Hello and Welcome to this time-lapse segment by the talented Pui Che
Rather than focus on the traditional steps taken for concept art, Pui takes a more interesting approach finding form and shape in chaos.
Pui Che’s Tips:
The Painting process in the video it self involves channeling what may seem like a uncontrolled chaos, into something that is recognizable and useable in any sort of artsy industry.
- It invokes shapes, form, and recognition. – A good way to generate random textures; control and uncontroled.
- While the central idea is to let loose and cast away till your hearts content; Remember to enjoy, and mix in your own little tweaks and quirk to shape it into your own unique style and flares.
- Having multiple styles to switch about is always good, use the ones that best fit the situation.
- Be sure to combine shapes and forms recognizable to you into the blobs, so you have something tangible to hold on to while gushing the piece right out from your mind.
- Have fun!
Some of the Photoshop keys involve in the videos are::
(general photoshop shortcut keys)
B- Brush
(Shift +B)- Toggle through various available tool type under the selected Tool Set( Shift can also be use along with many other tool sets, give it a try!)
CTRL/Command + J – duplicate selected/lasso area into a new layer.
CTRL/Command + T – Transform.
CTRL/Command + B – Opens the Color balance option, a very nice color adjustment tool.
Color Dynamic settings:: You can have you brush release a mix of foreground and background color just by the pressure sensitive of your pen by doing the follow setting:
By going to the Brush setting, toggle on [Color Dynamics] and setting the Foreground/background Jittle Control to Fade and set it to 90(or any high number).
Pui’s Gallery: http://cgcookie.com/portfolio/puiart/
↓ Below are some still frames of the different stages the piece went throughout the process. ↓
Song
Ultra Violet by team9
http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/268196/ultra-violet
Thanks for taking a look at this time-lapse segment, if you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them in the section below!
This was fun to watch. One of my favorite parts of 2D is trying to see things in the shapes. I think a good alternate name for an artist is “shape wrangler.” Pui is one hell of a wrangler! I think it might be interesting to see a timelapse and then maybe like 5 minutes of the process in real time – that way you get a sense of how long/short of time the artist actually is thinking. I think people see something like this and get the false idea that it is easy then get discouraged when they try themselves and fail! I am also curious if Pui started with the idea of a lighthouse or just went with what he saw.
Thanks Jabe, i am glad you enjoyed it.
The learning process for the style itself certainly is not easy to understand, you gotta break a few bones to overcome to craziness that splashes at you.
With the above in mind, the process can be quick, or can have many pauses to think about what you perceive in the shapes.
As regarding the lighthouse environment- no i did not had any blue’s clues regarding what environment it would be during the first half to a hour into the piece(though certain environment was something i was leaning toward for this piece). Textures and shapes stagnate upon one another another, and recognizable compositions and shapes starts to show it self as you gently tap its shoulders along the way.
Thanks for the suggestion Jabessette, CgCookie has been very welcoming, i am sure i’ll be making more time-lapse vids to show you guys.
Feel free to post any suggestions on topics your interested, I’ll be sure to keep those in mind.
Beautiful to watch and inspirational to see it all come together.
I’d love to see the video at normal speed!
This video has actually inspired me. I love watching the way and style that different artists draw and paint things.
It would be amazing to see you make more timelapses or even Tutorials! Just seeing the way you use photoshop excites me.
Thanks for the supports, guys!
yup, theres a zillion way to approach any piece. I would encourage you guys to discover your inner craziness, grasp it by the horn and don’t let go!
With that being said, whatever you saw on the video, or anything that catches your eyes, try to mimic and dissect it, afterward once you understand it a little bit more, find ways to implement it into your own unique style.
Every style/approach is a block of Lego, find ways to use it to your best of advantage will make you stronger!
keep rolling, guys!
Cheers, and remember to leave any suggestions you have on either here, or to the support team, feed backs will always help us plan better( Especially me, i go way too random at things!)
-Pui
I was wondering if there was a high-res/full-res link to this because i need a new desktop background
This is great stuff man, I wish I can bang out such beautiful artwork with PS + my intous 4. This reminds me of the stuff on sketche theatre, with the timelapse and music. Sketche theatre is a great place to. I owe much of my insperation and drive from the people here at cg cookie, and Alex Alverez’s stuff with Gnomon.