
CG Workshop – Becoming a better artist with Robert Chang

www.goodbrush.com/ Sketches – practice hundred of rough, unfinished sketches to experiment – learn new processes – fail early and often on your own experiment time, so you can become more efficient and fail less on paid work – pay attention to coherence. how elements are related, structure, materials, engineering aspect of a scene. Adds credibility Digital vs traditional medium –…
From November 9th to 23rd 2009, the GNOMON School of Visual Effects will be holding two weeks of online classes, featuring artists such as Craig Mullins, Feng Zhu or Ian McCaig.
For more details and to register – GNOMON Master Classes
The last three weeks have been a lot busier than I would have liked, especially this week. I will not have a chance to get near my tablet before at least sunday, so here are the first and last pictures of the workshop. The differences before and after are not as dramatic as most people, but that’s because I already…
Week 6 – I gave up on having any of the three images in a ‘finished’ state this week. As for many others (Don included apparently), this week did not turn out to be what I expected. Week 7 My target for the last two week’s Masterpiece. I was looking for something involving both male and female figures at the…
Thanks a lot for the nice comments Don ! This is the first time I don’t hear anything about edges, so I must be doing something right I made some adjustments based on your feedback. Touched up the left hand – it did not have the same level of details as the right one. That patch on her back came…
Follow up to week 03 with Don’s feedback. I tried to soften the rough strokes a little and work on her eyes and some of the edges. I will spend some time on tidying up the male portrait tonight before moving on to the figure. [male + female final] One thing I have to keep reminding myself is to know…
Here is about an hour of work touching up both pieces based on the comments. I worked on edges and lips for the female face. The less than finished state of the male painting was the result of my procrastination over the weekend. I tightened up his eyes and nose and worked on his neck a little more. I also…
First two hours of work on the female black and white painting. At this point, I focused more on the face and on laying out the structure for the rest of the painting. I will try to finish the black and white layer tomorrow and get going on the color on wednesday. [Female 01-02] Update of the first week color…