Byron's ArtRage Explorations

[byroncallas]

STEPS 6 THROUGH 10: The images are in order below. They are best viewed blown up full screen.

Image 6: On a layer on top of the glitter, with the INK PEN, fill in with a color that will act as a base for the forms (I chose a deep red). Then work the glitter on its layer with the palette knife to shape into forms. The blur setting works wonders here.

Image 7: Create a new top layer and get creative with color and light. Here I’ve used the ink pen, gloop pen and airbrush to develop design, color, shadow and highlights.

Image 8: Continue to work the forms and color refinements, continuing to use the select area (or stencil) as a mask.

Image 9: Continue to refine. Here I changed the background to a near solid bright yellow. I felt it made the forms pop better (and my wife made me do it).

Image 10: Merge the layers and clean up the painting. I used the palette knife blur feature to help with some bad pixels around the edges of some forms, and continue with color, shadow and highlight refinements. But this is about it.

[byroncallas]

Image 11: The Final Painting.
If you followed the steps, you’ll see AR3 makes it easy to construct a painting like this. Construct them any way you like to suite your style and creative sensibilities. This exercise took about four hours. Normally I’d do considerably more refinements, but hope this gets the idea across.

Best viewed blown up full screen and viewed at a distance.

[pai]

Your tutorial and explanation is so great that I can visualize in my head at the same time you provide all these screenshots to show the power of these tools and the unlimited way of combining them and create unexpected result. Thanks so much for these, Byron.

[Juz]

Great instruction of the boolean operators for selection... you'll have to remember to transfer that tutorial over to the tutorial section come launch

[sandyg]

Amazing Byron wonderful work and informative tutorials, I'm really looking forward to 3.
Sandyg.

[Sethren]

I made a PDF document out of the tutorial but i hope that you do not mind me doing so.

http://rapidshare.com/files/31646899...las__.pdf.html

[screenpainter]

wow no wonder we have hubble telescopes and space stations. I had no idea the human mind could work that well. You have an amazing mind my friend.
And a huge inventory of energy.

[byroncallas]

Dear Pai, Juz, Sandyg, Sethren, & Albert, thank you each for the enthusiastic, upbeat feedback. The tutorial was a lot of fun to do. It's doubly fun if it turns out to be helpful.

Sethren: yes, thanks so much for making the PDF of the tutorial and pasting a link so people can download it. It came out great.
EDIT: Sethren, people are reporting the link isn't working. So I've uploaded to my 4-share account and it can be downloaded at
http://www.4shared.com/file/16633023...stractart.html
as an alternative for anyone interested. Thanks again for making the PDF. That was very thoughtful of you.

Thanks again everyone. I much appreciate your kind thoughts.

[Silentman]

Hi Byron, excellent tutorial, i went to download this morning and unfortunately the download at Rapidshare is broken for some reason, i'll check back soon though.

Excellent tutorial Byron, gave me many ideas

[byroncallas]

Hi Byron, excellent tutorial, i went to download this morning and unfortunately the download at Rapidshare is broken for some reason, i'll check back soon though. Excellent tutorial Byron, gave me many ideas

Thanks a lot Col. And yes, that link seems to be having problems. I've uploaded it up to my own 4-Share account. Try downloading from the following URL and give a yell if it fails.
http://www.4shared.com/file/16633023...stractart.html

Thanks again Col. Much appreciated.