!!Peer Project!! Foundational Activities - Learning, Teaching, and Toast !

**Janooh** · August 31st, 2006, 12:38 PM

This makes me wonder why I hadn't joined CA such a long time ago. x_X!!!
This thread is awesome, and all of those links in the introduction just taught me a whole world about colors and light and ... everything else, that I didn't even know x.x
Too bad I can't sit around all day and do the exercises today, but you'll be seeing more of me!

**AtariWG** · September 1st, 2006, 11:45 PM

Quick render:

My version:

The yellow block dimension got a little skewed. So did the green block. The shine on the floor for the pink and yellow needed to be a little stronger too...

The shadow on the floor close to the bottom was harder than I thought it would be. I seem to be having technically difficulties controlling a shadows edge-- getting it to go from sharp contrast to a gradual blend.

**Idiot Apathy** · September 10th, 2006, 12:20 AM

Sorry for not being active here guys - I've been busy and uhh out of steam. I'm really impressed with the results you guys have posted, I wish there were more hours in the day so I could reply to everyone and that I didn't have bills to pay and ramen to eat, and that I had a moogle who could create money and yummy food.

Anyways - big news:
Peer Project Volume Two has launched:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955

**Gisaiagami** · September 13th, 2006, 02:09 PM

I am new in painting
Fist exercise:

The second exercise no training
is very very difficult for me

**Idiot Apathy** · September 13th, 2006, 03:08 PM

Hey Gisaiagami;
I'm not exactly keeping up with this thread anymore, I've moved on to the second version found here.

Peer Project Volume Two
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955

The exercise you just did however is pretty much the same as exercise two over there so go ahead and post it up. Cheers.

**jtburg88** · October 25th, 2006, 12:49 AM

im having an extremely hard time with this. can you give a description of brushes, settings etc?

**Idiot Apathy** · October 25th, 2006, 01:58 AM

What do you mean? On a specific exercise or just in general?

Also, this thread is defunct! Head over here;
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955

**Henrikg** · November 6th, 2006, 09:59 AM

Last night I found this great link site here on CA. I read a couple of tutorials on color theory, probably the ones by Ron Lemen mentioned above. He talked about chroma and the color wheel. There also were alot of other tutorials on light, value, perspective etc. However today I am to my extreme annoyance not able to find this page with the links again. Can anyone help me? I think this was the link. It is actually situated in the beginning of this thread but it doesn`t work

http://url=http//www.conceptart.org/...0&postcount=32

**Night~** · December 29th, 2006, 03:00 PM

How do you add details to things when painting in PS without losing detail and making it blur, but not looking out of place?

For example the contours of a muscle on the arm or folds in clothes, also if the line drawing you are using is shaded as well, would you remove it from the finished image, or would you use it on another layer, altering the settings to something like multiply or soft light for the details?

Thanks

**Idiot Apathy** · December 29th, 2006, 06:46 PM

Night- That's a bit of a word puzzle mate, how do you add details without losing detail? I think, what you are talking about is having more detail around the focal point - yet at the same time having enough detail on things outside the focal point that it reads well. Try this, paint what you see with your eyes squinted a little bit. Detail is just icing on the cake - all you need is proper shapes and color.

For your second question - I would paint over your linework. I would perhaps have a rough guide done in multiply if I didn't already have that with pencil shading.

Now - Please direct any further questions to Vol2 of this thread;
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955

**Night~** · December 29th, 2006, 11:12 PM

Ugh didn't notice I wrote it like a 4 year old.

What I meant to say was, details like folds in a shirt, veins on an arm, different parts of a mech, without making them look out of place or blending them so much, but I see that people just use the line drawing already and set it to mutliply on a different layer so you can see such things coming through the paint.

What if your drawing is already shaded and such, you would have to add every detail and colour yourself, and remove the layer of the shaded drawing, otherwise it won't look right, right?

I made a post at the Colouring Book Vol. 2, thought I already did at the other Project one. I'll make a post there now with some examples from the colouring book.

Thanks.

**Longxiang** · January 24th, 2007, 07:55 PM

I don't know why I did it this way, I just went with my gut.

Looks like a sandstorm came to the land of the regular polygons, and wiped all the people and windows away. Also it is sunny. Or something.

**Vaejoun** · February 2nd, 2007, 07:32 PM

Ok, I just found this thread I definately join in.
I started with the apple. Well, its half past one in the morning and I just thought about something fresh.

And HELL ! I it was worth spending a night hour for it. I think you helped me a lot with this brush thread. I was caught up in a state where my ps pictures looked so clean and lifeless and now I finally know why !
Thx,thx thx.

Ok, before I forget it:
The typo wasnt necessary, but I just felt like it. Was fun to paint.

**nekit** · May 31st, 2007, 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by Vaejoun

Ok, I just found this thread I definately join in.
I started with the apple. Well, its half past one in the morning and I just thought about something fresh.

And HELL ! I it was worth spending a night hour for it. I think you helped me a lot with this brush thread. I was caught up in a state where my ps pictures looked so clean and lifeless and now I finally know why !
Thx,thx thx.

Ok, before I forget it:
The typo wasnt necessary, but I just felt like it. Was fun to paint.

blimey!! as beautifully!
http://kudapoyti.com.ua

**comixnut** · June 25th, 2007, 07:24 AM

Man is this thread dead? i hope not because it is awesome and i have just found it! i will try to find some time to join in but first i have to read through all of that info in the first 2 or 3 pages (and i am sure the following ones as well).

**Idiot Apathy** · June 25th, 2007, 07:28 AM

Yup, dead.
Go here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955

**koshime** · June 25th, 2007, 01:20 PM

meaningless bump

**MeTaL-Mike** · July 30th, 2007, 09:09 AM

good thread guys

**MeTaL-Mike** · October 5th, 2007, 06:59 AM

Not sure if this is still on but am gonna do the projects anyway. need to learn working with color

Project 1.

as i see on the Greyscale image. i also went a bit too dark. and should lighten up the area around the highlight.

Project 2.

Project 3.

**MattGamer** · October 9th, 2007, 08:51 PM

I did #2! Ahh!!! Fun.

What I Learned, Foo!
#1: I like the Polygon Tool.
#2: Everyone already did this and it's easier to do it when you have seen how it is done.
#3: I like some of these colors.
#4: I suck at colors.
#5: Is everyone of these a joke?
#6: This was fun.
#7: I'll be locked in my office if I don't post soon.
#8: I liked doing this, but is using SketchUp like cheating?
#9: I didn't make blur effects like Tom Tom. :/
#10: Polygon Tool rules? Yay.

I had fun. Moar I will do!

**Luconi** · October 25th, 2007, 10:05 AM

humn...im doing some brushes study ... actually im learning how to explore photoshop and use brushes adequately....this tutorial is of great help

the first ones....im doing again....

**MiXRuivo** · February 3rd, 2008, 07:35 AM

Hi guys, i'm a begginer who wants to learn more. I'm a real zero with tone, value, colour and shadows, so i will do the exercices from the very beggining and try to make them the best i can...

So with this said, i present you with the first half of the first project. It was a fast thing but i whant to know what you all have to said.

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!

**Azure_sea** · March 8th, 2008, 11:41 PM

Bah, mines godawful. Fun exercise though. ^_^

**a la bapsi** · May 12th, 2008, 11:22 PM

Learning the basics.
here's my attempt.
My color one, when turned greyscale, turned out way too dark..but oh well.
That's how I learn. :o
Gonna try again and get it right

**Homeless Foxman** · May 25th, 2008, 02:18 AM

Here's my exercise 1, I think I did alright on it. I could use cleaner lines... But my lines tend to be a bit sloppy sometimes. And I'm newish with digital painting... so yeah...