Comments for The Art of Roberto Campus http://www.robertocampus.com fantasy art, photoshop and wacom tutorials, digital illustration tips Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:20:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Photoshop Tutorial: Wonder Woman Pin Up Digital Painting by Stacie http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1940 Stacie Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:37:05 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/28/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1940 Your Wonder Woman tutorial is very informative. But, how do I stack a layer inside of another layer? Your Wonder Woman tutorial is very informative. But, how do I stack a layer inside of another layer?

]]> Comment on Photoshop Tutorial: Wonder Woman Pin Up Digital Painting by admin http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1906 admin Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:47:04 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/28/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1906 OFD: Thank you for you comment and for taking the time to try out the method explained in the tutorial. Photoshop is a great tool, and there are almost infinite ways to get the job done. The tutorial presents a technique that I borrowed from my work in the comic book industry. It's an approach I evolved from coloring comic book pages professionally, taking the base method and adding more complexity to it. Over time, I figured ways to use flats and layers to get a "painted" look. It is my favorite way at the moment to color using photoshop. Colorists regularly use "flats" as in this tutorials to color the line art. Normally, a colorist using the manga/anime style would only apply a base color and then shadows (usually of 1 or maybe 2 intensities, plus a layer of highlights). Coloring comic book pages comes with crazy deadlines, sometimes requiring a colorist to get 20 pages done in less than a week. Using flats and multiply layers gets the job done much easier (10 times faster), than having to paint and pick colors. Colors and shadows have to be consistent through each scene, and having everything on their own layers offers great flexibility and a degree of control otherwise not achievable. Having everything on layers is also (but not always) a requirement on how the art needs to be delivered, so the art directors can make changes easily. OFD: Thank you for you comment and for taking the time to try out the method explained in the tutorial. Photoshop is a great tool, and there are almost infinite ways to get the job done. The tutorial presents a technique that I borrowed from my work in the comic book industry. It’s an approach I evolved from coloring comic book pages professionally, taking the base method and adding more complexity to it. Over time, I figured ways to use flats and layers to get a “painted” look. It is my favorite way at the moment to color using photoshop. Colorists regularly use “flats” as in this tutorials to color the line art. Normally, a colorist using the manga/anime style would only apply a base color and then shadows (usually of 1 or maybe 2 intensities, plus a layer of highlights). Coloring comic book pages comes with crazy deadlines, sometimes requiring a colorist to get 20 pages done in less than a week. Using flats and multiply layers gets the job done much easier (10 times faster), than having to paint and pick colors. Colors and shadows have to be consistent through each scene, and having everything on their own layers offers great flexibility and a degree of control otherwise not achievable. Having everything on layers is also (but not always) a requirement on how the art needs to be delivered, so the art directors can make changes easily.

]]> Comment on Photoshop Tutorial: Wonder Woman Pin Up Digital Painting by OFD http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1900 OFD Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:50:04 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/28/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1900 Well, I need to apologize. After thinking about my post I felt a little bad and thought I came off too harsh. I never meant to sound like that tis method was awful or "wrong" (there is no wrong way to do art of course) but I was wrong in my approach to my comments. I have been doing this tutorial for the last hour now and realize that it's actually pretty clever AND a good way to do it. I know, I sound like an idiot...a crazy person and no I am not drunk : ) just was frustrated at first and had a knee jerk reaction. I do still think its a good idea to learn how to achieve this same look by more traditional methods but there isn't anything wrong with this way either so I am sorry for spouting off too soon! Keep up the good work! Well, I need to apologize. After thinking about my post I felt a little bad and thought I came off too harsh. I never meant to sound like that tis method was awful or “wrong” (there is no wrong way to do art of course) but I was wrong in my approach to my comments. I have been doing this tutorial for the last hour now and realize that it’s actually pretty clever AND a good way to do it. I know, I sound like an idiot…a crazy person and no I am not drunk : ) just was frustrated at first and had a knee jerk reaction. I do still think its a good idea to learn how to achieve this same look by more traditional methods but there isn’t anything wrong with this way either so I am sorry for spouting off too soon! Keep up the good work!

]]> Comment on Photoshop Tutorial: Wonder Woman Pin Up Digital Painting by OFD http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1899 OFD Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:02:46 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/28/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1899 Okay, after messing around some more with this technique I have finally figured it out and now, even more than before, just don't understand why anyone would approach it this way. I would advise anyone who is just starting out to avoid this method simply because I believe it would be better to actually paint using color rather than "tricks" with layers. That's cool to do this method AFTER you've mastered painting in a more traditional manor but I have seen tons of fantastic Photoshop paintings where the artist used only one or two layers and actually painted it rather than use a bunch of clipping mask layers and other tricks. The end result is fine (don't care for the black outline-takes away from the realism IMO) but I think a PS artist should use a brush and colors. Hope this didn't come out rude because it is great and the artist is obviously very talented but I think this method takes away from learning about color and how to go about picking them. Okay, after messing around some more with this technique I have finally figured it out and now, even more than before, just don’t understand why anyone would approach it this way. I would advise anyone who is just starting out to avoid this method simply because I believe it would be better to actually paint using color rather than “tricks” with layers. That’s cool to do this method AFTER you’ve mastered painting in a more traditional manor but I have seen tons of fantastic Photoshop paintings where the artist used only one or two layers and actually painted it rather than use a bunch of clipping mask layers and other tricks. The end result is fine (don’t care for the black outline-takes away from the realism IMO) but I think a PS artist should use a brush and colors. Hope this didn’t come out rude because it is great and the artist is obviously very talented but I think this method takes away from learning about color and how to go about picking them.

]]> Comment on Photoshop Tutorial: Wonder Woman Pin Up Digital Painting by NIEL http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1873 NIEL Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:36:49 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/28/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/#comment-1873 DARN YOU'RE GREAT! DARN YOU’RE GREAT!

]]> Comment on Photoshop Tutorial: Bioshock Videogame Digital Painting by marcos t http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/09/photoshop-tutorial-bioshock-videogame-digital-painting/#comment-1872 marcos t Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:54:02 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/09/09/photoshop-tutorial-bioshock-videogame-digital-painting/#comment-1872 wow roberto your art is awesome,thank you for sharing your techniques with us,i am a drafter and i really enjoy your tutorials. wow roberto your art is awesome,thank you for sharing your techniques with us,i am a drafter and i really enjoy your tutorials.

]]> Comment on Photoshop & Painter Tutorial : Mad Scientist by Theresa http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/05/photoshop-painter-tutorial-mad-scientist/#comment-1868 Theresa Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:02:39 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/05/11/photoshop-painter-tutorial-mad-scientist/#comment-1868 Very Cool! Very Cool!

]]> Comment on Tutorial : Painting a digital portrait by Theodore http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/05/tutorial-painting-a-digital-portrait/#comment-1847 Theodore Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:25:42 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/05/09/tutorial-painting-a-digital-portrait/#comment-1847 I love your work and have been using your tutorials as an aid and inspiration to help me develop my skill in painter 11. I have tried to look for tutorials with step by step instruction eg. video tutorial, but with no luck. could you post a tutorial on how you achieve each step eg. brush type and size, type of paper used, colors used, what functions in painter were used to archive this result. Thank you. I love your work and have been using your tutorials as an aid and inspiration to help me develop my skill in painter 11.

I have tried to look for tutorials with step by step instruction eg. video tutorial, but with no luck.

could you post a tutorial on how you achieve each step eg. brush type and size, type of paper used, colors used, what functions in painter were used to archive this result.

Thank you.

]]> Comment on Photoshop & Painter Tutorial : Mad Scientist by Monica Stewart http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/05/photoshop-painter-tutorial-mad-scientist/#comment-1828 Monica Stewart Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:07:03 +0000 http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/05/11/photoshop-painter-tutorial-mad-scientist/#comment-1828 Dear Roberto, Hello! My name is Monica Stewart from Casper, Wyoming. I tried to send you an e-mail, but wasn't sure if you had received it. My Husband & I recently entered a t-shirt logo contest. We will not receive any royalties from this contest if chosen, just something fun that we did. We had used your Mad Scientist piece of artwork with some of our own photo shopping, along with some other logos that we created. Much to our happiness, our logos were chosen for semi-finalists in the contest! We were asked to submit a release form and wanted to know if it was possible to get your permission to use it. We really enjoyed your artwork! You are a very talented artist! I appreciate your time for consideration. Thank you, Sincerely, Monica Stewart Dear Roberto,
Hello! My name is Monica Stewart from Casper, Wyoming. I tried to send you an e-mail, but wasn’t sure if you had received it. My Husband & I recently entered a t-shirt logo contest. We will not receive any royalties from this contest if chosen, just something fun that we did. We had used your Mad Scientist piece of artwork with some of our own photo shopping, along with some other logos that we created. Much to our happiness, our logos were chosen for semi-finalists in the contest! We were asked to submit a release form and wanted to know if it was possible to get your permission to use it. We really enjoyed your artwork! You are a very talented artist! I appreciate your time for consideration.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Monica Stewart

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