Enjoy Digital Painting
By Susanna Bur
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About this ebook
The range is wide: From the very simple smudge technique to drawing with pencil, colored pencils, charcoal and pastels, up to oil, acrylic and watercolor painting as well as mixed media.
Give rein to your creative urge to paint beautiful pictures.
Your computer's monitor is your window to the digital realm, and GIMP is your tool.
Start the journey through your visions, whether abstract or realistic, whether your trip takes you to the flowers in the garden, or fantasy worlds through the sky into space, there are no limits.
Learn how to create a painted masterpiece, based upon a photo, in easy steps.
This book also contains many practical tips for setting up the free GIMP image editing program, to a perfect tool for the digital painting. Of course, the techniques can be implemented in many other image processing programs.
GIMP is the (GNU Image Manipulation Program). It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
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Enjoy Digital Painting - Susanna Bur
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Publisher: Susanna Bur
contact: gimpcreative@gmail.com
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Cover: Jörg Bur
ISBN: 978-3-944306-05-6
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Table of Contents
The sky is not the limit
The colorful imagery of GIMP-Art
Introduction
The GNU Image Manipulation Program
First steps using GIMP for drawings and paintings
01 Hibiscus
2 Smudge: Airbrush-Look Fotorealism
3 Smudge, Watercolor: Bottles
4 Foliage: Jungle
5 Foliage: Summer Scenery
6 Drawing: Plants
7 Drawings, Color Pencils: Parc
8 Drawings, Colorpencils: Glass Bottles
9 Drawing, Color Pencils: Street in Winter
Rapid Variations
10 Drawing, Charcoal: Seesight
11 Pencil: Portrait
12 Drawing, Colorpencil: Amalfi
13 Pastel: Sundown
14 Pastel: Tiger
15 Pastel: Idylic scene at the riverside
16 Pastel Portrait: Leonie
17 Acryl Painting: Goldfishpool
18 Acryl: Dream Landscape
19 Oil Painting: Apples
Waterdrops
20 Oil Painting: Sailingboat on the river Nil
21 Oil Painting: Winter
22 Oil Painting: Gerbera
23 Oil Painting: Waterfall
24 Oil Painting: Autumn in the Wood
25 Oil Painting: Smooth Ocean
26 Airbrush: Calla
27 Airbrush: Tomatoes
28 Airbrush: Red eye frog
29 Layer: Blue Desert
30 Layer: Fantasy Landscape
31 Watercolor: Spider
32 Bright Waltercolor: Riverbank
33 Watercolor: Dancer
34 Watercolor: Mountain Landscape in Winter
The sky is not the limit
The colorful imagery of GIMP-Art
In all of us lies a creative urge to bring beautiful objects into being. Who never stood in front of a work of fine art and dreamed of trying to picture his visions in the same way. But the enthusiasm for starting this adventure usually ends in the sobriety of the reality.
The equipment components of a studio are expensive. You are in the need for a room in which you may work. The purchase of materials, whether paper, canvas, pencils, brushes, paints, or books about learning the painting is an investment of thousands of (€) ($). Even if you get a set of basic materials for yourself and start initial trials, a disillusion will usually follow in a very short time. It's not so easy getting a first feeling of success. A lot of work will be discarded and the used material will be lost. If there is not a separate room for a studio at your disposal, your flat is full of materials and unfinished or finished works. The artist has either to live between this mass or has to clean every day and then has no more desire to unpack everything again and continue working.
The enthusiasm to express oneself creatively subsides very quickly and the idea is spreading that there is also a talent failure.
In the world of digital painting with GIMP all is different. Each pen, brushes, colors and canvases, which are ever needed, are in the computer. An infinite richness of options is available to make the painting look so real, as if it was created with the original materials.
Whether a picture will be painted with a pencil, pastel, acrylic, oil, watercolor, airbrush, whether paper or canvas should be rough, smooth, colored, textured, whether it should be small or large, everything is possible.
Never again colors must be mixed to realize the creative visions, never again expensive material has to be bought or discarded. Creating the art is under the artists absolute control, for the works can be changed quickly and saved.
The possibility to undo minor or major errors with a step backwards
convinces most users.
But beyond that, there are a lot of further advantages of GIMP, like to work with layers, protocols, and particularly the option to save an image under a different name and start completely new, wild experiments.
As a newcomer who has not studied art, you can enjoy many other advantages of GIMP that make the painting easier.
If you do not want to work out free ideas, but after a photo original, deposit it in a layer, reduce its opacity and draw the template in another layer. So e. g. you do not have to be a master of perspective in order to paint a landscape or a city view or fight again with the proportions of the inspiring object you want to draw. The required colors can be picked from the original photo and saved in a palette.
Thousands of ready-made brushes are available for free download on the internet and can be used for digital painting. The range varies from flowers, animals, buildings, clouds, trees, grass, shrubbery, to human figures and details such as eyes and hair and much more. Also a wide range of textures is available.
After finishing the painting, you have the ability to further edit the work, e. g. to change it in a monochrome image, in any color that suits you.
The monitor is your window to the digital realm, and GIMP is your tool. And it's for free!
Start the journey through your visions, whether abstract or realistic, whether your trip leads you to the flowers in the garden or fantasy worlds, or through the sky into space, there are no limits.
And if you want to get your paintings out of the wonderful world of the computer: You can have it printed on many materials, photographic paper, aluminum, textured watercolor paper, canvas and also fabric .
Start GIMP, dive deeply into the endless world of colors and shapes, catch your dreams, self-actualize in an unanticipated manner. You will be amazed by the possibilities.
Suzanna
Introduction
What is the difference between digitaly painting and traditional painting?
Only the technical work equipment!
The computer is the tool. The image manipulation programm and the grafic tablet are the equipment.
The GIMP program is for free. You save the purchasing costs for expensive canvas, brushes and colors.
The Painting on the computer is not about the gadgets that are possible with a photo manipulation program. It really should be drawn and painted.
The mastery of the work equipment – the brushes and the grafic tablet is important, practice makes the master here. Start and try it and do not despair. Over time, one gains the confidence to freely draw real images.
The ability to save an image.
In traditional painting a past state can never be restored. For digital painting that's no problem. Be aware of this fact and use it. Save each new version from, because if something went wrong
, you can always go back to a previous version.
Infinite variations in drawing and painting.
Through the various brushes
as pencil, chalk, charcoal, watercolors, oil paints, etc., any characters and painting techniques are applied. The canvas is an empty file that my be created in different sizes and colors. With the GIMP program in the basic several brushes are included.
On the Internet you will find a variety of preset brushes whichcan make work easier.
The digital painting does not cause clutter in the home.
You do not need a studio to have a place for all the tools and these can be left. A desk and a computer, a good screen and a graphic tablet are enough, and you have everything available, from pencil to oil paints.
There is no need for space to store all the sketches and photos.
If necessary, you can have print the images on canvas, dibond aluminum, can print on photo paper and other materials.
Very useful when painting with Gimp are the layers
.
Here, you can always put a new transparent layer on the painted image on which you may go on with painting. This single image layers can then be switched off during the painting process, or can assign different layer styles.
These layer feature is also very useful when you want to redraw a picture.
Add the original image as a level one, reduce the opacity and draw in the other layer on the outlines and details of the original photo. You can make the picture invisible or appear any time by clicking when needed.
This makes work easier in terms of proportions and perspectives.
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