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This is what this tutorial (and almost all similar tutorials) looks like to me: http://www.buzzfeed....draw-an-owl-8q4

Edit: I'm not criticising the tutorial, just my own artistic abilities :-)

This post has been edited by arnemart: 21 November 2011 - 05:37 AM

awful

danielchow, on 21 November 2011 - 05:41 AM, said:

Awful? Why? I was actually impressed. When I first saw this I thought it was going to be another "Take photo, manipulate Photo to look like a painting or drawing".
I thought it was an interesting slideshow.

This post has been edited by jpmhughes: 21 November 2011 - 07:15 AM

How the heck did he even do that so good? I looks like a picture! I want t see a video of him doing one that would be cool!

While the slide show is interesting and demonstrates techniques, it is fairly useless as an instructional tool since it can't be save or printed for use when needed. I dislike the slide show presentations as tutorials for this reason. Maybe the slide shows are reproduced in the print magazine. I don't subscribe, so I don't know.

PhillipJago, on 21 November 2011 - 08:47 AM, said:

Look on the last line of the paragraph.

Wow! Truly impressive...

jpmhughes, on 21 November 2011 - 07:14 AM, said:

awfully presented as a teaching or how-to article.

I can never understand how people can draw like that. I'm still stuck on stick figures. Just amazing to me.

BTW. She's a hottie.

BoydPetersenqewx, on 21 November 2011 - 04:11 PM, said:

In my opinion, drawing tutorials are a "killer app" for touchscreen computers!

If you have an iPad, you might try the tutorials in ArtStudio or Sketchbook - there are probably others out there as well. Sketchbook's UI is poorly explained (it took me a while to figure out when to use sketch mode or detail mode in the tutorial) but it has the neat feature of being able to compare (or trace) your drawing on top of the example!

If you have a Nintendo DS, try Art Academy - I like this program (or "game") quite a bit and it seems well-suited for kids or beginners.

(If you just have pencil and paper, try a good drawing book for children or absolute beginners - I have one by Mona Brookes, and another by Betty Edwards.

If you like comics or animation, there are also lots of books on how to draw comic book characters - I sort of like the Klutz/Marvel book since it takes you through the process and also gets your hand in the groove by tracing things and even teaches you how to draw muscles on the Incredible Hulk!)

Any of these will definitely get you past stick figures - the rest is just a lot of practice. You might find that you enjoy it though. ;-)

This post has been edited by blecch: 21 November 2011 - 07:45 PM

I seem to have missed where it mentions the app this artist is using for this portrait. I have about twenty drawing/painting apps on my iPad and can quickly interject and recommend a few.

If you want the simplest, quickest and by far the easiest (yet fully functional) app, I recommend 'Procreate'. This has about the easiest learning curve there is for achieving complex effects.

If you want a painting app which has an incredible amount of features and comes very close to being the Photoshop for iPad, I recommend 'ArtStudio'. This is also a great app for touching-up photos.

If you want a paint app which can paint at a higher resolution (though somewhat sluggish) and gives the best overall paint tools, I recommend 'ArtRage'. It also has Windows and Macintosh counterparts.

For the most well-known app which also has a good range of tools, I recommend 'Sketchbook'. It's not the most intuitive app but it also has Windows and Macintosh counterparts which would appeal to people who have are already accustomed to it on those platforms.

There are quite a few other good paint apps as well. You can't go wrong with 'Sketch Club'... simple, yet full featured. And if you want an effective layered vector-based app which allows you to paint vector lines as if they were paint, 'Paintbook' is ideal. (With vector lines, you can come back later and grab their paths for further refinement.)

I have also noticed that the higher priced apps for the most part don't really offer any advantage over the better low-cost paint apps. (Do stay away from any paint app which doesn't have layers... unless it offers some extra little feature which you must have.)

Do remember, with most of the paint apps, you cannot achieve the higher resolution which a few of the true image editor apps can reach to. But high resolution always comes at the cost of speed, so keeping it to the screen resolution guarantees the best overall speed anyway.

Go take your pick!

I seem to have missed where it mentions the app this artist is using for this portrait. I have about twenty drawing/painting apps on my iPad and can quickly interject and recommend a few.

If you want the simplest, quickest and by far the easiest (yet fully functional) app, I recommend 'Procreate'. This has about the easiest learning curve there is for achieving complex effects.

If you want a painting app which has an incredible amount of features and comes very close to being the Photoshop for iPad, I recommend 'ArtStudio'. This is also a great app for touching-up photos.

If you want a paint app which can paint at a higher resolution (though somewhat sluggish) and gives the best overall paint tools, I recommend 'ArtRage'. It also has Windows and Macintosh counterparts.

For the most well-known app which also has a good range of tools, I recommend 'Sketchbook'. It's not the most intuitive app but it also has Windows and Macintosh counterparts which would appeal to people who have are already accustomed to it on those platforms.

There are quite a few other good paint apps as well. You can't go wrong with 'Sketch Club'... simple, yet full featured. And if you want an effective layered vector-based app which allows you to paint vector lines as if they were paint, 'Paintbook' is ideal. (With vector lines, you can come back later and grab their paths for further refinement.)

I have also noticed that the higher priced apps for the most part don't really offer any advantage over the better low-cost paint apps. (Do stay away from any paint app which doesn't have layers... unless it offers some extra little feature which you must have.)

Do remember, with most of the paint apps, you cannot achieve the higher resolution which a few of the true image editor apps can reach to. But high resolution always comes at the cost of speed, so keeping it to the screen resolution guarantees the best overall speed anyway.

Go take your pick!

Kyle, great work! I use Brushes for my portrait painting and the process is really quite different. It's great to see other artists work.

Again awesome work!

danielchow, on 21 November 2011 - 03:56 PM, said:

Oh, I see. I did not consider it to be a tutorial. More of a "look what can be done on the iPad" story.
But, yes, as a tutorial it would be or is lacking.