Im not a student. I wish I could. But I would highly recommend Watts Atelier. Some may not see it but Watts Atelier is the best atelier that could happen in the 21st century. Probably the best art school that came up the last 200 years. A Godsend. If I knew about it in my 20's I would've taken it and ran with it as far as I could. I can not fathom the sacrifice and compromise Jeff made to leave these info behind.
Reminds me of two things: 'segmentation' and pixel art. Segmentation is a graphics processing term referring to filters which try to simplify the image into tiles based on what we know about human visual processes. It often makes an image that feels 'clearer' than the source photo, so it can be interesting to try to figure out why particular results work well. Pixel art is interesting because your ability to tile well is possibly the most core skill of pixel art - if you can't tile that well, most of what you make will be amorphous blobs or at best lack any real individual character.
Because of pixel art's size you not only have to tile but you typically have to make decisions on what will help make the piece "read" properly. You can't fit all the information so you got to choose how you spend each area of small pixels. Maybe there's not enough room for bounce light and the core shadow so you make a compromise and have a color somewhere inbetween or you forgo the bounce light for the core shadow (or vice versa). So I think placing the pixels aka tiling is not only about what Jeff is doing here but also choosing what to keep or sacrifice. You just don't have the space for all the info a normal painting has (typically).
@@SynthwavelLover IMO what you're talking about is mostly 'you get (a lot) less tiles to work with'. Tiling is per se already trading away 'amount of information' for 'a better read'.
Okay. There is a British Aviation Artist, named Michael Turner. His gouaches, are very fascinating!!! At first glance, you cant tell them apart from Oil paintings. Just amazing. If you get the chance to buy the book " The Aviation Art of Michael Turner. Just amazing.
it's capturing form and value changes by arranging mostly unblended blocks of color next to each other (ie. like literal tiles) if you've ever seen a photo under a posterization filter, it's kinda like that
@@tthomas184 from what I can tell, the main difference is mostly the amount of finish, a thoroughly tiled painting can already pass a complete artwork if the artist wanted to, and even some artists who have a tiling workflow may not blend/render all of them. in comparison usually blocking-in is a step in the process, like how a black and white notan image is also blocked-in
Im not a student. I wish I could. But I would highly recommend Watts Atelier. Some may not see it but Watts Atelier is the best atelier that could happen in the 21st century. Probably the best art school that came up the last 200 years. A Godsend. If I knew about it in my 20's I would've taken it and ran with it as far as I could. I can not fathom the sacrifice and compromise Jeff made to leave these info behind.
Aweosme stuff Jeff. Can’t wait to take this course!
Certainly a gouache painting show and tell.
But: tiling? what's tiling? (I heard the word a few times, but that's all.)
How underrated gouache painting is.... People should try it more and more
Reminds me of two things: 'segmentation' and pixel art.
Segmentation is a graphics processing term referring to filters which try to simplify the image into tiles based on what we know about human visual processes. It often makes an image that feels 'clearer' than the source photo, so it can be interesting to try to figure out why particular results work well.
Pixel art is interesting because your ability to tile well is possibly the most core skill of pixel art - if you can't tile that well, most of what you make will be amorphous blobs or at best lack any real individual character.
Because of pixel art's size you not only have to tile but you typically have to make decisions on what will help make the piece "read" properly. You can't fit all the information so you got to choose how you spend each area of small pixels. Maybe there's not enough room for bounce light and the core shadow so you make a compromise and have a color somewhere inbetween or you forgo the bounce light for the core shadow (or vice versa). So I think placing the pixels aka tiling is not only about what Jeff is doing here but also choosing what to keep or sacrifice. You just don't have the space for all the info a normal painting has (typically).
@@SynthwavelLover IMO what you're talking about is mostly 'you get (a lot) less tiles to work with'. Tiling is per se already trading away 'amount of information' for 'a better read'.
...the real thing... it's reassuring to see that there are people like this around...
Okay. There is a British Aviation Artist, named Michael Turner. His gouaches, are very fascinating!!! At first glance, you cant tell them apart from Oil paintings. Just amazing. If you get the chance to buy the book " The Aviation Art of Michael Turner. Just amazing.
"earn the respect of the student" u dont have to we already do it
Why Gouache was used here...is it because it's easy medium , water based....same principles as oils?
yup, you guessed right--it's easy setup and cleanup vs oils and it looks like oil or acrylic so a great learning medium.
its also harder to blend so it trains you in this 'mosaic' mentality by necessity.
Great content! However, blurring transition effect is very annoying.... :(
Was the cowboy Hoot Gibson or Tom Mix? Great video.A lot of information
i didnt hear you mention Hal Foster....
The young woman at 7:40, what is the original source? Is it by Zorn? Love it and want to know more about it.
its by jeff, he also took the reference photo. his reference to zorn is just the palette - yellow ochre, ivory black, cad red, and white.
What surface did they use for these gouache studies?
illustration board by crescent but other brands are just as fine. hot press or smooth.
Is there anywhere where Jeff talks more about comprehensive sketches? Like at 2:06
What do u mean?
There's a video on Proko that touches on thumbnailing. It was fairly recent[within a few months] so I'm sure you can find it.
Never showed or explained tiling. Total waste of time.
it's capturing form and value changes by arranging mostly unblended blocks of color next to each other (ie. like literal tiles)
if you've ever seen a photo under a posterization filter, it's kinda like that
@@zaqareemalcolm thanks. As you describe it , that's blocking in. Never heard it referred to as tiling.
@@tthomas184 from what I can tell, the main difference is mostly the amount of finish, a thoroughly tiled painting can already pass a complete artwork if the artist wanted to, and even some artists who have a tiling workflow may not blend/render all of them. in comparison usually blocking-in is a step in the process, like how a black and white notan image is also blocked-in
This is just the intro video. You have to go pay for the monthly fee which isn't much and in those classes everything is explained in detail.