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Photoshop is the software and photobashing is the name for technique where you use photos as a texture or as a base for a painting. So you can do photobashing with photoshop like I've done here. Hope that helps!!

Just used photoshop and I think I had used Maya for an initial blockout

It gets called photobashing, which is a pretty broad term that covers using photos as anything from textures to using whole pieces of lots of to create a finished piece.

Thank you!! Glad you liked it

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Thank you!! They have some great designs in that game, so I really appreciate that!!

@@edwardbarons522 You're welcome! Have a nice rest of the day (or night) and wish You all the best in your artistry onwards

I always try and remember than clothes are a 3D form (which I know sound obvious), which means they wrap around the body so you need to remember that when you shading, and that all the folds are essentially like little tubes that will have their own light and shade within the main form. One of the best exercises I found was to do contour drawings, the ones where you draw lines that follow the form, from a reference photo to help me understand what is happening. The other thing is have some reference while you paint! Probably most important is find some good reference! I had references on my other screen of jackets and trousers while painting this so I could see where folds fall it can be a life saver when you get stuck.

Absolutely, just jump in and give it a go. I know it can seem intimidating at first but as long as you remember your fundamentals of light and atmosphere it get a lot less intimidating. Hope you give it a go and have some fun with it.

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Thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Process videos really helped me when I was learning so it's my way of trying to give back a little and I think it's useful for people to see the reality of what we do S much as possible.

You watched him draw/paint 90% of this character but can't stomach the 10% of photo texturing that adds realism that he also painted over ? You're right about this line of work not being for you lol. Good luck.

I'm sorry, photobashing is absolutely not lying about skill. It's the difference between using your fingers to paint vs using a paintbrush. It's a tool for artists to use just like any other. Your opinion is highly misguided. Please try it for yourself. Photobashing actually takes incredible skill to be good at.

I can understand why you feel like that, digital art always has lines where people think a technique is cheating, in fact I've had people tell me digital art is cheating full stop. But I think it's important to remember than I'm coming at this from a concept art for games background where time in short and expectations are high particularly in AAA games, so like the others said photobashing is a tool to speed up the process. Concept art is not the final product but a step on the path and the technique used to create it is less important than whether or not it helps others further down the pipeline. But don't let it put you off, if you really want to get into the industry, you can be good enough all it takes is time and practice. As far as lying about your skill, personally I'd rather have the information out there so people can see the process as when I was learning photobashing was used but wasn't talked about, so one of the reason I put this out was so nothing was hidden. So the best advice I can give you is don't let it put you off and try and find your own path. I know some great artists out there who don't use photobashing but use 3D, other than use both, and other still that use neither. Personally I still enjoy everything from oil painting to photobashing, so I just see them all as a toolbox to choose from depending on what I want/need to achieve.

Haha crying about photobashing when theres ai😂😂😂😂

This is one of the early natural selection for artist lol, clients want results not progress

Thank you!! I love uncharted so it must have been in the back of my mind when I was making it!!

I'm so glad you found it useful!! What specs would you like to know, the software I use? As for the brushes nothing super special, just ones I've picked up over the years, I think mostly they are packs from Shaddy, Jamie Jones, Darek Zabrocki and Raphael Lacoste, I just try them out and pick out the ones I like. Other that the hard and soft round Iike to use a few with a bit of texture to get some interesting brush strokes.

Thanks for the suggestion!! I wish I still had the original video of this but I'm pretty sure I lost it. Hopefully if I get some time in the future I might try and do this.

Photopacks are your freind!! I've got a weapons one which most of these are from. I mostly try and take photos myself from museums and things like that so I have the exact ones I want, but places like Photobash.co have some great stuff, so does the artstation store.

Sorry I must have missed this. I can't actually remember what that brush is, it doesn't seem to be in my set anymore. Did you have any luck?

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You are so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!!

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Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

Thank you very much, I really appreciate that!!

No idea!! If I was good enough with metal i'd give it a go, but best I could do for now would be cardboard, not sure I could sell that for much 🤣

Lol still was a rad design. If I had the money to buy art. My art of choice would be something like this. Engraved beautiful decked out weapons. One gun art piece that was I believe set at a million dollars Dana white owns. It's a golden Ak with cocaine, money, blood, dirt or land and religious symbolic symbols. Which give the viewer a grasp of what humans mainly kill for. Shit like that is dope. I swear gun art is not as big as I think it should be. People with money, rappers, actors. I'd feel like would favor a gun art collection.

Lol still was a rad design. If I had the money to buy art. My art of choice would be something like this. Engraved beautiful decked out weapons. One gun art piece that was I believe set at a million dollars Dana white owns. It's a golden Ak with cocaine, money, blood, dirt or land and religious symbolic symbols. Which give the viewer a grasp of what humans mainly kill for. Shit like that is dope. I swear gun art is not as big as I think it should be. People with money, rappers, actors. I'd feel like would favor a gun art collection.

I'm currently only teaching at a uni in the UK, I dont have a course myself just yet. Maybe one day though

@@edwardbarons522 Opps...That's really a pity... Hope one day you can make an online one.

If I remember correctly they came from photobash.co they have loads of photo packs but you can always find some on gumroad and artstation too.

Yeh he just chats nonsense at you while you try and work. He never shuts up. It's awful!!

@@edwardbarons522 Bwahaha..

LMFAO

Thank you!!

Thanks!!

Its a personal choice really. I've painted over a lot of the base I laid down as its a personal piece but if I was asked to do something that looked more photoreal I'd have leaned more into the technique. Truth is that most of the time that if you can produce work in the correct style and to the right level, 9 times out of 10 a studio won't really mind how you get there. Best thing is to do whatever works for you :)

@@edwardbarons522 thanks!!!!

I'm usually looking for something that I find interesting in them, could be lighting or values or colours. Something that is going to add too my piece really, which is why I'll add photos in and move them around before going with them, I'm trying to see how the image comes together with and without them.

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Thank you, glad you enjoyed the music too, makes it worth the time to make :D

Thank you. I'm glad you like it.

Thank you!!