Older Vid... Tutorial Questions.

[vladisk]

You should move your videos to vimeo and add bigger versions! ;)

[Dropkickutohurtytown]

if you are still doing the tutorials id like to see how you can take these images out of your head and put them on the paper/screen while knowing where to add the details and how? and also do you do requests cause i have one that (from scifi fan to scifi fan) may be of interest to you

[D100J]

its worth to learn for a week just to paint at your skill level

[wearefruitcakes]

one of things that's always mystified me about your photoshop paintings of human, how do you get a decent skin tone on something that's black and white and the texture? Do you use overlay, multiply, screen, etc on the layers menu or brushes menu and also, how much noise do you tend to do and what are the brush settings on? since I notice you use that bristly brush a lot.

[GoingWithTheFlow91]

I would like to see a tutorial which adress more technical stuff. Lots of tutorials on here are like: Start with a rough outline... add color...and so on. But what i would like to know is How to add color to get a special look. People watching Your tutorials might be interested in how You color etc, so telling us what settings you have etc for the different stages of your paintings would be really interesting. At least i think so ^^ hope this makes some sense. and also how to get smooth shades:)

[Dominik20a]

didnt have space to fit everything in one comment :P

Some basic color guide ( like what saturation , light-dark balance , contrast ,....) would also be nice , because i can do good drawings in B&W , but color isnt so easy

[Dominik20a]

I would like to see how you do your perspective , especciyl liek one in "11 minute Dinosaur sketch... ". I can make a decent side perspective but I am having troubles at making stuff look like they are coming towards you. Show some basic perspective lines and some tips and tricks how to make it look like it is coming to you.

Another thing is abstract backgrounds , especially colored ones, and how to make they fit and look good with main charachter in picture.

[GregRK7]

what is the program you use

[SMoore472]

*a few seconds sorry

[SMoore472]

I think if you were to make take one of your videos, say this one or A Dragon Awakens for example, and simply pause it at different sections as opposed to showing the entire process it could easily fit in 10 minutes. Then you could put what you did to get to that step written on the side of the screen so that you don't have to waste time speaking. each step would only have to appear for a few minutes because it's simple for viewers to pause the video to read the instructions on the sides.

[xXTatsuteXx]

please tell me the settings of your brushes!!!

[tomhartshore]

i work (play) in traditional media since my attempts at digital art have failed miserably. my preference would be to see some tutorials on how to draw hair. actually, having just mentioned my failing digital attempts, i found it really hard to make the transition to using my wacom instead of having the ability to turn the paper and drawing where the pencil tip lands, any tips on that. wacom now gathering dust, 150 pounds down the drain, can you help me rescue it? your realism stuff is amazing!!!

[Killergymsox]

Im confused how you efficiently use shadows of different tone when you said you dont mess with opacity and flow. Do you use shadow and light as a way to get rid of the lineart from the initial sketch? How do you use the vector mask so well? Do you use color burn when applying colors to your grayscale renderings?

[dethstiny]

This looks exactly like my sister.

[johnniecochran]

Which type of photoshop brushes you use and when you use them. Some excercises to help people learn how to acheive likeness in their portraits. Thoughts on color and blending. The first one can be done in a single video, but the others will need a series of vids. The big question I have is how did you learn to acheive likeness so well with very little adjustment just from starting from the eye.

[DukeFalconYes]

You said you could go on for hours, I say do exactly that, do a drawing, don't timelapse it, open up your video editing program and then talk us through how you did what you did while you're doing it, I believe that would be the best way to teach people however it's not the quickest and it would take a long time to upload but I really think it would be worth it. Truth be told, I'd pay for it.

[PhilosophersCreed]

Been dying for you to do a tutorial! Do a drawing as your normally would from start to finish REAL time, break it up into a 6 part video. MY questions I would love to be aswered: 1) What brushes type, mode, and size do you use (and for what parts of the painting)?

2) Why do you prefer to sketch/shade in black first and add color later? (Advantages to that?)

3) How do you color over shading? What mode is the brush, and what mode is the layers?

4) How many layers and what modes to put them on?

[waks4ik]

It's not possible, you said flow and opacity always 100%, it comes like in paint like that, you cant smelt color. So my question is how you can do it?

[painterger]

i think he does this with the penpressure of his tablet....

[stuckes]

I have a request!

I'd love to see a tutorial on how you do your backgrounds/foregrounds for your pieces. The process/brushes etc. They are so dynamic and vibrant. Love your work bro!

[alexevans4]

Do you use a touch screen or something like that, or the tradional mouse :P

Because mouse control like that would be godlike

[cgsbgs]

No, that would be excruciating. But there are some who DO use a mouse, and my hat's off to 'em. That must require a lot of patience and I assume would provide a great seal of discipline. For example, look up kasumisman here on youtube-- He does everything with a mouse.

[pandat99]

i think you should make the tuts on how to color and how to use photoshop like you do

by the way...

YOU ARE AWESOME!!!

[Musicman180]

Hi Chris, I'd love to see a tutorial on your techniques on colouring if you get the chance.

Thanks!

[REDvyyper]

i must say...your work is quite extraordinary...unbelievable. i, too, am an illustrator, pen and ink mostly and starting in photoshop. i think it would be helpful to all of us if you would do a "walkthrough" tutorial with you explaining exactly how you use your layers, color blends, brushes...etc. i know atleast for me it would be very very helpful...thanks

StrikeVyyper

[lalolandatube]

Excellent work! I'd like to know about coloring a drawing with photoshop :)

[kajiq27]

I just want to know what sorts of brushes you use typically

lighting or shading tutorials would be much appreciated as well

[Fennec970]

fur fur fur fur!

[JetzKiterr]

HAIR TUTORIAL! And fur. Both are done amazingly

[element1988]

we need tutorials on rendering :DDD:DDDD

[the2nasty]

i'd like to know the process, like how you sketch, what tools you use/brushes, how you do so much detail in your images without zooming in...or do you??? things like that, it would be amazing to learn from a pro like u

[PeacefulVibes]

What size/resolution are your pictures?

[skihas1]

Hey, LOVE the pieces, I'll put in a request fer a tutorial...

Lighting, texturing, composition ect. can be learned elsewhere (I'm sure you'd agree), but what I would like to know is the specific tools and "quick-keys" you use to speed up your works. Also, perhaps a quick overview on how to use layers effectively.

[sweetmayalu]

i totally agree with skihas1!

i also would appreciate ''pause'' on the moments when you switch the tools,how the layers are arranged there..so from the beginning u start correctly and dont mess up the object with background.and when u edit hilights, what u use exactly...coz there are many - tim light, hard light...or u just change the colour of the brush..? :)

thank you soo much for takin your time for this!!!

[crazycarl999111]

hey great vid

keep up the good work and make a video about drawing a sea monster

[thefousteph]

I'd like to know your tools (witch tablet you use? witch size? what is your screen size? what software you use?)and some how to do hair, eyes, skin textures and things that aren't obvious for the viewers; brush, effects, layers, techniques with the tablet. etc.

[YrUlUKkiNAtM34]

i would just like to know how you obtain a smooth flesh tone with your shading, ive tried shading in photoshop and all it did was highlight the same color that i was painting over with, which was frustrating and maybe some lighting techniques.

[TreeniePop]

k,

I really want to know what type of brush you use, how many layers you work on and just general tips.

Maybe you could do this through audio commentry.

P.S. Love your work this one is amazing

[rodrigotrovao]

very nice skills mr! Wonderful always. Know all your works.

[zxq12]

vary good idea, vary original. i have a few questions i think!!!

[AntonioE07]

I meant lighting and texturing

[AntonioE07]

Definitely shading and lighting, which breathe (here's a dragon reference, completely unintentional..lol) life into the drawing. Thanks.

[dirty47]

God Bless you, Mr. Scalf, for making your great abilities available.

[remdog1138]

It would be cool for you to just do a commentary on your earlier vids. Tools of the trade, and such.

[verifor]

Hi Mr. Scalf. I think your paintings are absolutely flawless. And I have been a fan ever since I first saw one of your videos. But, to answer your question: I would love to see some little text on the things that you do. There are a lot of response to tutorials. But, I think if you just write a "post it" on different parts of your videos, you won't have to explain too much.

Thanks for such wonderful speedpaints. They are truly an inspiration.

[crazycat1984]

Great videos, your work is amazing! Thanks for sharing, and taking the time to explain your skills. If I may make a suggestion on tutorials, how about a vocal guided explanation as you go? Some tips on light, and texture would be awesome! Thanks again

[warmics]

I'd like a few pointers on what brushes you use and how you came up with them.

[darksaiyan2006]

Great pic! To the matter at hand, I agree with the 10 minute tutorials from you, and I am really looking forward to them too. Also, I want to know your basic workflow, as well as how to practice in order to perfect our drawing skills.

[gorlaxsmod]

I think a good start on a tutorial would be the basics, like how to get proportions right or something. Most people are asking for a shading tutorial but I think that the basics should be taught first (obviously)

[FragileMosquito]

Maybe, how to shade a realistic drawing. I can draw things as well, but I suck at shading.

[Reniko]

I just look at your tutorials because they inspire me.

[astrayengel]

OK, I want to know the best way to create skin textures, as in skin spores and the like.

[InuyashaFan231]

i think that when you do each step you should explane what your doing and how to do it. thats the simple way to explain it.

[Raithie3]

Great vid... as always. Would you be able to include a section on colour and shading in a tut? As in, if you use colour as you go or just use adjustments after the final sketch etc.

[theQiwiMan]

No question, just thanks for the awesome vids and inspiration! You seem like a great guy, thanks for the videos!

[flammejohn]

Which brushes are you using when you shade? and how do you get colors on black and white images?

[funkystyleG]

That's exactly what I was thinking and what I would like to hear...

[Hastur54]

Hi Cgsbs !

What would interest me a lot is to know a few tricks about your coloring techniques. It's amazing how you get stunning colors starting for a black and white picture.

Congrat for all your work !

[ringo45]

It would be awesome if you could discuss the preparation or organization you do before starting a speedpaint. More specifically, how you set up your layers, resolution settings, brush or tool organization, basically anything like that that will provide a view into the technical side of your work. Thanks for the great videos.

[M0rganstudios]

Maybe a gesture drawing tutorial? My wife has an art degree and was showing me how this frantic scribbling can turn into these amazing pictures if done right. I looked around the web and didn't find much on it that I thought was any good. Anyway, whatever your thoughts on the subject are would be cool, good, bad, or in between.

[MarkAlkalinE]

I would love to know how you work with Layers, Layer types, and what opacity levels you use for different things. Shading and highlighting would also be a constructive tutorial.

[casanova1135]

what program are you using?

[waterswind]

photoshop cs3 i think it says in most videos

[xIChromeIx]

here are some questions, did you go to art school, next how do you show different textures,and whats the page size and resolution on your work, whats the most common thing you do in photo shop( feature or function) that most people wont know about,do you use any kind of wire frames for humanoids( or anything else for that matter)?

[iurak6868]

1. what tools do you use?

2. what techniques do you have for those tools?

3. how many times do you paint/draw, a week?

[iurak6868]

i saw on another video that you use: Photoshop cs2, wacom Intuos 3.

and that you paint black & white & gray....then you use overlay or multiply layer over all to give it color?

then you use a different layer to give different tones?

and a final layer to give more highlights?

how many layers do you use?

[mermer3m]

oh also this is kinda off the subject of painting but I want to know this too and not sure where to find it out so could you make a short tutorial on how to record your paintings on ur comp like you do also like tell what programs you need and things. I'd like to make my own but I'm not sure how to do that or what I need.

[legice]

it's not 10 minutes any more,but as long as the video is no bigger than don't know 100Mb...the video can go on for as long as you like,because there are a lot of videos that are longer than 10 min.1 time I vatched a vid that lasted about 1 hour

[JiferPL]

10min, no matter how big file is.

Old members can send longer movies. They are allow to do that, because they registered before youtube brings us a now low ;/

[mermer3m]

Hi I want to know and i've wanted to know for a long time how to make things look like fantasyish with like glowing lights and sparkling things like those raindrops on your last video and her lips looked like sparkly kinda. So like how do u make things look like they are glowing or sparkly and shiny. Please make that one I've always wanted to know some techniques for that.

[bladnochthesecond]

It would be good to see a tutorial on how you make the dragon scales on a dragon. They are more like a skin than big plates when you draw them, and judging by the speed you get it done, it can't be too time-consuming or difficult (famous last words). :)

[demonicbunny666]

In all honesty man, you gotta slow it down, take it step by step, and EXPLAIN how and why you're doing things, otherwise people watching this video will never be able to apply the techniques you show them outside of an identical drawing to what you're doing.

Just have videos on small things. How to draw eyes, how to draw noses, how to do that godly shading you do (OK, so thats not that small, but you get the point)

My 2 cents at least...

[IamtheGrynch]

Something with the process you go with through for conceptualization, and definitely how you color your work, because I tried to do a black and white piece and then color on top, and it just didn't work at all.

[kratos1616]

your coulouring techniques please! just the hole process you go through, thanks.

--Matt

[EliteRabbit]

I would really like to see what brushes you are using. Should really help me alot!

[funkystyleG]

Hi there!

Nice painting this one... so smooth and so emotional!

I would really like to see a tutorial from you.... but if you ask me ''what?!'' i will tell you 50 things...

Well, mostly I would like to see you draw and talk while drawing... Especially how to get a good coloring after done the grayscale shading, then what brushes to use for details, what for shades, what for the BG and cool stuff and in the end maybe how to see when is the real painting finished and when to just continue. Thx

[krono32]

amazing!!  When did your drawings really start to look real? Can you show us some of your work when you were like 20 or 15 years old by chance?:)

[ScarletFire77]

I would very much like to see a tutorial on how you create light and shadow. It seems that so much of your coloring work is done for you by already having a foundation of dark and light to work on top of. Keep up the great work. Love it.

[logoth80]

ask youtube to lift 10min limit. i seen 60min videos from normal youtubers doing non profit vids

[DnllnGproductions]

I would like to see a tutorial where you explain the best way how to learn, or how to practice drawing. Because as you said, in a 10min vid you can only explain a really little aspect.

but i love all your vids anyway ^^

[digitised]

Im confident with my draughting and monochrome skills, but i find it hard in photoshop to produce colour pictures.

If you could do some tutorials focusing on methods of producing realistic skin tones with photoshop tools id be very grateful,

you are clearly the master at this.

Any other tips for colour tools such as increasing the dynamic range to achieve a more photographic finish (without killing the overall scene) would be much obliged.

thanks!

[matekk]

Hey, great vid!

I've got a question - which video capturing software do you use?

Tnx!

Best wishes,

Matt

[SmJuLiAn09]

im very new to digital painting the only question i would have is the color process

also it would be awesome if you did a mythology character like a centaur

[arturopotter]

Ive got the same question and the same request lol

[spitzercohn]

i know its somewhat of a broad topic, but I was hoping that you would do a tutorial on BRUSHES (preset vs. self-built) and show how to achieve different textures with them. I hope to see it soon...

[amamam42]

I don't really give $%*# on what you draw, I learn something from every video you make. I would however appreciate if you start putting some sort of sound to go along with your vids.

[LilFlac3]

Dude awesome 1st youtube vid. Your def by far my favorite speedpainter of all time. some hair tuts would be nice. I suck at hair so bad

[OmnipotentO]

i would just like more vids like this... where i can just see your process and progression... learn a lot from this. i get an idea of how things should progress when i'm doing my own thing.

i think it would also help if you added notes of what you were thinking as you work.

just my 2 cents :]

i appreciate the upload

[cinemastah]

Another question: Do you use any specific texture brushes?

[Drevvo]

For newbies to digital art like me, I'd really like to know how you color. In most of your videos you lay down a black/gray coat rather quickly but the end result is so luscious. What's your process exactly?

[08bangs]

How to draw hair: where to start and how do you know where to put the highlights? Whenever I try to dry hair it looks so messy or cartoon-like. I really love how you do it and would greatly appreciate a vid tut on it! :)

[laidt0rest]

just say what you are doing and why its important and the proper techniques to do it.

simple

[babolatpdtp]

Mainly about shading I would say. Techniques on how to shade: how transparent of a brush you use, do you blur, what do you have on your layers, etc. i can see how this would all be kind of hard to explain now that i think about it

[OO7OO7]

pretty cool

[usmanater]

Perhaps you should start talking about lighting concepts (contrast of lights and darks). As the software can be learned later.

[GoddaM777]

I'd like to see a tutorial showing what kind of brushes you might use (read: rely on) to achieve each effect in your paintings.

I'm actually working on a web comic series and I have found digital painting to be the easiest way to achieve a dynamic result on a dime.

thanks to videos like these for the inspiration

[waterswind]

or how to add effects like fog and lighting that you did in the swamp those were very awesome

[waterswind]

it would be awesome if you could explain how to properly shade to add depth to a picture like the more indented area around the eyes and the like :P

[darkjumpy]

I was about to ask the same. Most tutorials just explain shading with cubes and spheres, but Chris goes way beyond that when he does all that nifty highlights on his dragons. That's really impressive.

Also the way he always uses a secondary light source.

[masterpiraka]

I'd like sound....

Lol...

[cinemastah]

My question: How do you get such bright, cool colors in your pictures you draw?

[Cheeseitnow]

and also awesome vid !!!!

[ShadyTear]

Very nice as always :)

I would be very interested in a tutorial that explains the most important things to consider when painting a face (portrait), something like the most important proportions, mistakes not to do, lighting, details, whatever you have in mind ;)

[Cheeseitnow]

ah quick vid on blending would be great or just a basic run throw custom brush set ups and or lighting and layering the image iv see some of your vids you go from grey scale to couler with useing like 2 or 3 brushes lol tiz mad any ways hope that helps cant wait to see the tutorials if you deside to make them that is :D

[cas678]

I wanna see that too. It'd help me out as well :)

[Romejohansen]

Cool :D

You are so awesome!

Yay, frst comment and view

[AngriestAmerican]

Looks like Stevie Nicks!!

How about some space art,,sci fi,,,spaceships, aliens,,,stuff like that. That's why I joined your channel!!! :-P