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This is another practice session trying both brushes and blender and using a bucket. Fran
Click on the link below to download lessons fourteen & fifteen that finishes the tools lesson. The other 15 days of the 30 days are practice sessions using the brushes in a daily drawing to be painted. I’ve been learning a great deal from everyone who has used the tutorial. I think I’ll eventually reorganize all the material to make it a 30 day practice vs. full tutorial–providing lots of practice opportunities with cheat sheets and guides. For every step I wrote in the lessons, it took me several hours of thinking and writing. Plus, all the images used in the tutorial (which makes it a large file).
I love the progress of everyone and what you’ve painted so far. It’s thrilling to see your artistic expression and how you’ve grasped the medium of using a computer program to paint.
Don’t forget when you download the file for this tutorial, password is ‘intro’. And, you have to download the image file below by right clicking and saving on your computer.
http://www.shibuistudio.com/FourteenFifteen.pdf
Genece
Another practice, Fran
Here is my first attempt at digital watercolor. I don’t have Corel but I do have Photoshop. Photoshop is far inferior to Corel in terms of painting, but I managed to figure out the Photoshop brushes based upon Genece’s excellent instructions for Corel. I think I might get the hang of this eventually.
Lori Gloyd (c) 2007
I keep plugging along with Adobe InDesign though since it is a new application for me, I do have some learning curve. Nothing that difficult — just time consuming. I am glad I’m uploading a few days lessons at a time. It’s helping me keep focused on the full document that one day I promise will be completed. In the meantime, pieced together still gives you the lessons! Here’s the downloads (don’t forget the password is ‘intro’)
http://www.shibuistudio.com/TenandEleven.pdf
http://www.shibuistudio.com/TwelveandThirteen.pdf
You’ll also need to download the house below and the fish. Right click and save to your computer.
Practice with chalk and blender , Fran
I am trying to use Corel and follow instructions!–spoiled by not having
my Canvas push tool which allows blending with a brush. Am I missing something?
Love the Corel colours but am still making decisions. Fran
I’m still transferring everything over to Adobe InDesign. To keep you in the flow of lessons, I uploaded 6 & 7 yesterday and now I am uploading 8 & 9. In Session Eight, you’ll learn more about the color palettes and in Session Nine, you’ll begin painting again–starting with adding an underpainting layer to a simple drawing of a house. Until I get all the materials transferred, I’ll probably upload two files a night as pdf files.
http://www.shibuistudio.com/EightandNine.pdf
Don’t forget to download the house image from yesterday if you haven’t yet. You’ll need it for Session Nine. And, remember that the password is ‘intro’.
We should be back on track within the next few days. I was able to recover some of the MS Word files and then I added back in the missing images, saved as a pdf and now uploading so you can have the completion of the tiger and the week of work.
I’ve been transferring all the work over to Adobe InDesign and it is going much smoother (except for getting the text to wrap around the images — any help from someone who knows this program would be appreciated). I’ll upload the next full week of painting exercises since Week 2 is a lot of painting using lots of different brushes from the mediums and variants.
Download the completion of Day Six and Day Seven as soon as you can if you are currently working the tutorial. You’ll see in Day Seven there are about 2 dozen brush images of the variants that you can print on a printer and have next to you for the series of exercises to come with Day 8 to Day 14. By the end of the second week’s lesson you’ll be ready for drawing/sketching and building images from nothing or from photographs that will be intense interactive sessions in the third week of lessons (God willing, we’ll be fully on track that week).
Hope you can make sense of what I’m writing — very sleepy 
Here is the download file http://www.shibuistudio.com/SixandSeven.pdf password is ‘intro’
I’m also uploading a couple of practice images that you can use while practicing the brushes and variants–to get you going until you receive the new file that brings everything to date. To download the image files, right click on the images below and save to your hard drive.
Our Ruby sets off
in the early morn
to find her future
or
Fran thinks a new motor bike
Well, here is my tiger, my first digital painting. Not nearly as good as shewolfy’s. Her’s is so more true to life.
I had difficulty controlling the mouse, especially in the smaller spaces. There has to be a Wacom tablet in my future. I am so pleased though that I have, thanks to Genece’s tutorial, learned so much.
Vi
After 18 hours this weekend catching up with the tutorial and ready to upload, the file corrupted my MS Word and now I have to reinstall the software. A majority of the work has been lost, I’m feeling highly frustrated and realizing this project has felt weirdly jinxed since day one. (Is Mercury in Retrograde)? Some of it is due to Vista which is a poorly designed operating system — I’m going back to XP!
I’m aborting the project and will not pick it back up until I can at least restore a majority of the work and de-stress my spirit. It will get done — however, it may not be on the timeline originally shared.
If you have downloaded the tutorial to date and are working on it, contact me at http://www.shibuistudio.com/contact.html and I will arrange email lessons with you.
I’m really sorry everyone that this has not happened the way I sincerely intended. I’ll let you know when I’ve cooled down, restored the software and hopefully, recovered some of the work.
Genece
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