SteveArgyleLesson01_part1.mp4

[iamdemsugar]

You're not an artist man...You're a crazy kiss ass awesomeeeeee artist i never see level of quality like this before. All my respects man, al my respects.

[IDGODROAR]

Hilarious and Incredible! Love it!

[SnowCrasher]

Holy crap, gradient map and photo filter! D:

Definitely gonna try them next time I paint on photoshop. Talk about shortcut with dramatic effect!

[SteveArgyleDotCom]

I use the 21" Cintiq from Wacom. Love it.

[Roobencharmer1]

I was wondering what kind of digit pad pen do you use a wacom or something like that?

[er4manu]

¡voces guuturales!

[akrasner2]

i wish i had known all of these cheap techniques before! then maybe i wouldn't be a tendonitis-ridden cripple.

but seriously, i love your work on your website and on all the Magic cards, and thanks for the tutorial!

quick question about flow:

i usually map opacity to pen pressure, because flow doesn't seem to be very effective. what is the purpose of mapping flow to tablet pressure?

[SteveArgyleDotCom]

@akrasner2

Mapping to flow works best for brushes that you want to lay on thick, but still want some pressure sensitivity to. I like a stronger brush, but for folks who like to build up with several strokes, opacity may work better.

[akrasner2]

thanks for answering, my leige!

[SteveArgyleDotCom]

@JokerVoodoo

Thanks for the kind words!

This isn't really a tutorial on using photoshop; there are lots of resources out there that will be better than me. This is more of an overview of my process, which assumes the viewer is already familiar with digital painting in Photoshop. I can see where it could be very confusing and hard to follow if you're new to it.

[macjsus]

The voice reminds me of Johnny Utah from newgrounds.

[jkasdfhashklfawe]

Such an expressive voice. I am thoroughly entertained! and educated! You should follow me around and narrate my life

[Smaragdia313]

Thank you very much for those videos. Very kind of you showing the way you are working :D

[Lerbia]

Great video, really enlightening but I've a few basic questions though!

1) What kind of image sizes do you usually work at?

2) What sorta brush sizes do you use and what kind of flow/opacity?

[SteveArgyleDotCom]

@Lerbia

I usually work at 2-3K pixels in the largest dimension. (Or whatever the destination print size is.) A lot of illustrators work larger, but I've found my obsession for detail has to be curbed by restricting the size.

Brush sizes aren't usually very big. Just enough to get whatever detail I need. And usually, I've got both flow and opacity set all the way to 100, but I usually map flow to the tablet pressure.

[Tygerson100]

@SteveArgyleDotCom

Very helpful. My brush was way too light before. Endless brushstrokes and muddiness.

[leovampire]

Steve, miss your work on cgwallpapers. It's been a long time since you've posted some of your work there, man.

[SteveArgyleDotCom]

@leovampire

I should send them some of the new stuff.

[Powerslave1123]

So about that Chandra Ablaze... Were you feeling lazy? lol

Did you do that narration? It was pretty funny, and the voice was pretty epic

Also, what is that program? It seems really good, is it just photoshop?

[SteveArgyleDotCom]

@Powerslave1123

Chandra Ablaze does have a lot of fire... ;) But also a lot of detail.

Yep, that's goofy, discordant me doing the narration. Glad you like!

The program is Photoshop CS3.