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• Constraints and Creativity

  December 4, 2008 in Tools

  There is thing thought that being creative is to be without bounds; without constraints.
  I have learned, dabbling with visual art that constraints can actually be a good tool towards bringing out your creativity.
  To illustrate, consider a blank canvas, or a white paper. You want to draw anything that fancies your mind. I used to get [...]

• Painting Glowing Objects – Lightning

  November 30, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tutorials

  Software: GIMP or Adobe Photoshop
  Level: Intermediate
  Subject: Glowing Objects – Lightning

  This tutorial is a short one, but would be explaining an intermediate level of digital painting technique. It is a walkthrough of painting a lightning against a moderately dark plain sky. Once you understand the technique, you should be able to apply the same technique for [...]

• Mumbai Firemen

  November 27, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting

  Dedicated to the lives lost, those of the civilians and the public service personnel like policemen, firemen and armed forces of India, in the Mumbai attacks of 26 November.
  An A4 size painting at 300 dpi in portrait layout, done using GIMP and Wacom Intuos3. Check out the deviantART entry – Mumbai Firemen – for a [...]

• Illustrate A Peacock

  November 23, 2008 in Artwork, Tutorials, Vector

  Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator)
  Level: Advanced
  Subject: Peacock

  Peacock Workshop [Hide/Show]

  Standing Peacock
  Dancing Peacock
  Painting Peacock
  Vector Peacock

  When one speaks of Peacock, it is usually with reference to the male of the two species in Pavo familiy, Pavo cristatus (Indian) and Pavo muticus (Green). They are best known for the male’s extravagant tail feathers. The female of the species are [...]

• Self Portrait

  November 20, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting

  When an artist represents himself or herself in their medium, either as a painting, illustration or sculpture, it is called as Self Portrait.
  It can be quite daunting and for those of us who are modest, it may see feel narcissistic. But trust me – I just tried it out. It is a challenging task yet [...]

• Illustrate a Genie Lamp

  November 16, 2008 in Tutorials, Vector

  Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator)
  Level: Intermediate
  Subject: Genie Lamp

  By the end of this tutorial, you would be able to create a vector artwork of a Genie Lamp. You should be familiar with the tools of Inkscape or any of the other vector editor you use (like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw).
  Base Shape

  Use the ellipse drawing tool [...]

• Draw a Horse Head

  November 13, 2008 in Tutorials

  Level: Intermediate
  Subject: Horse Head in profile

  This tutorial should get you going on drawing horses – the head specifically.
  You should be able to reproduce the results either digitally or using pencil, pen, paper and a good eraser. If you would like to study the results, you can download it at the end of this tutorial.
  Basic Shape

  First, [...]

• Painting – Too Old For Halloween – Part 1

  November 9, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting

  I wanted to do a colored version of the illustration, Too Old For Halloween.
  I grossly under-estimated the amount of effort this would take.
   

  With the amount of detail, and my choice of color palette – added to that the two sources of light, takes up quite a bit of effort to paint.
  As you can see, I [...]

• Too Old For Halloween?

  November 6, 2008 in Artwork

  Too late for Halloween, perhaps. But I really enjoyed working on this illustration.
  After doodling with GIMP’s new inking tool, I had this urge to try it out. After some seasonal inspiration, and several concepts, roughs and sketches, I felt pretty confident to do a illustration over them. This was created completely using the Inking Tool [...]

• GIMP 2.6 – Features for Digital Painters

  November 2, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tools

  I am quite in a great mood test driving GIMP 2.6 release.
  It was released quite some time back, and had installed it on my Windows boot. But I had been lazy to install it on my Ubuntu boot where I usually work. The Ubuntu 8.04 did not have a backport of the latest GIMP 2.6 [...]