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DylanPierpont — Plein Air Feb 28th 2015: In-studio
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Published: 2015-03-02 06:15:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 3393; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 39
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Some digital landscape painting yesterday morning with the DIS crew 
I tried to do a complimentary underpainting on this one. Borrowed the technique from Shaddy Safadi's 7-part Youtube series. He goes into the color section on part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQbaB… I didn't quite hit the color notes I was looking for but I still like a lot of the bleed through on the final.
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Amazing work! What kind of color notes were you trying to achieve? More saturated and varied hues? 
And thank you for sharing the Shaddy Safadi's series. I'll surely try to learn from it!
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Hey thanks! I was definitely working more saturated than I typically do. But more than anything I really wanted to see what the final would look like with a complimentary under painting. I didn't quite push the complimentary as much as I should have (ended up being more desaturated/umbery) but seeing some of those notes poke through in both the sky and rocks made for a pretty rich final palette.
Definitely! Let me know what you think. It's an interesting approach that's worth exploring at least once.
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Hmm. I see what you're saying. I'll be awaiting to see more of your work, I'm sure a lot more of those notes will come through with your exploration in painting! In case case, I agree with you, you still managed to obtain a lot of rich variations in the palette! It's quite amazing to look at!
Thnak you, will do! 
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Thanks man! Long time no talk
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Yea, that's probably the exact loseness I'd like to achieve. I went through the videos of that guy and think he is just hilarious by explaining the "beauty masturbation" process.
Anyway, I do love this mainly because it is so lose and gives the impression that every stroke you did was sitting right at start. Seeing the process, which I'm thankful for haha, was healing me from that illusion and gives hope for my sucky landscape skills. Beautifully done.
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He's a great speaker. He gave a talk out at the Massive Black Workshop in 2013. Very charismatic and open about him and his company's process (One Pixel Brush) I like how he names all his brushes by different characters, haha.
As for the looseness, I definitely tried to avoid using any round brush for this piece. So everything you see is done with very chalky and rough brushes, but the areas that feel smooth are when the color and values blended together nicely. And most of these brushes came from Craig Mullins' brushpack that was uploaded a few weeks ago. He's got a TON of great, loose/natural looking brushes that are great to work with. (Which is another reason why I like doing speedpaints and studies like this because it gives me an opportunity to experiment with different tools.)
I couldn't find the link I used for the Mullins brushes so I just re-uploaded them to my dropbox. I'll keep this up for a few weeks so anyone can download it if they're interested: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56…
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Yes! It cracked me up how he called them by name constantly with such naturalness.
Right the brushes .. people keep saying you can achieve anything with just a round brush and brushes do not matter (talking about videos right now), then start to use the wildest texture brushes and what not and have a natural structure with just one stroke. I tried to stick with the round brush for a while, just changed form and such, but for the landscape studies i really appreciate to have brushes that help you at least a little. So for the yellowstone paintings i downloaded his brushes and tested those, i loved to paint grass with them.
Yay
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I've heard that line a lot, that brushes don't matter, and you can paint anything with anything. To an extent that's true. Dave Rapoza sort of proved that with this self portrait (look closely at the brush pattern) i.imgur.com/31Qlf9b.jpg
But there are a lot of effective, time-saving brushes out there that can be really useful for artists to experiment with. Some traditional artists may do a whole painting using a single brush but many do not. I certainly down when I'm out doing plein air pieces. And I think digital can benefit from the same practice. I think the real issue is younger artists (including me back in the day) get caught up thinking that the tool itself is what makes the image look great; not how the artist chooses to USE that tool to produce a great painting.
So mess around and test them out! have fun
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Alright that was some hilarious example 
Speculating only, but I think people hope that when a video is titled "tutorial" that you get a step by step introduction to reach a certain point, so you can then get your aha-effects. Mostly though it is sped up videos and when people try to follow it, they would need to have the same tools. What they do NOT know is the thinking process behind certain steps, which is the creative part. So those videos get usually misunderstood and people maybe only have the basic brushes and cannot achieve the same result, then they naturally think it is the tool itself. I really did appreciate Shaddys way on this part, because you could follow his thoughts and decisions.
About plein air, can feel you there, I went out to paint grass and bark for weeks or months back in university times, with just one pencil. We weren't allowed to bring a rubber or anything else. That was before all the concept art and whatnot schools did shoot out of the ground. So when you think it is your goal to use just one brush or one pencil, then this is maybe the right way yes.
I actually do have fun with them, thank you again for uploading those.
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I totally see what you mean, and couldn't agree more.
No problem! But don't thank me, thank Craig Mullins
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Stunning! The colors are very beautiful. You are truly a talented artist.
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The colors were fun to work with on this one especially
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Very nice - the flashes of unusual colour around the rocks and in the water give the paining a pleasant iridescent quality.
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That was definitely an interesting result with this particular process. I think I'm going to try it again this Saturday and see what I come up with. Always fun to experiment with things like color
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