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Well I sincerely hope you guys aren't sick of these yet.Not that I don't like answering everyone's questions, but it does get a little time consuming, so I hope this solves some mysteries if you were wondering!
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What program do you use when you do the digital editing?
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Could possibly be a silly question, but when creating a color key are you referencing a photo that has the kind of lighting and colors you're looking for? My issue is trying to create believable color schemes and lighting in my works, but I have to look at an image (ie. cave lighting, how a candle illuminates a room like your work).
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Thank you! It's so hard to find tutorials that really go through an entire process properly, and you left little to the imagination! 
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Now I get it. Thank you, that was realy informative.
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Ah so that's how ya do it 
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I'm just getting into acrylics and I never considered digitally editing them. Very interesting, and a really beautiful painting. c:
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I love these process/tutorial pieces, I feel like I'm getting to know your paintings even better.
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What an amazing technique! Thanks for making a tutorial ^.^
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I'm experimenting with this technique, it's so hard but so fun! I've just posted the WIP [link]
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do more of these! im so intrigued! beautiful work i really love it
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Thank you so much for explaining this. Though I don't think I would achieve such amazing results if I tried it, hahahah. You're awesome.
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I hope you didn't answer this already but what kind of paper do you do your initial work on for these?
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No problem- I use plain old 2-ply bristol. Hope it helps!
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I hope you didn't answer this already but what kind of paper do you do your initial work on for these?
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Ahhh! I'm really happy to see people standing up for the digital medium! You're process is amazing, I especially love how you did the character shadows- I never would have thought to do it in such a way.
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Man this is like for me: I constantly feel guilt over being a mixed media artist because I myself think I can't fully produce a piece I'm happy with with either of the mediums alone, I do have to have both traditional and digital at my grasp. So thanks for standing for this, I don't think I know anyone else who does this to be honest so this makes me happy!!
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Mmm I was reading this again...what are you painting on?
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Clever, a shameless form of highly edited traditional art I love it! <3
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Thanks so much. I'm new to all the digital techniques and only have gimp which I've only used for minor re-touches but can't wait to get a tablet and begin experimenting.
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Sick of them? NO! These are excellent! I'm trying to figure out some techniques for digitally coloring my work. I've been using photoshop mostly (a little illustrator). Do you paint by hand THEN scan to adjust? Any recommendations for a beginner?
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This is so interesting. Thanks for taking the time to make this. I've never seen a traditional process that transcended intentionally into digital media. I'll definitely have to try it sometime.
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Half of me wants to run into the art shop, get all the acrylics and try it out already - you do such a wonderful job with them!
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The background noise filter and gaussian blur looks beautiful. I really love the lighting.
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I think it's wonderful way of combining acrylic painting and digital work.
And I'm so impressed with your color key work- I want to learn how to do this too, it looks like a way to plan your work rather than see how it pans out- and to keep control of it while you're working on it...
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Oh man, when I start work without a color key, it is a DISASTER-- there is a 100% chance that it will become such a mess that I give up on it.
You should try it--it's incredibly helpful! Once you know what your color scheme is going to be, you can just focus on style and rendering during the painting rather than worrying about making it work.
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Thank you for your insight on this! -so just a question: do you already work out composition in the color key, so, the more or less exact shape and place of each color? Or can the composition change a lot without you having to redo the color key?
(Or is it something that when you're just starting out you work with very precisely and carefully and the more you're used to working with it, the more loosely you can do so?)
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I play with composition all through the process. I work it out as much as I am going to before the color key, which is just about color relationships and less about composition, and then continue to tweak it during the digital editing. But yes, I definitely used to be much tighter about my compositions and one of the main reasons I LIKE the acrylic/photoshop process is because it enables me to mess with it until the last second.
thanks!
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That's a really good idea for those who aren't really good at painting--like me!
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just the fact that you used a quote from the movie/book Shane makes me love this so much harder. <3
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Thanks for being so open about your process!
Love getting this little window into your amazing work!
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Even though your process is a hundred times more pro and the result is a thousand times more pretty than what I do, now you have made me feel a lot better about my drawing-shopping method (even though what I am doing is merely cheating, compared to what you do afte painting).
Thank you for the inspiration! It so good to see how the magic is done
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I think it's great what you're doing.
And I also want to say that you (or anyone) shouldn't see digitally altering a piece as cheating or anything. You've got to know what you're doing right? Making digital art requires just as much practise as working with traditional media.
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It's very interesting to see the picture grow from sketch to finished! Wonderful light
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Thanks. It's really interesting to see how other artists work.
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I'm glad you did this. It's a very interesting technique that I have never thought of.
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Not sick of it at all. We (or at least I) appreciate it.
Your method is intuitive, and the results are great. This is one of my favorite pieces of yours, thanks to it's great expression, texture, lighting.
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I'm digging your latest pieces a lot, they're lovely and the Photoshop editing really does add depth.
Also some of the comments below are quite funny. If something can both speed up your process and improve the end result, why would it be 'cheating'? People who feel cheated by the (good) use of filters and levels in Photoshop must hate authors who use spell-check and proofreaders.
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Thank you! I wish I shared your humor, I expect in a few days I'll be able to laugh it off, but I find that attitude so sad and still a little hard to deal with.
Oh well, to each his own, I guess.
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Be glad you're not dabbling in photography. You'd have to explain that stuff to people everyday. Tools are tools. Artisanal authenticity doesn't matter one bit if put against the finality of managing to successfully convey idea, emotion or aesthetical sense. With that other line of thought, we'd still be stuck to carving dents on cave walls.
Photoshop practice is part of a very long chain that starts way back, with a guy tracing circles in the sand with a stick of driftwood.
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Awesome method, very inspiring tutorial.
I think the idea of digitally altering a traditional artwork being "cheating" could stem from the fact that you don't have anything "real" to hold in your hands, except if you go to the lenghts of printing the altered version. But of course that's also the point in purely digital art.
Anyway, gonna fav this for future reference, the method looks very promising.
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