I’m working on one monitor, and never had the images together, but switched back and froth from his video to my own painting. I thought they were much more alike until I put them side by side. Here’s the pair again: Mine’s on the right. He does some aliens and other creatures, which are what I’m most interested in by him, but specializes in wild animals, particularly big cats. I also have a traditional background, and only taught myself Photoshop after I got my MFA. But both are exceptional teachers and their digital painting courses are solid.Īaron Blaise worked for Disney for 20 years, I believe, and only switched to digital towards the end, and was very reluctant to do so. Aaron’s style is much closer to my own than is Andrew’s, so it was a bit more fun to copy his alien (I do lots of aliens) than to do Andrew’s more cartoon-oriented approach. Sometimes I have to drag my feet and force myself to go through the work, but hopefully it’s worth it. Some artists don’t like to do this sort of thing, and they get spectacular results, but I’m one for getting technical and doing whatever it takes to level up my game. Mine’s on the left here, and Andres Hou’s is only blurry because it’s a screen capture on my part. I just duplicate the whole process as best I can, and then hope to integrate it into my own work later. I did an earlier blog post about how I approach tutorials when I finished Andrew Hou’s digital painting course, and this is kinda’ it. I’m a bit of a stickler though, and I have to do things to really pick them up, and even now I’ve got to keep my PS file as a reference to remember all the steps.
It’s a demo, and you just observe and take note of the techniques. You aren’t really expected to replicate the alien. I’m trying to learn the industry techniques of illustrators to add to my own styles and techniques, and come of with some sort of unique hybrid.Īaron Blaise has a ton of online art and digital art courses, and I just completed his Digital Painting course. I’ve given up on the contemporary art world, and am moving more into digital painting. If you don’t know already, I have a contemporary art / fine art background, and have been making digital art starting around 20 years ago. Can you guess which one is my version? Have a look, and you can find out if you were right down below.
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