One of the tricky things to painting digitally is trying to create that “illusion of depth”; not “visual depth”, but that physical depth you get with physical media—how paint layered upon paint has a physicality to it, a “texture” or “height” vs. digital painting where, no matter how many layers upon layers of pixels you have, it will always appear flat. Many people may not know what the difference is between a digital painting and a traditional one, but they can “see” or sense the difference. Well, this technique demonstrates how you can achieve an “illusion of depth”, making it more akin to physical media.
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Recently a friend of mine asked me about a special technique that can be used in Photoshop to paint fur. The technique was originally shown to us by an artist at Dreamworks, Richard Daskas. Mr. Daskas used this technique to paint the fur for a concept painting of “Monkey” from Dreamwork’s Kung Fu Panda, to [...]

What do you do when you want the homepage link to be a link to the posts page, and not a static page? For anyone that has used Wordpress before, you know that this is nearly impossible to pull off. Well, Wordpress 2.7 has offered a rather clever solution . . .

I have recently discovered the power of WordPress, and I am loving it! Its capacity as a CMS (content management system) is very robust—much more versatile than I had ever imagined. It is almost limitless what you can do with it. But there was one catch that I ran across in my endeavors to bend [...]

The “Background Eraser” trick for line-drawings in Photoshop Some months ago, I learned a nifty little trick in Photoshop which allows you to take a scanned drawing and remove all of the background while keeping the drawing. This method is done without any use of the magic wand tool, the background erase tool, or any [...]

Recently, I ran into a problem with a current project of mine. While developing a dynamic news website for my University, I ran into some trouble validating the site. The problem was this: I had created a blueprint story layout. Each time a story was generated from the database, the same layout would be used [...]