Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Frustration

This morning, right after I made that previous post about working with the watercolor, I had full intention of using my tablet. Well when I went to hook up my Wacom Tablet, the tablet decided it did not want to cooperate. After being on the phone for 5 hours with Wacom support, they determined that my tablet failed and needs to be replaced. After driving all about town, all the tec stores in the area do not carry tablets so I just ordered a new one and will be waiting for its arrival. Right after I made the purchase my dad suggested going to art mart after I get off work tommorow which now in retrospect probably carries them.

Until then I am going to wait on that watercolor and sketch study and work on a project that seems a little more realistic without the use of the tablet.














This is a painting by Josh Agle called "Monkey and the Hudson River Cruise". I love Agle's style and he is one of the artists that drew me into art to begin with in high school. His cast of characters all have a amazing personality to them. I have attempted to work with his style in the past before in Painting 1 and package design but always felt like I came up a bit short.

Things I want to work on in this study:
1. replicating the background that is done by scraping a sea sponge across the wet canvas
2. Keeping the loose shapes yet incredibly tight lines
3. maybe attempting to recreate this image in a different color scheme to get a better understaing of how his palettes work...they always seem to be within a small range but always come out so broad for only using 5-6 colors

I plan on completing these studies by tomorrow night.

(Also as a FYI: Amazon.com currently has something like 20% off wacom tablets and a deal where you can get overnight shipping for $4. When I checked out it had that side by side comparason thing. I got a new tablet with overnight shipping for $85, Usually the tablet i got is $100 and overnight shipping on something like that is $20+....If you were looking at buying a tablet, I highly recommend getting one through amazon during whatever deal this is they currently have.)
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  1. profbabcockJuly 1, 2009 at 12:33 PM

    Mike,
    You can go a long way with Illustrator and then take it into Photoshop for final texturing and maybe even layers for unifying the color. It is good to build a library of paint textures that can be applied over and over again in different files. The sponge drag would be a great texture. Just make them in white or grey paint so the textures show up when you scan them. And then share with the rest of us.

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  2. Mfreeman Design BlogJuly 1, 2009 at 3:34 PM

    I toyed around a bit at my internship in my downtime with how to replicate the texture of the seasponge on canvas with what I had in the creative services department, and found that using a wood grain and isolating the grain and putting it on a flat background did pretty good...also drawing lines in photoshop and doing a motion blur did pretty good. After dinner I will dig out some spare canvas and actually make the texture itself like Agle does.

    I did a study of the skeleton driver that I will also upload with these texture tests

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