Painting Demo: Nibru

[ESDigitalArt]

How long have you been an artist?

[Lanedude08]

I sincerely hate thinking of poses for characters. That's what usually leads to my unholy art blocks. It's sucks when I can't even get past step one.

[mroneniceguy]

""""Maybe his good eye is a magical eye"""... LOL

[Eggtastic]

Hey man what brush do you use, i think most of the time what i paint doesnt come out right because of the brush im using, yours special or a default brush?

[daarken]

@Eggtastic Most of the time I just use the default round brush with opacity set to pen pressure under the brush controls.

[Eggtastic]

@daarken default round brush meaning? the first brush in the palette? And cheers for such a quick reply! lol! i found your website anyways and DL'd your 'My Brushes' link but if the one your describing now is used more thats what ill use :D

[daarken]

@Eggtastic Yeah, it should be the first brush in the set that you downloaded.

[Eggtastic]

@daarken So its the size '19' of your brush pack and not the size 100 that is more hard?

[daarken]

@Eggtastic I use both, but most of the time I use the size 19 brush.

[therealfreeway]

@Eggtastic where could i found the brushes you ve downloadet??

[The80swasStraight]

Great job man, thank you for sharing this with us!

[z3djinn]

Man I love your style. Can you slow down a video so we can see the painting/color-selection process you go through. I need to see how you go about getting the smoth transitions in your colors with 100% opacity and flow to your brush. Much appreciated.

[krukindra]

what size is your work usualy?

[daarken]

@krukindra Usually around 4000-5000 pixels on the longest side at 300dpi.

[crovamode]

@daarken

Great! I love your style :))

I have a question,...what is your setting for the pen "Tilt Sensivity" and "Tip feel"???

thanks in advance for all!!! :)

[daarken]

@crovamode Thanks! Normal for the tilt sensitivity and right in the middle for tip feel.

[DaUnknowna]

Maybe Its a magical eye, that glows~ lol

[sweetabix3]

what tablet are you using ? intuos ?

[daarken]

@sweetabix3 Yes, Intuos 3.

[sweetabix3]

@daarken  ive not long bought an intuos 4 , and im a noob to using a tablet and doing concept art, could you give me advice on any brush settings or pressure settings , or any advice on how to set up my brushes or advice on what books or tutorials to watch to help me better understand , ive watched your tutorials and they help alot, i find ti hard doing the image from a silhouette ,im so confused LOL ,if you have time could you give me some advice please driftjunky8224@hotmail.com thanks

[phobophile6]

hey daarken, ive been watching your videos, great stuff man, i actually first learned of your work in some spectrum annual. any how, i have a question, do my eyes decieve me or do you use your brushes at 100% opacity at all times? that scares me hah

[daarken]

@phobophile6 Thanks! Yup, I keep my opacity at 100%. I do have opacity jitter set to pen pressure under the brush controls though.

[phobophile6]

@daarken i know its probably really simple but i never learned how to set opacity jitter to pen pressure. im looking in the brush menu and i dont see it, im using cs4. could you point me in the right direction? i want to try it out and see if i like it better than manually pressing the number pad to change opacity

[daarken]

@phobophile6 I am not using CS4, but if you go to window-brushes and then click on other dynamics you should see opacity jitter. Set that to pen pressure but keep it at 0%.

[EXDarkria]

Its the New Sarkhan Vol!

[PichoSpin]

Is it the new Sarkhan Vol?

[daarken]

@PichoSpin Nope

[figaro99999]

"maybe his eye, is a magical eye, that GLOOWS" haha

this is a very informative post. i learned a new way to start a draw haha nice

[AngellGaby]

6:37

What did you use to fit the size of the image?

Tks (:

[daarken]

@AngellGaby Are you talking about when I cropped the image? For that I just used the crop tool. It is located on the tool bar, or you can hit the letter "c"

[AngellGaby]

@daarken Ooooh, thank you very muchh !!

[enamenpo]

u use shape dynamics btw for ur brushes?

[niyadito]

Did you use reference for this?

[daarken]

@niyadito I looked in the mirror at my arm for part of it, but that is about it.

[CGtoobb]

Hell of a thread ^^, enjoyed it tons

[planesrift]

Hi daarken. Can you tell me what brush you use for outline and the body?

[daarken]

@planesrift I only use two brushes in this tutorial for painting the figure. The first brush is just a round brush with opacity set to pen pressure, and the other is just a default Photoshop rectangular chalk brush.

[davidjko]

I'm not really an artist but this was a really interesting video. Thanks for making this. Its cool to see how something like this is done.

[DaveRapoza]

Awesome, I do love how serious this is D:. Being Nibru and all. Totally lookin forward to the next pieces youre doin... Got anything else you're workin on for videos?

[daarken]

thanks dave! yup, i am actually working on 3 new videos, plus i am still trying to release some real-time videos of nibru.

[enamenpo]

@daarken exelent as always...whats the brush u use to paint the white for highlight and gray in the begining?

[daarken]

@enamenpo I am pretty sure it is just a round brush. My round brush has the hardness set to 100% and opacity set to pen pressure.

[crashbug]

awesome work flow, thanks for sharing, what program do you use to read your work?

[daarken]

Hmm, I am not sure what you mean by "read your work," but if you mean how did I record my work, I used Snapz Pro X.

[frederikIII]

hey daarken awersome video but im curius where dit you learn your skills dit you go to art school or somthing like that ?

[daarken]

Yup, I went to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for traditional illustration.

[crashbug]

yeah, that's what I meant , I never could spell. nice work thx for posting it up.

[crashbug]

is there a similar software you can use on a PC?

[daarken]

Yeah, when I work on my PC I use Camtasia.

[Beomene]

..."that gloows"...

^_ ^

Fun. I realize how very, very often you flip your images!

I will definitly start doing that!

Flipping it horizontally after having painted it "one way" for a few hours really drives me crazy, there are so much to fix then.

More tutorials! Pretty please with cherry on top!

[Sythiis]

Nice work daarken! One of my favorite artists!

[norfolkk]

Thank you very much for this video Daarken. I often got some doubts on my painting technic as a beginner, and your videos always helps me a lot! Thanks again mate, for sharing your talent and your technic. And, good luck for your future work!

[sglivich]

cool!

thanks for sharing ;)

[usmanater]

Awesome dude

[Gehussterhodn]

love youre vids, working in the industry too and its very inspiring to look at you workflow ... 5*

keep em comin

cheers lateman

[JeffVoss]

Thank you for this!

[chimera6280]

Nice video, look forward to the real time on this.

[Rynox]

Great work Daarken, keep the vids comin!

[HoodedCC]

very cool...

[PoniesNSunshine]

Dude, it's Sarkhan Nibru. Needs Dragons. :D

[tom3167]

absolutly brilliant, id love to see the actual speed that you paint at though :)

[daarken]

thanks! ill put together some videos at real-time speed of this painting soon.

[DLotet]

thanks you!

[flyingdungbeetle]

That's awesome

[liandzbergis]

cool. thanks for making this

[AntiqueHessa]

how can you re size it?

Every time i re size a part of my drawing it becomes blurry.

[Sattantykje88]

Try holding down Shift while dragging it. That will keep the aspect ratio intact.

[AntiqueHessa]

Oh okay Thanks! i'll try that!

[ropollock]

Please keep these coming! I'm learning quite a lot from each of these.

[demandar1]

great vid! I'm looking foreward to the realtime version

[Sattantykje88]

Nice video daarken. Love your drawings.

[TIKOMIX]

no doughnut! :P great video regardless. Thanks for taking the time.

[theogore]

Well done tute/tour. I like the little Daarken in the corner... Cheers, dooood.

[IISKETCHII]

Haha. Definitely saw this thread on CA a few days ago. Nice work, yet again daarken

[ilDucePrimo]

Love the look of the eye.

I'm looking foreward to that other video!

[SamCarr94]

I wouldn't call getting reference (looking at your arm in the mirror) cheating, it's just being smart.

[patdzon]

You have scary eyes. It's like you're being possessed by the Nibru!

Thanks for this, dude!

[painterger]

thanks man for another awesome tutorial!

[werty302]

lol im shocked that this thread took off xD

Great concept by the way!

-krato