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Speedpaint Full Video
Because the last one i posted was waaaaaay too fast. Here’s a less sped up version.
painted in Art Set on iPad
Beef - Meatball-Stuffed Garlic Bread Sliders Chef John's tasty garlic bread sliders, which are pull-apart dinner rolls stuffed with beef meatballs, cheese, and tomato sauce, will up your football party game.
職人の包丁さばき。漁港近くの水産物、海産物を扱う市場。大きなマグロをひとりで手ばやくさばいていきます。料理人、板前の扱う包丁はまるで魔法の道具。写真は無料でダウンロードできるようにしていますので自由に利用してください。
The skillful knife work of an artisan.
At a market near the fishing port that handles seafood and marine products, a large tuna is swiftly filleted by a single person. The knives used by chefs and cooks are like magical tools. The photos are available for free download, so feel free to use them.
Colorful Artist 🎨 With a paintbrush in hand, the world becomes your canvas, where your creativity truly shines. Creative discipline and practice guide you, helping you enter a flow state where your artistic vision comes to life.
Inspired by @disneyonice to exercise my skills. #disneyonice2019 #arabesqueturn #blackboysdancetoo #technique #inthesestreets (at Amway Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2KwXI2AlmW/?igshid=st13ja8ihmvf
Okay, I'm very curious: what makes you determine how you are doing a translation into stitching?
Essentially: just reading the poem. I read to see if there's an obvious colour palette suggested by the poem. Reds and oranges, for instance, seem a fairly obvious choice for Blake's poem 'The Tiger' - the tiger 'burning bright' and the imagery of the forge, etc.
Then I do a pretty basic frequency analysis of the text and sort the letters according to frequency, which helps me refine the colour palette - if I want more reds than oranges, then I need to assign reds to the more frequently occurring letters, etc.
I also might assign colours based on a specific detail I want to pick out - to carry on with the Blake example, I might want to draw attention to how many questions there are in the poem, so I'd assign a really stand-out colour to the question marks.
I'm currently working on a translation of Wordsworth's 'I wandered Lonely as a Cloud' I picked a blue colour palette because so much of the imagery refers to the cloudy sky, the night sky, the reflection of the daffodils in the lake, etc. but I'm picking all the punctuation out in yellows to represent the daffodils and to try and catch on some level the images evoked in the poem.
LIVE DRAWING SESSION this Saturday on YouTube at 7 PM GMT+2
My new art collection eBook is now available on Amazon with Kindle Unlimited (KU) and the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL) for a limited time. DRAWING ENERGY: A Collection of Figure Sketches with a Stick Model, Portraits and Drawing Hands (Figure Drawing)
Vladimir Feltsman plays with an admirable sense of pianistic touch and clarity. He has what was once described to me (with regard to another player, I think Weissenberg) as "steely fingers". And of course if you prefer your counterpoint detaché, he's right in the zone. Why then is his Bach so boring?
I'm not sure I have the answer. I don't know if my view is shared in any way that could provide insight. All I know is: he is throwing in all kinds of extra-Johann variations and improvisations, which is lovely and fine and wonderfully impure, and he's clipping away with his steely technique, and it's boring beyond belief. I don't mean to say it's unlistenable, it's not banal exactly, but the pieces, the positives, don't add up. It's the damnedest thing. Terrific soporific.
(Note: the Courante is provided for example only. I find the above true for all his Bach, and truth be told almost everything else too. But I encourage you to try him for yourself, I hope my experience isn't true for you.)
My thoughts on photo-referencing: I don’t do it enough.
Either subconsciously or unthinkingly, over the past few years I’ve made it my mission to draw all my sequential work with no referencing at all. I don’t think this was due to any sort of cockiness, i.e., “I can draw this better than real life, so why bother looking at reference?,” but rather out of a genuine desire to just magically know how to be able to draw anything, always.
Of course that’s a lofty and unrealistic goal, and even now, about 6 years into drawing comics professionally, I still feel like an absolute beginner in most ways. Maybe that’s due to having studied fine arts rather than illustration or comics, and never having formally learned how pesky little things like perspective and pacing worked.
Anyway, the point is that now, I’m finally starting to admit that I may not just be able to come up with everything off the top of my head (though I certainly do try that approach, nine times out of ten). I remember something my friend and great influence Eric Canete said to me several years ago, when I asked him to look over my first set of substantive inked comic pages: “Is this supposed to be the inside of a car? I think it might be, because of the seatbelts, but why don’t you try looking at the inside of a car?”
Oh, ouch! But Eric really did have a great point. Observation is often the best teacher.
To that end, I’ve been using photo reference in about 10-20% of my panels on MARA, which is more than I’ve ever used before. Here’s an example of one of my most extreme instances of photo-referencing so far, from photographs, to thumbnails, to semi-finished inks. There’s my whole process.
Maybe some people still view photo-referencing as cheating, but more and more I view it as a kind of exciting evil. Sure, looking at a photograph isn’t as creatively “pure” as pulling something fully formed from your own mind, but if it helps you grow? Then I suppose I’m for it. I’ve been very preoccupied with bettering my craft and not painting myself into a rut through sheer stubbornness lately, so here you go. My confession. My name is Ming Doyle, and sometimes, I use other pictures to make my own pictures better!
“Light Simulate” Clicked it on Long Exposure mode and mobile flashlight is used as the light medium. © Veer Vikram
this was supose to be a gif but, for some reason my PS crasshes everytime i try to it in web format. fukck me :>
Grumpy tiny Graves
Apple Hand Pies These apple hand pies are a snap to make with this easy recipe; try making different varieties using your favorite sweet or savory filling.