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4. Painting Methods---2-1.Transparency Techniques

P37 - 00:00?

Let’s talk about transparent versus opaque techniques.? it's the same case what we had with line drawing versus shapes.?

P37 - 00:12探討透明和不透明。?

There are definite advantages and disadvantages of each method.?

P37 - 00:17不同方法各有千秋。?

So I will do my best to kind of guide you through. So let's say we start with the ugliest and most simplest brush in the world,?

P37 - 00:25從最簡單的畫筆開始。?

just the simple round brush over here, minus 600 size.?

P37 - 00:31圓刷子600大小。?

But it doesn't really matter. It's basically the brush that gives you kind of really soft painting stuff.?

P37 - 00:41繪制的質(zhì)地非常軟。?

And whenever we start as a digital artist, most of us go and start painting with this brush because it's so easy.?

P37 - 00:50因為這刷子很容易。?

It's kind of doesn't have any texture, very the pressure sensitive.?

P37 - 00:56沒有質(zhì)感，筆觸很好。?

And we kind of start with this brush and do all our paintings for them.?

P37 - 01:00從刷子開始進(jìn)行繪制。?

and I wouldn't say it's the most ugliest brush. Even though I use that term, it is an ugly brush. Because when we started, we didn't know how to use it.?

P37 - 01:11因為我們開始用的時候不會用。?

but actually It's a very, very powerful brush.?

P37 - 01:13還是很強(qiáng)大的刷子。?

Because what it gives you a naturally, it's this gradual transition. And it gives you a really nice gradient.?

P37 - 01:20給了梯度的蛻變。?

What you wouldn't have if you were using like, a back brush is like flat brush without no transparency.?

P37 - 01:33好過沒透明度的黑刷子。?

So this is where the trade of starts.whenever you’re using opacity brush is like this.?

P37 - 01:41當(dāng)開始用不透明刷子的時候。?

You need to bring in some light hearted ages. Basically, if you're using the same opaque brush, all you do is decrease the size of your brush and start introducing a little bit sharper elements and stuff like that.?

P37 - 01:54降低刷子大小，刷入更銳利的。?

That’s what you do naturally to kind of it's almost like we're finding things and you constantly decreasing your brush size and kind of zooming in and started painting all that stuff.?

P37 - 02:15縮小畫刷后放大進(jìn)行繪制。?

which is refining everything and I saw kids stuff like that. So when we just started when we were young artist who really don't know how to use it, that's why it looks ugly.?

P37 - 02:31不知道如何用的時候才簡陋。?

But actually what you like a mature artist. It's very good brush because it gives you the freedom to make changes.?

P37 - 02:39給自由去變化。?

Nothing is very solid. So I would say opaque brush is more like a suggestion.?

P37 - 02:46不透明的刷子是個建議。?

Suggested detailed. and transparency brush suggestion an opaque on the back wall. It's more like a statement. This is a statement.?

P37 - 03:05黑色的像是某種聲明。?

For example, if you put something, let's say like this. This describes the former, there is no doubt about it. And this is something vertical could be rocketed. Could be a person standing, you're making a statement,?

P37 - 03:29黑刷子實體形狀就是表明態(tài)度。?

but when you’re using soft brushes, the ones that have a opacity. You're suggesting that they let's do the same figure with the same kind of method at the same pose.?

P37 - 03:40用不透明刷子繪制同樣角色姿態(tài)。?

But it's very suggestive. Like any time you can go and tweak it,?

P37 - 03:44可以去調(diào)整。?

you can change it quickly. On the other hand, it stays pretty loose. And you need to refine. You need to put some more Information,?

P37 - 03:55調(diào)整放入細(xì)節(jié)信息。?

kind of so let's just put this guy side by side.?

P37 - 04:00黑色不透明的放在一起。?

So you see this guy over here. This guy over here. So what we will be doing in this guy, we will be refining, you will be putting more effort to kind of refining the shapes and giving him more definite forms.?

P37 - 04:27給清晰的外形。?

And we will be doing it with this guy, you will be bringing some of these gradient inside these guys to start refining shapes in keeping game, like lighting Information and all other stuff.?

P37 - 04:39給黑實體加入一些光亮。?

So actually they kind of complement each other because what we're basically doing on this one, we're moving towards that guy and this guy, we're kind of moving towards this guy.?

P37 - 04:52兩個角色相互轉(zhuǎn)化。?

So the best thing is to meet someone between when you're using this method, you still bringing some of the hard lines,?

P37 - 05:03用不透明度可以加入硬冷的線條。?

just to make a statement to kind of we suggest something. And then you bring this statement. that's it. That's the hell that.?

P37 - 05:13不透明的黑線條像是標(biāo)注建議。?

And then you suggest, again, you take a soft brush and you say, it's like this guy. And then you go on start suggesting the lighting.?

P37 - 05:30用刷子涂上光。?

is rolling down. Introducing those gradient. That's too hard to get. If you were using the hard brush.?

P37 - 05:41用硬刷子很難加入梯度。?

and it's faster. So once you introduce the hard lines that kind of smudge them to get the position back, and the more you do it, the more like photo real the more complicated that your design becomes.?

P37 - 05:56越是模糊離觀眾越遠(yuǎn)，越復(fù)雜。?

So these tools, basically they complete each other. Sometimes you need to use a soft brush to kind of or emphasize your design or trick to actually kind of drop are the focal point.?

P37 - 06:11軟刷子強(qiáng)調(diào)設(shè)計，放入聚焦點。?

And the focal point is the one that has most conscious attitudes, has the most kind of refinement. I can say that. ?

P37 - 06:20專注點刻意做到黑白對比的。?

So that's why you using those opacity brushes to bring those back to bringing the statements back into actually kind of describe the form precisely. ?

P37 - 06:31不透明度打底，黑色描述輪廓。?

But afterwards you got it backwards. That kind of margin to knock it back. To balance those two guys together. ?

P37 - 06:44不透明度和黑色平衡。?

So as I already said, they complement each other and they should work as a single kind of design tool.?

P37 - 06:54互補(bǔ)成為單獨(dú)的設(shè)計工具。?

because for example, using of backlash as you can introduce some really cool effects like, for example. Like high elements of those guys. ?

P37 - 07:02比如右鍵對比加入高光。?

At the same time, you can do those with the, adding a little bit of lights here and there.?

P37 - 07:21加入一點高光。 ?

So it's all about going back and forth.?

P37 - 07:28來來回回的調(diào)整。?

There is no single way of doing things. It's all about going back and forth and knowing when you need 1 of them or when you need another one.?

P37 - 07:44技術(shù)混合起來的。?

We got astronaut. And you bring back refine more statements. And having those together with soft brushes, gives you more control.?

P37 - 08:02軟刷子可控性。?

So overall, I would say, if you just learning and the very confident kind of bold statement.?

P37 - 08:10黑塊的聲明若是可以用好。?

Because bold statement still need a little bit more knowledge in terms of the way you paint like you put the shape you need to know exactly.?

P37 - 08:19如同你非常清楚你繪制的形狀。?

That is the shape you're going after. Or you use soft brushes to suggest yourself. Do just suggest yourself the details.?

P37 - 08:29軟刷子創(chuàng)建一些細(xì)節(jié)。?

And then you refine them, or you use something in between a brush that has both features of it,?

P37 - 08:36或者用有特征的刷子。?

like for example, these brush you has both of them. If you press like if you hold it firmly Like give you nice tool, if you just press lightly to give you this kind of a opacity kind of size. and if you just brush lightly, like this guy of opacity and also a touch of variety. because it has this gradient kind of field to it.?

P37 - 08:57不透明度 變異 梯度。?

sometimes you just need to use this kind of brush because they pulled suggest and at the same time when you press firmly.?

P37 - 09:08不透明度用黑刷子按住硬建議。?

It will make bold statements.?

P37 - 09:10不透明上加入黑色條帶。?

it will create a solid Kind of strokes.?

P37 - 09:17創(chuàng)建堅實的紋理。?

But then you go loose again and you start refining putting some loose stuff.?

P37 - 09:23輕輕的掃，做些調(diào)整。?

Like you see putting a loose stuff here and there. That I’m going back and I’m actually putting in more precise brush strokes.?

P37 - 09:36可以再次加入精準(zhǔn)的刷子。?

as you can see, combining those two, I was able quickly to put some loose shape to find them supporting them with some bold statements and use a brush that give me controlled to have a really nice gradient.?

P37 - 10:57硬線條軟線條結(jié)合起來。?

So I end up having a good base, to start from. And for this one, I didn’t need any references, stuff like that,?

P37 - 11:08并沒有用參考。?

because I was suggesting first, I’ll seeing the forms and then I was refining it.?

P37 - 11:12建議形狀在先，黑白線條來調(diào)整。?

So I would say it's all about balance. If you're starting try to use brushes that have like transparency option to them, but also to kind of reinforce your paintings.?

P37 - 11:32平衡透明繪制的選項。?

You will definitely needs a bevel statement.?

P37 - 11:36需要黑粗體的狀態(tài)。?

And to do those, you use opaque brushes.?

P37 - 11:40用不透明的刷子。?

And also don't forget it opaque brushes. They are also very good since you have the flat colors that, for example, if I want to select something, because I have a lot of gradient over here, I don't have much control.?

P37 - 11:55比如有梯度但是沒有控制。?

But once I have opaque kind of like solid colors like these that I can make a selection and quickly introduce some extra level of detail on the topic.?

P37 - 12:10在不透明度黑色基礎(chǔ)上細(xì)節(jié)調(diào)節(jié)。?

Like same here. I could go on selected and just quickly did this.So knowing the difference between those two is really important because it will help you afterwards, once you start actually refining your stories and actually generating those paintings,?

P37 - 12:36繪制故事的時候容易反復(fù)調(diào)節(jié)。?

you will know exactly which matters, like which brush to use and feel Free to experiment. There is a lot of like different options like textural brushes that have different kind of filled them.?

P37 - 12:51可以嘗試用不同的刷子。?

But we will talk about textural brushes in the next lesson.?

P37 - 12:53下節(jié)課講述紋理刷子。?

So I think that's it. I think it's pretty much clear. What's the difference between transparent and opaque brushes. Yeah.

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4. Painting Methods---2-2.Painting Environments with Opacity

P38 - 00:00?

Alright, let me give you an quick example just painting environments show you how transparent versus a back walls.?

P38 - 00:11環(huán)境如何影響黑色背景的。?

So let's say if you're using a back brush or very soft brush, and it's very cozy environments because once you start, you kind of start from a background,?

P38 - 00:23從背景開始的。?

you establish like whenever you use a opaque brush. For example, let’s just frame it. ?

P38 - 00:31比如用不透明刷子。?

Basically using a transparent brush, we’re starting from the background.?

P38 - 00:45不透明度刷子從背景開始。?

So we're looking out the background first, and then we're moving on towards the foreground.?

P38 - 00:52朝前景移動。?

So the background could be really simple. Let's say we put the sun over here,?

P38 - 00:56背景很簡單，比如放置太陽。?

This is all our background. Like if you want the seem to be more prosperity. But the glow it's for you just diffuse and keep diffusing it,?

P38 - 01:09光輝持續(xù)的漫射。?

but I will keep it simple. And now you need a foreground of this case.?

P38 - 01:13現(xiàn)在需要前景。?

So now you use it opaque brushes. and you actually bring in some foreground elements.?

P38 - 01:20不透明刷子，前景元素。?

Let’s say you can also rise in horizon line. Or if it's a sea right??

P38 - 01:28比如太陽從水平線升起，前景海。?

And then you use another set of brushes returned, which gives you a gradient control.?

P38 - 01:35海中的刷子，用梯度。?

And now you've got a nice reflection of the sun.?

P38 - 01:37有太陽的倒影。?

So whenever you want to start from a background, which is like sky or something good, which has gradient, we’ll start from the transparent brush.?

P38 - 01:50比如可以從透明刷子開始。?

But if you want to do something, you can start with the foreground, then probably it’s a wise thing to start with a back brushes because let's say if you put a transparent mark over here.?

P38 - 02:11比如你放置透明的背景。?

It's very difficult for you. You need to kind of decrease your brush size to get a very nice hard edge.?

P38 - 02:18降低刷子大小得到銳利的邊緣。?

So all we need to do is start with some kind of opaque brush.?

P38 - 02:25加入不透明刷子。?

And then as you go to the distance for example,?

P38 - 02:30比如你想拉開距離。?

once you block the scene, because everything is so flat, you can select,?

P38 - 02:37比如可以選擇平面的場景。?

I have a new background transparent brush and you can introduce a gradient.?

P38 - 02:43透明刷子刷出梯度。?

So whatever you can even use it foreground as well.?

P38 - 02:47也可以找到前景。?

Like if you want to start introducing some kind of lighting similar kind of stuff.?

P38 - 02:54可以刷入光打在水面上。?

So it's very kind of logical way doing things. you just think about how you need to construct your frame.?

P38 - 03:08了解如何創(chuàng)建劇照。?

And then if you start from the background, you use a transparent brush.?

P38 - 03:16背景用透明刷子。?

And if you start with foreground, you use a opaque one.?

P38 - 03:30背景透明，前景不透明的。?

So that's the kind of simplest example that describes the way you use it.?

P38 - 03:38用簡單的方式來描述。?

Once, for example, if you start working with references, when you have a picture next to you, and you won't just replicate a bit of it.?

P38 - 03:48開始用指南的時候，不會復(fù)制。?

And if there is a lot of gradient with a lot of sky, like a lot of water, like a lot of shadows and stuff like that slot pools of light.?

P38 - 03:59天空梯度 水光陰影。?

It's logical to start with a transparent brush.?

P38 - 04:02從透明刷子開始。?

And if you have a lot of like shapes, let's say there is a cityscape of a background something like that.?

P38 - 04:07背景還可以加入都市風(fēng)光。?

doing that with a transparent brush, just doesn't work.?

P38 - 04:14透明刷子這時候不起作用。?

It’ll give you a crazy immature looking.?

P38 - 04:18給到一些不成熟的外觀。?

But as I already mentioned, transparency is very good for suggestion.?

P38 - 04:32透明給到征兆和啟示。?

So for example, if I would block out some city over here, and I won't be able to suggest? without going too much into detail, I would use a soft brush. ?

P38 - 04:39軟刷子不透明刷出遠(yuǎn)處的建筑群。?

But if you want to do a statement, if exactly what you're doing or what kind of shape or after,?

P38 - 04:45但是在形狀基礎(chǔ)上做黑色標(biāo)記。?

you definitely use a opaque brush to make a statement.?

P38 - 04:50用不透明的刷子做個標(biāo)記。?

Because putting these shapes are already saying, okay, these guys are rectangular shape.?

P38 - 04:58比如放置矩形刷子。?

You change the guys. And then you would say, OK, this is some kind of triangle design language.?

P38 - 05:03長方形設(shè)計語言。?

And you see there is a big difference between these guys can be square or triangle.?

P38 - 05:11正方形或長方形。?

It doesn't matter. They're so suggestive.?

P38 - 05:15不透明模糊的跡象。?

And these guys its statement. So make sure that you understand these two guys. And you will be always safe. And you will use appropriate method. Wherever you think you need to use it. That's it. Let's move on.

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4. Painting Methods---3.Make a Statement with Texture

P39 - 00:00?

Let’s talk about next chapter, and it would be flat versus texture,?

P39 - 00:07這個章節(jié)水平對材質(zhì)。?

So as you already know, and I showed you few times. Sometimes I paint with a flat brushes, like this one.?

P39 - 00:16有時候我用水平刷子。?

Like i've got a bunch of those over here, like you can do these kind of things and then you can do, like circling and stuff like that.?

P39 - 00:27可以直線可以圓圈。?

And sometimes I use texture brushes.?

P39 - 00:30有時候用材質(zhì)刷子。?

Like for example, this one, this guy has a lot of canvas texture.?

P39 - 00:35比如畫布紋理材質(zhì)。?

So what's the big difference? And why do we use flat? Or texture brushes.?

P39 - 00:43平刷和紋理刷區(qū)別是什么？?

So the main difference would be kind of the same that we had between transparent and back brushes.?

P39 - 00:53可以用透明的和紋理刷子。?

And let's, for example, block out head. using flat brushes do the head.? So this is, let's say, all the head, right? It's very primitive, but we've got everything we needed.?

P39 - 01:19比如我們用原始的刷子。?

So let's do the same with the texture brushes. So we put like this, it doesn't necessarily need to be the same kind similar person. Just the idea of the head.?

P39 - 01:49平刷和紋理刷子畫頭。?

So and you can already see, for example. If we put them side by side. You can clearly see that here.? It’s very very bold. And it is like a statement,?

P39 - 02:07平刷粗實體說明。?

You can know exactly like what this person looks like from profile. So this one is a statement. Meanwhile, this guy is more suggestive. it is more like open to your interpretation. Like, is this the forehead? Maybe not. Maybe this is like the gear that he has, at least.?

P39 - 02:31紋理的前面可能是帽子可能前額。?

So it's very, very suggestive. That's why, it's more abstract first. And more suggestive.?

P39 - 02:44莫能兩可。?

And which one would you use? Which one? This one or this one? It depends what are you doing??

P39 - 02:52用哪個取決于你做什么。?

Like for example, if you have a specific idea in your mind, you want to make a statement. You use this one.?

P39 - 02:59比如明確的用黑色實體。?

But if you want to explore, then you have a suggested matter because having this one, you can quickly make those adjustments. And quickly like create different things, like visible. Okay, that's on the staff,?

P39 - 03:15模棱兩可抽象的可以調(diào)節(jié)。?

and then you create that's a beer. And that all these guys that you think it doesn't necessarily need to be lighting. It just the way it works.?

P39 - 03:26加入胡子，不加入燈光。?

it just the way you suggest things. I wanna do glasses. You want put the glasses. You put one over there, you can go and refine, you’ve keep refining it. That’s the fans part of it.?

P39 - 03:43加入胡子 鏡子，調(diào)節(jié)的樂趣。?

So I would suggest that brush is nothing? is refined. And it gives you much more freedom to suggest the details.?

P39 - 03:54自由的設(shè)計細(xì)節(jié)。?

Meanwhile, if we would doing the same guy over here, we had to be really precise, like the way you pulled everything like. also give you a flexibility with the gradient as well. You can see here we're starting to suggest all those really nice kind of cool things that save a lot of time.?

P39 - 04:18但是黑色畫面調(diào)節(jié)就很困難。?

So texture brush comes in when you need to suggest your stuff.?

P39 - 04:22紋理刷子調(diào)節(jié)節(jié)省時間。?

And you need to kind of go on without actually refining everything perfectly.?

P39 - 04:29不需要精確的調(diào)節(jié)就可以。?

You need to put some ideas together. And this is what texture brush as the best.?

P39 - 04:33可以淋漓盡致的展示思維。 ?

And I'm using this one. But there are a lot of different other texture brushes, And I strongly encourage you to kind of experiment with those.?

P39 - 04:43建議安裝紋理刷子。?

Basically this process more reminds me of what real painters do one day kind of put the underpainting,?

P39 - 05:05調(diào)節(jié)讓我想起了畫底色。 ?

they put the general lines. And this one reminds me more of a 3D approach.?

P39 - 05:12黑色粗體想起了三維建模。?

When you do something and you see this silhouette and both of them are strong, I mean, don't misunderstand me. These guys strong because from the very first stage, it was obvious what he was doing. But these guys more open to the exploration.?

P39 - 05:28黑色清晰堅定，紋理探索。?

you can still explore with this guy. You can take flat brush. You can change him dramatically, you can just change his silhouette.?

P39 - 05:39黑色的調(diào)整輪廓。?

But you immediately see different characters. Like it's very kind of solid thing to do.?

P39 - 05:47明顯不同角色了。?

It's like an old school character, maybe you put like. This guy over here. And this guy is cool as well. It's just more open to experiments.? So it's more open to exploring the character further and stuff like that. So that's the basic the main principle.?

P39 - 06:24以上是基本原則。?

And also what’s good about the suggestive an abstract way of painting with texture brushes??

P39 - 06:30如何用建議抽象的方式繪制。?

You don't paint the light. people always keep asking me. Like, I keep asking me, how do you handle your values? And how does this stuff look real and stuff like that??

P39 - 06:41如何處理價值。?

I don't paint with the light. I just put the strokes. I see the general shape, and then I start refining them.?

P39 - 06:48紋理材質(zhì)涂抹出形狀來。?

it doesn't necessarily mean that. this is like I can quickly tweak the lighting afterwards, but when I'm painting with is the suggestive Information that gives me kind of ideas of this of what this character might look like??

P39 - 07:13紋理刷子給角色看起來是什么的。?

So you see, it's all very suggestive. Nothing is like,? you can still go on and play with it and change this guy dramatic as you go because you are very suggestive. ?

P39 - 07:45調(diào)節(jié)改變成不同角色。?

Overall, I just realized the summarizing this stuff for you. I think the more transparency, if we put it this way.? So for example, let's make this graph right. And here it’s a suggestion, And here is our statement.?

P39 - 08:17對比圖，左側(cè)建議，右側(cè)說明。?

And this is basically opacity. So this is zero. And this is 100%. So zero means you have very kind of 100% .

P39 - 08:30說明不透明度百分百。建議為零。?

zero means suggestion. Opacity means hundred percent like you're making a statement. And as you go lower even link for this texture brush is suggested because once I make a very light strokes, excuse me, just kind of a small amount of paint and if I push harder, it just introduces a lot of big shapes, big statements. So and it doesn't matter really what brushes using you can cycle through all of them.?

P39 - 09:08跟刷子種類無關(guān)，不透明度有關(guān)。?

And most of them they have the same kind of features.? they are somewhere on this graph. And depending where the brushes you using it to suggest to make a statement. I did like a demo without voice over it. Just me painting using this texture brush. Make sure that you watch that one and just get the idea how I kind of procedures I paint.? ?

P39 - 09:34留下印象。?

there is no voice over. I just don't think. But you need to know like There is no need for me to repeat all the stuffs together. But I'm basically what I'm doing. I'm suggesting the shape and I'm putting those without actually thinking about lighting I think it's purely about shapes and design kind of abstraction.?

P39 - 09:53形狀紋理抽象設(shè)計。?

But once I see something that I kind of put the light Information. All right. it's a very short one, but I hope you guys found this very informative. And let's move on. Thank you very much.?