More PSD Painting!
As part of the PSD Painting basic training I’ve been doing, I set out to recreate a picture of my own choosing in order to keep improving my skills using the Wacom tablet-and-PSD workflow. Here are some progress shots of this:
Here are some thoughts on this activity based on feedback from Valerie:
- What did you find challenging?
- At first, the most challenging things on this training were
- getting used to the hand-eye coordination of drawing with the Wacom tablet (as I had already mentioned)
- finding the right brush for what I wanted the image to look like
- making the initial sketched outlines of the pot
- messing around with the color combination, especially when combining highlights and shadows
- At first, the most challenging things on this training were
- What did you enjoy?
- I really enjoyed seeing the process as a whole step by step. It felt super rewarding looking at the different layers in the PSD file and track how I started off and how it ended up looking. This was the case both for the teapot and the oranges. Something I also enjoyed was looking up my own picture to recreate.
- What would you do to improve this training?
- On improvements for this training, I think I would only suggest going into more detail on different brushes or maybe even listing some websites where you can download custom brushes as I did. (Maybe also on how to install them into PSD!).
- Is there anything you want to learn more about after this training?
- I think the only thing I wanted to learn more about was how to better go back and forth between layers and how to know if what you’re drawing is looking good (but that’s simply based on feedback I guess).
- What skills did you gain from this training and what applications might you use this for someday (within and/or beyond LAITS and the STA program)?
- I definitely learned a couple of skills that I can list here:
- color theory, mixing and matching to create new colors using brushes like the Wet Blender
- gaining a better sense of proportions when sketching
- getting used to the tablet-PSD workflow
- a better understanding of light and shadows on objects
- I definitely learned a couple of skills that I can list here:
COLA Photo ID Editing
Additionally, I worked on retouching and editing two Photo ID’s for UT faculty which have been uploaded to the COLA website:
