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The illustrations is visible here : Digital Portrait.
Feel free to write me questions if you have.

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• I started with Sketching the general shape of the subject. The brush I used is similar to a real pencil.
• I set the Sketch layer blending mode to Multiply and I created a new layer filled with two colors.
• I started painting without adding details just for understand lights and shadows.
• You can use any brush you want but the secret is to set a low ”flow rate of stroke”. Usually 10% or 17%.
• I brushed for some hours, adjust details. Another small secret is the use of the Dodge tool (O) for special effects. (see the eye!)

Download the brushes I used for painting here:

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Portrait of Sichen
done in: Photoshop CS3 (click on “full size” button!)
It’s not yet finished, I don’t hae inspiration for the background at the moment…
this is the last illustration I done with my wacom Intuos3 tablet.
bye bye darling!

Please refer to the tutorial if you have question or if you want to download the brushes I used for painting.

Not a real speedpainting but a screencapture of a graphic design done in photoshop cs3.
tools: photoshop cs3, camtasia and virtualdub.
Music by Kin (downloadable for free here )

Adobe, you never cease to amaze me!! First with Kuler, later with Adobe Share and now with Photoshop Express!!
Get a try to the new flash application who emulate Photoshop: it can come in handy for someone who need to adjust a picture and he’s working with a computer without any cg softwares installed. The website looks like other adobe application, obviously has a noticeably small list of features but the service is free and comes with 2Gb of storage for your files. Thanks to this PS Express common people will be accustomed with the cg and the web will looks better (it’s ready for Picasa, Photobucket and Facebook)
It’s annoying that my Adobe ID doesn’t work there.
Screenshot Photoshop Express (left) and Slashup (right):
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There’s another website that emulate Photoshop: SPLASHUP. It looks more like a real software and there are more features includes Layers (with Blend Modes!!) selection, brushes, filters and .. the free transform! Do you know that the geeklove-GIMP does not have this feature? O_o. I think the screenshot speak for me. Oh.. and SplashUp is ready for Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook AND Flickr. […]

How to add and use a downloaded brush?
PHOTOSHOP: Select the Brush Tool (B), open the Brushes Window (F5) and open the dropdown menu (click che little arrow on top right of the palette) and pick “Load Brushes”. Choose the file and the new brushes will come into the list.

ILLUSTRATOR: Open the Brushes Window (F5) and into the dropdown menu choose “Open Brush Library”, then “Other Library”. Pick your file and it will come into the list.

Come aggiungere ed utilizzare dei pennelli scaricati? […]

Brushes for paint with Photoshop.

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How to use a downloaded brush?
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Vediamo chi riconosce l’ometto raffigurato.

Dopo aver passato quattro giorni a fare l’ameba nel letto supermegacoccolata da fidanzato e micia sono finalmente riuscita a sedermi davanti al pc per produrre qualcosa. Non ho ripreso il web design che stavo facendo e nemmeno la prova alla RyanChurch, ho voluto provare questo stile per un omaggio.

Io e il mio moroso ci siamo presi bene con un serial: Dexter. Avete presente? Ecco.. non troviamo l’ultima puntata perciò se qualcuno riesce a consigliarmi dove pescarla tutta intera ci farebbe un gran favore perchè siamo col fiato sospeso essendo l’ultima della prima serie. / Edit: trovata!

Nelshael.com changes its design and contents. From today it will be no longer the webcomic’s website rather than the personal portfolio of Ophelia. I will talk no more only about the comic’s development and related topics but about my work and my passion.
I need to do this hard change because Eleish doesn’t find the time and the inspiration to end the webcomic and I can’t draw only about that.
I know a lot of you will be disappointed but I hope somebody will be faithfull and follow my creative path. I hope to add new readers, I’d like to have an exchange of ideas with you so I will try to submit speedpaintings, tutorials and vector freebies.
Thank you all for the patience

Nelshael.com cambia veste grafica e contenuti. Da oggi non sarà più il sito del webcomic Nelshael de immemori insula bensì il portfolio personale di Ophelia.
Non si parlerà solo dello sviluppo […]