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Good Habits for Painting

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 Cover the whole canvas in one sitting; Craig Mullins Usual when we are painting, we tend to focus on details and small things that catch our attention, some really good artists can keep this way of viewing the painting and be really good, but usually good artists and good instructors are negative about being so picky in the beginning. A good way to start is just get a big brush and cover the role canvas, getting the impression and the big forms of the painting. It's a solid structure. Dominant elements first; work by Me The dominant elements of the painting as to be treated like so, give the proper attention to them, and equally important is to give less attention to the others, it's not like to mitigate them or ignore them; just not steal the attention and the importance of the central elements. Linking the elements; John Park Keep in mind that the elements of the painting need to link to each other, Like value, color... complementing each other for a harmonious painting, tha...

A Small tutorial/explanation on texture

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I will use a square brush just to demonstration, but any brush would work. The key for painting textures is the options on brush setting. Using just a simple brush pattern you can get all types of edges, if you work with a more complex pattern it will be easier to do more edges. Working with a small brush may help a lot too. There are a lot of way to painting, but I usually prefer to star covering the whole canvas and then working on. For this one I will just do some blocks of values with a big brush Now with a hard brush with opacity turned on and mixing with the radio of the brush, spacing also may help Repeat the process and keep refining until you are satisfied. I will do other version of this tutorial in the future, keep in mind to not use the brush in a obvious way, try to explore your creativity :) thats all for now thanks for reading