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- therealBEANS, on 11/15/2009, -2/+1004maybe not: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottisskill/40690532 ...
- therealBEANS, on 11/15/2009, -189/+894I just installed photoshop and found the filters.
- jman583, on 11/16/2009, -1/+601Dugg for self correction.
- eliot2000, on 11/16/2009, -39/+386Why not just say you found a great painting? Here's the thread on Reddit where the original artist posted the painting.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a4mgp/nobody ... - amitait, on 11/16/2009, -1/+264I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE
- LetsGoToClass, on 11/16/2009, -12/+270Everything on the internet is fake
- digitalArtform, on 11/16/2009, -1/+126It's a Corel Painter photo paintover with colors and values colorpicked from the photo. He says so in the description.
- LetsGoToClass, on 11/16/2009, -1/+122This comment is a painting I just made.
- rnawky, on 11/16/2009, -27/+135More like you found a painting someone on Reddit drew and decided to try and pass it off as your own.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a4mgp/nobody ... - LetsGoToClass, on 11/16/2009, -4/+103this comment is fake
- bci84, on 11/16/2009, -2/+96Bob Ross would be proud.
- RAAFStupot, on 11/16/2009, -6/+83Some real photorealism:
http://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/richar ...
http://www.glennraytutor.com/images/photorealism_f ...
http://www.ralphlgoings.com/images/all_paintings/2 ... - zebragrrl, on 11/16/2009, -2/+69Wow I'm surprised to be the first person posting an ACTUAL LINK to the artist's blog post about his painting.
http://scottisskill.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/paint ...
In short, he uses "Painter" and a photograph (that he took) as his base canvas, then he "paints over it". This isn't some simple photoshop filter, or some 5 minute process.. he spent a week on it. While technically his technique could be likened to some degree to "tracing".. it's important to remember that even the great masters experimented with using lenses and mirrors to reflect and project natural light images onto a canvas, and then "traced" from there. - buckwilson, on 11/16/2009, -5/+57Link is busted:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a4mgp/nobody ... - Weewoz, on 11/15/2009, -12/+63Nice job yo.
- Jough, on 11/16/2009, -0/+46Bob Ross would have done the same painting in thirty minutes, with commercial breaks.
- DorXtar, on 11/16/2009, -11/+52Photorealawesome.
- mmurdock77, on 11/16/2009, -0/+37Its not.
Submitters name on Reddit is "Scott79".
Submitters name on Digg is:
Jesica Parker (Travelet)
A 19 year-old belle from Faroe Islands who joined Digg on October 29th, 2008. - stereosaurus, on 11/16/2009, -3/+39thats what she said
- RAAFStupot, on 11/16/2009, -1/+34This comment is false.
- Cadenza, on 11/16/2009, -0/+30Hard Round Brush is all you need.
- dawgma, on 11/16/2009, -4/+34His painting wasn't trying to be photoreal so your post is irrelevant.
- jman583, on 11/16/2009, -1/+28I am not real.
- gadgetlust, on 11/16/2009, -1/+28THESE PAINTINGS LOOK LIKE THE THINGS THEY LOOK LIKE!!!
- LetsGoToClass, on 11/16/2009, -1/+27this comment is not real
- MtheoryX, on 11/16/2009, -1/+26Godwin's Law.
- JlmAWP, on 11/16/2009, -8/+31From the thumbnail, it looks pretty friggin' real. The full-size is nice on the eyes, too. Well done, wish I could paint....at all.
- Mujokan, on 11/16/2009, -1/+23Well, there's not much else to do when you're a teenage girl out in the middle of the North Atlantic, 350 miles from Scotland and 700 miles from Iceland.
- TheyCMeTrollin, on 11/16/2009, -3/+24has digg turned into deviant art now?? if so i've got some really kewl twilight fanart you guyz should chekc out
- Wedg3, on 11/16/2009, -1/+21Once you've got the tecnique it's not difficult. It just takes long time and dedication, but anyone can do it. It's just cloning the photo-layer. How this counts as painting these day beats me. It doesn't even serve very well as practice in my opinion, since you don't have to put almost any thought into what you're doing.
- Infidelephant, on 11/16/2009, -2/+21WHOSE HANDS ARE THESE?!?!?!?
- InactiveUser, on 11/16/2009, -0/+19This is a genuine comment unlike all those fakes above..
- xpinchx, on 11/16/2009, -1/+20Pretty cool, he shows 12 steps of progress.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottisskill/sets/721 ... - TrouserJazz, on 11/16/2009, -0/+18Definitely could use some sharks and/or helicopters.
- tragedyfish, on 11/16/2009, -1/+19What are you talking about? Firstly, it's filled with trees. And second, Bob Ross was a pacifist.
- saikyan, on 11/16/2009, -2/+19"All right, we are going to use a fan brush here and uhh, why don't you take some hunter green and we're going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there and that'll just be our little secret. And if you tell ANYONE that that bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you!"
- thebeginning, on 11/16/2009, -3/+19Yep. Admirable job too I must say, Corel isn't as easy to use as many people think. With his abilities you'd think he'd work with better photos though...this one is pretty boring.
- terrordomed, on 11/16/2009, -0/+16Davenport, Auckland??
- chris8535, on 11/16/2009, -9/+25The use of photoshop or not has no influence on the value of art.
Aside from that... I'm confused with why all these diggers are impressed by photo-realism painting. It often produces bad paintings (created from bad photos). Also the technical skill is merely that of patience, not of insight.
For example:
-the light is bad
-the subject matter is unclear
-there doesn't seem to be any reason it was made
other than to replicate a photo in painted form
Photography freed painting from being a silly task of replication - kanojo1969, on 11/16/2009, -1/+17I bought a wacom tablet a few months ago and while getting used to it I did exactly this with a number of photos. None of them turned out as nice as this, but mostly just because I spend a few hours on them and then got bored and moved to something else.
At no point, not even for a second, did it occur to me that I could tell people I was 'painting' and keep a straight face.
If this guy is trying to 'become' a painter, I'm sorry dude but you can't have the photo as your background and just trace over it. You have to learn to draw first, it's important. I don't think that anyone in the graphic, design, or art worlds would call this 'painting'. There's so much technique in transferring your view of something onto a 2-D surface without tracing it. You can't just skip that step.
Also, the amount of time you spent on it non withstanding, using such fine strokes is pretty easy to get the light and shadows looking good.
Change your minimum brush size to 10x or even larger, and then produce a picture that looks almost exactly the same, then you will have learned how to paint light. The key ability is being able to communicate a fine level of detail at a distance, while up close the painting is actually coarse and rough. That's where the magic is in impressionism.
Someone above mentioned that lots of historical painters experimented with techniques for tracing, but the difference is that they were already accomplished painters, and the tools/techniques they used to project were mostly their own inventions. Doing this in photo-paint or whatever isn't the same thing at all, not even close. - Charun, on 11/16/2009, -2/+18The Digg Submitter: Travelet
"A 19 year-old belle from Faroe Islands"
The flickr profile: scottisskill
"I'm a 30 year old married man who's trying to learn to be an artist. " - eKalb33, on 11/16/2009, -1/+16I don't Feel drunk.
- audiogeek5, on 11/16/2009, -2/+17pwned.
- djm19, on 11/16/2009, -11/+26Technically done well, but artistically pretty mundane...the sort of thing hitler got kicked out of art school for...just being incredibly boring.
- tulikaj, on 11/16/2009, -1/+16Try Devonport, Auckland. It's got a pretty distinctive feel to it.
Here's a photo of the area:
http://www.upfrontezine.com/Figs/NZ03/Devonport.jp ... - demooo, on 11/16/2009, -2/+17Since you haven't investigated the other threads, I'll copy and paste from mmurdock77 above:
"Its not.
Submitters name on Reddit is "Scott79".
Submitters name on Digg is:
Jesica Parker (Travelet)
A 19 year-old belle from Faroe Islands who joined Digg on October 29th, 2008." - jumbosal, on 11/16/2009, -8/+23No we just want diggers to stop submitting things and using misleading titles that claim it is theirs.
- Tichondrius74, on 11/16/2009, -0/+14That sounds like a reply only hitler would make.
- DaviDTC, on 11/16/2009, -6/+20Then don't come to digg.
- wontonforevuh, on 11/16/2009, -1/+14The paints comes later.
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