fixing it.
Thank you for everything. I am age 40, started to draw again with pencil in the pandemic. Digital painting still strange to me because the pen and its feeling is not as comfortable as pencil.
🤘🏻 X-mas came early this year ! 🤘🏻
Really hope you will give use tips on how to turn greyscale into color soon!
It's should be paid 🥺how can anyone teach so awesome 😵😵😵😎😎❤..
The end part of video says.. Episode 102 ..
Means u have to rewatch , again and again, u going to get lots knowledge after rewatched again.. Ur one video knowledge can cross any Hollywood movie 😵🥺🤧❤💯💯💯💯💯
It’s a pretty rough painting LOL. (Shivering in corner). Thank you for the knowledge and time :)
Hey Feng! Would really appreciate a video on where to put focus when taking your time. I often find that I do the basics like blocking in a study in an hour or two and then don't know how to keep learning from there. Thanks!
he has a episodes called just draw and sketching 101 check it out might help
I love it you are awesome Keep it up
This whole video is great, just to add to the science as to why the further something is the lighter (and blue-r) it is. If the only thing that was lit was the tree, 200m away, the scattering would cause the tree to look darker, because less light would be reaching your eyes. But during the day you are also seeing more sun-light scattered off of the atmosphere, which to ends up looking blue because nitrogen & oxygen don't absorb that colour so much.
Thanks for all this great knowledge! My vote: Episode 103: Composition, Episide 104: Design
Would love to see some examples of mistakes that students have made, as pointed out in this episode.
One needs to only open DeviantArt. Plenty examples there where values are all over the place, composition is weak and certain tricks for depth are applied without truly understanding them showing obvious mistakes in (mostly) lighting and detail (subject matter versus environment, first read to last read etc.).
@@PHeMoX true dat, but I'd like to see what mistakes students make when they're over at the FZD school and just starting out there. Coz likely they've been given some instruction.
Check out the first 30 episodes on design cinema, all of them are critiques of student work and step by step walkthroughs to improve them
starboi thanks
Working In the bloster industry is so awesome
this channel is a amazing :D