Part 2: Digital Environment Painting with Noah Bradley

[MrLemonyFresh]

@ 7:30 i cheered when you did something about that funny cliff face :D

[CarlosArthurr]

best tipes ever *-* thanks 4 that Noah

[ffles]

Hey there, love the vid.

Your speech about photoshop's shortcuts for flipping was an "aha!" moment for me. I have a naga razer mouse (it's a mouse with a numpad on the side) and I'm left handed, what this means is I have the tablet in the left and the mouse in my right.

I used the naga's profiling to change all the buttons to correspond to photoshop's keys and wow, my workflow has improved and sped up quite a bit, and that was less than an hour ago.

Now everything is just a thumb press away.

[ValderVSIzel]

I really like this video!

I always have trouble with loose backgrounds, I tend to want to blend too much.

However, after seeing your technique, I feel that it is what I need to improve.

If you don't mind, would it be possible for you to give me some suggestion on my paintings? I just recently graduated, and is looking to become better and hopefully get into the industry. I looked through many different tutorial and try to get the best out of them! And this video helped me a lot!

Thank You!

[noahbradley]

@ValderVSIzel Thanks! If you go ahead and email me I'll try to find some time to respond: noahbradley@gmail.com

No guarantees how soon it'll be (I'm swamped right now), but I'll try. :)

[jeanm09]

what school did you go to? and what major di you go for? i

[Aimy58]

"With a rock or something, you just paint a nice-looking rock and try to get it to look like a rock." Nice technical talk right there. lol.

[vincelau635]

Excellent tutorial overall! Just a note about the sliders, I like using RGB sliders once I found out the theory behind them. I'm not sure if you've seen this already, but If you look up linran color tutorial, the conceptart thread has a nice lesson on it.

[noahbradley]

@vincelau635 Yeah, I have seen that tutorial. Made sense, but still didn't seem worth all the trouble to me. :) But hey, go for what works. Thanks for watching!

[vincelau635]

@noahbradley Haha yeah, I'll be sure to send you some progress on my environments soon. (to get more excellent advice :D)

[pugoworkz]

very inspirational thank you for sharing you make me grab my tablet and start speed painting

[noahbradley]

@pugoworkz Thanks, glad you liked it!

[Seanemerica72]

I'm going to vcu for graphic design, and I can't tell you how inspiring this is. Really appreciate all the effort you put into these.

[kiashadowwave]

I am going to be honest, I thought there was a large ice sculpture in the background until around 6:30 when I realized it was actually the space between the cliff faces.

[exexlegolasexex]

excellent. most digital tutorial artists are at a loss for words on how to explain their landscape methods, I suppose because so much is intuitive. this was helpful. working on what I hate first is good advice I would have overlooked.

[GarlandFraser]

what was the size for this image?

[noahbradley]

@GarlandFraser 3000x4567px -- Not quite as high as I tend to work these days, but still a pretty solid print resolution.

[GarlandFraser]

@noahbradley Mm, I tend to work from a tabloid size and just alter it's height or width, so that's fairly similar in resolution I guess. I'm currently working on an interior architecture drawing, which is my first attempt at doing so. I've noticed a lot if not all the speed painters and tutorial guys on youtube either have environment or character drawings but no interior architecture. You should totally tackle that!

[noahbradley]

@GarlandFraser Hm, good point. Now I just have to get good at interiors so I can teach how to do them. :)

[1206something]

you sir are my hero... its the first video tut that made sense somehow, so thank you!

[noahbradley]

@1206something Thanks! I've seen a lot of video tutorials myself and tried to learn from them how to make the most useful video I could. Currently thinking about a sequel. :)

[BagOfYogurt]

This is the only helpful tutorial I have found on the entire Internet. Thanks for this.

[noahbradley]

@BagOfYogurt You're quite welcome! Glad you found it helpful.