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Category: Tools and Techniques

  • Pigments through the Ages

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    Pigments through the Ages is a web feature that explores artists’ pigments and their history in a series of brief, interconnected articles. From the navigation at page top you can Choose a Pigment, though I found it more informative to Browse Colors, as that gives you an overview of the limited list of pigments included…

  • Where They Draw

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    I don’t know about you, but I find photos of other artists’ workspaces fascinating. The fascination is probably partly simple curiosity and partly looking for ideas, with perhaps a touch of finding reassurance that other artists function in spaces that are as messy as mine (grin). Where They Draw is a Tumblr blog devoted to…

  • Secrets of Corel Painter Experts

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    Among artists who work in the medium of digital painting, most notably visual development artists, comic book artists and illustrators, the two most popular applications for painting and drawing directly on the computer with a ressure-sensitive stylus and tablet are Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Photoshop, because of it’s much broader range of use in…

  • Drawing the Head and Hands, Andrew Loomis

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    in the 1940’s well known illustrator and art instructor Andrew Loomis wrote a series of drawing books that have become standards in the field of art instruction, prized by generations of illustrators, comic book artists, concept artists, character designers and others, particularly those who must “invent” the human form without constant recourse to a model.…

  • The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford

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    I’m most familiar with Victorian writer, art critic, draftsman and watercolorist John Ruskin for his critical defense of the fledgling Pre-Raphaelite group of painters, vital at a time when their ideas and approach were at odds with the prevailing values of the Royal Academy and the British art establishment in general. His defense of their…

  • James Gurney on Gamut Masking

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    A gamut is a range of colors. More specifically it is a range of colors that can be created or reproduced on a particular device or with a certain set of beginning colors. Those working with print reproduction are very familiar with the concept of the CMYK gamut, or the range of colors that can…