Digital Artist Collaborate

I am not sure where I came across this a few days ago…I think my Google reader revealed it.  I tried to research the background just a bit because I really love this idea.

The painting evolved by four digital artists working simultaneously on the same digital canvas, it was unplanned and free form.  Communication was made possible by text chat and the artists worked from  each others actions. The total elapsed time was 4 hours.

While the video was put on Youtube in August of 2009, I still had a difficult time finding much about it. Who were the artists involved? What software were they using? How did they draw simultaneously while each was in a different location? Was it iscribble.net and the interactive canvases on the draw-chat site?

There are several ways apparent to do this so  what method did they choose? Anyway, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Corel Painter Tutorial by John Derry

Ok, so maybe it is not really a tutorial. It is a tad more than that. This is a live event delivered via webinar. John will be covering Corel Painter’s brush engine and show you how to customize your own brushes. This webinar is a primer, an introduction to brush customization. There are some fantastic brushes that will be featured in the webinar, you can see these brushes in action on the short video compiled below.

As a bonus John is going to throw in  a chance to win a lynda.com Painter 11: Mastering Brushes DVD (a $99 value). How cool is that?

Click to watch preview segment

The price listed is for a short time only. The video download and brushes will be selling for 35.00 after the live event is over. Even if you can not be on the call live register NOW,  each participant will be sent the download page for the video and the brushes. Sign up below now and save yourself $10.00.

Breaking NEWS! We only have 100 seats available for the live event. My account just renewed with Go to Webinar and the price for 500 lines went from 99 a month to 399 a month. Right. So as you can imagine I renewed at a lower level which is 100 lines. This will sell out.

Your $25.00 Webinar will include the following:

• Solid step by step instruction by John Derry
• Attendees will watch and listen to the webinar live
• A download of the video capture of the webinar
• Johns Brushes 2 Collection that will used as examples

Dont forget about the BONUS! A chance at winning a Lynda.com DVD by John titled, Painter 11: Mastering Brushes. The DVD sells for $99 and John is going to be giving one away  the during the webinar.

Akiane Painting Portraits

Many of you have heard of child prodigy poet and artist Akiane.  I am surprised that I have not heard of her before today. She is incredible! My sister sent me a you tube video and I was blown away. After watching the first vid I spent a few hours researching her and included a few more vids here. You can see her gallery and website at  http://www.artakiane.com.

You really should check out her site which also includes her books and poetry and some more videos as well.

http://www.artakiane.com/videos.html

Digital Painting with Camel Hair

Digital painting has always had less of the tactile feel that traditional media. What if you could grab the touch and feel of traditional brushes? Believe it or not there is a group working on this. I came across this info in the first part of November. It hit my google reader again today so I thought I would post about it.

Here is a video (with no sound) from you tube and the informational PDF is attached. The article in the PDF is fasinating, it does get into a little geek speek though. In some areas I was bored or got lost as I am an artist not an engineer, but….worth the read to see what is happening in the field. Additioanlly I have seen this referred to as “fluid paint” and “intu paint”. I am not sure which one is the current name.

http://didactiekinf.uhasselt.be/capita/lesmateriaal/02%20-%20DigitalPainting_slides.pdf

Artrage was the Art Software Used For This Digital Speedpainting.

There is a ton of art software we can use to create a digital painting, Artrage is one of them. I have seen some of Chip’s work on Deviant before and like much of it. He posts many speed paintings so we have the opportunity to see the process. His deviant site is http://cuptow555.deviantart.com/. Chip uses primarily Artrage and I think he is on a PC platform.