@fullfist yea, but the ships were not meant to be the "selling point" of the picture anyway, regardless of their size. so i dont agree that they lost impact.
COULD YOU PLEASE MAKE A DVD! I REALLY WANT TO LEARN MORE BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO GO TO SINGAPORE! THUMBS UP WHOEVER WANTS A TRAINING DVD!!! I'M SURE I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD GLADLY BUY YOUR DVD! PLEASE CONSIDER THIS. -A HUGE FAN
"i've been working on this guy here (awesome speed mech biker), not for very long 2-3mins)".....2-3mins in his times is like 3 hours in mine, great videos, awesome art
I am an illustrator and kinda concept artist myself, but I would love to take this to a higher level, even going to your school would be a possibility, its just the needed money thats holding me back.
I know it's not really important but that third mech, the most distant one kind of bugs me. Especially after all the emphasis on using objects to create a sense of perspective, that third guy just seems way too big. About three or four times too big if you would add some humans hanging around it.
With all honesty, not having drawn in many, many years but being an artistic person that I am and totally into digital art, do I stand a chance, as a 36 year old, to learn all these techniques? If so, where does one even begin?
@LesiureBoy IMO age shouldn't be an issue if you have the talent and passion to pursue a career in concept art. Some companies will judge your art and some will judge you based on your age or appearance. You'll come in contact with pros focused on creating great art for a game as well as punks relying on politics to hack their way at a company.
I was wondering just how exactly you paint when you turn the image black and white to check the values. First of all, how do you turn it to black and white? Adjustment layer and set the saturation to 0? And what color do you then use to paint? Do you just sample from the painting like you normally do?
It's a bit hard to see from a video that has been sped up.
Keep up the good work, I love watching these videos!
@neelz I believe Feng creates a layer filled in black, and sets the layer's blending to "saturation". He turns that layer on and off to check values, but If he's painting while that layer is on, I assume he's just painting as he would on the main layer as it has focus, and not on his saturation layer. That's the way he described it in past videos anyhow. Cheers.
Thank you for your interest in FZD School of Design and its program. In regards to the breakdown of the course, you may check the Program Fee section on our official website. For additional information, you are welcome to email us and our Course Councilor will be glad to assist.
I don't get it... same mechas in the background as that one in foreground becomes huge and stands between buildings? uch.. it annoys my mind..I want to shrink them ;D let's assume that those two in background are operated by larger number of people.. ;D
actually you're right. Those mechs are too big in the distance so it's definitely a perspective mistake. I should have went in and changed their designs a bit to match the scale. Just need to remember next time.
Hi have a question to how you save your settings for brushes i mean i made custom brush set for it few things in brushes menu like noise,airbrush etc. and it didnt save, when i change brush it all resets and i have to set it again:/ So is there any way to save it?
@LAOK242 when you finish customizing new brush you can save it by pressing new layer icon in the same brush customization pallet. search for it :) hope you understood me ;D
You may refer to the Before & After gallery on our website to see the enrollment portfolio from our students and the portfolio that they have when they graduate. Hope it helps. Thank you!
Did you ever paint plein air to practice for becoming knowledgeable at painting imaginary landscapes or did you mostly or only paint landscapes from photos?
Hey Feng! In some of your videos you've talked about calibrating your monitor to make sure it's showing true color both for web and print presentation. Is there a proper way you suggest to do this so you know you're optimizing your image's appearance on your screen, on other people's screens who view your work online, and for print?
Hello, can anyone tell me where can i get PS that will be good for Painting in some actepteble price (or at least less then 400$) coz my CS5 trial is bout to end and i couldnt find any replecemwnt for it ?
@LAOK242 I bought my Photoshop CS5 from someone on Craigslist never open. IT was a student addition and since I am a student I only paid $200.00 and it is perfect! IT actually was a Adobe CS5 Suite. So I recommend looking on Craigslist for the Program. Otherwise it can be very expensive! So either be a student and or look on craigslist.
@dionicpaint Well, I know bout student edition and i am a student the thing is that in my country studend edition cost that 400 $ so thats why i asked:/ but thx i will check craigslit.
he is a traditional painter and manually controls his values. to increase texture you can use a lot of the opacity jitters and position/size jitters in the brush options. I think I found out how he can control his saturation. seems adobe has improved their code for dodge and burn/ blending modes with CS4 which I am still a couple Versions behind on my photoshop.
Hi! Feng! I'm big fan of your art!! have quick question!
I watched every tutorial clips on youtube, and have exactly same wacom and photoshop setting as you! but the problem is my every brush stroke looks so pixlated!
My hard ware spec = wacom intuos3, GTX460, Quadcore 64bit,
I'm using CS3. I draw on 300dpi 11X17 canvas! no matter how thick the brush size is...it looks sooooooo pixlated!
@dohyungss you will always have pixels when painting thick strokes on CS3. Adobe improves the smoothness in CS5, while that takes much more computing powers, your pc spec will do just fine.
does Feng Zhu respond to questions because I would like to know what he does to swap back and forth between B/W and color? how do you keep control of your saturation when modifying value?
@tddavis Have a full black layer on Saturation blending mode, on top of all your layers. Making it visible = BW, invisible-back to color. He explained that in a previous vid.
Is there any way to do a tutorial on that? I think animated concept art is extremely cool, and would like to try it... but I'm not sure how to even start. Any ideas or tips?
@zepher234 you can achieve that easily with simple camera projection in a 3d program, or after effects. Basically project different layers onto 3d planes with set distance, as you move the camera you will feel the parallax.
Thanks a lot for answer my last question about age and get in to industry. Now I have a new one: this is problably in the same spirit:
Do thing that in this moment it,s very hard to "start" compare to few years ago? I mean I feel that there is a lot of new peolpe trying to get in to in industry every day and new schools or centers appears too. So, is there enough amount of job in these days to feed all the people?
@insepto7 "Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare. People that work for money can never compete with those that follow their passions in this creative field.
I have a question, shouldn't the figures be left out of the crab robot blocking the screen? The robots in the background make the town look super tiny or the people hanging on the robot look like giants. The characters hanging and the ones observing seem to conflict each other making the scale look weird
@DoomFist94 side of the laptop allows a more dynamic arm gesture. Even so, with a small tablet, which requires mostly wrist gesture, either position offers about the same efficiency.
Your painting tutorials are always exciting to watch Feng. Seriously, thanks a lot for doing these for free, especially when you're pressed for time with the school and your own personal projects. I appreciate it.
I definitely agree that over detail painting is boring too! Good painting have just right amount of detail and right amount of life and loosely. Too loose then you fail to communicate, too tight than it's easily can get tiresome. in my opinion.
Question - i have alot of trouble with drawing environments, part from the obvious of practice alot are there any techniques, tips or methods of practice which can help improve your environment skills?
@willpheonix its about playing shapes and values in the big picture while introducing contents within the divided groups . Doing studies of architectures and landscape in both a micro and macro style can improve your instinct. Look at some of the pixar, disney, and dreamwork artbooks can help.
@willpheonix macro studies involve analyzing the painting's composition and values as a whole. Ways to practice is playing films that have strong art directions: Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Mulan, Sleeping Beauty (Eyvind Earle), etc.. and use a black markers to sketch small thumbnails only using 3 values: white, grey, and black from the screen. Micro studies focus on the effort of analyzing detail designs such as rendering the form of a tree bark or the decoration design of a roman columns.
Superb work Feng. One minor point; the scale of the foreground humans on the mech doesn't really match up with the others. They appear to be towering over buildings, I would have maybe upscaled the foreground mech/brought the humans down in size considerably. Doesn't detract from the painting, just an observation :)
can you make a tut on which kind of brushes to use and when to use them? not like the EXACT brush we need, just a tut in terms of what type of brushes should we use (soft edge, hard edge, spread out brush, etc.)
I agree with the idea that overly detailed artwork causes strain on the eyes and makes it irritating to actually look at the artwork.
Anyways, as always, awesome video, I hope I can attend your school some day or perhaps you get an online portion for your school which can go global. =D
At the beginning of the video you talk about how the colors on your palette are balanced out. What should we look for while building up a palette so we can make sure that the colors will end up working well together as yours do?
It's fun that I think the same of all the others while watching this video. I was thinking "he is using only one brush! The "stupid default boring" potoshop chalk brush!
Umbelivable....I struggle findings good brushes online and he achieve a masterpiece using only that stupid brush!
I like the final little animations with parallax and little movements ogf the mechanical arms. How you do that? I saw that animations also in the videos of the Fzdschool. After effects?
@Koutetsujeeg Yeah it is most probably AE... You just need to have separate layers in photoshop for foreground and background.. Import it to After Effects. Once in after effects.. change all layers to 3D mode... now your layers will be in 3D space.. just place the foreground layer and background layer in the 3D space at a distance from each other...while adjusting the layers from your regular camera... once set.. try zooming in from your regular camera you will see the parallax effect :o)
Also a few friends of mine told me the same! They say "Use only the default brushes till you feel confortable with them". Since I wasn't able to draw and paint the way I want, I tried using lots and lots of brushes but they didn't help at all.
haha, i like the little animation at the end, great job Feng looks great. Do you ever start with thumbnails for your environments or do pretty much always go into a final painting first? I know in one of your Gnomon DVDs you do quite a bit of thumbnails for environments but I thought since Photoshop is so flexible you can pretty much try out a bunch of different ideas on one canvas.
With digital, I don't do much thumbnails anymore. Now you can start one thumbnail and keep morphing it into another. Back in the days, you had to re-draw each time you want to make a change. So essentially I'm still doing thumbnails, but it's one big progression thumbnail.
George Orwell's 1985 looked interesting (i judge books by cover...) so I picked it up and I'm loving everything about it. Thanks for the recommendation! And I always "Like" you vids before I watch them :D
@n3rmin Areas out of focus should be blurry so if you resize your painting during the early stages of production, the blurry areas will gradually become invisible to the eye as you add more and more detail. The eye naturally stays focused on areas with most contrast and detail.
If you resize an already finished painting/photo, the ugly pixels become the main focus as they are easy to spot, but if you afterwards decide to add more detail on top, the focus shifts and the pixels disappear..
I never had an issue with this. Unless your original is tiny, there shouldn't be much blur. The default size for this was around 2000 pixels wide (ending at 10,000 pixels wide).
Weird that there's a been a few questions regarding this. But each time I up-scale, the image looks fine. I've never experienced any problems. Maybe your starting res is too low? I usually start at 2,000 or 3,000 pixels wide. If you start at say 800 pixels and up-scale to 5,000, then yes, the image will definitely be blurry.
Lol, I keep laughing at the idea of an alien accidentally putting his finger over the camera lense, like one of those really clumsy home movies. XD "Dad, you ruined the shot!"
Buggersome! I'm going to have to add that word to my vocabulary.
@gordon1201 He opens a new layer, paint buckets it all black, and sets it to overlay - so he can see the values clearly without the colors interrupting him. Then he makes a new layer under it (I'm pretty sure this one's on overlay as well) and paints over the parts where he wants to darken or lighten.
@dosig as Feng stated some time along, it's better if you make your custom brushes and patterns yourself, because if he just gave you a bunch of brushes you wouldn't know how to use them like him
Thanks! i do however have a question for anyone reading. Colour....eugh, my skills at form and shape, sketching etc are all progressing nicely, but i just cant get colour right, picking the right colour for low lights, bounce lights, hilights etc, it completely detracts from the painting no matter how well all the other aspects are drawn if the colours dont flow properly .
@biffington Try painting things in black and white, and then just do a bunch of overlay layers to try out different colours. If your colours are too distracting, then chances are they're too bright, or clash with other colours. Make them subtle first, and then pick out the main ones a bit more.
@PresidentChoob Thanks for the reply! i always forget about colour overlays! i suppose i could learn what colours work naturally by what the resulting overlay's make of the black and white painting,
kinda feels like Bob Ross style, paste that on the foreground lol
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even Feng's youtube thumbnails read :)
ernadmahmic 1 week ago
i dont agree with the composition, the enormous ships really lost impact towards the end.
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sometimes less is more.
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fullfist 1 month ago
@fullfist the ships were background anyways. he said that from the beginning, and kept saying it all throughout.
the ships were not realy that interesting anyways. i think he made a perfect choice.
CT2507 1 month ago
@CT2507 it not like something that HUGE can even be anything otherwise. pushing back is what you DO with huge things
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fullfist 1 month ago
@fullfist yea, but the ships were not meant to be the "selling point" of the picture anyway, regardless of their size. so i dont agree that they lost impact.
CT2507 4 weeks ago
I keep noticing you using the same brush quite often, what is it? (for example, at 2:00)
All I use is the hard round brush }:[
MrMadalien 1 month ago
@MrMadalien i think he uses the standard square chalk brush. he uses that most of the time.
CT2507 4 weeks ago
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COULD YOU PLEASE MAKE A DVD! I REALLY WANT TO LEARN MORE BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO GO TO SINGAPORE! THUMBS UP WHOEVER WANTS A TRAINING DVD!!! I'M SURE I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD GLADLY BUY YOUR DVD! PLEASE CONSIDER THIS. -A HUGE FAN
EpicHawk 1 month ago
"i've been working on this guy here (awesome speed mech biker), not for very long 2-3mins)".....2-3mins in his times is like 3 hours in mine, great videos, awesome art
Stevon125 2 months ago
Really great to watch and hear your thought processes, thanks!
GarethNN 2 months ago
I thought i was on LSD when I saw the ending of the robots moving.
DarkMnMChocolate 3 months ago
c beams need more glitter
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I am an illustrator and kinda concept artist myself, but I would love to take this to a higher level, even going to your school would be a possibility, its just the needed money thats holding me back.
niefali 3 months ago
What's really frightening is that your brain obviously moves at the same speed you are speaking.
T1Brit 4 months ago
@T1Brit ahahahahhaahaha
SmokiSounds 4 months ago
Do you think you could share this palette that you were talking about with us? I am new to photoshop painting and would be very grateful!
JawSaLee 4 months ago
One of the best videos of yours yet!
YTDekus 4 months ago
These videos are really cool to leave running in the background, whilst doing a Digital Painting... Helps you relax into the painting frame of mind..
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These videos are really cool to leave running in the background, whilst doing a Digital Painting... Helps you relax into the painting frame of mind..
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This is amazing.
I know it's not really important but that third mech, the most distant one kind of bugs me. Especially after all the emphasis on using objects to create a sense of perspective, that third guy just seems way too big. About three or four times too big if you would add some humans hanging around it.
BaileysBeads 5 months ago
Damn, should have kept the cops,that was great
rondz1234 6 months ago
kewl feng
ahai87 6 months ago
Oh oh, the parallax animation... talking about selling the piece to the clients! :)
lvldsnr 7 months ago
what kind of brushes are these?
dothisdothat321 7 months ago
@dothisdothat321 he sayse all the way through the video he's using default super-basic brushes :-|
lvldsnr 7 months ago
With all honesty, not having drawn in many, many years but being an artistic person that I am and totally into digital art, do I stand a chance, as a 36 year old, to learn all these techniques? If so, where does one even begin?
LesiureBoy 7 months ago
@LesiureBoy IMO age shouldn't be an issue if you have the talent and passion to pursue a career in concept art. Some companies will judge your art and some will judge you based on your age or appearance. You'll come in contact with pros focused on creating great art for a game as well as punks relying on politics to hack their way at a company.
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"I've seen things you people... wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears
in the rain." - Roy Batty
Vaskadar 7 months ago 19
I was wondering just how exactly you paint when you turn the image black and white to check the values. First of all, how do you turn it to black and white? Adjustment layer and set the saturation to 0? And what color do you then use to paint? Do you just sample from the painting like you normally do?
It's a bit hard to see from a video that has been sped up.
Keep up the good work, I love watching these videos!
neelz 7 months ago
@neelz I believe Feng creates a layer filled in black, and sets the layer's blending to "saturation". He turns that layer on and off to check values, but If he's painting while that layer is on, I assume he's just painting as he would on the main layer as it has focus, and not on his saturation layer. That's the way he described it in past videos anyhow. Cheers.
theRedPress 7 months ago
@m4lm4n4
Thank you for your interest in FZD School of Design and its program. In regards to the breakdown of the course, you may check the Program Fee section on our official website. For additional information, you are welcome to email us and our Course Councilor will be glad to assist.
We hope to meet you one day at our School!
FZDSCHOOL 7 months ago
@FZDSCHOOL nice cool little animation touch at the end ^_._^ keep em up n commin much love!
KopaleKopale 7 months ago
I don't get it... same mechas in the background as that one in foreground becomes huge and stands between buildings? uch.. it annoys my mind..I want to shrink them ;D let's assume that those two in background are operated by larger number of people.. ;D
FlankCobra 7 months ago
@FlankCobra
actually you're right. Those mechs are too big in the distance so it's definitely a perspective mistake. I should have went in and changed their designs a bit to match the scale. Just need to remember next time.
Fengdesigns 7 months ago
Hi have a question to how you save your settings for brushes i mean i made custom brush set for it few things in brushes menu like noise,airbrush etc. and it didnt save, when i change brush it all resets and i have to set it again:/ So is there any way to save it?
LAOK242 7 months ago
@LAOK242 when you finish customizing new brush you can save it by pressing new layer icon in the same brush customization pallet. search for it :) hope you understood me ;D
FlankCobra 7 months ago
@FlankCobra Ty kind sir:3 didnt know what button is for.
LAOK242 7 months ago
@LAOK242 You're welcome :)
FlankCobra 7 months ago
Nice tutorials. I really hope you do one on painting values
IICHOOII 8 months ago
@m4lm4n4
You may refer to the Before & After gallery on our website to see the enrollment portfolio from our students and the portfolio that they have when they graduate. Hope it helps. Thank you!
FZDSCHOOL 8 months ago
Did you ever paint plein air to practice for becoming knowledgeable at painting imaginary landscapes or did you mostly or only paint landscapes from photos?
Vaylemn 8 months ago
Holy unholy. What am i missing? What cruel fate left me with this brain setup?
Desolator84 8 months ago
awsome!!!
123601324 8 months ago
i like what u do but i would love to see u drawing a cityscape in pencil and paper
KazzyEss2k9 8 months ago
As a 17 year old just starting out using photoshop, this is so daunting... >.<
BRPW1693 8 months ago
@BRPW1693 as long as you have a good grasp of fundamentals you will be fine.
MoreToArt 8 months ago
@MoreToArt
By fundamentals, do you mean composition, typography, colour and imagery? :)
BRPW1693 8 months ago
Thx for the video feng, hey I have the bamboo pen tablet an a5 size should I buy the intous4 or I can just remain practicising with this one?
H3llHoundd 8 months ago
Hey Feng! In some of your videos you've talked about calibrating your monitor to make sure it's showing true color both for web and print presentation. Is there a proper way you suggest to do this so you know you're optimizing your image's appearance on your screen, on other people's screens who view your work online, and for print?
lasthavoc 8 months ago
I couldn't have blocked that ship.. My OCD would have kicked in and I would have rage-quit, haha.
mitchellCas 8 months ago
thanks for the comments everyone.
This painting was done in CS1 btw, not CS5. I really don't see much a difference between the two (for what we do), except CS1 is much faster :)
@Nahelus
I don't show the layers for two reasons:
1. It blocks the canvas
2. I don't use layers much. Most of these paintings have only 3 or 4 layers, and they are always on default setting.
And the colours are from my custom swatch.
Fengdesigns 8 months ago
Feng i am so happy with your videos, but i have a suggestion, nothink hard, i think.
If you can show the layers, colors and the diferents menus of PS while you work, i think is more helpfull for us.
Thank you for all man, and sorry for my english, im spanish.
BB!
Nahelus 8 months ago
Hello, can anyone tell me where can i get PS that will be good for Painting in some actepteble price (or at least less then 400$) coz my CS5 trial is bout to end and i couldnt find any replecemwnt for it ?
LAOK242 8 months ago
@LAOK242 students have special educational discount. it shouldn't cost you over $200
chaohlin 8 months ago
@LAOK242 I bought my Photoshop CS5 from someone on Craigslist never open. IT was a student addition and since I am a student I only paid $200.00 and it is perfect! IT actually was a Adobe CS5 Suite. So I recommend looking on Craigslist for the Program. Otherwise it can be very expensive! So either be a student and or look on craigslist.
dionicpaint 8 months ago
@dionicpaint Well, I know bout student edition and i am a student the thing is that in my country studend edition cost that 400 $ so thats why i asked:/ but thx i will check craigslit.
LAOK242 8 months ago
he is a traditional painter and manually controls his values. to increase texture you can use a lot of the opacity jitters and position/size jitters in the brush options. I think I found out how he can control his saturation. seems adobe has improved their code for dodge and burn/ blending modes with CS4 which I am still a couple Versions behind on my photoshop.
tddavis 8 months ago
thank you so much for all your videos! very nice of you to take the time to make them. i really enjoy watching them. thank you alot!
bicargentino 8 months ago
Боже, пошли мне такой же талант, как у этих художников :(((((
SIGENA23 8 months ago
I'd like to see a video on creating some sketching/lineart brushes such as the one you used in episode 33, 32.
LudicGraphix 8 months ago
Incredible work. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and techniques like this.
InfiniteRealities 8 months ago
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tddavis 8 months ago
Ha crazy, i was gonna ask if i should know what my drawings should like before i draw them, he answered the question before i had the chance lol.
Garfeh26 8 months ago
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dohyungss 8 months ago
Hi! Feng! I'm big fan of your art!! have quick question!
I watched every tutorial clips on youtube, and have exactly same wacom and photoshop setting as you! but the problem is my every brush stroke looks so pixlated!
My hard ware spec = wacom intuos3, GTX460, Quadcore 64bit,
I'm using CS3. I draw on 300dpi 11X17 canvas! no matter how thick the brush size is...it looks sooooooo pixlated!
Could u briefly mention how to solve it???
dohyungss 8 months ago
@dohyungss you will always have pixels when painting thick strokes on CS3. Adobe improves the smoothness in CS5, while that takes much more computing powers, your pc spec will do just fine.
chaohlin 8 months ago
does Feng Zhu respond to questions because I would like to know what he does to swap back and forth between B/W and color? how do you keep control of your saturation when modifying value?
tddavis 8 months ago
@tddavis Have a full black layer on Saturation blending mode, on top of all your layers. Making it visible = BW, invisible-back to color. He explained that in a previous vid.
greymval 8 months ago
Hey man could you make a video of apply the textures when u have so much details of several objects cheers!
GoGaTaBG 8 months ago
Just wached all your videos till now; thank you so much
Keldorl 8 months ago
You animated it a little at the end!!!
Is there any way to do a tutorial on that? I think animated concept art is extremely cool, and would like to try it... but I'm not sure how to even start. Any ideas or tips?
zepher234 8 months ago
@zepher234 you can achieve that easily with simple camera projection in a 3d program, or after effects. Basically project different layers onto 3d planes with set distance, as you move the camera you will feel the parallax.
franklin20uk 8 months ago
@franklin20uk Oh okay thanks! I think I somewhat get it, but youtube if full of tutorials. I'll go look them up :]
zepher234 8 months ago
Thanks a lot for answer my last question about age and get in to industry. Now I have a new one: this is problably in the same spirit:
Do thing that in this moment it,s very hard to "start" compare to few years ago? I mean I feel that there is a lot of new peolpe trying to get in to in industry every day and new schools or centers appears too. So, is there enough amount of job in these days to feed all the people?
insepto7 8 months ago
@insepto7 "Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare. People that work for money can never compete with those that follow their passions in this creative field.
chaohlin 8 months ago
I have a question, shouldn't the figures be left out of the crab robot blocking the screen? The robots in the background make the town look super tiny or the people hanging on the robot look like giants. The characters hanging and the ones observing seem to conflict each other making the scale look weird
herpderpastful0l 8 months ago
Can someone point out the envy button on this video for me?
DragonBreath7575 8 months ago
Great scene. And now, 1,000,000$ question... What is Your favorite music playlist to stay in such a creative state of mind ? ;)
Morporgx 8 months ago
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SuperGamer87 8 months ago
@DoomFist94 side of the laptop allows a more dynamic arm gesture. Even so, with a small tablet, which requires mostly wrist gesture, either position offers about the same efficiency.
chaohlin 8 months ago
Your painting tutorials are always exciting to watch Feng. Seriously, thanks a lot for doing these for free, especially when you're pressed for time with the school and your own personal projects. I appreciate it.
brkyrfaze 8 months ago
I definitely agree that over detail painting is boring too! Good painting have just right amount of detail and right amount of life and loosely. Too loose then you fail to communicate, too tight than it's easily can get tiresome. in my opinion.
Lottechoco 8 months ago
Another great video, thanks alot!
Question - i have alot of trouble with drawing environments, part from the obvious of practice alot are there any techniques, tips or methods of practice which can help improve your environment skills?
Thanks again
willpheonix 8 months ago
@willpheonix its about playing shapes and values in the big picture while introducing contents within the divided groups . Doing studies of architectures and landscape in both a micro and macro style can improve your instinct. Look at some of the pixar, disney, and dreamwork artbooks can help.
chaohlin 8 months ago
@chaohlin thank you for your advice =) Just one more question, what do you mean by doing studies in micro and macro style? Thanks again.
willpheonix 8 months ago
@willpheonix macro studies involve analyzing the painting's composition and values as a whole. Ways to practice is playing films that have strong art directions: Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Mulan, Sleeping Beauty (Eyvind Earle), etc.. and use a black markers to sketch small thumbnails only using 3 values: white, grey, and black from the screen. Micro studies focus on the effort of analyzing detail designs such as rendering the form of a tree bark or the decoration design of a roman columns.
chaohlin 8 months ago
AHA!!! I was hoping that you'd add some motion to it.
chikanub 8 months ago
Superb work Feng. One minor point; the scale of the foreground humans on the mech doesn't really match up with the others. They appear to be towering over buildings, I would have maybe upscaled the foreground mech/brought the humans down in size considerably. Doesn't detract from the painting, just an observation :)
mrcanavan 8 months ago
awesome, so cool to see whole process.
followHimnotUs 8 months ago
can you make a tut on which kind of brushes to use and when to use them? not like the EXACT brush we need, just a tut in terms of what type of brushes should we use (soft edge, hard edge, spread out brush, etc.)
TribalDagger413 8 months ago
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to produce these tutorials! I'm learning so much.
shinsource 8 months ago
Tannhauser gates hu... where is Rutger Hauer ? :)
oyochannel 8 months ago
I had to do a double take with the moving arms at the end lol. Awesome video as always.
JonKyu 8 months ago
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kishimotoo 8 months ago
I agree with the idea that overly detailed artwork causes strain on the eyes and makes it irritating to actually look at the artwork.
Anyways, as always, awesome video, I hope I can attend your school some day or perhaps you get an online portion for your school which can go global. =D
sil3ntm08i0us 8 months ago
Love it how the mech gets pulled out n moves the arms in the end:)
BartzConcept 8 months ago
At the beginning of the video you talk about how the colors on your palette are balanced out. What should we look for while building up a palette so we can make sure that the colors will end up working well together as yours do?
Thank you so much for your lessons.
BernardoZoltar 8 months ago
Feng, you are awesome.
MrJoshuaBB 8 months ago
It's fun that I think the same of all the others while watching this video. I was thinking "he is using only one brush! The "stupid default boring" potoshop chalk brush!
Umbelivable....I struggle findings good brushes online and he achieve a masterpiece using only that stupid brush!
I like the final little animations with parallax and little movements ogf the mechanical arms. How you do that? I saw that animations also in the videos of the Fzdschool. After effects?
Koutetsujeeg 8 months ago
@Koutetsujeeg Yeah it is most probably AE... You just need to have separate layers in photoshop for foreground and background.. Import it to After Effects. Once in after effects.. change all layers to 3D mode... now your layers will be in 3D space.. just place the foreground layer and background layer in the 3D space at a distance from each other...while adjusting the layers from your regular camera... once set.. try zooming in from your regular camera you will see the parallax effect :o)
SmritiP30 8 months ago
@SmritiP30
THX. I know a few basics of After Effects but I never heard this "3d mode". Next time I will use it I will try it...it's fun to see.
Koutetsujeeg 8 months ago
@Koutetsujeeg
Best way to learn PS painting is to stick with the default brush and avoid any filters, effects, etc. Treat PS like a traditional canvas.
For the animations, that was done by my graphic designer in Adobe AF.
Fengdesigns 8 months ago 2
@Fengdesigns
Also a few friends of mine told me the same! They say "Use only the default brushes till you feel confortable with them". Since I wasn't able to draw and paint the way I want, I tried using lots and lots of brushes but they didn't help at all.
I will follorw your advice. Thx
Koutetsujeeg 8 months ago
next tutorial, textures?
AjblueDesign 8 months ago
haha, i like the little animation at the end, great job Feng looks great. Do you ever start with thumbnails for your environments or do pretty much always go into a final painting first? I know in one of your Gnomon DVDs you do quite a bit of thumbnails for environments but I thought since Photoshop is so flexible you can pretty much try out a bunch of different ideas on one canvas.
Howi3 8 months ago
@Howi3
With digital, I don't do much thumbnails anymore. Now you can start one thumbnail and keep morphing it into another. Back in the days, you had to re-draw each time you want to make a change. So essentially I'm still doing thumbnails, but it's one big progression thumbnail.
Fengdesigns 8 months ago
when do you create new layers? do you have a workflow there?
btw great video as always!
assassin00456 8 months ago
Question: When you correct your values in B&W mode, what are the settings of your brush? i.e. color, opacity, etc?
jklolbrbjk 8 months ago
George Orwell's 1985 looked interesting (i judge books by cover...) so I picked it up and I'm loving everything about it. Thanks for the recommendation! And I always "Like" you vids before I watch them :D
jklolbrbjk 8 months ago
How do you "rez" stuff up without making it look blurred/pixly? ._.
n3rmin 8 months ago 6
@n3rmin Areas out of focus should be blurry so if you resize your painting during the early stages of production, the blurry areas will gradually become invisible to the eye as you add more and more detail. The eye naturally stays focused on areas with most contrast and detail.
If you resize an already finished painting/photo, the ugly pixels become the main focus as they are easy to spot, but if you afterwards decide to add more detail on top, the focus shifts and the pixels disappear..
Zukan 8 months ago
@n3rmin
I never had an issue with this. Unless your original is tiny, there shouldn't be much blur. The default size for this was around 2000 pixels wide (ending at 10,000 pixels wide).
Fengdesigns 8 months ago
@n3rmin
Weird that there's a been a few questions regarding this. But each time I up-scale, the image looks fine. I've never experienced any problems. Maybe your starting res is too low? I usually start at 2,000 or 3,000 pixels wide. If you start at say 800 pixels and up-scale to 5,000, then yes, the image will definitely be blurry.
Fengdesigns 7 months ago
@n3rmin Start out with it high rez or paint over it?
Nicro327 7 months ago
@Nicro327 I usually start with a 2000 x 3000 pixel canvas. (300 dpi) :/
n3rmin 7 months ago
Favelas Feng. Favelas are the ghetto towns in Brazil you portrayed in your painting.
saprissa9 8 months ago
@saprissa9
ah, learn something new everyday! Thanks for the info. Always wondered what those were called.
Fengdesigns 8 months ago
Great work thank you for shareing
89gtu 8 months ago
You're my biggest idol :)
moCusto 8 months ago
why u have so low dpi ??
apoc1221 8 months ago
awesome again
thatnickid100 8 months ago
Lol, I keep laughing at the idea of an alien accidentally putting his finger over the camera lense, like one of those really clumsy home movies. XD "Dad, you ruined the shot!"
Buggersome! I'm going to have to add that word to my vocabulary.
Sarandib22 8 months ago 2
Hello Feng Cool!!! oh I mean Feng Zhu!!! :D you are cool anyway.
Flare3103 8 months ago
How does he switch from monochromatic to color while retaining the changes he made during the former?
patdzon 8 months ago
Could you do a black and white balacing tutotrial at some point? I dont understand how you do it
gordon1201 8 months ago
@gordon1201 He opens a new layer, paint buckets it all black, and sets it to overlay - so he can see the values clearly without the colors interrupting him. Then he makes a new layer under it (I'm pretty sure this one's on overlay as well) and paints over the parts where he wants to darken or lighten.
Hope that helped!
BaeconOmlet 8 months ago
@BaeconOmlet Thanks for the tip!
gordon1201 8 months ago
@gordon1201 Sorry, but I was incorrect about the black layer's layer mode, you need to put it on saturation instead of overlay.
BaeconOmlet 8 months ago
@BaeconOmlet Actuall not Overlay, but "Color" or "Saturation" (same thing, in the case of black or grey)
captainjeremy 8 months ago
@captainjeremy Well I fixed myself an hour before you posted that.
BaeconOmlet 8 months ago
Honestly, I've learned so much by watching your vids.
olisaoli 8 months ago 2
Tasty tips! Cheers Feng
gdsworld 8 months ago
Feng, You need to hook us up with your Swatches and stuff. Put a pack together for people wanting to try there hand at it.
Have it include; Swatch packs, Brushes, Patterns, and some Royalty free pictures. etc.
I would defiantly appreciate that :D Heck I've even pay for it.
dosig 8 months ago
@dosig as Feng stated some time along, it's better if you make your custom brushes and patterns yourself, because if he just gave you a bunch of brushes you wouldn't know how to use them like him
sergioelmejor1 8 months ago 17
Love this episode!!!!! it was awesome! I've learned a lot!!!
thx
mickandgreg 8 months ago
@Stend4ever
He uses default chalk brush for 99999.99% of it.
Cruelhazard 8 months ago 24
this is really amazing :D
thank you so much for posting this
I am actually planing to buy a tablet and start with digital paintings, and I find these tutorials really helpfull. Just thought you should know :)
96arctica 8 months ago
Thanks! i do however have a question for anyone reading. Colour....eugh, my skills at form and shape, sketching etc are all progressing nicely, but i just cant get colour right, picking the right colour for low lights, bounce lights, hilights etc, it completely detracts from the painting no matter how well all the other aspects are drawn if the colours dont flow properly .
Anyone have any tips for this?
biffington 8 months ago
@biffington Try painting things in black and white, and then just do a bunch of overlay layers to try out different colours. If your colours are too distracting, then chances are they're too bright, or clash with other colours. Make them subtle first, and then pick out the main ones a bit more.
PresidentChoob 8 months ago
@PresidentChoob Thanks for the reply! i always forget about colour overlays! i suppose i could learn what colours work naturally by what the resulting overlay's make of the black and white painting,
biffington 8 months ago
Thanks, this is very helpfull.
Ki12B 8 months ago
GJ
honkimonki18 8 months ago
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DeltaCommando52 8 months ago
second
damn u meat me to the punch folks
MONEYVAL9 8 months ago
SECOND
Serganize 8 months ago
SECOND!
patheo1 8 months ago
F1R$T!
eerrrrrrfolks 8 months ago