There's no simple answer to this simple question: how to draw? I have written many articles and tutorials tackling various aspects of this complex skill. This article will be a kind of road-map to them all. If you want to start drawing, but you don't know how, you're in the right...
from the corners of the eye to the pupils. Drawing digitally with layers makes finding the most compelling eyes for your character easier, as well. Whether your aim is more cartoon-like anime eyes or photorealism, explore these various ways to step up your eye-drawing game...
Then, crank up the Feathering to about 29 pixels. See Figure 13. This might stray a little away from photorealism, but I feel there should be a slightly brighter specular highlight where the tapered stroke begins, with no fractal transparency. It helps set the composition off so it’s ...
Being praised for your skill certainly feels great, but it shouldn't be the point of everything you create. Just as you can play basketball with your friends without striving to score like a professional, you can also draw without being good. It's you who decides what the purpose of your...
The release of DALL-E 3 in late 2023 saw OpenAI catch up with Midjourney again in terms of photorealism and prompt handling. It's also one of the easiest AI image generators to get started with since it's a little more intuitive than Midjourney or Stable Diffusion. There's no need to...
He sometimes uses his erasers to draw with during this stage as much as his pencils. Then there's even more varieties of mixed media... You can mix other media with your colored pencils like Soft Pastels -left- and Acrylics -right- for mad amounts of fun... There is no one way to...
With an uncanny ability to accurately depict objects, landscapes, humans, animals—you name it—AI art has spurred on a whole new genre of art. It can even render those ideas in a specific art style, such as oil painting, digital art, photorealism, and much more. ...
“As technology evolves and we could potentially do photorealism, I still hope there's going to be a part of the industry that does not just do that,” he continues. “That actually also just makes sure that, ‘Here's this really unique looking game that looks ...
This all got me thinking—there has to be a better way to improve fast context-building without having to sacrifice photorealism. I investigated several options, starting with Google Maps and Google Earth SDKs, but these services do not allow their data to be used outsid...
Depending on the type of game environment you are working on, you may design a single or multiple focal points. Also these do not have to be grand structures that stand out in the environment. They can be very small elements that draw player's attention to the area th...