[x]

Browse More Like This

Download Image
JPG, 600×1513 more ▶

More from *Ranarh

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

#Digital-Art-Club
Digital Art Community

#TutorialsClub
Sharing is caring

#Realm-of-Fantasy
Fantasy & Sci-fi Art Gallery

#digital-artists
Premier Digital Artwork

#DailyDoodlers

Details

Submitted: October 14, 2010
Image Size: 176 KB
Resolution: 600×1513

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 12
Favourites: 198 [who?]
Views: 8,632 (0 today)
Downloads: 232 (0 today)

License

Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

[x]

Tiny tips: Die, white, dieby *Ranarh

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Digital Art / Drawing & Painting / Corel Painter

I admit I don't see the character portraits on white or a preset photoshop gradient as a background as often anymore. But they're not extinct yet. Which they should be. Creating an interesting background with not much work for your bust portrait, first colour wash for a bigger picture, or what-have-you isn't hard at all.
I cannot emphasize this enough, so I'll say it again: Simply using an effect filter *is not enough*. Always work over what your computer did for you if you want to avoid that dreadful artificial look.

"Ranarh's tiny tips" is a collection of iddy-biddy tutorials, each containing small bites of advice anyone can chew, aimed at beginner's level artists. They are not software-dependent. If there's a problem you have, something you feel someone should finally explain, or are just curious what I have to say on a particular artistic issue, feel free to tell me.

You'll find the whole Tiny Tips Collection, plus some full-grown walkthroughs in my tutorial section. Check out my blog and website for exclusive tutorials, walkthroughs, and tips.