#Artrage bob ross how to#
One of the big differences you’ll encounter is that you’ll need to understand how digital brushes work, how to mix paint digitally, and also that you have some additional tools such as layers and the almighty ctrl+z, because some accidents aren’t quite so happy. As he calls it, an analog to digital conversion. While light on painting theory/technique (things Bob covered anyways), he focuses on how to accomplish those using digital tools. The result is, by the end of his tutorial, you’ll have produced something to be proud of, even if you only have a mouse. Second, over eighteen videos that comprise over three hours of content, he holds your hand through every step you need to take to produce your own Bob Ross.
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For one, he uses Krita, a free painting application that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux (and I can confirm it runs decently on my decade-old dinosaur of a desktop). Age of Asparagus’s tutorial is a great counter to that. I think it's close to quality I want so I'm certain I can get to desired skill soon enough, and the technique is pretty time efficient as well.Motivation can be tricky when you’re first starting out, and producing a painting that is lackluster and nowhere near what you were aiming for can be a real kick to the teeth. That way I never accidentally touch the edges which should remain crisp. To get the sharpness along the ridgelines I just duplicated the initial fill color layers so that I can make a selection and work within that. There he taught us to actually call screech owls (as well as barred owls). That fine little texture spray I find gives a sharpness and sense of far-off detail that I wasn't otherwise able to achieve. Bob Ross once took our class out to the woods around Beaver Lake in Arkansas. I make sure that I am zoomed out, so the entire image is in view while doing this so that I don't get more detailed than necessary.
Then I take a fine texture spray brush and sample the local snow colors near the exposed rock and just sort hose down the area. Then, I use an erase to cut out blobs where rocks should be exposed. This helps suggest shape even though there is no lighting yet. Since the brush strokes have a little bit of streak to them, I kind of work them along the valleys and ridges of the mountain. On a new layer I brush out the midtone color. Then I use a bunch of random texture sprays with various rock colors across the shape. First, I box in the silhouette with lasso tool. since I'll need to make a games worth of assets, I've got to find some methods that give a nice result but are time effective too.
I tried quite a few techniques, but it was extremely time consuming.
I hadn't used my laptop before for this sort of thing - it feels a bit cramped for space but I'm kinda enjoying it now after a couple days use. My regular workstation is a desktop and I use one of the wacom pads for that - whatever the mid-priced one was. I've had artrage going all day with much larger canvas and it's not hot at all. It seems the program is well optimized - all the other digital painting apps had my laptop hot enough to fry an egg. There is a few odd brushes that might cause some lag but for most part it feels about as close to real painting as I can imagine you might get. It has a 1060 gpu and I am working on canvas that is like 4000 X 5000 pixels and for most part it is very responsive. I am working on my laptop right now which is a microsoft surface pro.
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And it has a fantastic demo - you can use full program with no time restriction. Looking at it now I think it is too blurry and needs more hard edges. Thanks! Yeah it took me a long time, most effort just trying to figure out how to "work the paint".