Awesome sketch, but I don't remember seeing you sitting on my trailer with your pad:DQuote:
Originally Posted by olbod
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Awesome sketch, but I don't remember seeing you sitting on my trailer with your pad:DQuote:
Originally Posted by olbod
The likeness is uncanny
Are these just traced or shaded over a photo?
I,m no art expert but I suspect a photo editing app might be involved:)Quote:
Originally Posted by stealth
More like seventy years experience.
Its quite simple, all you need to do is arrange the tools, pencil, pen, charcoal, paint, pixel into the right order until you are satisfied.
The methods are universal and used daily by art departments world wide,
you have been looking at this sort of work for years in books, advertisements and on telly.
I use a grid system, I enlarge a photo and then transfer what I see onto
a sketch pad into the grid using the appropriate medium.
Artists use this grid system all the time on canvas, working with live sittings or photo,s to get the picture correct and this artwork appears
lifelike.
Working in the digital area enhances the result because it is black and white with no obvious brush strokes.
These digital images can be coloured, it is called linewash watercolouring.
When I am satisfied I then scan it into the PC, doing this I can rearrange
the pixels, light, dark, size, placement etc until I have the required reproduction. Its just a question of putting stuff in the right place and in the right order.
I don't know if this is the way that the big art departments do it but I have been experimenting with it for about three years now and feel that I am slowly getting there.
Having fun at the same time.
Two examples to illustrate what I was talking about in my last post.
These pics of Sasha are the same but thirty three years seperating them.
Old method and new.
The " sketch " you have signed of my 101 is an edited photo, of that I am certain which is fine , I've done many similar ones myself with apps like paper camera , but please don't mislead people who think you are doing a commissioned drawing for them.
Hmm. Now I understand. That explains the accurate shadowing.
I didn't want to chime in but I have a few years of graphic design under my belt and it looks like a "sketch" filter to me.
However I could be wrong.:cool:
Just to set the record straight, I visited olbod (Robert) last weekend to say hello and have a look at some of his sketches as he lives not far from me. I saw a lot of paintings and sketches in different stages of progress and I can assure everyone that his work is genuinely his own and not "photoshopped" as has been suggested. Some are sketched from an enlarged photo and then scanned into a pc to have things like pixels,light,shade enhanced as he has said, but they are basically still his own hand work. He is a very talented artist and I understand some of his work sells for quite a bit of money and at no stage has he tried to deceive anyone. I know that he has even done sketches for some members here without charge and I am pretty sure they are thrilled with the final result. Unfortunately and understandably he has been offended by some of the comments about his work as in reality all he was trying to do was help a few forum members who requested he draw something special for them and I doubt if we will see him return to this forum. Our loss unfortunately.