Level up Your Digital Artwork Using Traditional Media

1. Introduction: Digital painting has become quite the comfortable way of painting. Pintar digitalmente se ha convertido en una forma de pintar muy comoda But as we build more and more of what digital painting can-do, Pero mientras mas pensamos en lo que la pintura digital puede hacer I think we're forgetting what it cannot do. Nos olvidamos de lo que no As any material, it has what is good and what is bad at. Como todo material tiene lo que hace bien y lo que hace mal One thing I think digital painting is very bad Una cosa en la que siento que la pintura digital es mala at is unpredictability. es en ser impredecible My name is Sebastián Porteiro Mi nombre es Sebastián Porteiro I'm painter and animator from Uruguay. Soy un pintor y animador de Uruguay I go in social medias as Kuma_Porta, En redes sociales voy como Kuma_Porta I'm fascinated by digital artwork and all of its possibilities. Me fascina el arte digital y todas sus posibilidades But I realized we can create a more complete and interesting product. Pero me di cuenta que podes crear un producto mas completo e interesante If we find a way to make traditional and digital media cooperate. Si encontramos la forma de hacer que lo tradicional y digital cooperen As colors have complementaries. Como los colores tienen complementarios I think these two medias are in a way complimentary, Creo que estos dos medios son de alguna forma complementarios one lacks what the other has. A uno le falta lo que el otro tiene In this class, you will learn a way to incorporate traditional media En esta clase aprenderás una forma de incorporar métodos tradicionales and exercises to better your digital painting. y ejercicios para mejorar tu pintura digital You will also learn about the importance of planning. También aprenderás sobre la importancia de planificar You will be creating a digital painting accompanied by Crearas una pintura digital acompañada por some exercises we will do along the way that I hope you share too. unos ejercicios que haremos en el camino que espero que también compartan So let's learn to let our artwork surprise us. Aprendamos a dejar que nuestro arte nos sorprenda Okay, Let's go. Okay, vamos 2. Class Orientation: And I think that for more Y creo que para gente experienced folks especially, I think, con mas experiencia especialmente, creo finding a different way at looking at que encontrar otra forma de mirar your art creation process can a tu proceso de creación de arte really enrich you in the future. puede enriquecer tu obra And for beginners, I've sprinkled Y para principiantes , tiro some general information out información general sobre la along the way so you're not lost. marcha así no están perdidos And maybe you can catch good tips here and there. Y quizá podes agarrar unos buenos tips en el camino As for materials, you'll need watercolors, En temas de materiales vas a necesitar, acuarelas you need a pencil, un lapiz you need any necesitas cualquier Digital drawing program, Programa de dibujo digital, I will be using Photoshop and color pencils. voy a usar photoshop para esto They don't have to be y lapices de colores any specific brand, any specific quality. No tienen que ser de ninguna marca ni calidad In fact, I would advise against es más, es mejor que the use of expensive materials because no usen materiales caros porque we need freedom and necesitamos estar libres y we don't need to care that much for the material itself. no preocuparnos mucho por el material mismo For like we just had to let go Create. Porque solo tenemos que soltarnos y crear Okay, for the first half of this class, Okay , la primer mitad de la clase I'll mainly talk about traditional media Principalmente hablare de el and how we will use it, uso de medios tradicionales not how to use it. y como lo usaremos nosotros ,no como usarlo And on the second half is all digital painting. y la segunda mitad es pintura digital Okay, so let's go. Thank you. Okay, vamos. Gracias :) 3. The Blob Technique: The first thing when creating a painting is the idea. Lo primero al crear una pintura es la idea It's what we want to put on the paper, es que queremos poner en el papel what we want people to get out of it. que queremos que la gente saque de ahi Depending on the situation, dependiendo de la situación you may want to just head dive first into the painting, Quiza quieras mandarte de una but it's not always the best idea, pero no es siempre la mejor idea so what do you do when you have no ideas? que hacer cuando no tenes ideas? You still got to practice because practice makes perfect, todavía tenes que practicar porque la practica hace al maestro and if something is worth doing, y si algo vale la pena hacer, it's worth doing it right. vale la pena hacerlo bien I'll teach you here two techniques I've used to get my creativity going. Acá te voy a enseñar 2 técnicas que uso para mi creatividad In this class we'll start with something I like to call the blob technique. y aca empezamos con algo llamado la técnica blob Let's get to it. A long time ago, Vamos, hace tiempo surrealists used to use a method called automatism. los surrealistas usaron un método llamado automatismo We'll just let go and let the subconscious do the talking, Solo dejamos ir y que el subconsciente haga lo suyo this is great for us. esto es genial para nosotros When we consciously don't know what we want to create, cuando conscientemente no sabemos que crear the subconscious knows, so we just let it speak. el subconsciente si lo sabe, dejamos que hable It's easy, you just grab a pencil and start drawing shapes. es fácil, solo agarramos el lapiz y dibujamos formas Even if it's just for us, incluso si es solo para nosotros let's try to make these shapes dynamic, hagamos estas formas dinamicas let's try to make it interesting. Hagamoslo interesante We should always strive to create asymmetry Deberíamos apuntar a una asimetría as this will make more interesting compositions for the viewer. esto hara una composición mas interesante Look at this one, just flows, mira esta, simplemente fluye and throws us into the middle. Y nos tira al medio This has some movement which works like an arrow, tiene algo de movimiento que funciona como una flecha even if we go this way with our eye these lines just put us right back in. incluso si vamos aca con la vista, nos tira adentro de la obra This is very important for us when creating a painting in the end, esto es super importante al momento de crear la pintura because we want people to stay in the painting, porque queremos que la gente se quede en la pintura we don't want you to move away from the painting. no queremos que se vayan de ella We want them to do a path, queremos que sigan un camino we will build ourselves. que nosotros construimos For example, here, let's say we want the viewer to go here, por ejemplo, quiero que el espectador vaya aquí we just make things a little bit more interesting going that way. Hacemos que las cosas sean mas interesantes por ahi We make shapes like this which throw the viewer Hacemos formas como estas que tiran al espectador this way we make shapes like this one with the point here. en esta dirección, formas como esta con una punta They work like arrows. funcionan como flechas We have to work with our viewer in some way and tell them without them knowing, tenemos que trabajar con nuestro espectador sin que lo sepa ''Hey, I want you to look at this''. Quiero que veas esto Now that we've more or less filled the page, Ahora que masomenos llenamos la página I would recommend using the same pencil the same way you use them on the holes, Recomiendo usar el lapiz como hicieron en los agujeros on the rest of the page. en el resto de la hoja This will help you add volume to esto ayuda a agregar volumen your drawing as it will differentiate the shapes from the background. porque va a diferenciar las formas del fondo As you know, a background is como sabemos , el fondo extremely needed because you can't have a front without a back. es extremadamente necesario, porque no hay frente sin fondo Also this is great for people with anxiety or people who just need to calm down. diría que esto es genial para gente con ansiedad I usually use this method a little bit as uso este metodo como meditation in some ways like just moving your hand around, meditación, simplemente mover la mano not thinking much about it, no pensar mucho al respecto just having some fun. solo divertirse You can do whatever you want with the paper. Podes hacer lo que se te cante con este papel I don't know, you can twist it to see shapes in a different manner. No se, torcerlo para ver las formas de otra manera For example, this one, por ejemplo, esta let's cut it out. cortemosla Maybe we can add them together. quiza podemos agregarla Like here, create more interesting different shapes. como acá, crear formas mas interesantes You can do whatever you want with this paper. podes hacer lo que quieras con el papel This paper is for you in the end. es solo para vos al final This paper is just plainly for experimenting, esta hoja es solo para experimentar don't beat yourself over it, no te martirices al respecto don't try to make them perfect. no intentes hacerlo perfecto In fact, the more perfect you try to do this, es mas, cuanto mas perfecto queres que sea the worst it will be because we tend to pero va a ser, porque tendemos a think about more boring shapes like circles, squares. pensar en formas mas aburridas, circulos, cuadrados All of those we've been taught all throughout our lives, todas esas formas que nos enseñaron durante nuestra vida but the truth is you will never find those shapes in nature, pero la verdad es que no existen esas formas en la naturaleza and they're pretty boring, y son bastante aburridas they're visually very boring. Son visualmente muy aburridas Just let them work together and see what we can find. solo dejemos que trabajen juntas y a ver que encontramos We're not here to tell the shapes what to be, no estamos aca para decirles a estas formas que ser we are here in this exercise to hear them out, estamos aca para escucharlas to understand what they want to tell us. y entender que quieren Well, more or less I think it is done. masomenos creo que esstamos We just look at it, ahora lo miramos try to find and see what shapes we can use in the future when painting, intenamos encontrar las formas para usar en el futuro and you got to always remember that things are better seen from far away, y siempre hay que recordar que las cosas se ven mejor de lejos so if you need just step back, así que si es necesario alejate get away and look at this drawings. y mira al dibujo Look at the shapes, look how they relate because sometimes we are very into the painting, mira las formas ,como se comunican, muchas veces estamos muy metidos we're very close or the drawing or whatever it is, demasiado cerca de nuestra obra and we tend to not realize the mistakes we're making. y no nos damos cuenta de los errores que cometemos For example, I didn't even realize here I forgot to make some depth, por ejemplo, me habia olvidado de darle profundiad but I just step back, pero si simplemente me alejo and when I look back at it, y lo miro de nuevo it was pretty obvious. me doy cuenta de lo obvio que es For example, let's see, I'll show you. por ejemplo, veamos aca This is another example of this. esto es otro ejemplo de esto I do them a lot before painting. hago muchos de estos antes de pintar Here I have many other shapes and even between these two, aca tengo muchas otras formas, e incluso entre estos I tried not to repeat anything. Intento no repetir nada Even if some looks similar, some bend, incluso si se ven similares, algunas se tuercen they're not the same because we're not trying to control them, no son iguales porque no las controlo we're just making them. solo las creo Our brain doesn't create symmetry on it's own, it's something we learn, nuestro cerebro no crea simetría solo, es algo aprendido it's something we try to do, es algo que intentamos hacer so the less control, cuanto menos control the more we move the pencil around and just let it, cuanto mas movemos el lapiz nomas the better it will be in the end. mejor sera al final Now that we've seen how to play around with pencil, ahora que sabemos como movernos con el lapiz finding shapes and maybe getting our brain going, encontrar formas y trabajar nuestro cerebro let's play around with some color. Juguemos con algo de color You'll see this is an extremely fun exercise to do. Let's go. es divertido de hacer, vamo arriba 4. Play with Color: I hope you are going along with me right now. Espero que este trabajando conmigo Let's play with some colors. Juguemos con algo de color Get your watercolors ready. Prepara tus acuarelas For this exercise, we will need watercolors, paper. para este ejercicios vas a necesitar acuarelas , papel Watercolor paper exist, but I would advise against it el papel de acuarela existe, pero recomiendo no usarlo because it's not necessary and, porque no es necesario y sometimes when we use expensive materials a veces cuando usamos materiales caros we tend to hold back a lot because we think, "Well, tendemos a restringirnos, porque pensamos "bueno I have to make something that's worthy of the cost of the material." tengo que hacer algo que valga el costo de material" But that's exactly the opposite of what we're looking for here. Pero eso es exactamente lo que opuesto a lo que queremos We're looking for some exploration, queremos explorar some fun, no worries at all. divertirnos, no preocuparnos You'll also need some water and you'd also need a brush. Vas a necesitar algo de agua y un pincel I use this calligraphy brush for this because I think it's uso este pincel de caligrafía porque creo que the best beginner friendly thing and es lo mejor para principiantes wallet friendly because it can make very different y amigable con la billetera strokes depending on how you use it, porque puede hacer multiples trazos which is something watercolor brushes just don't do, que es algo que los de acuarela no hacen they do one thing and that's it. hacen una cosa y fue I think it's very friendly for people who are learning this. Siento que es muy bueno para gente que esta aprendiendo There is one thing before we start. Hay una cosa más antes de empezar One mistake beginners tend to do a lot, Un error que hacen los principiantes una bocha which is forgetting to use water. es olvidarse de usar agua In our case, water is extremely important. en nuestro caso el agua es muy importante We want to use it because we can't control it. queremos usarla porque no podemos controlarla We just put the water down and then let the color do it's solo ponemos el agua y dejamos que el color haga lo suyo things and just let it surprise us and let us see where it takes us. y dejamos que nos sorprenda, a ver donde nos lleva That's what we want to do, eso es lo que queremos hacer that's the whole idea behind this exercise. Let's get to it. es la idea atrás del ejercicio, empezemos There are many techniques to use in watercolor, hay varias técnicas en la acuarela but for what we're looking for today, pero para hoy we're going to use wet on wet and dry on wet. vamos a usar húmedo sobre húmedo y seco sobre húmedo In short, this means wet on wet is putting water on the paper esto significa: húmedo sobre húmedo es poner agua en el papel itself and then grabbing pigment while the brush is still wet. y agarrar pigmento con el pincel todavía humedo I'm going to use blue here, voy a usar azul aca put it on top of where I had wetted the paper before. ponerlo arriba del papel mojado While dry on wet is where we wet the paper. Let me clean this up. mientras que seco sobre humedo es mojar el papel, dejen que limpio esto Wet the paper but then grab the pigment with a dry brush. mojo el papel y agarro el pigmento con un pincel seco This give us a different effect, nos da otro efecto gives us a little bit more control. un poco mas de contro There are more techniques, hay otras técnicas obviously and they both achieve different results as you can obviametne, y cada una nos da un resultado diferente see but I'm not going to be teaching all techniques no voy a enseñar todas las técnicas because it's not a watercolor course and porque no es un curso de acuarela these two techniques are the ones that can y estas dos técnicas son las que se expand on their own and work on their own. expanden y se mueven solas We just want them to go ahead and let them do their thing. solo queremos dejarlas que hagan lo suyo In watercolor, en acuarela we try to work from light to dark because intentamos trabajar de claro a oscuro, as this is a translucent medium, porque como es un medio translucido we can easily overlap colors that way facilmente podes sobreponer colores, especially from light to dark. especialmente de claro a oscuro If we put dark colors, si ponemos oscuros it's very difficult, light colors just don't show it all. es muy dificil , los claros simplemente no se ven As you can see it will generate a darker color here, for example. Como pueden ver esto generar un color mas oscuro We can easily put it on top of this other one, y fácilmente podemos ponerlo encima but we can't do it the other way around. pero no alrevez Let's put this dark brownish color, pongamos este color marrón let's put this greenish color, sorry, for example. digo verdoso, como ejemplo let's try to put some yellow on top of it. y intentemos poner amarillo arriba As you will see it doesn't show us much, veras que no se ve mucho it's easily overpowered by the darker colors. facilmente lo tapan los colores oscuros What we're going to do here right now is play around with this, lo que vamos a hacer ahora es jugar con esto the two techniques I've mentioned. las dos técnicas mencionadas It just creates interesting color combinations we wouldn't do normally. crea combinaciones interesantes que no hariamos de otra forma Be sure to add a pigment, it's important. acordate de agregar pigmento, es imporante It's watercolor for a reason because it's water and color, es acuarela por una razón, es agua y pigmenot is not only water. no solo agua Grab everything, grab a lot of what you need, use it. agarra tanto como necesites, usalo Don't be scared to use your materials. sin miedo de usar tus materiales To create art you're going to have to use your materials, para crear arte hay que usar tus materiales it doesn't create itself. no se crea solo We just see what happens, veamos que pasa we don't control them, no los controlamos we just give them the space to move and grow and then les damos el espacio de moverse y crecer we'll look to what we can learn from them. y vemos que podemos aprender For now, let's leave it like this and let it dry for some time and por ahora , dejemos esto y dejemoslo cecar I'll come back because we're going to use voy a volver porque vamos a usar some colored pencils to work with these shapes a little more. lapices de colores para trabajar las formas Then now that it's dry, ahora que esta seco we are going to play around with some color pencils. vamos a jugar con lapcies de colores I have the three primary colors here, tenemos los primarios aca blue, yellow, and red. azul, amarillo y rojo We're just going to use them to move around, vamos a usarlos para movernos find new shapes, maybe use what we have here in our favor. encontrar nuevas formas y usar lo que hay a nuestro favor I've changed the orientation of the paper because I think it's cambie la orientación del papel porque creo better this way and for any more interesting shapes here. que es mejor así , veo mas formas We're going to try to use the complimentary vamos a usar el color color to one we find here. complementario al de la mancha I wish you could see it in person because the colors look ojala pudiesen verlo en persona way stronger here than they do on the screen, los colores son mas fuertes at least how they look on my screen. mas que en mi pantalla But for example, here it's like a running man made mainly out of blue. pero por ejemplo, veo un hombre corriendo aca Which is a complimentary color from blue? It's orange. complementario del azul? naranja Complimentary colors are the ones opposite in the color wheel. los complementarios son los opuestos en el círculo cromático We're going to use them in our favor right now. vamos a usarlo a nuestro favor I start with some red here, empiezo con rojo aca here I see like face, here's the arm. aca veo la cara, el brazo Here's another arm, it's like running away and here are the legs. aca otro brazo, como si estuviese corriendo, aca las piernas We'll use both red and yellow to generate an orange, vamos a usar rojo y amarillo para hacer naranja which contrast against the blue and help us define a character or a shape. contrasta contra el azul y nos ayuda a definir el personaje I feel like it's a giant fat bird actually. veo aca un pajaro gordo grande Here's the beak. aca esta el pico This is mainly a greenish color so I'm going to be using red to contrast against it. esto es principalemten verde asi que voy a usar rojo Doesn't have to be realistic, no tiene porque ser realista it doesn't have to work as a real character. no tiene porque funcionar como un personaje real This is just ideas we find on the splashes of color. es simplemente la idea que encontramos The main idea of this is to find inspiration when we have none, la idea principal es encontrar inspiración para después is to play around and have fun. es jugar y divertirse Here on the left, I see a very fancy lady. aca a la izquierda veo una mujer fina Look at these small figures. mira estas formas chicas See this small forms, estas pequeñas figuras this creates the very interesting silhouettes. crean una interesante silueta I wouldn't have created them otherwise if I hadn't done this. que no hubiese creado de otra forma I'm playing, does this work? toy jugando, funciona? Maybe, maybe not. quiza si, quiza no When drawing with pencils, cuando dibujas con lapiz I try that the way I apply the pencil is in the intento aplicar el lapiz como same way the volumes are going. si existiese el volumen del objeto For example, the arm here, ejemplo mi brazo for example, it bends like this. se tuerce asi 5. Organize the Chaos: We got of all of our inspiration ready. Tenemos todas nuestra inspiración We played around and we got our brain going. Jugamos un cacho , y empezamos nuestro cerebro How do we turn this into a painting? Como convertimos esto en una pintura Well, that's a great question and one which I'll Bueno eso es una gran pregunta, una que voy a try to answer in this class. Let's get going. Voy a intentar responder en esta clase Well, then for the organizing the chaos and using it for our design, Bueno, en el hecho de organizar el caos y usarlo para nuestro diseño I'm going to just have this paper around where Solo voy a dejar este papel por aca we have our ideas we just found off the watercolor. tenemos las ideas que generamos en la acuarela I'm going to be using the same page I used to show you the techniques Voy a usar la misma hoja que use para mostrar las técnicas originally because materials are not limited and we can still use it. Originalmente , porque los materiales son limitados y podemos usarlo It's almost empty. Esta casi vacío We can even use this side or the other one. Podemos usar este lado o el otro Who knows, maybe you can even use this texture the water created. Quiza incluso podemos usar esta textura que creo el agua There's a reason papers have two sides, hay una razon por la que el paple tiene dos lados so we can use them. Let's see. Para usarlos, veamos I'm going to have this here, voy a tener esto aca I'm going to move this over here so you can see both things at the same time. Voy a mover esto por aca para ver ambas cosas I'm going to put my pencils here to fill the screen. poner esto aca para llenar la pantalla Let's see. Let's play around a little. veamos juguemos con esto un cacho I really like this bird character we created here, me gusta mucho este personaje pajaro que hicimos and I really like this hat. y me gusta mucho el gorro Maybe we can combine them. quiza podemos combinarlos Maybe we can find a way to also add in mouth I thought it was cute. quiza podemos agregar la boca que creo esta linda I like this side better than this one maybe. Let's see. Me gusta esta más que la otra, a ver I'm going to sketch now and you should too. Voy a hacer un boceto y vos también deberías One thing to note is that when sketching, una cosa que deberías tomar en cuenta you should never lift up the pencil from the page. nunca deberias levantar el lapiz del papel The idea is to just let both gravity and intuition do its thing. es dejar que la gravedad y la intuición hagan lo suyo It will surprise us once again. nos sorprendera denuevo Now that we have small base, ahora que tenemos una base I see that I exaggerated the stomach here but I think it's more interesting. veo que exagere el estomago, pero creo que es mas interesante I think it's giving it a little flavor maybe. le da algo de sabor Whoops, my pencil broke, one second. Uh, se me rompio el lapiz, un segundo Well, it's perfect opportunity to teach you something. es la oportunidad perfecta a enseñar algo Sometimes things happen in life we didn't expect. a veces en la vida cosas pasan que no esperabamos When drawing, I recommend using a box cutter to get the led out. cuando dibujamos recomiendo usar una trincheta para sacar punta I don't recommend using a pencil sharpener because we need no recomiendo usar un sacapuntas, porque necesitamos a different point when drawing than when we write. Una punta diferente al dibujar que al escribir We prefer a longer shape rather than a pointy shape. preferimos una forma mas larga que una puntiaguda Let's see here. I'll try to free most of the lead as possible. veamos , saco la mayor punta posible here we go, it moved out but as you see, pronto, salio un cacho como podes ver we get this long point. tenemos esta punta larga We can afterwards use to draw horizontally. que podemos usar para dibujar horizontal Even then, let's use this as another learning opportunity. es mas usemos esto como otra oportunidad para aprender This lead, I'd like to just collect it, esta viruta , simplemente la recolectamos and just throw it on the paper. y la tiramos en el papel Just like we did with watercolors, now we're using, como hicimos con la acuarela, ahora usamos with the remainings of a pencil. los restos de nuestro lapiz We have to use every thing we've got. tenemos que usar todo lo que tenemos If we want to create art we'll do it with whatever we find on the way. Si queremos crear arte, lo vamos a hacer con lo que encontremos We don't need expensive materials. no necesitamos materiales caros You just have a pencil or just a stick that leaves some mark on the floor, that's enough. Si tenes un lapiz, o un palo que deja una marca en el piso, es suficiente Looks interesting and look how this remains we just cut helped us in the end. Se ve interesante y mira como los restos nos ayudaron al final Look at this, wouldnt have made this tail. Mira esto, no habría hecho esta cola These feathers I think look pretty interesting. estas plumas , creo que se ven interesante This blob shape on the cheek I think it adds a little bit of charisma. este blob en la mejilla agrega algo de carisma Now let's start rendering a little. vamos a renderizar las cosas What do I mean render? I mean just adding a little bit of depth. que me refiero renderizar, me refiero agregar profunidad I'm saying the word a lot and I'm probably not pronouncing it, Estoy diciendo esto mucho y probablemente mal and probably sounds like the word death as dying but well, probablemente suena como muerte en vez de profundidad that's just how it is. pero ya fue Let's see here. Let's add volume. vemos acá, agreguemos volumen As we mentioned with the arm, como mencionamos con el brazo the arm twists, so the pencil should too. este se tuerce, el lapiz también se tuerce Let's use it on the beak. hagamoslo en el pico Let's add some volume by making the pencil itself follow the shape. agreguemos algo de volumen haciendo que el lapiz siga la forma You see how it's clear for our eye that here there is volume. veamos como es claro para el ojo que hay volumen It's not a 2D shape. que no es 2D Well, it is but for a brain will fill out the spaces and convince itself they're not. Bueno, si lo es pero el cerebro se convence a si mismo que tienen volumen What we're doing here is a map so that when we are painting we'll aca estamos haciendo como un mapa, para que cuando estemos pintado apply the brush in the same direction we're doing here. apliquemos el pincel en la misma dirección This is a map for us. esto es una guía We know what to do once we're done. para saber que hacer al terminar As an artist we got to lie. Como artistas tenemos que mentir We do lie, we lie a lot. Mentimos , mentimos una banda It helps us create a more interesting piece. nos permite crear piezas mas interesantes Not everything has to be as it is in real life. no todo tiene que ser como la vida real Sometimes we have to lie because we a veces tenemos que mentir porque have to call the attention of the viewer somewhere. tenemos que llamarle la atención del espectador a algun lado Maybe the eye here shouldn't be this dark but I don't quiza el ojo no debería ser tan oscuro, pero care because I want people in the end to go here. no importa, porque quiero que la gente vaya ahi I'll use everything in my power to make them go there. Voy a usar todo en mi poder para hacerlos ir ahí One thing I want you to notice is that I won't be charging in the focal point with Una cosa que quiero que notes es que no voy a cargar el foco con texture because as viewers our eyes get tired of texture. texturas porque como espectadores el ojo se cansa de ellas They try and find the place where there is less and there's where it rests. intentan encontrar el lugar con menos textura y ahi descansa One of the ways we can call the attention of a viewer is una de las formas en las que podemos llamar la atención by putting the least amount of texture in the focal point. es poniendo la menos cantidad de textura ahi Here I'll just not add as much as in the rest. aca simplelemente no voy a agregar tanto como el resto As I mentioned before white it's a color that calls our attention a lot. como mencione antes el blanco es un color que llama mucho al atención We want you to have it mainly on our focal point, y por eso lo queremos en el foco but what's happening here? pero que pasa acá Well, the whole background is white. bueno todo el fondo es blanco We can just put gray on it so it doesn't call our attention as much. Lo que podemos hacer es ponerle gris arriba asi no nos llama la atención Remember I mentioned something about the texture to the water, Recuerdan que mencione algo sobre la textura del agua and how they might help us, y como nos puede ayudar here I'm seeing this, aca veo algo I'm just going around the texture of the water itself and it makes Voy a simplemente ir por la textura del agua misma , porque hae some interesting shapes that go all around the beak. Unas formas interesantes que van por el pico Maybe we can use like in comics when they shout, podemos usarlo como en los comics cuando gritan you can add this to make it a little bit more interesting. podemos agregarlo para hacerlo mas interesante It'll have a little bit more character maybe. y tener un cacho mas de caracter quiza Here, we capitalize on everything. aca la idea es capitalizar todo I'm going to gray the background and I think you'll see the difference once it's done. Voy a agrisar el fondo y la diferencia va a ser obvia You see now I think the difference is quite obvious. Como veras creo que es clara It doesn't need to be perfect. No tiene que ser perfecto You don't need to completely gray out the background, No necesita ser completamente gris but it's enough to make contrast to the foreground, pero si lo suficiente para contrastar I mean our character in this case just pops off the page when we do this. Logra que nuestro personaje se despegue por completo de la hoja Just mark this a little bit more because I think they're interesting. voy a remarcar esto un cacho mas , porque me parecen interesantes Let's make the sides which is closer to a character a little bit darker. hagamos estos lados mas cercanos al personaje un poco mas oscuro Again, the eye goes to where we want it to go, de nuevo, hagamos que el ojo vaya a donde queremos not outside the painting. no fuera de la pintura We want to in some way trap the eye in a loop. queremos atrapar al ojo en un ciclo When you spend a lot of time looking at a painting, it's because of that. cuando pasas mucho tiempo mirando una pintura, es porque because the painter knew how to keep you inside the painting. el pintor sabía como mantenerte dentro de la pintura We're trying to learn that too. estamos intentando aprender eso tambien Everything's important here. todo importa We have to take into account many things when we do this. tenemos que tomar muchas cosas en consideración al hacer esto One thing we recommend especially for beginners is to just think of one thing at a time, Una cosa que recomiendo, es pensar cosas de a uno like, do I want to focus on my volumes? Quiero aprender sobre volumenes? Well, do five paintings only focusing on volumes. Bueno, 5 pinturas donde solo me fijo en volumenes We got the ball rolling, Seguimos adelante we're very close to starting our painting. estamos muy cerca de empezar a pintar There's one more thing I want you to do before we get into painting itself. Hay una cosa mas antes de ir a la pintura mismo I'm very excited to see what you are creating, Me emociona ver que estan creando so stay with me a little longer. You'll see it's worth it. Asi que seguimos un poco más, vas a ver que lo vale 6. Reimagine your Pespective: Okay, re-imagining our perspective. Okay, re imaginar nuestra perspectiva What's the point of this? Cuál es el punto de esto? Well, it will help us visualize our painting better. Nos ayuda a visualizar nuestra pintura mejor We will have a better understanding of the space on everything around the painting. Entenderemos el espacio de la pintura mejor It will do this in a way. Hare esto, en una forma It's just for us. Es solo para nosotros This is just something. Esto es simplemente Hey, if we're going into a painting, Si estamos entrando a una pintura we have to understand it to the best of our abilities, right? Tenemos que entenderla lo más posible So this helps us, Esto nos ayuda this helps move us out of what we're thinking. Nos aleja de lo que sea que estamos pensando Put it in a completely opposite, Y nos pone en otro lugar a different point of view, right? con otro punto de vista So we have to move the masses around or maybe we'll find some new shapes, Movemos las masas y quiza encontremos nuevas formas right? So let's go. Vamo arriba So we're going to use the same page, Vamos a usar la misma hoja but on the other side, Pero del otro lado we're going to use the blob a little right now. Vamos a usar el otro ejercicio un cacho So we're going to re-imagine our perspective. Entonces, reimaginemos la perspectiva What are we gonna do? We're gonna imagine our painting. Que vamos a hacer? Vamos a imaginar nuestra pintura But from the top. Pero vista desde arriba So imagine the character would be here. Asi que imaginamos que nuestro personaje estaría aquí Right? Verdad? I'm just gonna do this. Simplemente voy a hacer esto Let's, let's think about it. Veamos y pensemos al respecto What would we see from the top? ¿Qué veríamos desde arriba? How big is the hat, does it cover the whole face? ¿Qué tan grande es el gorro? ¿Cubre la cara? I think we would see mainly the hat. Creo que veriamos principalmente el gorro We would see the top of the beak, right? La parte de arriba del pico We would see maybe some of the chest going out from the big size. Veriamos algo del pecho saliendo We will definitely see the wing. Definitivamente veriamos el ala Probably there will be another wing. Probalemente habria otra ala We don't see on the painting, Que no vemos en la pintura but we know it's there. And think about it. Pero sabemos que esta y pensamos al respecto Maybe the legs, I don't think we would see like the end of the legs but not more. Quiza las piernas, creo que veriamos el final y no mucho mas So let's see here. Asi que veamos Let's try. Probemos So they hat, maybe it occupies a lot of space, asi que el gorro quiza ocupe una banda de espacio maybe it does . Over here. Quiza lo hace. Por aca And we also have our kind of antenna feather kind of thing to También tenemos esta pluma antena cosa give seem like they're Robinhood kind of vibes, right? Me da un aire de robinhood So we just add it this way. Asi que simplemente lo agregamos por aca Imagine like the camera is here. Imaginemos que la cámara esta aca It should be around here. Debería estar por aca Let's see, the beak will be here. Veamos el pico deberia estar por aca Let's use this kinda shape to our favor the one we left from the Usemos esta forma en nuestro favor, la que dejamos de watercolor before la acuerela de antes Because it may show us something interesting. Porque nos puede mostrar algo interesante There is still a room to grow. Todavía hay lugar para crecer That's why we have our blob technique here, Y es por eso que tenemos los blobs aca the one we did beforehand, Los que hicimos antes maybe you can get some shapes. Quiza podemos conseguir formas We didn't think of from another angle. Que no pensamos sobre en otro ángulo It's more interesting. Es mas interesante So let's see. Asi que veamos So the hat would have a little bit of volume. El gorro tendría algo de volumen This will be a little up from that. Esto esta un poco mas arriba This should be a little bit like this. Esto deberia ser un poco mas así Now the chest I think Ahora el pecho, creo que we would see a little bit of chest because it seemed like kind of veriamos algo del pecho, porque parece como algo something that goes out it, right? que sale de él, cierto? Let's do some lines, these lines. Tiremos unas líneas Are to signify planes, Son para significar planos like where would things be? Nos ayuda a visualizar donde estan las cosas Let's see here, we have this watercolor blobs, Veamos acá, tenemos estas formas let's use it in our favor, right? Usemoslas en nuestro favor Look at this shape. Fijate esta forma I think it's way more interesting. Creo que es mas interesante lets add something of that over here. Agreguemos algo de eso por aca So we would have the legs, Asi que tendriamos las piernas Let's see the legs. A ver las piernas Should the legs be seen? ¿Deberián verse? I think this one should be seen, Creo que esta si of course, from upstair por supuesto , desde arriba And this one upstairs from up above and this one maybe, Y esta desde arriba quiza maybe like this feet a here maybe. Quizá, como este pie acá, quizá And then it's something more like here, right? Y luego es algo más tipo aca, cierto? Kind of wobbling around and not really thinking Como caminando por ahi, no pensando mucho much about if it's real or not, is it interesting? Is it not? si es real o no, no importa, es interesante? eso importa Can we find any shape here? Podemos encontrar alguna forma acá? Why do we also do this? Por qué hacemos esto? Well, there's something very important. Bueno , hay algo importante I'm going to show you right now, Te voy a mostrar ahora which is kinda, lets see light where do we que es , donde queremos que la luz want the light to be coming from in the painting, right? venga desde en la pintura Well, I want it to be coming from this way. Bueno, quiero que venga desde esta dirección And like, I would say, Y diria que into this area so I can see it better. Apunta a esta área así se ve mejor So how do I signify it? Así que , ¿Cómo la marco? Well, I'm going to teach you how to do like a 3D arrow right now. Te voy a enseñar como hacer una flecha 3D I try to... usually represented like this, Intento ... usualmente representarlo asi just like a circle. Solo un círculo 00:04:55.395 --> 00:05:01.255 With point just like we do it. We do a cone. Con una punta , osea hacemos un cono And then from here, Y desde aca we just do the same shape again. Hacemos la misma forma denuevo So it looks like an arrow coming this way, right? Asi parece una flecha en esa dirección From up, we can see the top plane of the arrow. Desde arriba veriamos el techo de la flecha So we know we're on top of it and it's coming from the top right. Eso nos dice que estamos por encime de la flecha y que viene desde arriba So kinda like this way, Algo asi you see here will be the top of the arrow. Veras que acá esta la cima de la flecha Here's the point of the arrow, y acá la punta so it's something like that. se vera algo asi I'll show you also if we wanted to do it differently. Aca van otras , dependiendo de donde venga la luz Let's see if it's going likes straight down. You will just see. Si viene directo desde abajo vas a ver This, you just see the circle, right? Simplemente el círculo cierto So the light's coming right on top. La luz viene directo de arriba You see, you only see the top of the arrow. Y veras que solo ves la cima de la flecha But if we're coming from below, Pero si viene desde abajo you would see like the point of the arrow on the circle around it. Solo verías la punta y un círculo alrededor So something like this is to signify it coming from the bottom, right. Algo así nos dice que viene desde abajo And then you can play around with different perspectives, right? Y después podes jugar con otras perspectivas So here, maybe we can put it comes from the front. Esta por ejemplo podemos decir que viene de frente You see, and goes like that way. I que va en esa dirección Something like this. Algo asi We can use it on a favor or we can play around with different kinds of shapes. Podemos usarlo a nuestro favor, y jugar con varías formas Just using these like double pointed cone to signify the arrow depending on where it is. Usando este doble cono , apuntado a donde va la luz So why does this help us? Asi que porque nos ayuda esto Well, if we know where the light is coming from, Bueno , si sabemos de donde viene la luz we know where we will see. Sabemos donde veremos Lighter colors will see like the lighting impacting where we see the shadows, right? Colores mas claros, donde impacta la luz y por lo tanto sombras So here we know there's, Así que acá sabemos que there's like volume, right? hay volumen So I would say like from here, Asi que diría que de aca en adelante this should be dark, right? debería ser oscuro This should be darker than over here. Esto debería ser más oscuro que acá Um, Im not traying, doesn't need to be realistic, No intento realismo doesn't need to be perfect shadows. No necesitan ser sombras perfectas I just need to understand where I'm coming from. Solo necesito entender lo que estoy haciendo So this is a map we'll use when creating our painting. Este mapa usaremos al pintar So here I would say, Aquí diría okay, here's darker even. que es más oscuro incluso Lets just mark it that way Dejemoslo marcado I tried to keep the volume thing. Intento mantener el volumen I will say here is, darker, Diría que acá es más oscuro darks to the feather itself, Oscuro para la pluma misma I would say is like lighter over here and darker over here, Es más claro por acá y mas oscuro acá but not darker than this, Pero no más oscuro que esto because it's further away. Poruqe esta más lejos de la luz This has less light than this, Esto tiene menos luz que esto so it should be darker but not as dark. Así que debería ser oscuro pero no tanto como esto You'll see I'm using the same page. Veras que estoy usando la misma hoja Again. De nuevo We don't want to waste materials on things. No queremos gastar materiales en cosas We don't need to waste materials on. Que no necesitamos gastar en So let's see. Veamos Let's just make it darker. Hagamoslo más oscuro Here will be completely light. Aca va a estar completamente iluminado That a little bit of darkness is further away, but with light. Habra un poco de oscuridad más lejos, pero todavía con luz So just like this, like in the leg, Algo asi, como en la pierna the other leg shouldn't be completely in the darkness, La otra no debería estar completamente a oscuras but I think maybe here should have Pero creo que aca debería tener more light and here, the beak itself would be a lot darker. Más luz que acá, el pico debería ser más oscuro This is like a... this is, Esto es como has the shape that the same shape as my arm look, la forma de mi brazo , mira I have light coming from that way. Tengo luz viniendo de esa dirección So you see here is, Y veras que this is higher than here, Esto está mas alto que esto so it blocks the light and in the beak. Así que bloquea la luz, en el pico The same happens but on the opposite way. Pasa lo mismo, pero al revez So let's see. Así que veamos It's darker, here is like an medium tone and intermediate tone. And here's light. Es más oscuro, aca va un tono intermedio y acá hay luz so we don't have to do anything. Así que no tenemos que tocarlo The same happens with the chest. Lo mismo pasa con el pecho The chest should be light El pecho debe tener luz It should be darker here than over here, right? Y de este lado debe ser más oscuro Because the light is coming from this way. Porque la luz viene desde aca Why do we do this? ¿Por qué hacemos esto? Even though it doesn't even look like this? Sabiendo que nuestra obra así no se ve And it doesn't even look that interesting. Y ni siquiera se ve interesante Let's say, Well, because we want to understand our painting better, Digamos que es para entender nuestra pintura mejor we want to go in knowing everything we can, right? Queremos entrar sabiendo todo lo que podamos So let's use this in our favor. Así que usemos esto a nuestro favor For example, almost forgot. Por ejemplo, casi me olvido I forgot about the wing and the tail, del ala y la cola the wing, it will be El ala sera visible and other wing will be visible here. And the tail. visible y la otra se vería acá. La cola And I like this not much on here. Sería así, no se vería casi nada The small feathers. Las pequeñas plumas We see. Las vemos They will be a little bigger that we see here. Van a ser un poco mas grandes de como las vemos acá Why? 'cause ¿Por qué? Porque They are far away Porque estan lejos And even though they're far away, E incluso estando lejos we see them clearly. Las vemos claramente So they have to be in this kind of view. Así que tiene que estar en esta vista We have to make them a little bigger because we're saying, Tenemos que hacerlas un poco más grandes porque estamos diciendo hey, yes, they are further away. Sí, estan lejos But because they are big they don't look that small, Pero porque son grandes no se ven chiquitos which is exactly what's happening down here. Qué es exactamente lo que esta pasando acá Right? Cierto? So let's see, let's look at the blobs to see what we can add. Veamos nuestros blobs a ver que podemos agregar Maybe I was looking and I see this shape here. Quiza, estaba mirando y vi esta forma Looks a lot like our wing shape. Que se parece mucho a nuestra alá Right here. When we say, Justo aca. Cuando decimos the subconscious helps, this exercise we did before. Que el subconsciente ayuda, este ejericicio que hicimos antes Even if we did not want to, Queramos o no if we didn't think about it, Si no lo pensamos incluso it has changed a little how we've done this in spite of us. A cambiado nuestro rumbo sin nuestro consentimiento So the same shape you find here, you'll find it. Asi que la formas que creaste, las vas a encontrar Let's keep looking a little for interesting shapes. Busquemos por formas For example, we can do something like this for the chest. Por ejemplo podemos hacer algo asi en el pecho We can make it a little bit more like this shape here Podemos hacerla un poco más como esta forma And that's not saying added the hole itself but maybe some kind of shade y no es agregar un pozo, sino quiza agregar algo de sombra that breaks this one up and as we did here. Let's see. Que rompe la forma como hicimos acá , veamos Well, this is kind of a blob off itself. Esto es una forma por si misma The body shape, the body shape is kind of like this, right? La forma del cuerpo es así Kinda works, kinda turn arround , I think. Funciona, se tuerce , creo que We can add a little bit more of this kind of shapes. Podemos agregar un poco más de esta forma From here. De la otra hoja For example, let's break the wing out there in the space with this shape here, right? Por ejemplo, rompamos el ala con esta forma This here and a little bit of depth Esto acá y un poco de profunidad This kind of shape here, Esta forma aca I find it quite interesting actually. Me parece bastante interesante So I'm just gonna do it like this. Así que voy a hacer esto así Doesn't have to be right, No tiene que ser perfecto Doesn't need to work. No tiene que funcionar But we have tried it here and not in our finished product, Pero lo probamos acá y no en nuestro producto final which is extremely important. Lo cual es importante So Let's see here, let's end it Okay veamos de terminar esto I think more or less, Creo que mas o menos estamos we are understanding how our lights and shadows should work here. Estamos entendiendo como funcionan nuestras luces y sombras so, here should be the darkest, right? Aca debería estar lo más oscuro Here should be the lightest, this should be dark too. Aca debería estar lo más claro, esto debería ser mas claro So you see, I'm not thinking, Well I'm thinking, Como ven no estoy pensando, Bueno si pensand but I'm not thinking about doing this, Pero no en hacer esto making this realistic or making these appealing or great realista, o contundente o fantastico This is just for me, it's a map Es solo para mi, es un mapa I use it in my favor Lo uso a mi favor So don't feel pressured to make it beautiful. Asi que no sientas presión de hacerlo lindo use usa Old rugged paper. Papel viejo y arrugado Use ones you already ready, Usa unos que ya hayas stained with something else, Manchado con algo más maybe coffee fell from, Quiza café se cayo from your cup and you think it ruined some of your papers. De la taza y pensas que te arruino el papel Well, maybe not. Bueno, Quiza no Maybe you can use the coffee stains in your favor. Quizá podemos usar las manchas en nuestro favor Well, in the end the coffee works. A fin de cuentas el café You can paint with coffee like if it was watercolor. It's great. Podes usarlo como si fuera acuerale, esta tremendo Actually. Es más It's a fun exercise even ,now that, Es divertido, ahora que we've done this exercise and I think we understand Hemos hecho este ejercicio creo que entendemos the painting more and more as we approach the final steps. Nuestra pintura más mienstras llegamos al final A think we are ready to go into digital. Creo que estamos prontos para ir a digital So let's get going okay? Asi que pasemos a la siguiente clase Let's do it :) Vamo arriba :) 7. Preparing Our Canvas & Importing Images: What's also very important other than what we're going to paint, Además de que importa que vamos a pintar it's what we're going to paint on. Importa que vamos a pintar sobre This class, will mainly oriented around putting our settings down and explaining Esta clase es para ver nuestra configuración y explicar what the different color modes mean and what que hacen los diferentes modos de color DPI to work on the painting on their objective. En que DPI trabajar dependiendo del objetivo If you already have your settings down, Si ya sabes tu configuración feel free to skip this one. For the rest, let's go. Sentite libre de saltearlo, para el resto, vamos Now that we have Photoshop open in my case, Ahora que tengo photoshop abierto I'm going to teach you how to move around and Te voy a explicar como moverte alrededor y create a new file where we're going to work on. Crear nuevos archivos en donde trabajar First of all, as you can see, Lo primero que todo, como pueden ver my Photoshop is in Spanish. Mi Photoshop esta en Español Don't worry about that. No se preocupen Buttons are all in the same place in each version, Los botones estan en el mismo lugar in each language, so I'll translate it to English to the best of my abilities. en cualquier lenguaje, lo voy a traducir al ingles lo mejor que pueda We go to Create New here on the left. Vamos a crear nuevo a la izquierda This pop-up will appear. Esta ventana va a aparecer Here, will be different presets. Van a ver diferentes presets Mainly the first thing you'll see are the presets called recent, Lo primero es "recent" which are the ones you've recently used, Que te muestra las que usaste hace poco it can remember it and shows it back to you. Lo recuerda y te lo muestra denuevo Then there's one for standard photographs, Hay para fotografía standard for printing, for illustration, web design. impresión, ilustración, diseño web But for now let's go to Recent. Pero por ahora voy a reciente I like to work on a resolution of 5.000 pixels by 5.000 pixels. Trabajo en una resolución de 5 mil por 5 mil pixeles But here you can change it, Pero aca podes cambiarlo pixels, inches, centimeters, millimeters, Pixeles, pulgadas, centímetros, milímetros depending on what you need, Dependiendo de que necesites you can change it and it will automatically translate between, Lo podes cambiar y lo traduce automaticamente for example, centimeters and pixels. por ejemplo centimetros y pixeles Now, if I put here, Ahora , si ponemos acá for example, 6,000 by 5,000, por ejemplo, 6 mil por 5 mil you will see that something over here called orientation changed, Veras que algo llamado la orientación cambio which means is the canvas going to be horizontal or vertical Lo que significa que el lienzo va a estar horizontal o vertical If I press the other option here, Si apreto la otra opción aca it will change both values as to make the canvas vertical. Cambia ambos valores para hacerlo vertical But as I like to work on a square canvas, Pero como me gusta trabajar en lienzos cuadrados this doesn't really affect me much. Esto no me afecta mucho Here's something called resolution. Aca va algo llamado resolución Well, why is this important? Bueno, ¿Por qué importa? It depends on what you're going to use this piece for. Depende de para que vayas a usar la obra If you're going to print it, Si la vas a imprimir I recommend using 300 DPI as a minimum, Recomiendo usar 300 DPI como minimo and if you're just going to display it on a screen, Y si es solo para pantalla 72 DPI is more than enough, 72 DPI es más que suficiente and it will help us keep off our file size to a reasonable extent. Y nos permite controlar el tamaño de nuestro archivo Next is color mode. Lo siguiente es modo de color Well, same as before. Bueno, lo mismo de antes Let's identify what we're going to use this piece for. Identifiquemos para que vamos a usar la obra RGB color is the same color mode our screens use. RGB es el modo de color que usan las pantallas If it's just for display, si es solo para display use that mode, and if you're going to print it, usa ese modo, si se va a imprimir use CMYK, because that's the same mode our printers use. usa CMYK, porque es el modo que usan nuestras impresoras I'll put the settings down for this project. Voy a poner la configuración de este proyecto As it will only be for screen on my case, Solo va a ser para pantalla en mi caso I'll put it on 72 DPI and RGB color mode. Lo voy a poner en 72 DPI y RGB One more thing to note is the background. Una cosa más a notar es el fondo You can choose if you want it white, Podes elegir si lo queres blanco black, or any color of your choosing, or transparent. negro, un color que elijas o transparente In my case, I'll pick color. En mi caso voy a elegir color I usually like to work with neutral blues Usualmente me gusta trabajar con azules neutros for my background because I like to put oranges on the front. en el fondo, porque me gusta poner naranjas en el frente Let's see. Let's click "Create" here, Veamos, clickiemos "crear" acá and this is what's going to show up. Y esto es lo que va a aparecer Maybe your Photoshop looks a little different than mine because I Quiza tu photoshop se vea diferente al mio , esto es porque moved it around little for it to be more comfortable for me. moví algunas cosas para que sea más cómodo para mi But things we should know, Pero, cosas a saber here are the layers. Aca estan las capas This button creates a new layer. Este botón crea una nueva capa Here is the brush tool, Aca esta el pincel which has the shortcut B, que el atajo es la tecla B and here is the Eraser tool. Y esta es la goma Let's learn how to import an image into Photoshop. Aprendamos a importar imagenes a Photoshop I've already taken a picture of our drawing, Ya le saque una foto a nuestro dibujo and all I'm going to do is just grab it from the folder and Y lo único que voy a hacer es agarrarlo de la carpeta y just put it on the page itself importing its as easy as that. Y simplemente ponerlo en el lienzo, importar es super fácil Now, if we want to change the size of this image, Ahora si queres cambiar el tamaño de la imagen you just press Control + T, Apretas Ctrl + T and you can move it around from every corner. Y lo podes mover de cada esquina If you hold Shift while grabbing a corner, Si mantenes SHIFT mientras agarras una esquina when you change the size of the image, cuando cambias el tamaño de la imagen it will maintain its proportions. Va a mantener sus proporciones Last but not least, Último pero no menos importante if you hold down the Control key while moving some of the corners around, Si mantener Ctrl mientras moves una de las esquinas you'll see it moves only that corner. Veras que mueve solo esa esquina This really helps us create some perspective, Esto nos ayuda a crear perspectiva maybe change some specific sizes. y cambiar unos tamaños especificos I think it's a very useful tool you can use. Creo que es algo muy útil para usar Nice. Well, now that we have it all down, Que rica, ahora que tenemos todo pronto we have where we're going to work on, Tenemos donde vamos a trabajar and if you've added your images inside the canvas, we're ready to work. Y si agregaste tus imagenes en el lienzo, estamos prontos para trabajar We're going into the final stretch, Vamos a la recta final so let's keep it up. :) asi que vamos :) 8. Color Palette & Painting the Base Layer: Color is the part I like the most. El color es mi parte favorita I'm very excited to share a little bit of knowledge Estoy emocionado de compartir algo de conocimiento here and what I like to do, so let's go. acá y que me gusta hacer, así que vamos Let's start by choosing a color palette for our piece. Empecemos eligiendo una paleta de colores When I work, I like to use a complementary color palette. Cuando trabajo me gusta usar una paleta de colores complementarios What does this mean? Que significa esto It means I use colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel. Significa que uso colores opuestos en el círculo cromático For example, we have blue and orange, Por ejemplo, azul y naranja purple and yellow, and red and green. Violeta y amarillo, rojo y verde You can also go a little bit beyond and use double complementary palette, for example. También podes usar una paleta de doble complementarios You could also use an analogous color palette. También podes usar colores análogos This means using colors that are near in the color wheel, Eso significa usar colores vecino en el círculo cromático for example, here I'll show you from red to yellow. Por ejemplo, de rojo a amarillo These color palettes I presented are all harmonious, Estas paletas son harmonicas that means they work together very well for the eye Esto significa que trabajan muy bien juntos but you could move away from them and I think Pero podes alejarte de ellas , y creo que everybody should find the time to Todo el mundo debería encontrar el tiempo experiment with non-traditional color palettes and see what you can find. Para experimentar con paletas no tradicionales Maybe there's something more interesting for you there. Quiza hay algo mas interesante para vos ahí I'm going to put everything as what we had before. Voy a poner todo como estaba antes Let's create a new layer and first of all, Creemos una nueva capa, y primero que todo we're going to draw our image. vamos a dibujar nuestra imagen I won't trace it in my because, No la voy a calcar porque again, I'm just going to give new things pop up, Nuevamente, le doy lugar a que salgan cosas nuevas I'm going to let it surprise me for one last time. Voy a dejar que me sorprenda denuevo I'm going to grab an orange color, Voy a agarrar un color naranja maybe a medium tone, not too pure. Un tono medio, no muy puro Going to put, let me see. Voy a poner, veamos This brush not very big, El pincel no muy grande and I am just going to draw. Y simplemente voy a dibujar Based on the image we have here, Basado en la imagen que tenemos aca we're going to just do a little drawing. Vamos a simplemente hacer un pequeño dibujo What should we look for when drawing? A que deberíamos prestarle atención al dibujar Well, something called the variety of lines, A algo llamado variedad de línea our lines should have some variety, Nuestras líneas deberían tener algo de variedad they shouldn't be all the same. No deberían ser todas iguales This is the same reason why I told you all Es la misma razón por las que les dije to change the shapes you were doing at the beginning of this class. de cambiar las formas que hacíamos al principio de la clase This creates asymmetry which makes it way more interesting for us. Esto crea asimetría que hace todo más interesante para nosotros Let me use Control+ T, Usemos Ctrl + T because I'm going to big at the moment. Porque lo estoy haciendo muy grande This creates more interesting compositions, Esto crea composiciones más interesantes more interesting things for us. Para nosotros I will twist this a little, Voy a torcer esto un poco I think it will look better if I twist it, Creo que se ve mejor si lo tuerzo just move this around, Movemos esto un poco have the wing Tenemos el ala change my brush accidentally the wing here. cambie mi pincel por error, aca esta el ala Let's put the chest we did Pongamos el pecho que hicimos I think it looks great. Creo que se ve bien I think we can use this a lot in our favor again, Creo que podemos usar esto a nuestro favor denuevo and I'll make it a little smaller. Y lo voy a hacer un poco más chico We want to try to fit in most of the picture on the composition so let's go this Quiero intentar poner la mayoría de la foto en la composición way and let's try to see here we caused a small symettry y notemos que acá cree una pequeña simetría They all end at the same part, so it's boring. Terminan a la vez y eso es aburrido I'm just going to change it, Así que lo voy a cambiar I'm going to make this one go a little lower, Voy a hacer que esta baje un poco más maybe change the shape a little also. Quizá podemos cambiar un poco más la forma Change this one so I can exaggerate it a little more. Cambiar esta así lo puedo exagerar un cacho mas The difference and I'll put it over here, la diferencia y la voy a poner aca we still have the chest. Todavía tenemos el pecho Want this chest just to pop out, Quiero que este pecho resalte so let's give it some importance. así que démosle importancia I think it's important. Creo que es importante I think the wing is taking too much of our attention away. creo que el ala nos roba mucho la atención Let's make this line smaller this also, again, Hagamos esta líneas mas pequeña we differentiate these a lot more. Diferenciemos estas un poco más Let's twist the antenna connecting the other way. rotemos la antena para que vaya al otro lado I think it would look better. Creo que se ve mejor así Let's give more importance to here Démosle mas importancia acá so people go this way. Así la gente va en esta dirección Let's finish the head out maybe the end of the body and we still have the legs left. Terminemos la cabeza, el cuerpo y faltan las piernas This straight-up, Esta directo hacía arriba let's erase a little and the other one was going the other way, Borremos un poco, y la otra va en otra dirección it was going this way, again, Iba en esta dirección wanted to fit completely, Quiero que entre todo so I'm just going to for the last time, Así que por última vez I'm going to make it a little smaller, let's finish it. Voy a hacerlo algo mas chico, y terminemoslo More or less, I'm going to make Masomenos. vot a hacer the brush a little smaller and sorts and adding some of the smaller shapes in some way el pincel mas chico y agregar formas más pequeñas just for me so as to have an idea later once we paint. Solo para mi, para tener una idea después al pintar Lets see. Here some there, we have the beak, Veamos, agreguemos algo por aca, tenemos el pico I'm going to exaggerate, Voy a exagerar going to turn this off we don't need it anymore and grab, Voy a apagar la imagen, no la necesitamos más. the beak with the lasso tool, select it all. Voy a agarrar el pico con el lasso, seleccionarlo todo I'm going to play around a little with this, y jugar un cacho con todo esto I think it's very important for this, Creo que es muy importante este this space, I think we'll add a lot. este espacio, creo que agrega mucho Lets give a lot of importance to the beak itself, Demosle importancia al pico mismo would think do they looking pretty interesting as a shape Diría que se ve interesante como forma as a silhouette I think we can add, Como silueta, creo que podemos agregar we can differentiate these a little bit better, nos ayuda a diferenciar las cosas un cacho mejor so we have a more clearer silhouette. asi tenemos una silueta clara See here, nice. Mira aca Let's rotate it. How do you do that? Rotemos la imagen, ¿Como se hace eso? You go to image, Vas a imagen image rotation, rotate canvas horizontally, Rotación de imagen, rotar lienzo horizontalmente and it will completely change. Y va a cambiar por completo We gain a new perspective on it. Ganamos una nueva perspectiva We can see if things just look weird or don't work. Podemos ver si algo esta raro o no funciona For example, you remember I talked about symmetry. Por ejemplo, recordemos que hable de las simetrías Well, I kinda created the same thing here without even noticing. Bueno, acá cree lo mismo sin notarlo I'm going to erase this and go up a little exaggerate it more Voy a borrar acá y exagerarlo un cacho There's no chance of a symmetry there, for example, Asi no queda chance de una simetría think these two here here and here looked very similar, Creo que estos dos se ven muy similares this two sides of the chest. estos dos lados del pecho This one, which is farther away, Este que está mas lejos should be a little smaller for example to start with, Debería ser más chico para empezar and also maybe you can play around with the shapes a little bit. Y quizá podamos jugar con las formas un cacho mas I try to loosely grab my pen and Intento agarrar mi lapiz muy suavemente just let gravity and pressure this thing see, dejando que la gravedad y la presión hagan lo suyo I think it's a little better. creo que quedo mejor In fact, let's do that here too with the eraser, es mas, hagamos esto también con la goma let's change this shape a little, cambiemos esta forma it's destroying the lines we had before. destrozando las líneas que teniamos Let's move around. Movamosnos You can see it's already more interesting than before. Ya se nota que es más interesante que antes Let's add more variety, a stronger line inside, we don't have that. Agregemos mas variedad, una línea mas fuerte adentro, que no hay I almost forgot the shouting signals and again, Casi me olvido de las señales de grito de nuevo as last time, I forgot the tail. como la vez pasada, me olvide de la cola It's a thing I'm forgetting a lot really. Es algo de lo que me estoy olvidando bastante Let's have the small signals small feathers Pongamos las pequeñas señales, pequeñas plumas which will be flown away Que se estan bolando Let's see now. The last thing we're going to do Veamos ahora, la última cosa que vamos a hacer on this lesson is creating the base of the painting. en esta lección es crear la base de la pintura I'm working like if this was a real oil painting, Lo trabajo como si fuese una pintura de óleo real so I'll create a new layer and also work from dark Asi que voy a crear una nueva capa y trabajar de oscuro to light and we go from neutral to pure colors. a claro, y de neutro a colores puros What am I going to do? I'm going to grab ¿Qué voy a hacer? Voy a agarrar a more neutral orange and I'm going to go around and just add it everywhere, Un color naranja más neutral, me voy a mover y agregarlo a todos lados im going to grab this color here Voy a agarrar este color de aca let's make the brush bigger. A hacer el pincel más grande I'm going to give everything a coat of this base. Voy a darle a todo una pasada de esta base As I mentioned when the pencil enter into respect the volumes while I work. Como mencione con el lapiz, intento respetar los volúmenes al trabajar Why am I doing this? ¿Por qué hago esto? Well, it's easy actually. Bueno es fácil enrealidad We want the colors to harmonize, to work together. Queremos que los colores harmonizen How do we do that? ¿Cómo hacemos eso? It's not only selecting the right colors that work together, No es solo elegir colores que trabajen juntos it's also distributing the color around. Sino que es distribuir colores por ahi It's very important that all colors are everywhere. Es importante que todos los colores esten por todos lados If we add orange in one place, in one area, Si agregamos naranja en un lugar, una área the area is going to feel disconnected unless we use Va a sentirse desconectada a menos que the same orange and just move it around the piece. Usemos ese naranaja alrededor de la pieza I'm just going to be adding, Solo voy a agregar change the brush again and it tends to happened. Cambie por error el pincel, me pasa bastante Moving around, respecting the volumes that you will see, you can see here, Moviéndome, respetando los volumenes que podes ver por aca it makes that curvature obvious, hace la curvatura obvia and try to respect that. E intento respetar eso I don't know, I want to make this plain so we're just going to put it like this. Quiero hacer estas formas un cacho planas, asi que voy a aplicarlo así As I mentioned, we're going to be distributing even the base orange around. Como dije, vamos a distribuir esta base por todos lados I'll create a new layer, Voy a crear una nueva capa put it behind the one we're painting on, ponerla por detrás de la que estamos pintando and I'm going to just add this color to the background. Y voy a agregarle este color al fondo Why? Because it's important. ¿Por qué? Porque es importante Again, the background as all things should have the same colors going around. de nuevo el fondo, como todo, debería tener estos colores alrededor This creates a common factor between every color, crea un factor común en la pintura entre todos los colroes every color we put over it when I mix with this one so in some way, todo color que pongamos encima se va a mezclar it will help us create harmony. y nos ayuda a crear harmonía They all going to have something in common, todos tienen algo en común so they are all going to work together. Así que van a trabajar juntos Well, I think this is enough for a base. Bien, creo que eso es suficiente para la base Now that we have the base ready, Y ahora que tenemos la base pronta let's go and move over into adding depth and some light with color! :) movamosnos a agregar profundiad y luz usando color! :) 9. Creating Depth & Light: Let's keep going. Sigamos adelante Always remember that paintings look terrible until they don't, Siempre recorda que las pinturas se ven horrible hasta que no so part of the process is learning to trust the process, Parte del proceso es aprender a confiar en el proceso and you'll see the painting turns out way better than you think in the end Y vas a ver que la pintura termina mucho mejor de lo que pensas Let's go. As I've mentioned before, Vamos. Como mencione antes we're going to be working from dark to light colors, Vamos a trabajar de colores oscuros a claros and from neutral to pure colors. y de neutros a puros But how do we know where to put them? Pero ¿Cómo sabemos donde ponerlos? Well, we have to take two things into consideration. Bueno, tenemos que tomar 2 cosas en cuenta The first one is the distance to the viewer. Primero: la distancia al espectador As you may have seen on real life, Como quiza notaron en la vida real the further away an object is from us, Cuanto más lejos este un objeto de nosotros the more neutral and the less contrast it has with the atmosphere. Se vuelve mas neutro y pierde contraste con la atmósfera How do we translate that into our painting? ¿Cómo traducimos esto a nuestra pintura? Well, the further away from the viewer, Cuanto mas lejos del espectador we have to make the color more neutral or more similar to the background, Tenemos que hacer el color mas neutro y mas parecido al fondo so in conclusion, reduce contrast. en conclusion, reducir contraste But also, we should also take into consideration our point of interest. Pero, también hay que tomar en cuenta nuestro punto de interes This means where do I want the viewer to go? esto significa : ¿Dónde quiero que vaya el espectador? If I want it to go, Si quiero que vaya for example, to the eye, Por ejemplo, al ojo I will just add Voy a agregar purer and warmer colors which both call attention on the area of the eye itself, puros y cálidos, que llaman la atención en el ojo mismo and the further away I am from my focal point or point of interest, Y cuanto mas lejos del punto de foco the more neutral and colder colors I will try to use. voy a intentar usar colores mas neutros y frios Because there's one thing we got to accept is that artists lie, porque hay una cosa que tenemos que acpetar, los artistas mienten a pivotal part of the art creation process is lying. Una parte vital de crear arte es mentir We are creating an experience and a message, Creamos una experiencia y un mensaje and even if we are copying a photograph, e incluso si estamos copiando una foto if the photograph has something that doesn't work well for us we change it. si la foto tiene algo que nos juega en contra, la cambiamos If reality works in a way that doesn't help us convey your message, si la realidad funciona de una forma que nos jode you should have the freedom to change it in your art piece. tenes completa libertad de cambiarlo en tu obra Well, what does that mean for us now? ¿Qué significa eso para nosotros? Well, it's simple. Es simple Even if logically near my focal point, Incluso si logicamente cerca del foco which is the eye, there shouldn't be reds, warm colors, (el ojo), no debería haber rojos ni calidos or there shouldn't be a lot of contrast comparing it to the rest of the piece, o no debería haber tanto contraste comparandolo con el resto de la pieza I will put it anyways there because I want people to pay special attention to that part. Lo voy a poner igual, porque quiero que la gente vaya a ese punto The first thing I'm going to do is connect Lo primero que voy a hacer es conectar the sketch layer to the base layer, we said before, la capa del boceto con la capa del boceto, como dije antes because I prefer working on only one layer to get a more traditional way of painting. prefiero trabajar en una solo capa , para simular algo mas tradicional I'm also going to delete this layer because it's completely empty. voy a borrar esta capa porque esta vacía What you're going to see me do is move around my piece, Lo que me vas a ver hacer, es moverme en la obra with every time lighter and pure colors, con colores cada vez mas claros y puros but distributing them every time less and less. Pero distribuyendolos cada vez menos y menos You will also notice that the sketch will be less and less noticeable over time. También vas a notar que el boceto se va a ir borrando This is completely fine. esto es normal The sketch has already served its purpose, el boceto a cumplido su proposito and so we're going to just paint over it and change it when we need it. Asi que vamos a pintar sobre el, y cambiarlo a merced One of the main mistakes I do is that I'm Uno de mis principales errores es quite a brute when creating that step from pure to neutral. ser bruto al momento de pasar de puro a neutro You should make it like an ease in from pure to neutral. deberia ser un degrade de puro a neutro But I tend to just, pero tiendo a decir well, I want you to go here, Quiero que vayas aca so here's the pure colors and then I leave it very asi que pongo puro ahi, y el resto me queda muy neutro neutral around when actually it should be like an escalation of color. en vez de ser escalones es como una caida en picada I'm going to take that into consideration and distribute this a little better. sabiendo eso, voy a distribuir mis colores mejor As I've mentioned before, Como mencione antes the biggest contrast of your piece should be on your focal point. el mayor contraste debería estar en el punto de foco But how do we check on that? Pero como nos aseguramos de eso Well, it's easy. es fácil You just create a new layer. Creamos una nueva capa We go to Color Mode, Vamos a Modo Color which is the second to last, que es la penúltima and then select the white color and the bucket tool. después seleccionamos color blanco y el balde It will make the whole painting black and white. Esto hace nuestra pintura blanco y negro This will help us check further values of our colors. esto nos ayuda a chequiar valores Now, I'm going to do something extreme to generate my focal point. Ahora voy a hacer algo agresivo para generar mi foco I'm going to grab a very dark blue and I'm going to draw the eye. voy a agarrar un azul muy oscuro y dibujar el ojo Now, if we go to black and white, ahora si vamos a blanco y negro you will notice that it's clear that this is the darkest part of the piece. notaras que es lo más oscuro de la pieza But what's missing? Pero ¿Qué falta? Well, we're missing light colors. Nos faltnan los claros We're going to grab a lighter orange and play with that. Vamos a agarrar un naranja claro y jugar con eso Something you shouldn't be scared to do and should get Algo que no deberías tener miedo de hacer y the habit of doing is painting over your painting. deberias generar el habito de es pintar sobre tu pintura This means don't be scared to paint over what you have already painted. Esto significa no tener miedo de pintar sobre lo pintado Get in the habit of just drawing and redrawing, Conseguí el hábito de dibujar y dibujar denuevo painting and repainting over it. Pintar y repintar Don't worry about it because imagine for example, No te preocupes, porque por ejemplo you make a mistake. haces un error Well, sometimes we get scared because we think we have lost time and there's not enough. A veces nos asustamos porque pensamos que perdimos el tiempo But thinking that way is like shooting yourself in the foot, Pero pensar así es como dispararse en el pie because the piece itself is telling us, this isn't working. Porque la pintura mismo nos dice que no esta funcionando We as artists know how to correct this, Y como artistas sabemos arreglarlo so just do it, go for it. Así que hacelo, mandate Don't think about it like a waste of time. No lo consideres como una perdida de tiempo In fact, it will save you time in the future. Es mas , te salva tiempo en el futuro As you will see when we go back to black and white, Como verás cuando vuelo al blanco y negro is that the contrast is quite noticeable, es que el contraste es obvio so the next thing to do is distributing these contrasts around, Lo siguiente es distribuir los contrastes always taking into consideration that siempre tomando en consideración the strongest contrast should always be on our focal point. que el contraste mas fuerte siempre tiene que estar en el foco That's exactly what makes it a focal point. eso es lo que lo hace el foco We're going to use this technique used by impressionist painters. Vamos a usar esta técnica usado por los impresionistas By using complimentary colors next to each other, Usando colores complementarios al lado del otro they create vibration which too our eye was interpreted as light. Crean una vibración que identificamos como luz Here that we have an orange color, aca que tenemos un color naranja next to it we're going to put blues. vamos a poner azul al lado When we get in it, the difference is clear. cuando nos acercamos la diferencia es clara You can see line and line and line. podes ver, línea y línea y línea But when you go further away, Pero cuando nos alejamos you'll see it's stronger. Vas a ver que es mas fuerte Let's redraw the eye again. Redibujemos el ojo de nuevo Again, as I mentioned, drawing on top of my painting, Nuevamente, repintando lo pintado well, nothing to lose. Nada que perder In fact, it's even easier because we're working es más fácil aun ya qye estamos trabajando digitally and we're not using more materials. Digitalmente, y no usando material But when I go into black and white I think it's better, Cuando vuelvo a blanco y negro siento que esta mejor it respects the order of values we've established, Respeta el orden de los valores marcados but also it adds a little bit of playfulness, Pero a la vez agrega como algo de juego because when adding these colors, Porque al agregar estos colores they create some interesting textures for the eye. Crea unas texturas interesantes para el ojo There's something very interesting putting Hay algo muy interesante en poner colors next to each other instead of mixing them together, Colores uno al lado del otro en vez de mezclarlos de una it's that we leave the color combining to the mind of the viewer. Dejamos el combinar colores al ojo del espectador I'm going to show you right now with a little experiment Lo voy a demostrar con un pequeño experimento that it actually works way more than we expect. esto funciona mejor de lo esperado incluso We will start by doing some red lines, Empezamos haciendo unas líneas rojas and then we add some blue lines in the middle and we get further away, Y luego agregamos líneas azules entre medio y nos alejamos you will see that our brain itself will form the purplish color, Nuestro cerebro va a formar el color violeta when if we get near the painting, que cuando nos acercamos a la pintura you'll notice it really doesn't exist. Notaremos que realmente no existe There's something very playful and interesting about this. Hay algo muy interesante y divertido en esto In conclusion, everything we do when painting is playing with the mind of the viewer. en conclusión : todo lo que hacemos al pintar es jugar con la mente del espectador That's something we should always take into consideration. Eso es algo que siempre hay que tener en cuenta We've added some light, Agregamos algunos luces so now let's add some darkness. Así que ahora hay que agregar oscuridad When I'm working, I try to use, Cuando trabajo intento usar for this case, both dark oranges and dark blues. en este caso, naranjas y azules oscuros Because you will remember as mentioned before, porque como mencione antes the further away an object is from us, cuanto mas lejos este un objeto the more like the background it should be. Mas se parece al fondo The dark blues help me create that feeling in this case. el azul oscuro me ayuda a crear esa sensación Dark oranges create contrast on my piece without creating Los naranjas oscuros crean contraste en mi obra sin crear a superimposing contrast that gets the attention off the focal point. un contraste mas importante que el del foco Let's bring back the arrow to check on our lights. Traigamos la flecha de nuevo para ver las luces In this case, we mentioned it was something like this. En este caso mencionamos que era algo asi In fact, let's add it now. Es más , agregemosla ahora Actually, we should be adding some more light on the chest, Debería haber un poco más de luz en el pecho and maybe some over here too. Y quiza un poco mas por aca But I won't keep the arrow around because if we go to our values, Pero no voy a mantener la flecha en la obra, porque si miramos los valores you will notice that it is now the lightest color of the piece, vas a notar que se convierte en el color más claro and this is completely distracting from our focal point. Y esto nos distrae de nuestro foco It's also unbeneficial to have it around because as colors work by reference, Tener esto nos molesta porque los colores funcionan por referencia having this on the piece will change our perception of all the other colors. Tener esto en la obra cambia nuestra percepción de todos los otros colores I'll just keep it around in case I need it, La voy a mantener por aca por si la necesito but it won't be visible. Pero invisible It is important to note that the most contrasting thing of this piece would Es muy importante entender que lo mas contrastante en esta pieza be a light orange with texture and a dark blue without texture. es un naranja claro con textura con un azul oscuro sin textura This will always be more contrasting than, for example, Siempre va a ser mas contrastante que , por ejemplo a light blue and a light orange, Un azul claro y un naranja claro or a light orange and a dark orange. O un naranja claro con uno oscuro When moving around the piece, Cuando estes pintando tu pieza take those things into consideration and think Toma estas cosas en consideración y pensa how much contrast do I want to put in here? ¿Cuanto contraste quiero poner acá? In fact, if we go back to black and white, Si vamos a blanco y negro you'll notice that the further away I go from the focal point, Notaras que cuanto más me alejo del foco the less it will contrast. Menos contraste habra But I think right now it's a little bit too extreme. Pero creo que ahora es muy extremo I'm going to use this color a little more so it creates Voy a usar este color un poco mas asi crea naturally the effect where it slowly change into the other one. naturalmente un efecto de cambio al otro color I'm going to make this lighter. Voy a hacer esto mas claro In fact, I tried to put more pressure near the focal point and it's easy to do, Intento apretar mas el lapiz en el foco, y cada vez just press less and less. presionno menos y menos Now let's go back into black and white. Ahora volvamos a blanco y negro I think the difference is clear. Creo que la diferencia es obvia When we put the colors, cuando ponemos los colores the values and the light, los valores y la luz where we think they should be. Donde creemos que deberían estar One thing we almost forgot is to remember to distribute our colors around. Una cosa que casi me olvido es de distribuir mis colores The background, for example, En el fondo por ejemplo I recommend using smaller brush for this, Recomiendo usar un pincel mas pequeño para esto making your brush smaller because as objects move away from us, Hago el pincel mas chico porqeu cuando objetos se alejan we see them as smaller. los vemos mas chicos The same should be for a brush. lo mismo debería aplicarse al pincel The further away in a painting the object is, Cuatno mas lejos en la pintura este el objeto the smaller the paintbrush or the paint stroke should be. Más chica la pincelada debería ser It will help us sell this idea of three-dimensionality. Nos ayuda a vender la idea de tridimensionalidad As you'll see now, Como veras ahora once we get back to black and white, cuando volvemos a blanco y negro you will notice that this background doesn't notaras que el fondo no interfere with the previous contrast and doesn't call our attention. interfiere con el contraste y no llama nuestra atención Anyways, I recommend playing around with some settings. De igual forma, recomiendo jugar con las configuraciones First, select the layer you're working on, Primero elegí la capa en la que estas trabajando the background layer in my case, el fondo en mi caso press Control + U and this pop-up will appear on screen. apreta Ctrl + U y esta ventana va a aparecer First if we move around luminosity slide, Si movemos la luminosidad you'll see that when we go to the right, veras que al ir a la derecha the colors will become lighter, Los colores se vuelven mas claros and if we go to the left, si vamos a la izquierda the colors will become darker. los colores se vuelven mas oscuros If we play around with the saturation settings, Si jugamos con la saturación you'll notice that to the right, notaras que a la derecha the colors will become more saturated, pure, Los colores se vuelven mas saturados, puros and probably more attention-grabbing while moving y probablemente llamen mas la atención, mientras que to the left will leave you with grayish color. a la izquierda agrisa los colores We're going to make it a little darker and a little less pure, Vamos a hacerlo un poco mas oscuro y menos puro but not gray because we still want it to be orange so it harmonizes with our piece, Pero no gris porque todavía queremos que harmonize but we want it to be neutral enough that it doesn't call our attention. Pero lo suficientemente neutro para que no me llame la atención Would you look at that, the painting's looking way better than before, La pintura ya se ve mucho mejor and I really can't wait for you to share your artwork with me later, Y no puedo esperar a que compartan la obra conmigo so let's keep the ball rolling. No es momento de parar Let's keep going. Let's go. :) Vamo arriba! :) 10. Finishing Touches & Exporting: We're almost done. We can't be slacking off right now. Casi estamos, no podemos parar ahora In this class, we'll learn how to put an end to a painting. En esta clase aprenderemos a terminar una pintura Because I've seen many artworks He visto varias pinturas being destroyed by people who just didn't know when to stop. Destrozadas por gente que no supo cuando terminar Knowing when to stop is crucial to Saber parar es crucial the overall creating process and what to render, what to not. para el proceso creativo, que detallar, que no Sometimes it's even beneficial to not make everything Muchas veces es beneficioso no hacer todo completely clear and let the mind of the viewer fill the spaces. completamente claro, y dejar el espectador llene los espacios But it depends on the intent of your artwork, of course. Depende de la intención de tu trabajo por supuesto Let's finish this off. Terminemos esto One thing I like to do is start using a smaller brush. Lo que me gusta hacer es empezar a usar un pincel mas chico I just like to go around and add some textures, some variety. Me gusta moverme, agregar textura y variedad I'm going to move as we've done before. Me voy a mover, como hemos hecho antes We're respecting everything taught in this moment. Respetamos todo lo aprendido hasta el momento Neutral colors, darker, lighter, Neutros, oscuros, claros checking all the time that we need if we created contrast. Chequiando cuando sea necesario si creamos contraste The thing is we don't have a very nice flow of these contrasting colors. Actualmente los colores no fluyen bien, I'm going to distribute it around. Así que los voy a distribuir mas I like to be free with this, Me gusta hacerlo bastante libre I like to make faster and really uncontrolled movements. Me gusta hacer movimiento rápidos y poco controlados We create this line on it, creamos esta línea that I think adds a lot. que creo agrega bastante Remember we wanted to add some light here, Recordemos que queria agregar algo de luz aca so I'll do it right now. así que lo voy a hacer ahora up here, Aca arriba let's put some orange. Pongamos algo de naranja Wanna vary my colors a little so I will rub red around. Quiero variar mis colores asi que voy a tirar rojo I'll give pure red to the for the moment. Le voy a dar rojo puro al ojo por ahora I'm going to distribute it around. Voy a distribuirlo Just give it like a small, Darle un toque warmer other different color thing. calido y de otro color The thing is as we have all these other colors down, Como tenemos todos estos otros colores debajo the red will harmonize. El rojo va a harmonizar Because we'll just take on the properties of Porque toma las características de the colors under it and use it as a common factor. los colores debajos como factor común Let's keep adding things, Sigamos agregando cosas let's keep adding some color. I don't know. algo de color, quiza I want the feather to be lighter, quiero que la pluma sea más clara but I don't want it to contrast too much so I'm going Pero no quiero que contraste tanto, voy a usar to use a light blue but maybe I could Un azul claro, pero quizá podría use a light yellow and not put too much pressure on it. usar un amarillo claro, con poca presión Even then put even less pressure here y menos por aca arriba all the way to the back so let's add here let's check. hasta el fondo, agreguemos un cacho mas por acá It's fighting here Esta peliando un cacho so I'm going to just put it sorry, Asi que voy a poner, perdon put it down a little. bajarlo un cacho Tone it down. desaturarlo un cacho We're adding color now we're distributing into round. Como estamos agregando colores también los distribuimos Remember, always to distribute your colors. Acordate de distribuir siempre So It harmonizes background. asi harmoniza , fondo Just spread it around. simplemente distribuirlo I like to use the background as a way to point the viewer into the focal point. me gusta usar el fondo para apuntar hacía el foco This is a more extreme example where you just literally points to the eye, Este ejemplo es muy extremo, literalmente apunto al ojo but you can do it in more subtle ways in here. Pero podes hacerlo de forma mas sutil Let's go to a smaller brush here. Vamos a un pincel mas chico acá Again, I have fun with the colors. Just start distributing them around. Denuevo, me divierto con los colores, los distribuyo por ahí This gives a lot of life to the painting, I'd say, Esto le da mucha vida a la pintura but I don't want it to have that all blended together style. Pero no quiero que tenga un estilo donde todo se una I really like this is a pure red here around because we want to. me gusta mucho esto, el rojo puro aca esta porque queremos Because it's fun, at least for me. Porque es divertido, al menos para mi The further away we go, the less strong. Cuanto mas separado , menos fuerte This red will be Sera el rojo Again, here in this class, Nuevamente, en esta clase we're experimenting, we're having fun. Estamos experimentando y divirtiendonos Just do things. Simplemente hacemos cosas Just do what you think. Hace lo que te parezca Maybe this works, maybe this doesn't. Well, try it out. Quizá funcione, quizá no. Hay que probarlo Don't want it to be final all you do is just create a new layer and go around. Si no queres que sea definitivo lo haces en una capa nueva Imagine I wanted to do this and that. Imaginemos que quería hacer esto Then I said, well, I don't really like it, I después te das cuenta que no te copa I just go delete. Solo voy y borro You may say, well, you're wasting valuable time doing that. Quiza digas, a estas perdiendo el tiempo haciendolo Well, no, because it was an experiment, Bueno no, porque fue un experimento maybe it taught us that we don't want that. Quizá nos enseñe que no queremos eso In every painting in the future, En cualquier pintura en el futuro we will save time because we don't have that doubt anymore. Nos ahorramos tiempo porque no tenemos mas esa duda I'm going to lower the opacity of the background because I think it's, Voy a bajar la opacidad del fondo porque creo que how do I say it a little bit distracting. distrae un poco That's the word I was looking for yeah. Eso es lo que buscaba si Try to have somewhat I said parts without texture. Intento tener, como dije, partes sin textura where we want the viewer to go Donde queremos que vaya el espectador because the eye tries to find the places without texture to rest. El ojo busca lugares sin textura para descansar Where we want them to go, entonces donde queremos que vaya we add less texture. agregamos menos textura Let's add some more contrast generating agreguemos mas contraste, generamdo some contrast and also not taking away from the focal point, constrastes sin sacarle protagonismo al foco which is again extremely important. que nuevamente, es extremadamente importante Just moving around, giving it a little bit more of freedom. Moviendonos por ahi, con algo mas de libertad Trying to use these lines to accompany the movement Usando estas líneas para acompañar el movimiento or make them go more into the painting itself. o hacerlas meterse a la pintura misma I almost forgot let's go and change and rotate it around so we'll see. Casi me olvido, rotemos la pintura para ver Looks a little stiff, doesn't it? Se ve tiesa no? So let's grab all these way. agarremos esto Control T. Wait for it. Ctrl + T , un segudno There we go. Let's move it a little. Ahí estamos, movamosnos un cacho I think it looks a little better. Creo que se ve algo mejor I'm going to grab this color and just fill out this space as if nothing had happened. Voy a agarrar los colores y llenar el vacío, como si nada hubiese pasado Again, let's re-add the contrast. nuevamente, re agreguemos el contraste I think this over here needs a little bit more love. Creo que esto acá necesita un poco mas de amor Let's add more pure colors. Agreguemos colores puros The hat, a little bit more. En el gorro, un poco mas I'm going to make it more blue. Voy a hacerlo un cacho mas azul It contrasts with a piece. Para qeu contraste con la obra Try to not completely go over what we already did. Intenta no tapar completamente todo tu trabajo Every new color you add should also add around. Cualquier color nueva también hay que agregarlo alrededor Try to be careful of where you add it. Tene cuidado donde lo agregas But everything should be everywhere. Pero todo tiene que estar en todos lados You'll say, ''Well, this looks childish.'' Quiza digas "Esto se ve infantil" Well, yeah, it does but I'm having fun and liking it. Si, es verdad, pero me estoy diviertiendo y me gusta I think the colors around are looking pretty good. Creo que los colores se ven bastante bien I think I'm also experimenting on things I never do. También estoy experimentando con cosas que no hago nunca I know that this wouldn't have happened if I Y se que no hubiera pasado si hadn't played around before with traditional media. No hubiese jugado antes con tradicional Right now we're playing because playing is extremely important to learning. Ahora estamos jugando porque jugar es importante para aprender You may create a piece you really like, Podes crear una pintura que te guste you're really proud of maybe not, que te enorgullezca, o no but its part of the way. es parte del proceso It's not like every piece's going to be a masterpiece. No es como que cada pintura va a ser una obra maestra I'm going to add some more texture on the back with a very small brush. Voy a agregar un poco mas de textura en el fondo con un pincel chico I like doing this because it differentiates the figure from the front a lot better. Hago esto para diferenciar la figura mejor del fondo It's also learning to let things surprise us. Es también aprender a dejar que nos sorprendan las cosas It's also learning that we don't have to be in control of everything. Es aprender que no tenemos que controlar todo In fact, we shouldn't be in control of everything. Es más , no deberíamos controlar todo We tend to fuck things up a lot. Tendemos a cagar las cosas muy seguido How is it looking? I think it's looking almost finished. ¿Cómo se ve? Se ve casi terminado The only thing I think that's missing after Lo único que creo qeu esta faltando I distribute this dark color a little more because I think that's además de distribuir este oscuro alrededor , creo que missing too is I don't know something different on the focal points. le falta algo diferente en el punto de foco I think this will be very interesting if we add Creo que va a ser interesante si agregamos something that's not in any other places of the piece. Algo que no esta en ninguna parte de la pintura For example, we should add a little bit more of untextured space. Por ejemplo un poco mas de zonas sin textura Why not have a green. ¿Por qué no tener un verde? Let's see here, I create a new layer because I don't know if it's going to work or not. Veamos, creo una nueva capa porque no se si va a funcionar I'm going to just put it here. Voy a poner esto aca I don't know. Does it work? No se, ¿Funciona? No, so let's delete. No, borremos I like the idea of the greenish, Me gusta la idea del verdoso but I'm going to use these more blueish green. Pero voy a usar un verde azulado We need something that contrasts more so let's make it darker. Necesitamos algo que contraste , asi que hagámoslo más oscuro Let's add some lights, Agreguemos unas luces maybe add some age to this character. Quizá podemos darle edad al personaje Is it interesting? ¿Es interesante? Nah, what if we add circles here? No, ¿Qué si agregamos círculos? I think it looks good? Again, not really. ¿Se ve bien? nuevamente, no creo What if we put the eye again like we did originally, Que si ponemos el ojo como lo teniamos antes but change the shape and make it follow the shape of the character. pero cambiamos la forma para que siga la del personaje Does it make something interesting? ¿Crea algo interesante? Yeah, but I think it kills the cutesy thing and the happiness. Si, pero mata lo tierno / feliz del personaje I'm going to take it out. Lo voy a sacar I don't think it's going to work. No creo que funcione What else should we do? ¿Qué mas deberiamos hacer? What else can we do? ¿Qué mas podemos hacer? We can play around with the shapes this piece has. Podemos jugar con las formas que tiene la obra We have a lot of curves. Tenemos muchas curvas We have some rectangles what we really only have two points on the beak. Tenemos rectángulos y tenemos dos puntos en el pico Why if we triangulate something? ¿Qué si triangulamos esto un cacho? What if we make something triangular? Que si lo hacemos triangular Triangular, sorry, my Spanish is showing. Triangular, perdón We can see it looking at us. Lo vemos mirandonos a nosotros One thing we can do, Una cosa que podemos hacer we never use white itself. Nunca usamos blanco puro So maybe we add I don't know, Asi que quiza podemos agregar just the spec now it's looking a little too creepy. For some reason. una pizca . ahora se ve un cacho inquietante, por una razon Most things I do end up with a little bit of creepiness. La mayoría que hago termina dando un cacho de miedo So let's try. Así que intentemos This is worse I don't feel bad about the triangular shape. Esto es peor, no me jode igual la forma triángular Let's change it a little bit with our Control cambiémosla un cacho con el ctrl T. I'm using ctrl now to change its perspective. T. Estoy usando ctrl para cambiar la perspectiva What if we put in a little bit more like this? Que si lo ponemos un cacho mas así Let's make it a little bit more curvy. Un poco mas curvo Like here. Como acá Let's try and make this disappear for a while I'm just going to try out how it looks. Hagamos esto desaparecer por ahora para ver como se ve No, I don't really like it. No, no me copa nada So yeah, we'll make this a little bigger. Así que voy a hacer esto un cacho mas grande We'll have a little bit more of untextured space. Tenemos un cacho más de espacio sin textura But I really don't think this will work. Pero no creo que esto funcione Is it really necessary to add anything else then? ¿Es realmente necesario agregar algo mas? Maybe not, maybe this is different enough. Quiza no, quiza ya sea lo suficientemente diferente There's one last thing before we finish our painting Hay una cosa más que hacer antes de terminar That's signing our piece is like the cherry on top. Eso es firmar la obra, es como la cereza del pastel It works in many ways actually. Funciona de varias formas For example, it tells the viewer, Hey, Le dice al espectador, hey this painting was made by this person. Esta pintura lo hizo esta persona It also tells you as an artist, Y también te dice a vos como artista Hey, I did this. Esto lo hice yo This is a part of me and this is something I've created. Esto es parte de mi y es algo que yo cree I'm here trying to teach people that maybe that you don't have to render everything out. Estoy aca para decir que quiza no todo necesita ser perfecto o lleno de detalle Not everything has to be completely clear to the viewer. No todo tiene que ser completamente claro al espectador In fact, it's pretty interesting if we let viewers themselves fill the spaces. Es mas interesante dejar que el espectador llene los espacios When creating an art piece once we show it to the world, Cuando creamos una obra , cuando se la mostramos al mundo its meaning just change depending on the person who's looking at it. El significado cambia dependiendo de quien la mire So leaving them that room to think about the painting and try to figure things out. Dejarles ese lugar a pensar sobre la pintura, e intentar descifrarla Makes them more easily find the meaning they want and need to find. Hace que mas fácilmente encuentre el significado que necesita encontrar I also think that signing is extremely important because it tells you as a painter, También creo que firmar es importante ,porque a vos como pintor te dice well, this painting is done. Bueno ,esto termino This painting has already done everything it needs to do, Esta pintura ha hecho todo lo que necesitaba hacer everything I need to learn. Todo lo que necesito aprender It's time to let go of it and just finish it off. Es momento de soltar y terminarlo How I usually sign my pieces it's pretty easy actually. Como usualmente firmo es simple enrealidad I grab the background base color, Uso el color base del fondo then make it a little darker. Lo hago un cacho mas oscuro Go to mainly one of the corners of our piece. Generalmente voy a una de las esquinas de mi obra Probably the one I find a little empty because signatures are Generalmente una que encuentro algo vacía also parts of the painting porque las firmas son parte de la pintura so you can use them to guide the viewers where you want them to go. La podes usar para llevar al espectador a donde quieras que vaya I sign with my Instagram handle and also my own signature. Firmo con mi usuario de instagram y además mi firma Well, now that the signature is done, Bueno , ahora que esta la firma I want you to just step back, Quiero que simplemente te alejes look at your piece, and admire it. Mira tu obra y admirala Because this was all thanks to you. Porque es todo gracias a tu trabajo You did it. You like it or not. Lo hiciste tu , te guste o no It was your work. Fue tu trabajo and nobody can take that away from you. y nadie te puede sacar eso Let's learn how to export our piece. aprendamos a exportar nuestra obra First, we go to Files Export. Vamos a Archivo, Exportar We have the option for a fast export as a PNG, Tenemos una opción para una exportación rápida como png which if we press will take us to our files, que si apretamos nos lleva a nustros archivos then you just name your piece and it will automatically generate a PNG. Después le pones nombre a la obra y genera un PNG automaticamente We can also export it as other media types like JPEG. Podemos exportarlo como otros medios también, como JPEG For that we go to Export and Export As this window will pop out. primero vamos a Exportar, Exportar como , y esta ventana se va a abrir First of all, we have different options, we have JPEG, Primero que todos tenemos otras opciones, JPEG PNG, GIF, and SVG. PNG, GIF y SVG If you choose JPEG (not png sorry), Si elejis JPEG (le erre al decir png) you'll see a preview of course. Vas a ver un preview Then you'll see your file size to the left. Y el tamaño de tu archivo a la izquierda This is extremely important because there are many pages that, Esto es super importante porque hay muchas páginas que for example, have a five megabytes limit. por ejemplo, tiene un limite de 5 megas So how do we easily change our file size? Como cambio el tamaño de mi archivo? Because paintings tend to get pretty big well it's easy on the right, Porque las pinturas tienden a ser archivos grandes, es facil, a la izquierda you'll see this quality bar. vas a ver una barra de calidad If you move it up or down, Si lo moves para arriba o para abajo you will see the file size will start to change. Vas a ver que el tamaño del archivo cambia Try to move it around and see where it stands near the limit of what you can upload. Movelo hasta que este cercano al limite que te de la página Because you don't want the quality to drop too much. Porque no queres que baje mucho la calidad Now if we just press Export All, Ahora si simplemente apretamos exportar todo again, it will open our files. Nuevamente , aparecen nuestros archivos We can name our project and when we press Save, Podemos ponerle un nombre y al apretar guardar it will save as a JPEG now. Se va a guardar como un JPEG So now we know how to export, our images are out of our editors. Así que ahora que exportamos, nuestras imágenes están por fuera del editor Let's go to the conclusion. Okay? :) Vamos a la conclusión! :) 11. Conclusion: Okay, you've done it. Okay, lo lograste Congratulations really, I can't wait to see them. Felicitaciones, no puedo esperar a verlo I hope you share them on the project gallery below. Espero que lo compartas en la galeria de proyectos abajo If I had to recap, si tuvera que hacer un resumen three main things I think are the most important to take out of this, las 3 cosas principales a sacar de esto son the first one is to learn to let go of control, Primero : no querer controlar todo I would say the best things in life happen when you are not planning for them. Diría que las mejores cosas pasan cuando no las planeamos I would also say that, también diría que being prepared is another thing, Estar preparado es otra cosa the more we can learn about things, Cuanto más podemos aprender de algo and the more we can prepare beforehand, Y cuanto mas podemos prepararnos the better the product will be. Mejor sera el producto The last thing is to learn to take things from what other people have created beforehand. Lo último es aprender a incorporar lo que otras personas han hecho ya Art history is there for a reason, La historia del arte existe por una razón these people have experimented on many things, Esta gente experimento muchas cosas and it makes it easier for us to keep going. Y nos hace mas fácil seguir adelante We shouldn't feel ashamed to study them, No hay que sentir miedo a estudiarlos and use these techniques in our favor. y usar sus técnicas en el futuro How I hope the techniques I've showed today will help you in the future. Como espero que lo que lese enseñe hoy los ayude en el futuro I hope you're happy with your art work. Espero que estes contento con tu trabajo If you're not, well, Si no lo estas, bien don't worry, as I always say, No te preocupes, como siempre digo every experiment, even the ones which failed help progress the field. todo experimento, incluso los que fallaron, ayudaron a progresar Even if you don't like it, Incluso si no te gusta if there's something you think was wrong, Si crees que hay algo errado if there's something you really don't agree on, Algo en lo que no estés de acuerdo it's still a part of you. es una parte de vos It's still something you've created, es algo que vos creaste and it's still something you should be proud of. y algo de lo que estar orgulloso Also, not all paintings tell you what to do, Y no todas las pinturas te dicen que hacer in the future, maybe some paintings tell you. en el futuro, quizá algunas pinturas te dicen maybe this doesn't work out, quizá esto no funciona may be you shouldn't do this technique anymore, quizá no deberías usar esta técnica maybe this isn't for you and you prefer another approach. Quizá esto no es para vos, vamos con otro encare But I would say that everything you can try helps. Pero diría que todo lo que pruebes ayuda It was a pleasure to meet you all, Fue un placer conocerlos I hope you keep creating, Espero que sigas creando and if you have any question, Y si tenes alguna pregunta please feel completely free to throw it my way. Sentite libre de mandarmela I love to talk about this, Amo hablar sobre esto and I would love to hear from you. :) y me encantaría escuchar sobre ustedes :)