Digital Painting – Cool Example

Here is a great example of digital painting with Photoshop.  It is 3.5 hours speed up to 4 minutes.  And judging by his comments, many people feel that it was faked, but I have had high school students come close to this level of photo real.

Either way, check out this digital painting video it is amazing!  And fun to watch.  My students all watch it in awe . . .

“I did this as an exercise for the purpose of, quite simply, practice. It's been a while since I attempted anything photo-real... It's very good to do this kind of thing because it strengthens your freehand drawing abilities, as well as developing an eye for detail.
Freehand drawn in Photoshop cs2 (from a reference photo off to the side) with a wacom tablet.
time-lapsed... real time was about 3 and a half hours.”

 

Here is a 10th grader final project – self portrait. This was done as her final project the last semester of her sophomore year in high school.  She then went on to paint some amazing work both digitally and traditional.  I feel that the digital medium took her traditional skills to then next level.  That undue button really helps with the learning curve for composition and a number of other traditional techniques.