Digital Paint- The Art Institute of Las Vegas: Summer 2006

Digital Paint

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Week 9 : Images Hose & The Distortion Brush
The image hose takes an existing image and paints it in a sequential manner. This is most helpful if you have to repeat elements such as a people in a crowd or if you are creating a texture for a 3D model.

Topics Covered ::
• Image Hoses (page 40 - 41) in your text.
• Nossles are found at the bottom of your toolbox. Play with the many variants of the image hose.
• The Distortion brush (Found in your brush selector, called distortion). How can this be used?

Creating Your Own Nossle
1) Put your image on a seperate layer.
2) Shift select all the layers and "Group" them (Command + G)
3) Select the "Make Nossle from Group" command found in the pop up menu located in the top right of the nossles selector in the tool box. See image below.
4) A file will appear. Name this a save.
5) Locate this nossle and open it.
6) Apply the nossle on to your canvas.
7) Select "Add Nossle to Your Librarry". You can then select it.

NOTE: To create a random feeling to the brush, adjust the "grain" property in your property bar.

ASSIGNMENT:
Create a caricature of a famous person that will be used on the cover of a "USA Today". Leave the top quarter of image available for a mast head or heading. Use at least three of the tools. (100 points total - 20 points for each category)
• Composite or create a new background for the caricature.
• Exaggerate at least two features.
• The image must display a feeling, or must make a statement.
• Design and contrast (value and or color).
• Refinement & overall execution.

Week 8 : Animation
This week, we covered the basics of animating in Painter

Topics Covered ::
• Creating an animation. File > New > Choose movie and number of frames.
• Coloring your animation and painting on a movie.
• Compositing in Painter using the Movie Clone feature (although this still needs work).
• Making your animations clear.
• Publishing your animation.

NEXT WEEK ::
• Caricatures using the image hose, creating image hose nossels. Creating a landscape with existing image hoses.
• Idea generation
• FINAL PROJECT Checkin. Let me know what you plan to do. You can either 1) create a self portrait of yourself, or 2) create a piece for the Blizzard contest. Please research your color scheme or execution style and bring an example, be prepared to share.

Week 7 : Clone Tool
Steps to execute the clone brush tool is towards the bottom of the page.

Topics Covered:
• Clone Tool / Tracing Paper Technique
• Clone Tool / Turning a photo into a painting.
• Textures: Using the impasto brush.

Images created using the impasto pattern emboss (left) and the sargent brush (right).

Using the clone tool:

1) Set up
1. Find a photograph that you like and bump up th saturation so that the colors are bright.

2. Make a clone of the image.
File>Clone>Save Image as "call it whatever you wantt" and save it on to the desktop.

3. Click on the first image.

4. Open up the layers pallete and make a new layer.

2) Start cloning

1. Choose the clone image.
File>Clone Source>choose your first file

2. Choose a brush.

3. Set the clone brush. To do this, go the color wheel and click the clone stamp icon. Look at image below.

3) Start Painting

1. Begin painting on the layer above the canvas (the new layer you just made).

2. Apply the paint texture everywhere. Muck it up.

3. Bring focus back into the image by using the eraser to remove textures in unwanted areas.

Week 6 : Matte Painting
matte painting: A large painting used to depict backgrounds too costly to create or find. Matte paintings give a scene the illusion of certain settings or size.
www.movieprop.com/prop.htm
Mattepainting.org

Week 5 : Midterm - Set up a still life and create a composition
Congratulations, this is the second week in which you are practicing the color recognition skill. Hopefully, the exercise helped you as you painted your still life today. Being able to translate what is in front of you, and to be able to create a knock out piece, is always good training, regardless of whatever discipline and you are all doing well.

NEXT WEEK:
Matte Painting...be sure to check out sites like http://www.mattepainting.org/ to prepare.

Great work everyone!

Week 4 : Putting it all together - Color Comps
This week we went over how to gauge color on the computer. Continue to build your visual memory of color combinations by being aware of them and studying them. Color sets tone and emotion for any production and large companies use it as a powerful marketing tool

Color Roughs:
Find a painting you like, and create a color rough of it, without using the eyedropper tool.

In translating color on to the computer:
1. Decide the hue (is it red green or blue)
2. Decide the value
3. Decide the saturationi (how bright the image is).

TIPS:
• Work from general to particular
• Apply the rules of atmospheric perspective when creating environments for believability.

HOMEWORK - Preparing for your MIDTERM (25% of your grade):
• Bring an interesting object to paint.
• Bring a table lamp as a light source.

Week 3 : Drawing
Now its time to create your own images, and color them. In drawing in painter, start with a rough on a seperate layer and refine it as you go, by using the eraser and working slowly, or tracing over the drawing.

Drawing Curves: This is similar to drawing a curved line using a French Curve tool. For this, you will be using the "Align to Path" feature.

1. Draw a line with your pen tool. Choose a brush and select the "Align to Path" tool.

Now draw your line. Your brush should follow the line you had created with the pen tool.

Week 2 : Learning to Walk
This week, we spent time learning the basics of the selection tool and creating color sets. We are still not concerned with how to draw in the program. We will doing that for week 3. Remember to color 2 "The Batman" pieces that you will submit at the end of the quarter.

HOTKEYS:
• Color toggle: (Shift + x)
• Brush Size: ( [ & ] )
• Opacity (Increments of 10): number pad 1 -10
• Brush Selector (Organic and curved "B", Linear - Straight lines "V"). Remember to reset the tool, by toggling between these two keys.

HOMEWORK:
This assignment is created with your portfolio in mind. Keep in mind that upon graduation, you should have items in your portfolio that relate to your local economy, and for us, its the gaming and entertainment industry here in Las Vegas.

1) Bring in a character that you will redraw in Painter. Choose a turnaround or illustrate a character in an environment.

OR -

2) Illustrate a graphic for a slot machine. Here are some themes to trigger the creative juices...island tropical, egyptian desert, fruits, money, gold coins, hip grandma. Remember that these graphics should be self contained, done in icon fashion and should have a strong sense of color an desgin. Type these key words in google image search to get some ideas: "video slot reel em in"

Welcome
I'm looking forward to being your instructor in this class. Please check this page frequently for a recap of the day's lesson, tips and tricks, reminders, and cool links to digital paintings in your related inustry. Always do your best and let me know if I can help.

Artwork by Conceptual Artist Feng Zhu

Just trying to inspire all of you. :-) Take a few moments as part of your study to view his site. Click here to view Feng Zhu's site.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

HOTKEYS and important tools found in your properties palette:

brush size: [ and ]
opacity
grain (the lower the number, the greater the texture)
layers, use layers to separate your drawing from your values as a means of organization.

NEXT WEEK:
Color Sets and the Selection Tool

Your Instructor,
Randolf