Billets comportant le tag LearnPaper
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Around the neighbourhood
He’s running one of the most original Paper-based project. Michael Rose draws profile pictures around Twitter, with a terrific rythm : one sketch per day, using the #PaperFaces hashtag. Follow him on twitter and tumblr !
I “blogged” about my #PaperFaces project over on my website. Check it out if you want.
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She loves to draw, she loves to eat out (I suspect her being french), and mixes both in her tumblr. drawingtableforone just published a note about the way she works draws. As the sketches she usually does, it’s clever, clear, and instructive.
A couple of folks have asked me how I start my drawings. First I look at the space, drop a few key lines on the “page” to get the perspective and proportions right (or as right as I can get them) and then let the rest of the drawing flow. I must confess that I use the eraser and the “rewind” feature quite a bit but my goal is not to draw the perfect drawing. I usually start with the ink pen and then use the fountain pen for a heavier line weight/contrast. Here’s an image of my Cafe Rabelais drawing before I added color.
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Impressive Paper user Mike Acosta just finished his tribute to Neil Armstrong, and published a step-by-step on his tumblr, AcostaImages :
Finished- My Tribute To Neil Armstrong. Done on my iPad with Paper by FiftyThree using the Adonit Jot Touch stylus
(Source : acostaimages)
Eight minutes to draw a “tribute to Neil Armstrong”
Well, it’s not perfect, but far more telling than the previous four-steps how-to.
I made the previously released tribute to Neil Armstrong with the idea of filming the whole process. What involved trying to draw fast, at once, and editing an even quicker video. So I sat up a webcam above the ipad (yes, it could be better…), made some tea (too much, as usual), and started drawing at 2 a.m.
The camera wasn’t filming but shooting a picture every 1.5 second, using autowebcam.
The sketch was finished around 4 a.m. what generated over 5100 pictures (640x480), edited in windows MovieMaker with real Appolo 11 radio records for your ears.
The 8’30 long video (should be shorter), has been put on youtube with a few more comments. But I forgot to rotate it…
As re-encoding the files takes forever, a 180° version will be available soon… meanwhile, flip your screen
Stay tuned !
Larry wrote
Hi Florent. Love your site. With the smoking girl from panel 3 to 4, can you provide tips on how you you get to the soft blending of shades of her skin, nose, etc using Paper? What combination and order of tools do you use? Thanks. Larry.
Hi Larry, unfortunately I haven’t got a recipe, since I’m not an “academic drawer”, it’s more about a trial and error process (which usually takes a lot of time).
To help, I made a new animated sketch of “The smoking girl” (with more details than the four-steps note previously released).
- I began with the shadows, using the black paintbrush on a slight pencil outline, adding layers of black watercolor, to complete the general “volumes” of the sketch.
- Shapes and shades are corrected with the pencil, using black and grey colors.
- Pencil marks are, then, smoothened with white paintbrush (by applying little touches).
- Grey paintbrush is also used to “warm up” the sketch, and smooth black and white tones, at the same time.
- Then, I do it again, with pencil (black, grey and white, by small and fast touches), smoothened by watercolors (black, white and grey), until it looks more “real”.
- By the way, do not hesitate to use the white marker on the shone parts, but with parcimony : only dots where the light is reflected. The rendering can be quite impressive.
I lack time, these days, but I’ll try to make a more “step by step” how-to for the next sketch (maybe a video, don’t know yet). Meanwhile, I hope the animated how-to attached here will help you.
- Oh wait, I forgot the most important : the model.
The smoking girl is inspired by this picture of I guess Kate Moss
