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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Is there a draw back from painting in greyscale? (examples included)
Hi,
I thought I'd bring up an interesting issue here.
Recentely, I have been painting in grey-scale and it's been so great, and it's great for getting realistic look and depth to my paintings, however, I really do missing just messing about in colour and painting in colour.
And I've realised when I start to colour my grey-paintings, I'm now so fed up of seeing everything in grey-scale...
It was so refreshing to pick colours in PS and start messing about with colours, and then I realized, have I been missing something?
I went through my greyscale-to-colour pictures and realised, despite the values being correct (sometimes) I was missing that vibrant, full colour look.
So here's something I did - I took a few pictures/paintings that inspired me from some of the best artists on here, turned them in grey-scale and then tried to paint over them, I didn't do it so well but I think it did illustrate my point - am I missing something?
It's hard to see what you're doing with colour, mixing and blending wise, it just even seems that one streak of colour would do the job, so I was wondering if you guys have thought about this, and whether you have seen a difference, and also - what exactly are you doing? Maybe I'm missing something...
Now I'm confused whether to stick to correct-greyscale paintings, or just have fun in colour but it looks messy/uncorrect.
I can't post the comparasion pictures of the paintings I painted over to achieve the same look as the original - but it's something you can try with your favourite paintings, but here's a quick example that I did in a few minutes ..
Original colour:
link
Greyscale into colour:
link
Another greyscale painting where it looks "dull" and lack of mixing/natural colour, painted ontop of greyscale:
link
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thinking of you.

This is an experiment I'm attempting.
Please feel free to give constructive feedback. :)
Appreciate it.
Tools: Photoshop only
Josh.
Seducer001

I not a big fan of speed painting, but this painting took me 4 hours it finish off. It started as a quick sketch, then scanned to Photoshop. I did have fun during the whole time.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Walking the Dog

"Are you going out with the dog again?", asks grandma.
"Yes, mama. Just a short while.", replied San San
"Don't you know what time is it? Its already so late! You are always walking the dog so late..Why?!", said Grandma, raising her voice.
"Well......", San San don't know how to reply.
"Walking the dog? Is this even a dog?"
San San had tried to take Mikey out for a walk in the afternoon, but mikey got this nasty habit of gulping up people along the way. Although it was cute initially, but its getting a little out of hand.
Most recently, Mikey even ate her boyfriends...
"I'll be back soon." San San finally replied.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dragon
Well its been a while since I actually posted something here.
And I still have to scan the few things I did in Lombok...
Anyhow here is a little by product from a other trace I'm working on:
Slightly larger version here.
Heart in the City

Hi guys, my name is joshua and I'm from Singapore. I'm very happy to be apart of this community. Thanks to Knuckles930 for the approval to post stuffs here! Also IDrawGirls.com is an incredibly helpful site.
Hope to learn lots from you guys and if there's anything I can contribute, that will be great!
So here goes my first post.
Its a concept I thought of. In the not so far distant future, humans have depleted every known natural resources we could find. As a result, the need to find a source goes underway.. The answer lies in creating a powerful andriod which has the capabilities to power up an entire city.
"The Lark City is no ordinary city, while other human habitation of like are powered by natural resources. This city is solely powered by an uncanny android girl - Nei. Many have gone to catch a glimps of her, she's lies at the heart..."
Tools: Pilot mech. Pencil, Photoshop
Warm Regards,
Joshua Tay
eMail: pureprojext@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
under*cheese^^

under cheese - definitions -Any random substance that gets trapped in your grundle hair. These substances accumulate over time and create small,yellowish, sticky clumps. Hence the name under cheese.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Post-apocalipse now^^
Hi guys! This is my first post so be gentle^^!
The drawing was made on paper, scaned and
painted in ps with mouse^^...
I just bought digi pen so im quite new in all this
computer drawing...
good day and have fun!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
CAR CONCEPT

after so long i finally got the chance to do some art for myself
:)
this concept car took me roughly 4 hours to render on photoshop
experimentation with the rendering took me a little more than an hour though
but iam pleased at how this turned out
:)
do comment
will add some images of the wip
Hi =)

Hi all. I've been following this blog for a long time now and i became a huge fan of Xia and everyone else who contributed for this community. As so, and always thinking about evolving in art, i wanted to post some of my atempts so i can get other people's opinions and improve myself.
This is my version of Joker, based on Xia's tutorial.. I did it a long time ago too though =)
Peace!
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