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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I guess yeah.. i always have an exact picture of what i want in my head before i ever start painting.. Whenever i get a good idea of what to paint in my head, i see it in color, in motion.. i can walk in there.. i see it all in 3D.. and with sound. When you virtually experience the surroundings and the whole feel of the environment you are going to paint - you get a good idea of where all the objects are and their colors.
Occasionally i try to paint with no idea in mind.. but usually those end up in trashcan fairly quickly.
I cant place stuff "randomly" on the painting. - that will kill the composition. You need to understand the basics of composition before you can start to paint something. I didnt take any art courses when i started to paint.. it all just seemed like self-explanatory to me. and i got better bit by bit as i looked at paintings of professionals.
I want to break away from that, and fanart... but I don't know where to start :S Do you have any tips? I've found watching speedpainting videos help quite a bit, but with those, you never know "why" they do stuff, just that they "do".
Aww, it's so frustrating having this epic city in my mind and not being able to get it out XD
I dont have any other advice but to grab some basic photoshop brushes and start painting stuff that you see.. going to life-drawing courses might help. you need to learn to gasp the sence of objects.. their colors.. values... shapes. NOT lines..
The thing here is.. what kind of style you want to achieve. I want my stuff to look like traditional painting, Oils maybe.. so i sorta simulate the style in photoshop too. I paint colors and shapes and then start defining them more accurately and put shadow values on them..
If you are not familiar with traditional painting, it could be somewhat difficult to start painting in this style.
I'm stunned.