Posts pertaining to anything digital: videos, digital painting, websites, etc.
Here’s yet another winter speed painting! Digitally painted in Adobe Photoshop CS5. I had the idea for this speed painting after wearing some of those sepia tinted glasses the eye doctor gives you after they dilate your eyes, and looking at the woods behind my house (in the winter). The basic concept is an overall brown tint but with cool blue snow. I think I’ll eventually do an oil painting of this scene and concept.
Here’s an animated GIF of a winter speed painting I did a while ago, and several different variations of the same image. I digitally painted this as a color study for a miniature oil painting. When I get a chance to scan the oil painting, I’ll post it online. If you don’t see this image changing, give it a moment, your internet may be slow (or something went terribly wrong on my end).
Here is a speed painting I completed several weeks ago. It is a red landscape (from my imagination!) digitally painted using Adobe Photoshop CS5. There’s not much else to say about it. Now that I think about it, this image may be more orange than red. Let’s just say it’s a Cadmium Red Light landscape.
Body of Water, Big HillsHere’s another speed painting I did a couple of weeks ago. As you can see, it is a mountain range and a body of water of some sort. That’s why I’m referring to it as Mountains and Lake. This is actually the third digital speed painting I did. The first two are not to be seen by human eyes. This was digitally painted in Adobe Photoshop CS5 using my Monoprice drawing tablet (the unboxing of that drawing tablet can be seen here).
In other news, it’s currently snowing in Michigan…in April. You never quite know what to expect from the weather here.
Here is another speed painting of mine (an antarctic speed painting!). This was “painted” a couple of weeks ago (sorry it took so long to put it on here). It may have nothing to do with the arctic at all. Some nice chunks of ice and water are present in the image. I’m still learning and I’d be lying if I said that digital painting wasn’t frustrating. It is frustrating, but pushing forward even though something is frustrating is how you get better.
This digital painting was painted in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
I’m still very new at digitally painting, and using a drawing tablet still feels foreign to me. However, I have been practicing. Here’s a recent speed painting of a waterfall. I don’t remember how long it took as I have no sense of time when doing anything art related (besides deadlines). I’m guessing that it was about 10 minutes? I’m looking forward to the great deal of progress ahead of me in the digital realm.
I bought the Monoprice 10X6.25 Inches Graphic Drawing Tablet on Amazon. You can purchase it directly from Monoprice’s website but the cost of shipping is what kills the deal (although this tablet is still quite a steal).
This post isn’t my review of the tablet, but the unboxing photos, because some people are into that. Keep an eye out for my review in the near future.
I ordered my tablet from Amazon and when the package arrived I had no idea what I received. That’s mostly due to the package being enormous.
Here is a size comparison with an iPod Classic just to show you how oversized this package is.
And now we take a peek into the package. Initially there was paper in here to somehow protect the box from moving around (or just to take up space). I took that out before snapping a photo.
Here’s the front of the box. It’s nothing special but it could be uglier. I wasn’t expecting the elegant design of a Zune box or something from Apple.
Here’s the back of the box. It mentions some stupid free tablet software that I will never use.
Some words and such on the back of the box.
The contents of the box. The tablet, the pen, the software/manual, extra nibs, a battery and the pen holder.
Here’s the tablet in all of it’s glory! No, it doesn’t have a weird white spot on the surface, that’s just the reflection from the flash on the camera.
Closeup of the tablet shortcut keys. These are changeable in the software.
Here’s the tablet surface overlay. It lifts up so you can put a photo underneath and trace it? Something along those lines.
The bottom of the tablet!
This gizmo holds the pen.
The bottom of the pen holder has a contraption on it for removing nibs.
This is the pen. It may not look like much but it works. I’d say that the number one negative thing I see in reviews for this tablet is about the pen. More about that in my review to come.
Closeup of the nib in the pen.
The buttons on the pen. They default as primary and secondary clicks.
The battery, nibs, software, and manual.
Size comparison of the tablet with my 2009 15.4″ Unibody MacBook Pro.
On the protective bag around the tablet there was a mysterious graphic showing what I interpret as Monoprice despising burglars. Either that or you’re supposed to keep the bag away from infants.
Did you figure out what my favorite package design was from?
What product do you think has the best package design?