[Yogi]

I've noticed great artwork on this board as well as in the speed painting section. My problem is, I have no idea how to do my own paintings in Photoshop. I have a wacom 6*8 tablet, but don't know where to begin. Do you use the pressure sensitivity of the wacom in photoshop? Or do you just slowly change the intensity of the color on the swatches thingy? Essentially I'm looking for as many tips/tricks/techniques, and anything else you can offer to help me.

[Yogi]

I forgot to ask whether or not people use the airbrush or the paintbrush tool

[Dr. Bang]

you just have to put your tongue inside her mouth, and then just go at it like crazy.


oops, wrong forum.

[eyewoo]

Bang, you bang...

There are a bunch of tutorials here and there... I have some at: http://www.eyewoo.com/show2/tut_01/index.html

This might be a good thread for others to add links to their tutorials...

[dontfallin]

well like Dr Bang said just go at it like crazy. dont start out thinking its complicated because it really isnt.

[Gimbal8]

Try out everything so you know what opacity, size, color setting do with your brushes. Use the brush, the pencil, the airbrush. Use multiple layers and try out different layer modes etc.

It may take a while, but once you learn how all these things interact you can better formulate how you want to approach each picture you do.

I'm going to babble now: I think it helps if you start off with something that is similar to they way you work with traditional media. For example, I like pencil and paper. For that effect I like using the brush tool with hard edged brushes and a relatively small brush size. I set it up so the brush varies opacity and size. To me it is very much like working with pencil. Keeping the size (usually larger brush size) and opacity fixed and using the greyscale bar to pick percentages I find it works much like markers.

Generally under most any circumstance I start a new layer over the background layer and set it to multiply before starting.

Multiply layers are good for making things darker and Screen layers for making things lighter.

None of this information should be considered good advice...unless of course it helps you in any way. This just happens to be how I most often work in photoshop. The real trick is to know what you want to make, and use the right technique and tool for the job. That just takes experience. So dive in and go to town. The worst that could happen is you learn what not to do. After a while that makes figureing out what you should do a bit easier.

[Yogi]

Thank you very much to everyone that has relplied!!!! I appreciate your input very much, and am currently experimenting with your advice

[Yogi]

bump

[razzak]

i have noticed that variety makes a piece interesting. dont just stick to one tool, opacity, or brudh size, change frequently. give it some texture