Posts Tagged ‘digital painting’
Digital Painting Master Darrell Chitty Webinar
Written by Timo on December 19, 2009 – 2:19 pm -Free Webinar with Master Digital Painter Darrell Chitty
Digital painting techniques revealed. Would you like to expand the products and services you promote to your clients?
Guest expert Darrell Chitty is going to teach us some techniques for painting like the Old Masters.
We’ll be meeting Tuesday night, December 29th at 8 p.m. Central for the webinar.
This is your opportunity to learn live from Darrell.
You will learn the styles of 3 Masters; Rembrandt, Monet and Turner.
Learn what the differences are in style and how to duplicate those style differences in your own paintings.
Discover how to create an eye-catching digital painting that demands attention…
Review how to utilize Darrell’s workflow so you can create faster and with less stress, even if you’re not an experienced digital artist.
To participate in this call, join us at 8 p.m. Central. You can pickup access to this NO COST webinar by clicking on the link below. There are only 50 seats. Please don’t register unless you have sincere interest and will be there.
Here is some of Darrell’s work
Darrell Chitty Digital Painting Master
Artist Darrell Chitty's Rhapsody in Pink
SORRY THIS WEBINAR IS FULL.
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Tags: digital painting, digital painting techniques, digital painting webinar
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Digital Painting With Real Brushes
Written by Timo on December 8, 2009 – 11:31 am -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
Tags: Digital Art, digital brushes, digital painting, fluid paint, intu paint
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Steampunk 3D Art With A Twist
Written by Timo on December 3, 2009 – 6:01 am -Digitally Painting steampunk?
Steampunk has been all the rage lately. I have not covered much of it here because I havent really delved into it. As I am not an illustrator it is not an area that I felt the readers of this blog or the clients that commission me really had a passion for. I could be wrong. I personally find it fascinating. That being said I appreciate art, any kind of art. So…
You have got to check out this keyboard!
Awesome Keyboard by Jake von Slatt
I am a motor head as many of you know so, I really love the look of this crafted keyboard. What makes this even more interesting is the artist breaks down the process of creating his masterpiece. It is a far stretch from digital painting for sure. It fits more into the industrial art category, but you have to admit it is cool.
You can see some videos, still images and a written explanation by clicking on the image or following this link to Steampunk Workshop.
Tags: digital painting, steampunk
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Digital Painting SEO Tips for Artists Five- Using Your Keywords
Written by Timo on August 31, 2009 – 5:32 pm -
SEO for Digital Artist, working with keywords part 3
Ok, now you have found some keywords as a part of learning digital painting SEO, what’s the big deal? What do I need these keywords for anyway?
We will look at a few different areas where our keywords will come in handy.
1-The most important place to be using keywords is in your copy. By that I mean in the content pages you continuously add to your blog or website (if you are using a content management system). I keep coming back to adding content. Search engine spiders love new content. If you are not adding content frequently you really don’t stand a chance of ranking very high. This is yet another area our cool looking flash sites do us a huge disservice.
Some great places for your keywords are at the top of the page, in the headline and sub headline and try to include the keyword for that page (article, post) in two additional paragraphs, the first and the last would be top choices.
Also realize that search engine spiders are not able to string phrases (yet, that I know of). So you need to use the exact keyword or keyword phrase you want to get ranked for. In the instance of this article you will see Digital Painting is my primary keyword. Also the spiders will read Digital Painting SEO, and Digital Painting SEO Tips as well. What the spiders wont put together is any of the words that are not in order. For example if I was using a keyword of “Digital Painting” keywords the spiders would not put that together from the title I have used here.
2- You can put your keywords in your ALT tags. Say we add a photo of a young child on our blog. We could include an ALT tag that says, “Anne poses for her baby portrait at 6 mos”, or some other phrase that includes our keywords. ALT tags consist of words. When the search engine spiders read the keywords or keyword phrases within the tag, it increases your keyword usage. Higher keyword usage means a better chances of getting higher positioning. Optimum keyword usage is 3-4%, so if your blog post has two hundred words you should utilize your primary keyword six or eight times.
3-Your domain name is probably already chosen, if not consider using your keywords in your domain name. An example of this is this blog. One of our keywords obviously is digital paint. We use it in the domain of digitalpaintmagazine.com.
4-Another area for consideration is to use your keywords in your page names. Again with a blog this is very simple to do. If you have a flash site it is much more difficult to do unless you know coding. There are a few SEO plugins that actually help make this a simple process for blogs.
Hope this helps.
Tags: Digital Art, digital painting, keywords, SEO
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Demonstration Using Free Art and Painting Software
Written by Timo on August 28, 2009 – 8:32 am -Digital Art demonstration with free art software
We have been going on about SEO and Art marketing stuff for a while now. There is still much to come about keywords, backlinks, site structure and why a CMS (content management system) like Wordpress or Joomla will out perform a website most of the time. All of the time if, like me, you are a mere mortal and don’t want to take the time to be a webmaster and learn coding and all of that mess. Wrong side of the brain for me.
So, that being said here is a cool video from David Revoy. What I like is that this is produced from open source (read free) art software. We will be looking at some of these in the near future. The other thing I particularly like is the process in which David works. I learned digital painting from a variety of master painters and still am learning more chops each day. One of the things in my work-flow a bit different than some is I use what I call chaos, (Andrew Jones coined it…I think) Very similar to the “muck-up” phase of painting just a tic different. David Revoy employs chaos here as well. Don’t worry if you are not a free hand artist, you can still employ chaos in the workflow of painting from photo reference. Enjoy.
Digital painting time-lapse : Lezard from David REVOY on Vimeo.
Tags: Art Marketing, Art Software, digital painting
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