Great to see, and to see the results you get in Procreate. Just starting to fool w digital drawing in Krita n Procreate- it’s a whole new way of thinking! Be fun to see more about the drawing of boats in these posts- I suspect there are a surprising number of us whose papers are covered with doodles of boats of all forms... perhaps a thread of photos of drawings lying around, much like the photos of book piles?
(All the best illustrators trace; especially their own photo reference and comps. Saves time. Time is money. But all the best illustrators, like you, know how to draw already. ; )
I haven't given up my pencils or carving tools yet, but I use Procreate on my iPad as well and use Photoshop/Affinity Photo to organize my reduction and multiple color woodcuts and linocuts of boats in layers.
Great video! I love looking at other artists' process. Thank you very much!
If I need a lot of resolution (print magazine articles...), I'll use a Wacom tablet with Photoshop, sometimes with some CAD thrown in. It's expedient but unromantic.
Same here! Still using my old Intuos Pro stylus for the important stuff, though I've switched to the Affinity suite.
Regarding using digital tech in maritime art, I saw a fascinating talk & demo by a couple of friends of mine — Nick Fox and Len Tantillo — at the September National Conference of the American Society of Marine Artist (ASMA) in Albany. They are traditional oil painters working from fully-realized pencil concepts, but they both use open-source Blender 3D for visualization. They'll build 3D models of modern and historic craft; work out the sea conditions around the hull; set the sail deformation for the wind conditions and use the final rendered 3D concept (not even hi-rez) to plan some pretty exciting (and accurate) paintings of sailing craft from unusual low and high POVs.
Decidedly NOT AI; still doing the actual *work* of conceptualizing and drawing/painting/rendering and taking full ownership. We all had "The Discussion" there in September: those of us who use digital tools with our traditional ones believe in using digital tools AS tools. Expedient, but hoping for something romantic in the analog end result. ; )
Very interesting. The drawing of the boat you referred to as an IC 110 looks more like an offspring of a Dovekie and Paradox with an Autumn Leafs as a cousin. As always, nice work John.
Great to see, and to see the results you get in Procreate. Just starting to fool w digital drawing in Krita n Procreate- it’s a whole new way of thinking! Be fun to see more about the drawing of boats in these posts- I suspect there are a surprising number of us whose papers are covered with doodles of boats of all forms... perhaps a thread of photos of drawings lying around, much like the photos of book piles?
Fantastic. Thanks for the video! Anybody doing something similar on a Chromebook?
(All the best illustrators trace; especially their own photo reference and comps. Saves time. Time is money. But all the best illustrators, like you, know how to draw already. ; )
I haven't given up my pencils or carving tools yet, but I use Procreate on my iPad as well and use Photoshop/Affinity Photo to organize my reduction and multiple color woodcuts and linocuts of boats in layers.
Great video! I love looking at other artists' process. Thank you very much!
If I need a lot of resolution (print magazine articles...), I'll use a Wacom tablet with Photoshop, sometimes with some CAD thrown in. It's expedient but unromantic.
Thanks, John. That's just what I was wondering about...
Same here! Still using my old Intuos Pro stylus for the important stuff, though I've switched to the Affinity suite.
Regarding using digital tech in maritime art, I saw a fascinating talk & demo by a couple of friends of mine — Nick Fox and Len Tantillo — at the September National Conference of the American Society of Marine Artist (ASMA) in Albany. They are traditional oil painters working from fully-realized pencil concepts, but they both use open-source Blender 3D for visualization. They'll build 3D models of modern and historic craft; work out the sea conditions around the hull; set the sail deformation for the wind conditions and use the final rendered 3D concept (not even hi-rez) to plan some pretty exciting (and accurate) paintings of sailing craft from unusual low and high POVs.
Decidedly NOT AI; still doing the actual *work* of conceptualizing and drawing/painting/rendering and taking full ownership. We all had "The Discussion" there in September: those of us who use digital tools with our traditional ones believe in using digital tools AS tools. Expedient, but hoping for something romantic in the analog end result. ; )
Very interesting. The drawing of the boat you referred to as an IC 110 looks more like an offspring of a Dovekie and Paradox with an Autumn Leafs as a cousin. As always, nice work John.