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JasperSandner In reply to johnwilliamcook [2014-03-08 00:23:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, glad you liked it. At the early stages I like to be creative with my color palettes. Here it's probably even a little refined, but it's good to push colors further than you would normally go, at least early on. My colors tend to get a little more subdued as I render detail, so starting out with a wide range helps it stay versatile throughout the rest of the painting. No tips really for doing that, just be sure to constantly change your colors, don't use any one color for too long. I use the color sliders to quickly adjust colors as I'm painting. And yes, I did go back in and dig the textures out more with hand rendered detail. Hope that helps!

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johnwilliamcook In reply to JasperSandner [2014-03-08 00:46:05 +0000 UTC]

It does, thanks for the reply. With regard to the organic feel of the textures early on, I think I'm reacting more to the brush work than anything else. As I said, very organic feel to it. My photoshop work feels a bit clinical in the shapes and blending of the strokes. Was there anything that you found helped you in that regard - opacity/jitter settings, transfer modes, brush shapes, or just slightly changing your colors very frequently for instance?

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JasperSandner In reply to johnwilliamcook [2014-03-11 04:47:48 +0000 UTC]

Nothing technically, the brush settings really tend to just be an afterthought as I'm painting. If I feel like I need to make a change or adjust brushes to get a stroke I'm  looking for, I'll tweak some settings until it's the way I like, but it's different everytime. However I'm in the mood to paint. The thing that helped me was studying painting in other mediums- oil, acrylic, gouache, pastels - and applying things I learned through those mediums.

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JasperSandner In reply to ARRD-ART [2013-12-23 22:03:51 +0000 UTC]

Well you've only been on DA for a week, so give it some time! Keep working, keep posting work, use social media, and if you're consistent people will start to notice and take interest!

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ARRD-ART In reply to JasperSandner [2013-12-23 23:18:12 +0000 UTC]

Will do! Thanks very much for your comment!

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JasperSandner In reply to AlivanArt [2013-02-24 08:56:55 +0000 UTC]

Neither! No color dodge/burn unless you understand exactly what you want to do with it. It tends to create too much of a mathematical gradation in value/hue, so much so that it can become very obvious when someone has used the tool to handle their values. If you're trying to learn, use the color sliders to select a color for the shadow. Try to use a different color temperature for the shadow and the highlight (so cool shadows vs warm light or reversed). Study from life as much as you can and look up some info on color theory if you really want to get a grasp on it. After you've done it a bunch from life, it becomes easier to determine colors and values from your imagination.

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AlivanArt In reply to JasperSandner [2013-02-24 20:41:17 +0000 UTC]

thanks alot! it seems easier to know the shadow once you know the surroundings... ive talk to an artist who said the cool/warm thing is relative and most of the time the shadow color is based on its surroundings.. like warm sun lighting casting a cool blue shadow because the sky is blue.. but without outside interference as an fades into the shadows, it would just be the darker color of the local color right? like in space.. sorry if im asking too much

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JasperSandner In reply to AlivanArt [2013-02-25 15:59:49 +0000 UTC]

I suppose if there are no surroundings, it would just be a darker shade of the local color...but then, it would really be more like grayscale, rather than color, right? I think what makes using color unique and powerful is how they relate to the colors around them. You can do so many things with the color of your shadows and lights, so I think you would be greatly limiting yourself if you chose to only use a darker local color.

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AlivanArt In reply to JasperSandner [2013-02-26 02:31:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks alot, im not limiting my shadow colors, im actually fasinated by shadow colors, i just needed to confirm what the color would be without anything surrounding it, thanks for making it clear to me

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JasperSandner In reply to GHudston [2012-03-30 05:58:38 +0000 UTC]

Hey thanks! Well, I don't really use pen pressure to actually 'control' it, it just gives a little more randomness to the direction. If you want to control the direction more, set angle jitter to direction or initial direction.

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GHudston In reply to JasperSandner [2012-03-31 00:39:55 +0000 UTC]

Ah, ok. I guess it's one of those brushes that's set up to create "happy accidents", I'll give it a try and see what happens. I'm only recently starting to experiment with textures and textured brushes in my painting (there's more on my blog at hudston.com, I only really use dA to browse now!) so I'm always looking for more things to add to my toolbox as it were. Thanks for the tip.

Don't suppose you could point me in the direction of this brush?

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JasperSandner In reply to GHudston [2012-03-31 02:12:42 +0000 UTC]

Ah well I made the brush myself. A lot of people have been asking about it, but I haven't had a chance to try and upload it anywhere. It's part of my larger brush set, which has a bunch of unrefined WIP brushes in it and I don't want to upload something lame haha. Give it a try making one yourself and see how it turns out.

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GHudston In reply to JasperSandner [2012-03-31 18:46:19 +0000 UTC]

No problem, I'll keep trying and see what I come up with! Thanks again.

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JasperSandner In reply to Oblivexx [2012-01-24 16:34:15 +0000 UTC]

Haha don't feel like an idiot. You're right, this is fromm the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for the N64.

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JasperSandner In reply to AJNazzaro [2012-01-22 19:43:45 +0000 UTC]

I'm not an expert on imaging science, so anyone can feel free to correct me, but there's a slight loss of fine detail when you downsize an image. This can be rectified when printing, since you can simply increase the dpi to account for it, but this doesn't help on monitors. I sharpen the image after scaling for web. Of course it doesn't actually bring any of the detail back to it's previous state, but it makes what's left of it stand out a little more.

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AJNazzaro In reply to JasperSandner [2012-01-22 23:27:00 +0000 UTC]

Much appreciated!

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JasperSandner In reply to obsessedkitten [2012-01-22 19:48:34 +0000 UTC]

A large part of how I study is through painting directly from life. I paint directly in color from life, since grayscale isn't actually what I'm seeing. Maybe it's a personal thing, but I can see more accurate values when working in color, because that's how we see things everyday. If I do start in grayscale, I try to spend as little time there as possible before moving on to color. Grayscale is good to work out compositions and designs, but I'll usually restart a painting directly in color after I've figured those things out. The only way to get better at it is to keep doing it! Just start painting from life!

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obsessedkitten In reply to JasperSandner [2012-01-23 14:12:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for replying! I may actually pick up my dusty real life paint brushes and do some proper painting to see where it takes me. Also, really enjoyed your and Jais chatty livestream

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JasperSandner In reply to obsessedkitten [2012-01-23 15:10:52 +0000 UTC]

Yeah do it!! Thanks for coming on the stream haha

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JasperSandner In reply to yourbigbrowneyes [2012-01-22 19:50:07 +0000 UTC]

Haha does it seem like a strange process? I use different approaches all the time, it's just how I felt like working at the time. Thanks, but I'm certainly not a master yet

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