goodies!

Located here are some goodies that don't belong elsewhwere on the site:

Digital painting-related goodies:

Before jumping into the tutorials, or downloading the brushes, please read the following:

1)These brushes are my gift to you, but please do not email me and ask me how to use the brushes--there is no trick to using them--just draw and paint as you would other brushes.

2)I get emails from people all the time, asking me why they couldn't reproduce the same result in their painting from following my online tutorials. It always surprised me that anyone would think a tutorial is all it takes to get the same results that it took me half my lifetime so far to learn. They would ask me, "What is it that you did between the step before the last and the finished work?" or "What brushes did you use? Why can't I get the same look you did?" My reply to them have always been the same:

"It's not the brushes or any other secrets that I've held back--it is simply experience, patience, and practice needed on your part."

If an experienced guitar player showed you how to finger a bunch of chords and showed you all the notes on a guitar solo, you wouldn't automatically think that you could play just like him, would you? Then why would you believe a painting tutorial can turn you into an experienced painter? The only thing that could get you there is lots of practice, and years of hardwork. The painting tutorials are just chords and notes that I showed you--you're the one that has to practice the until your fingers bleed.

Moonlight Lovers Tutorial - A tutorial I did for cgsociety.

Scythe Wolf Tutorial - There's also a different version of the Scythe Wolf tutorial that contains a lot more text explanations (compared to what's on my website) published in Digital Art Masters: Volume 1, published by 3dtotal.com.

Blood Siren Tutorial - General steps of the painting.

Mood1 Tutorial - General steps of the painting.

d'artiste: Digital Painting - I co-wrote a book on digital painting techniques with Linda Bergkvist, John Wallin Liberto, and Philip Straub. The tutorials and tips I've written in the book are far more detailed and in-depth than the ones I have on the website.

Art Techniques and Theories forum at cgtalk - I started this forum at cgtalk to address the lack of a proper place for cgtalkers to get into the nitty gritties of art foundations and theories.

Corel Painter-related goodies:

Painter tips and tricks (updated 11-29-2005) - Some tips on how I use my brushes and set up my UI.

Rob's custom Painter brushes (updated 11-30-2005) - Current release is for version IX of Painter. Using them in earlier version will cause glitches. I do not have earlier versions available anymore.

Examples done with my custom brushes (click on the images for explanation of each brush):

Read the following instruction for installing the brushes:

First, extract zipped contents straight into your "Program Files\Corel\Corel Painter IX\Brushes" folder. After you have extracted the files, they should be available as a seperate library (just go to the "Load Brush Library" option in the Brush Selector Bar". If you want to move them into the default Painter brush library, just read the Painter help file for how to do that.

Corel Painter Forum at cgtalk - I'm the Forum Leader of the Corel Painter forum at cgtalk. If you have questions about painter, this is the place to find the answer.

Career advice-related goodies:

I wrote an article on the art of art direction for Gamasutra, published here. It might help those of you that want to get into the game industry, or thinking about moving up to become an art director.

Personal-related goodies:

Influences - People and creative works that I love.

Internet-related goodies:

Links - Some of the websites that I visit.

Music-related goodies:

Share the Love! - For music lovers.