Month: March 2009
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Tim Foley
I’ve mentioned before my fascination with scratchboard, that magical inverse of pen and ink, in which light areas are scratched out of a coating of ink on a clay-covered board (and sometimes a white surface is scratched away from a black-coated board), producing a line drawing with some of the characteristics of pen and ink…
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Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection
Victorian art in particular, I think, suffered at the hands of the modernist art establishment of the late 20th Century, who considered it the dry and repressive standard from which modernism had “liberated” art. As a result, much of the art from the time was marginalized and trivialized for the better part of half a…
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17 Digital Character Painting Tutorials
In what is probably a nod to their dominant demographic, Smashing Apps, a blog/webzine devoted to online resources for designers and web developers, named the article collecting these Photoshop tutorials “17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls“. That being said, it’s still a collection of useful Photoshop digital painting techniques of potential interest to…