Kudos for being able to sit that long and work that detailed. my drifting mind rushes everything I do, i'm constantly trying to get myself to be more detailed in my work. its so hard. well done.
Patience is a skill I have had to develop over a very long time. For my first 5 or 7 years of creating art, I almost never finished any art. It was all half finished because I had no patience to see it through to the end. Obviously that all changed. Mostly because when you're creating art for companies, you MUST get it done :-) Now I have the patience to sit all day to work on art. Thank you.
I want to thank you once more :) with the videos you provide for us. My art has improved since taking college art classes but they do not teach techniques sadly. So, when i paint sometimes beginning students ask me to help them. They don't know the wonderful lessons i learned from your TH-cam videos.I always tell them where i got the techniques which is from you. Also, I show my painting pals your videos and they fall in love with your art.
Truly a wonderful artwork Jeff.... It reminds me very much a painting of the painter Italian of 1,600 Giuseppe Arcimboldo: He used to combine several elements, like in your case Pisces, to compose an anthropomorphic human figure 😀 😀 😀 😀 You are really a genius Jeff!!!!! Your big fan Italian 👍🏼👍🏼❤️❤️
They take a lot of time to put together. It's why I have to start trying to sell the longer videos in DVD or Digital Download format. I really want to do longer, more advanced painting videos, but they take time and money to produce.
Fabulous ! This is Soooo Beautiful ! All this details !!! Thank you for the video ! :D Looking at your face it seems so easy .............. Hope the campaign will end well ! Zonzon
you need to do a inking dvd next. This is amazing work :) Im really not fond of Oil painting- Im more of an acrylic guy. But that won't stop me from spreading the word about your great work. I have said it before but I loved your acrylic painting dvd set. I look forward to more great videos in the future.
Thank you very much. I'd love to do a very detailed inking DVD, too. But honestly, if this Oil Painting DVD isn't successful, that's not likely to happen. Although, I may combine an inking DVD/Digital Download with an art book of my ink drawings. That's definitely a possibility.
If I mess up, I use white paint to cover it. But thankfully that hasn't happened in a long time. As long as you plan it out well, you can minimize mistakes.
Great vid as always. Dumb question: it doesn't look like you mapped out much if any of the lighting in your pencils. Do you thumbnail your light/shadows or do you just dive in with a general idea of your light source?
Devon Marcel normally I would do a little more detailed drawing that had the light source worked out. However, for this one I just made it up as I went along. I find it exciting to once in a while do an ink drawing with very little pencil guide. It makes it scary at the prospect of messing up, but also exciting :-)
One Question I've always had, How do you create a fantasy composition from memory, Say for example : She rode on the sea surpents back through the jungle to the castle. I can copy but apart from small changes I could not create my own. Any tips?
Drawing from memory is pretty tough. It takes a keen sense of observation and memory skills, not to mention a lot of drawing of different things over the years which helps commit those images to memory. The easier way to go about this is to find lots of inspirational reference images to look at while you draw. So in your example, You should find images of castles, jungles, snakes, reptiles, fish, and maybe even some fantastical sea monster images others may have done. Sit down with that stuff, look it over for a while and start to formulate a scene in your head. Start to image what the sea serpent could look like based on all the reference you gathered. Then get to work sketching out the creature and various compositions which include the castle and jungle. It all starts with gathering reference imagery :-)
Hi Munir :-) I am most active on Facebook, with Instagram being second. My public Facebook page is: facebook.com/JeffMiracolaArt my instagram is: instagram.com/artofjeffmiracola I have my website as well, but it is drastically in need up an update. I just don't have time to put all my work up there :-( www.jeffmiracola.com
good luck on the last stretch on the kick starter..and please mess ur studio up some, ur making mine look very bad with it being messy! how do u keep your desk and studio so freaking clean lol
LOL. I can not work in a messy studio. When it's a mess, I have to get up and clean it or I just can't concentrate on my work. Seriously, I think I have a problem. HAHA
Not really. The problem is that I don't already belong to a lot of these groups and don't want to jump in just to spam them with my project. It feels so self-serving to me. I already have a hard enough time constantly bombarding my TH-cam, Facebook, and Twitter followers with this stuff. If you know of groups and you are a member, feel free to post a link to my Kickstarter for sure. That would be very helpful. www.kickstarter.com/projects/threepointspub/jeff-miracolas-fantasy-art-oil-painting-techniques
jeffmiracola i submitted it to a group called "artists trying to make a living creating art." the admin will have to approve it. but hopefully it helps out some!
for anyone that is interested- in Jeff's acrylic painting dvd set- Head over to Amazon. There are nearly 40 reviews on the site for this product and every one of them is a 5 star :) Including my own review- you can find it under Calibur. Needless to say if you are in to oil painting I don't think you will regret Supporting Jeff on his Oil painting project
That's my plan, bro. Get people to start watching, then have them fall asleep half way through so they then have funky Jeff Miracola dreams. LOL I agree, it is chill. But that's how I was feeling while working on it.
I was mesmerized by your hand, brush, and line work. Good move keeping the fish in front black&white.🐠🐠
Once again great work Jeff. You just make me want to go to my desk and draw more.
Yes!! Go do that. Go draw :-)
Kudos for being able to sit that long and work that detailed. my drifting mind rushes everything I do, i'm constantly trying to get myself to be more detailed in my work. its so hard. well done.
Patience is a skill I have had to develop over a very long time. For my first 5 or 7 years of creating art, I almost never finished any art. It was all half finished because I had no patience to see it through to the end. Obviously that all changed. Mostly because when you're creating art for companies, you MUST get it done :-) Now I have the patience to sit all day to work on art. Thank you.
Lovely work Jeff and Silvia, as always
Thanks, Ace :-)
I want to thank you once more :) with the videos you provide for us. My art has improved since taking college art classes but they do not teach techniques sadly. So, when i paint sometimes beginning students ask me to help them. They don't know the wonderful lessons i learned from your TH-cam videos.I always tell them where i got the techniques which is from you. Also,
I show my painting pals your videos and they fall in love with your art.
Just backed! I'm really excited for this one. Merry Christmas to me:)
i hope one day to be so light handed with a brush. just have to keep on practicing. beautiful work.
I seee love an passion on that drawing! n.n that is beautiful
Incredible again. Great work Jeff!
Thank you very much, Steven.
Beautiful work Jeff! Big up!
Thank you very much
Reminds me of the apostles from Berserk. Really well done!
damn jeff that is therapeutic your right. love from across the pond
Thanks, jason :-)
that looks fantastic!!!
Thanks, Manuel
Beautiful work, very inspired!
Thank you
Amazing work like always
Thank you very much.
Truly a wonderful artwork Jeff.... It reminds me very much a painting of the painter Italian of 1,600 Giuseppe Arcimboldo: He used to combine several elements, like in your case Pisces, to compose an anthropomorphic human figure 😀 😀 😀 😀 You are really a genius Jeff!!!!! Your big fan Italian 👍🏼👍🏼❤️❤️
Thank you so much!! Yeah, I see what you are talking about with Giuseppe Arcimboldo. I have always liked his stuff. Very strange, but fascinating.
Amazing piece, its been a while since i saw you make a vídeo about such a good painting.
They take a lot of time to put together. It's why I have to start trying to sell the longer videos in DVD or Digital Download format. I really want to do longer, more advanced painting videos, but they take time and money to produce.
Fabulous ! This is Soooo Beautiful ! All this details !!!
Thank you for the video ! :D Looking at your face it seems so easy ..............
Hope the campaign will end well !
Zonzon
Thanks, ZonZon. And thanks for supporting the campaign. I'm sure it will do just fine. I just get so nervous toward the end :-0
Boa noite Jeff Miracola. Excelente trabalho. Poderia fazer um vídeo sobre suas técnicas de hachuras assim que possível ? Grato!
Well......I'm SUPER late to this video, but as always Jeff, great work!
Thank much, Stephono. Better late than never :-)
you need to do a inking dvd next. This is amazing work :) Im really not fond of Oil painting- Im more of an acrylic guy. But that won't stop me from spreading the word about your great work. I have said it before but I loved your acrylic painting dvd set. I look forward to more great videos in the future.
Thank you very much. I'd love to do a very detailed inking DVD, too. But honestly, if this Oil Painting DVD isn't successful, that's not likely to happen. Although, I may combine an inking DVD/Digital Download with an art book of my ink drawings. That's definitely a possibility.
Your line work is amazing! What to you do if you fudge a line? Whiteout? Or restart
If I mess up, I use white paint to cover it. But thankfully that hasn't happened in a long time. As long as you plan it out well, you can minimize mistakes.
Nice work as always. Do you have to seal the inks before painting with acrylics?
Can you go over using the acrylic on ink?
Pretty magical. I have to subscribe on this video alone. What size is the brush?
Thanks for subscribing :-) It's a size 3/0 Loew-Cornell brand brush.
Great vid as always. Dumb question: it doesn't look like you mapped out much if any of the lighting in your pencils. Do you thumbnail your light/shadows or do you just dive in with a general idea of your light source?
Devon Marcel normally I would do a little more detailed drawing that had the light source worked out. However, for this one I just made it up as I went along. I find it exciting to once in a while do an ink drawing with very little pencil guide. It makes it scary at the prospect of messing up, but also exciting :-)
One Question I've always had, How do you create a fantasy composition from memory,
Say for example : She rode on the sea surpents back through the jungle to the castle.
I can copy but apart from small changes I could not create my own. Any tips?
Drawing from memory is pretty tough. It takes a keen sense of observation and memory skills, not to mention a lot of drawing of different things over the years which helps commit those images to memory.
The easier way to go about this is to find lots of inspirational reference images to look at while you draw. So in your example, You should find images of castles, jungles, snakes, reptiles, fish, and maybe even some fantastical sea monster images others may have done. Sit down with that stuff, look it over for a while and start to formulate a scene in your head. Start to image what the sea serpent could look like based on all the reference you gathered. Then get to work sketching out the creature and various compositions which include the castle and jungle.
It all starts with gathering reference imagery :-)
hey jeff. love your work as always, but what social media platform are you most active on? id like to see more of your work :)
Hi Munir :-) I am most active on Facebook, with Instagram being second. My public Facebook page is: facebook.com/JeffMiracolaArt
my instagram is: instagram.com/artofjeffmiracola
I have my website as well, but it is drastically in need up an update. I just don't have time to put all my work up there :-( www.jeffmiracola.com
good luck on the last stretch on the kick starter..and please mess ur studio up some, ur making mine look very bad with it being messy! how do u keep your desk and studio so freaking clean lol
LOL. I can not work in a messy studio. When it's a mess, I have to get up and clean it or I just can't concentrate on my work. Seriously, I think I have a problem. HAHA
hey jeff! have you posted the kickstarter link or youtube video in any art facebook groups? there are probably lots of painters who would pre-order it
Not really. The problem is that I don't already belong to a lot of these groups and don't want to jump in just to spam them with my project. It feels so self-serving to me. I already have a hard enough time constantly bombarding my TH-cam, Facebook, and Twitter followers with this stuff. If you know of groups and you are a member, feel free to post a link to my Kickstarter for sure. That would be very helpful.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/threepointspub/jeff-miracolas-fantasy-art-oil-painting-techniques
jeffmiracola
i submitted it to a group called "artists trying to make a living creating art." the admin will have to approve it. but hopefully it helps out some!
I also dropped word of your oil dvd at wet canvas and hopefully will get some replies on more great acrylic painting books too :)
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for anyone that is interested- in Jeff's acrylic painting dvd set- Head over to Amazon. There are nearly 40 reviews on the site for this product and every one of them is a 5 star :) Including my own review- you can find it under Calibur. Needless to say if you are in to oil painting I don't think you will regret Supporting Jeff on his Oil painting project
Oh and is your wife, ever blown away by your artwork?
Hello
You should trim those nails, they starting to look beastly.
NEVER!! I'm gonna let them grow longer and longer, getting all curly so I can hardly paint. LOL. Ok seriously, yes, I do trim them once in a while :-)
cool video and illustration but the music bro put me to sleep ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....................
That's my plan, bro. Get people to start watching, then have them fall asleep half way through so they then have funky Jeff Miracola dreams. LOL I agree, it is chill. But that's how I was feeling while working on it.