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I’m getting there — think I should be caught up with everything by tomorrow night. Hopefully, we’ll stay on track once I get caught up with all the typing, thinking, typing, thinking….

In this lesson, the tiger is getting more color and his green eyes. Have fun experimenting!

http://www.shibuistudio.com/DigitalPaintingforBeginners.pdf

FYI — every time I finish a day’s lesson, I upload the file to Adobe’s online service and they convert it into a pdf. I hope it doesn’t confuse you that the file name never changes. The file changes and that is why you need to download it every time I post on this blog. Make sense? I hope so.

In today’s lesson, you’ll actually begin painting. I’m getting more into the flow of writing and preparing the files now since the lessons have evolved into the painting aspect. However, now I have a new frustration with Adobe — they’re taking forever to convert my files over to pdf. I use their create pdf online service which I love — it’s just that lately they’re taking longer. Must be that the method of creating pdf’s has grown in popularity. Or, that their server is slower due to heavy traffic.

I’ll keep uploading as I get the documents back. Though, I think it’s best that I ‘not’ commit to the time ;-) 

Here’s the link again to new stuff (cleaned up some of the formatting as well of the first few days that got thrown off in conversion). http://www.shibuistudio.com/DigitalPaintingforBeginners.pdf.  You’ll also need to download the following image file that is a drawing of a tiger’s face–this is what you will be painting the next few sessions.

http://www.shibuistudio.com/tigerdrawing.html. Once you download the file, right click to save to your computer.

More to come…

Aghhh, I’m frustrated! It’s all in my brain and pulling it out to type and prepare is taking longer than I want. Yes, yes — patience, patience. I just keep diligently working at it and hope the ‘flow’ of putting it all on paper arrives soon. What else can I do?

I apologize that I’m off on the days I committed to having it all to you. Even if you’ve downloaded the program, I promise you’ll have more than enough time to work through all the days during your free trial.

Here’s the link of Day Three added (didn’t realize the formatting is a little off when transferring to Adobe pdf — I’ll have to check into that). http://www.shibuistudio.com/DigitalPaintingforBeginners.pdf and password ‘intro’.

So you can get going on the next lessons, I’m uploading a revised Day One and Day Two (cleaned up all the icons and included more activities starting in Day Two). This evening, I will upload more lessons and have all of the first week’s lesson available by the weekend. I think you’ll be pleased with how the document reads, especially once you get into Day Three when you’ll see the toolbar on the right side of the lesson pages I’m including that highlights the tool being used in each painting exercise.

http://www.shibuistudio.com/DigitalPaintingforBeginners.pdf (don’t forget, the password to open is ‘intro’)

You see, I’m a bit of a perfectionist! That’s why I had to pause the process a couple of days so I could work out the BEST way possible for you to learn with greater ease. I want you to have a fun experience. Yet, I want you to have an outstanding learning experience as well.

These instructions were provided by Shewolfy. 

“On the Write page, go down underneath the area for writing, and you find the photo upload area.

Beside the file  area is  a Browse button. (Do not use the one in the blue bar at this point).  Click and go to the documents on your computer where you store your photos. (They should be saved for the web at 72 dpi and no more than 400 pixels wide)

Then upload the image by using the upload button underneath it, not the one in the blue bar.

When you are ready to publish them on the page, make sure that you click on “full size” so I don’t get thumbnails.

Make sure “link to file” is clicked. 

 You get 50MB of storage for free.”

Thanks again, Shewolf! 

There is a quick change of plans. No Day Two today — instead, I will upload a full week of lessons on this coming Saturday, October 27. It will make it easier in the flow for you and for me. I appreciate your patience — it’s taken me much longer than I originally thought it would. Then, it is coming out stronger than I thought by repositioning how I’ll deliver it. I can keep the flow of writing going and not interrupt it to do a daily upload. Hope this all makes sense.

Whew! My fingers have been typing, typing, typing and my brain has been thinking, thinking, thinking! I wanted to have the first day of the 30 day tutorial up by this morning. Ha! It’s taken me until 4 pm CDT to get Day One completed. I tried making the document as clear to read as possible. I will admit you at least need to know computers and how to get around in a software program to do this tutorial. However, I really have tried to be as basic as possible and give as much beginner details as my brain could. I think if you stick with it and follow this through for the full 30 days you will get the hang of everything as time progresses.

Digital Painting for Beginners
30 Day Go-at-Your-Own-Pace Tutorial
Using Corel Painter X and Adobe Photoshop Software

The name wasn’t to suggest that anyone taking the tutorial is a beginner. Mostly, the tutorial is for anyone–beginners and current users of the software.  The first few days is mostly reading and studying the basics. Sorry, I believe it is important to learn the basic tools right up front. This will provide you with easier learning and a lot more fun when you move into experimenting and painting.

Each day, you will need to return to Atelierdigital to download the next lesson that always be a .pdf file. I will provide a link in the blog for the download. The password on all the .pdf’s is ‘intro’ — you’ll need this to open the documents. I do this for copyright purposes since I am submitting this to a major publisher (after editing is completed and revisions to prepare for commercial market). 

I’ve concentrated most of the tutorial on learning how to experiment with techniques of digital drawing and painting. After about the third of fourth day, the tutorial is highly interactive for the balance of the 30 days. Believe me, your creativity will get plenty of challenges and fun!

Here’s the link to Day One .pdf file — don’t forget, the password is ‘intro’

http://www.shibuistudio.com/DigitalPaintingforDummies.pdf

Wide space

where the fence reaches the horizon

place of my leaving

greens in my lonely room

on dark nights

Fran

Next week, I will be starting a 30 day digital painting tutorial for anyone interested in learning how to paint using Corel Painter X and Adobe Photoshop (both programs have free trials you can download right before we start the 30 day program). If you use a Wacom tablet, great! If not, I’ll give instructions for mouse users as well. All you have to do to participate is download the daily image lesson and come to The Digital Atelier where I’ll be posting the tutorial daily lesson.

Also, I’ve been working on a painting the past few days giving people an opportunity to see the evolution. If you’ve missed seeing the digital painting in progress on my daily blog (http://sanctuaryofstillness.wordpress.com), here’s the evolution up to day four of the painting.