Archive for the ‘Art tips’ Category

The Art of Portrait Photography

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Hope you enjoy!
Tips to help you shoot some

great portraits…

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animator vs. animation

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

This short animation took three months to complete. I thought you would find it interesting.
Your Artcoach
Ray

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Hand Drawn to Digital Enhanced-Making of Blogging Betty Boomer Cartoons

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

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My wife and I have a site for boomers who blog. We decided to create a character that will speak for blogging boomers at different levels of experiences and expertise.

I made the first drawing of Blogging Betty Boomer in pencil. I did several rough concept drawings in my sketchbook. After I did the drawings I create watercolor paintings on hot press arches paper.

I outlined the drawings after the paintings were done with Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen. I liked the consistency of the lines and the way it works over the water colors

The call out bubbles I made on the initial drawing without the text included. The image was scanned into Photoshop. The key reason I brought it into Photoshop was so that I could create the border, size it and write the text in the bubble. How is that for digital and old school drawing working together?

I am going to stop now. Please leave your comments and if anyone is interested I will go into detail showing you a video tutorial.