Asymmetric Art is back with a new layout!
Most sections are empty right now but I expect to have most of my old content up by the end of the week. The WoW-mods are relocated to a new url: http://www.asymmetric-art.com/wow-mods/, so you should update your bookmarks.
/Sam
Edit: I’ve now updated the Art Tutorials section with 3 tutorials. More stuff is coming up tomorrow.
Edit 2: The gallery section is now filled with a bunch of my old stuff.
In this tutorial I show one of the techniques I use to create my “painterly” textures, which do not have the “pasted on” feel that a normal texture based on a photo would have. As an added bonus my method creates a texture which is far more versatile than any normal tiling texture. This tutorial also shows how to add perspective to your texture and gives a few hints on how to camoflage the fact that you are using a texture in the first place.
Tools needed for this tutorial: Photoshop (I use Potoshop Elements 2)
This is not a full tutorial – but more a guide or inspirational article – I don’t guarantee that you’ll be able to master the painting of clouds after reading this – but I believe that anyone who practise hard can accomplish anything – and for those willing to do so I belive that this could get you on the right track.
This tutorial require besides Photoshop also a digital drawing tablet (like a Wacom).
This tutorial has also been published on www.wetcanvas.com and Noated.net. It is also awailable in german in the magazine “How to Draw Manga” issue 9, published by Eidalon Verlag in Germany.
A light table can be used to view slides or tracing a sketch. A light table is also good for simple layout sketching as you can put several layers of sketches on top of each other, and very easily adjust the composition as you work. Light tables are expensive, priced as high as $1000-$1500, so most people can not afford them. The least expensive light table I could find was about $400, but it lacked many of the functions you would expect from a proffessional light table.
The light box is basically the same thing as a light table, but it is a lot cheaper than a light table. The lowest priced light box I could find, 210x300mm, was approximately $200.
The cheapest solution is to build your own light table. The simplest possible way to do this is obviously to put a lamp underneath a table with a glass table top. If you don’t have a glass table you could buy a sheet of plexiglass and place a lamp underneath. however, these solutions are crude and can not be compared to a real light table., For most people a simple light table or light box is all they need. If you are serious about making your own comic for example you should invest in a light table/box, so if you make it yourself it doesn’t have to be too expensive.
But how do you make a light table then? This is what I asked myself about two years back when I first thought of making myself a light table. Of course I searched the web for tutorials and came up pretty much empty handed. None of the tutorials were what I was looking for. I decided to make my light table from scratch and while at it, provide the internet community with yet another tutorial.