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4. Painting Methods---1-4.Find Edges & Cutout Filter

P34 - 00:00?

?Let me show you how you can also use finding edges and cut out the filter to kind of make another set of shortcuts.?

P34 - 00:12如何通過(guò)調(diào)整邊界和濾鏡找捷徑。?

So let's start with this simple, very kind something very abstract,?

P34 - 00:19從抽象開(kāi)始。?

let’s say just implying that this is something like a gun, some couple of shapes.?

P34 - 00:27不同形狀組合的武器。?

So as I told you before, the problem with the limitation of the shape language is that you really don't know what form it has.?

P34 - 00:39二維形狀講述不了三維輪廓。?

So I showed you that using light, like finding edges filter, you can convert this one into a line drawn.?

P34 - 00:48邊緣過(guò)濾轉(zhuǎn)化成線稿。?

and also using combination of those which will be finding edges plus kind of filter.?

P34 - 00:57優(yōu)化邊界結(jié)合過(guò)濾邊界。?

You can actually convert those and simplify. ?

P34 - 00:59可以轉(zhuǎn)化可以簡(jiǎn)化。?

The great thing is that if you keep applying finding edges and cuddled filter after like just repeatedly applying those, it will start a create a really nice form as well. It will start to give you ideas about how this shape actually looks as a cross section.?

P34 - 01:26邊緣橫截面。?

It's like doing a babbling in 3D, because we know all hard surface stuff. It has some kind of bevel to it.?

P34 - 01:34如同物體表面邊緣的坡度。?

So let's just repeat it a few times. Like just create a new layer. For example, use a different brush. ?

P34 - 01:45舉例子用不同的刷子。?

Maybe it's something. And applied this guy replied once it looks like this, and then you keep applying. Keep going, keep giving different ideas. It is really, really cool because this is something you would do afterwards by applying textures and like different forms as well. But this automated process that gives you a really nice idea from the very beginning.

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P34 - 02:23比如不同紋理邊緣不同設(shè)計(jì)思路。?

So let's say if you're doing an abstract shapes like this. And then. Let's just cut out this guy.?

P34 - 02:40做好形狀后套索剪切。?

You apply those filters, 12345.?

P34 - 02:46過(guò)濾五次。?

And then you distort this guy. So this guy could be yes, if sun five panel somewhere.?

P34 - 02:53扭曲平鋪。?

And because it has this kind of implied thickness, it does give you a lot of Information that and you would never kind of end up with this kind of result.?

P34 - 03:06存在厚度。?

If you were doing it manually, you would end up, but it would take interest more time than you had spent by just applying the filter.?

P34 - 03:15濾鏡出厚度節(jié)約時(shí)間成本。?

And then you will start giving it a little bit more love and love and just refined. And t hen converted towards whatever you want.?

P34 - 03:24最后轉(zhuǎn)化成你想要的。?

So it's a very, very good tool to start refining your form in a kind of artificial way, not consciously,?

P34 - 03:37人工方式，非意識(shí)層面。?

like learning and mastering how to paint and how to describe forms take ages.?

P34 - 03:45精通如何描述模型耗時(shí)長(zhǎng)。?

It just takes a lot of really serious work. And I always appreciate that work. But I keep saying, in order to tell your stories, you don't need to be a master of painting.?

P34 - 03:55為了講述故事，沒(méi)必是繪制高手。?

That's why this course is not about painting, even though I'm showing you a lot of drawing and painting tips, I'm also giving you a lot of kind of shortcuts that we will be constantly using to kind of create something unique,?

P34 - 04:14繪畫(huà)技巧和設(shè)計(jì)訣竅。?

but spend less time on that show skill sets, for example, you can take this one. And now you have a very complicated shape derived from a very simple blocked out kind of shape, that I did over here now stretch this guy. you have some very cool 5 platform, which is looks cool because there is a lot of graphic design going on. There is a lot of repetition. There is a lot of contrast. There is a lot of those good guys that we talked about when I was explaining new design principles.?

P34 - 05:15上下左右組合平鋪有對(duì)比和重復(fù)。?

So balance time to use, though, instead of painting from scratch, like imagine if you were doing this all these guy from scratch.?

P34 - 05:24想象下這一切都是從草稿做起來(lái)。?

It just needs a lot of accuracy. like it just needs a lot of time to kind of get to this level. But once you've got that Information, all you need to do is just start refining.?

P34 - 05:36軟件做好后，只需要手動(dòng)修繕。?

you'll start kind of seeing things because you flatten it out, you will start actually to describe the form much better.? this goes inside kind of overlapping those using same design language like come up with a really cool thing.?

P34 - 05:56在現(xiàn)有平面立體，再平面設(shè)計(jì)。?

And it will not take you ages to take it much less time because he is spending you making short conservancy is spending more time on designing things rather than improving your painting skill.?

P34 - 06:09不影響出效果同時(shí)提高訓(xùn)練技能。?

let me give you a final example, which is very similar to what I did here. But It's also very useful. For example, let's make shape like this.?

P34 - 06:24另一個(gè)案例，比如這樣的形狀。?

and then let's apply the final edges filter. let's just cut out this.?

P34 - 06:33完善便捷濾鏡，套索剪切。?

I like this method. It’s very it keeps you abstract, but it gives you a lot of kind of potential in terms of how you can generate really nice designs without actually being very great painter. ?

P34 - 07:03繪畫(huà)技術(shù)一般但不影響好的設(shè)計(jì)。?

Which takes forever painting, learning how to paint and draw. As I said from the very beginning, it's not something you will learn in eight weeks.?

P34 - 07:15繪畫(huà)并不是8周攻破的。?

It just you need more time. Ability, like learning how to design and make it design choices.?

P34 - 07:22學(xué)會(huì)做設(shè)計(jì)選擇。?

This is something that you can learn in the course. And this is what I'm concentrating on. And this is why this course is called narrative concept design. It's all about narrative and ideas.?

P34 - 07:32敘事性概念設(shè)計(jì)。?

So let's go back to this shape and apply just like line drawing tool.?

P34 - 07:39做線條設(shè)計(jì)。?

So as you see, it's really cool, but we still don't know what for me to ask what is the thickness of this object??

P34 - 07:46不清楚設(shè)計(jì)輪廓的厚度。?

And if you start applying cutout filter, like if you go to, so first we apply the finding fine edges.?

P34 - 07:55開(kāi)始找到輪廓線稿。?

And the second option, we will apply kind of a filter,?

P34 - 08:00選擇二，過(guò)濾走廊。?

which is in my probably need to share these actions with you guys. So you will just plug them in and you will have them working.?

P34 - 08:12過(guò)濾行動(dòng)，檢測(cè)效果。?

So in my world, it's a Free. So you can see when I expand this. through once? a filter gallery cut out. So it start to cut out, And it starts to give me this kind of edge over here. But keep going like this. Basically what I start seeing it gives me a very natural thickness.?

P34 - 08:34過(guò)濾剪切看到邊緣的厚度。?

And whenever you do a line drawing, you'll we kind of try to introduce line thickness variety,?

P34 - 08:44線條厚度的變異。?

like mastering that one. It is really difficult like some people. Very good. Will line thickness, because this is what makes your pictures beautiful. And also this is what helps you to describe the form.?

P34 - 09:00幫助描述模型。 ?

Because once we know the shape like this, once we have the training, we know that the light is coming from here.because this guy is dark.?

P34 - 09:10光線從粗線條對(duì)面射過(guò)來(lái)。?

And instead of doing it manually, what we basically did, we did the shape, like for example, the shape itself,?

P34 - 09:21比如我們做形狀本身。?

we purely designed the shape. And instead of trying to make it like this manually,?

P34 - 09:30避免手工的調(diào)節(jié)線稿。?

we applied one filter and then a few times cut out the filter.?

P34 - 09:34重復(fù) 過(guò)濾剪切 剪紙。?

Now we know that this kind of mechanical part has this really nice thickness to it. This could potentially be front or something like that.?

P34 - 09:53可以作為屏風(fēng)。?

You see, that's pretty much completes a line drawing versus a shape language.?

P34 - 10:04線條輪廓和二維設(shè)計(jì)。?

Then in the next chapter, which will be the last one for this lesson, I will just show you different examples of quick ones, which will help you to kind of set your mind Free in the abstract and using those two methods create some really nice stories and designs.?

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4. Painting Methods---1-5.Textures from Filters

P35 - 00:00?

?so let me show you more examples. And so you will see how fining edges and the cutoff filter just helps us to automate our posts,?

P35 - 00:11調(diào)節(jié)邊界，過(guò)濾剪切，如何調(diào)整。?

purely concentrate on design rather than the technical bits.?

P35 - 00:15專注設(shè)計(jì)而非技術(shù)技巧。?

So as you remember, our first design element will shape and then form, using line drawing.?

P35 - 00:24形狀 模型 線稿。?

And then now we need a texture as well. So that's why instead of using a flat brush, what will be using? We will be using some texture brushes and deal with together with the line with the fining edges and Kettle filter will give us some really nice textures and suggestions. ?

P35 - 00:48材質(zhì)刷子替代平面刷子。?

So let’s creepy bloke out something very quickly using architecture like a very texture brush. so now let's apply fining edges.?

P35 - 01:03材質(zhì)刷子 調(diào)節(jié)邊界。?

And you see, when we applied it on, it gives you a lot of the smaller effects that actually gives you some not only form, because it gives you a lot of like small lines that can describe the form, but also it gives you a lot of textures as well,?

P35 - 01:22給線條 模型 材質(zhì)紋理。?

which could help you to reinforce overall graphic design and to get to the final image much quicker.?

P35 - 01:30加速草稿到終稿到過(guò)程。?

Then you would care if you were trying to paint all this stuff from scratch. So for example, let's take this guy and apply cutout filter.? And you see the way it's simplified it, just the way it handles the texture helps you a lot. Because when you zoom out, it can actually start to look like a proper line drawing, like something you would do with the traditional media. Or you can take both of these guys. ?

P35 - 02:06過(guò)濾 套索剪切 潤(rùn)色線稿。?

I think I need to go back to shape again. So I'll copy more merge everything. Go back a couple of times. Go back to our shape extent bring back those and now I will take on the original, put it over here. So we started with this one. It's a purely silhouette, like this one, which is more like, somewhere in between. But it gives us a lot of textual kind of Information as well. So we can keep experimenting. Let's say that supply both of those, at the center. so we've get this, but let's apply, for example, finding edges first, which is F1 and hit a couple of times,?

P35 - 03:06退回草稿F1找到邊緣。?

cut out filter. So it will even simplify it even more. For example, if you were doing like a sketch with the rocks, you don't need to spend ages trying to get those rocks right. it will give you all you need. It will give you the base. All you need to do is just to refine it a little bit to give, to put some variety and stuff like that. ?

P35 - 03:35重復(fù)F1幾次后再描粗邊界。?

So let's try something more complicated. For example, if you're doing a character design, let's pick up the texture brush again. And we will start putting some instead of like purely using because some people they really don't understand how they don't see light, they see shapes. And we'll start with the shape, no lines purely shapes. And we will put some silhouette of a character. And then we will put some graphic design is very abstract, nothing very specific. It's all about getting those lines and stuff like that. Like those intersection. Let's say this guy has a spear. As you can see, it's very rough, very ugly, very kind of simple and quickly done sketch. And it's not very graphically, doesn't look very good as a graphic design, but that's not the point.?

P35 - 05:00紋理刷子粗略繪制出拿長(zhǎng)矛的人。?

That's why I keep saying, you don't need to be a very good painter to become a good designer or storyteller. So what we will do? We’ll take this guy, and once again, also, don't forget we have no light Information on this one. It's not like these guys are being lit or something. So many problems. They struggle with values and photorealism. That's why I really strongly suggest if you struggle with photographic stylize. because stylized is much more forgiving. And you can do great things with stylize things as well. So let's find edges first.?

P35 - 05:45套索剪切浮動(dòng)，找到線稿邊界。?

Let's of course, cut out this guy. He's on a separate layer, finding edges. it's already giving you a lot of the small things, but we want to take it further. Cut out. How about finding edges together. ?

P35 - 06:03再次套索剪切浮動(dòng)線稿。?

these guys more. It just looks like this guy looks too digitized. but this guy looks more like you would see in the manga.?

P35 - 06:17這次有日漫的風(fēng)格了。?

it’s very close. It's not like miles away from it. And we can go on. take this guy again. This is over here. copy merge.?

P35 - 06:33復(fù)制 融合 拓展。?

And let's supply cathode filter a few times. So we apply the filter edges once, and we hit cut out.hit cut out, hit cut out. So we're losing details and also thickening the line, which might be the thing that we want to do,?

P35 - 06:57線條加粗 細(xì)節(jié)消失。?

And as you can see it start with giving you a lot of cool things. You know what I mean? Like it giving you so much of suggested details. And all you need to do is you need to just go and simplified it, like you are already having like suggestion of the form as well. And for example, if you start merging, which I will be showing later on. You will start getting like folds and all that stuff. The stuff you don't really want to spend time painting because your overall effort should be concentrated on the on the idea on the character of this kind not those technical aspects of painting and drawing.?

P35 - 07:45在過(guò)濾基礎(chǔ)上繪制細(xì)節(jié)事半功倍。?

And now you start with this is it. you're already having a very good base. All you need to do is just start refining, refining, and refining. But it's already there. everything you might need when you zoom out. For example, if you twist, because you can select the areas of the flat surfaces, you can start introducing some graphic designs as well.?

P35 - 08:19打磨細(xì)節(jié)后，涂上灰色平面設(shè)計(jì)。?

And then at any point, if you won't go to go back to the line drawing, you can do it easily.?

P35 - 08:38簡(jiǎn)化修改線稿的過(guò)程。?

Just compare how this guy changes from these very primitive thing, which is very easy to do. Everybody can do this, to something more elegant and more kind of, it looks like I worked at this guy like for way more time than I actually spent on it. and then you go to line drawing. Sometimes it doesn't work. It means you've got a lot of details.?

P35 - 09:06切換到線稿，有很多的細(xì)節(jié)。?

So You need to experiment with those who get the best result of it.?

P35 - 09:12不斷試錯(cuò)到更好的結(jié)果。?

I've been doing a final example with a different brush, which I think is a very good one to kind of bringing those implied details and help you to get the abstract shapes that will afterwards help you to creative final design. So basically this brush is good because it gives you a really nice variety between the thin and thick lines.?

P35 - 09:40換一把細(xì)線條和粗線條切換自如。?

And for example, and this is the kind of the method when you actually instead of trying to do very abstract shapes, you actually paint what you think you need to paint. for example, I want to do a human head. But instead of really following the human head like this. no, I'm just painting a human that like I know the feeling that there is a brain inside and the more like of those cross sections you introduce, it will give you much better results when you convert it to a line drawing.?

P35 - 10:14抽象繪制頭腦，線稿越容易獲得。?

For now like I wanna paint and I go and I know the lips, stuff like that. And like same with the like, I know there are folds. Instead of painting them with very consciously, I'm just blocking them out. Then trousers and stuff like that.? Hold on. Just a second. Let’s apply fine edges,?

P35 - 11:42開(kāi)始優(yōu)化邊緣。?

using this, let's combine those two. Or maybe this is a good one. Perhaps I need to cut this guy out. Let's just quickly to separate some forms. ?

P35 - 12:15黑色底稿 線稿優(yōu)化邊界 灰色。?

now let's play, it gives a lot of Information that just something you would never get from them. As quickly as you did it. Now, if you will consciously painting these things and you can experiment with those, for example.? Like these, you can bring them back and multiply on top of painting. You will start getting a lot of like simple implied details that is really hard to get. If you're doing it from scratch.? For example. Now I realize that, okay, probably I won't be facing like looking mainly towards us. And now together with shape or form texture. You're also getting like some light Information. It's not a real light. The way you see it, your brain starts to kind of filling the gaps. doing it from scratch, you're doing it from something you see already. Like for example, look at this. you already can see the lighting and stuff like that. And it keeps adding those details and painting.?

P35 - 13:47多重圖層，繪制入光。?

It would take much more time. If you were doing this from scratch and trying to kind of first do a line drawing, then put all the lighting, you can start kind of refining it. It just doesn't work that way for me, because it takes me away from the main purpose, the design of the storytelling. ?

P35 - 14:10從草稿圖開(kāi)始容易不專注講故事。?

Now you can select the background as well. So just from a simple shape, in a couple of minutes, I can move towards a much more realistic painting because I’m using the smart kind of shortcuts that allow me to move on and to concentrate on the design first.?

P35 - 14:53背景涂灰色，人臉面對(duì)觀眾。?

and the story with us rather than the real issue is that properly, see the proportions. And also when it comes down and people keep asking me all I need to know anatomy very well to kind of do that stuff like this. You do need to know that.?

P35 - 15:04你沒(méi)必要知道人體解剖學(xué)。?

I mean you didn't need to know proportions, but because we are not constructing stuff from scratch. ?

P35 - 15:10因?yàn)椴皇菑陌准垬?gòu)建的。?

We are not constructing stuff from scratch. That's why it kind of helps us to see. Because we know when something is off in many cases human eye can say okay, that’s wrong.?

P35 - 15:30容易出讓人一眼看出來(lái)的錯(cuò)誤。?

And when you are doing it from scratch. It's very difficult to do it because you're doing it yourself. And you're constantly thinking and making decisions. And sometimes they are wrong. But when the program does it for you. Like it does cutout filter and all that stuff for you. Then you can easily spot or something is off. ?

P35 - 15:57讓軟件剪切過(guò)濾，可以專注修補(bǔ)。?

So that's why. Try those out and you will see the way how powerful they are. And how just? from simple shape like this. And if you squint my eyes when zoom out, this looks very convincing. This looks something I would see my final illustration. But it all started from a simple Syria. And using cut out and finding edges, it gave me form and give me a lot of colour Information.?

P35 - 16:38剪切線稿紋理顏色光的信息。?

It gave me texture Information as well. So yeah, that kind of concludes the battle between line drawing and shapes, which is both of them are very strong. They support each other.?

P35 - 16:46線稿和形狀，輪廓內(nèi)容相互支持。?

And if you stay smart and use different like shortcuts, you can be less concentrating on the painting phase and more concentrating on final designs and story telling, which is the purpose of this lesson of this course as well.

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4. Painting Methods---1-6.Using Photo Reference

P36 - 00:00?

I decided to include this bonus video for you guys, And, I keep talking about this old short cards. And at some point we will hit the point where I will be showing you how to use photos and stuff like that,?

P36 - 00:15什么時(shí)機(jī)用照片。?

but also finding edges and cut out filters. A very good way to simplify your photos.?

P36 - 00:23剪切過(guò)濾邊界 潤(rùn)色。?

And to, for example, convert this kind of photograph to almost like a line drawing.?

P36 - 00:29轉(zhuǎn)化照片就是線稿。?

And let me show you how to do it, basically, all you need is a good photo reference that you like. And for example, let's see, if you're designing things, you can heavily modified the photo, ?

P36 - 00:40設(shè)計(jì)照片總是借鑒與調(diào)整。?

for example, you can take make and they can make this building, for example, bigger.?

P36 - 00:48比如可以讓建筑大樓變高。?

Without worrying too much about all the kind of color and value and all that stuff, you can redesign this frame completely,?

P36 - 01:01可以重新設(shè)計(jì)畫(huà)框。?

Like for example, make a side by side a little bit like like just quickly sketching and painting and just color picking from this photo,?

P36 - 01:15從照片本身取色。?

which is why we kind of use photos, because they give us a really nice base and stuff like that. I will not spend too much time on it. Just a quick sum couple of like really interesting and judgement and stuff like that.?

P36 - 01:28只是簡(jiǎn)單的做個(gè)調(diào)整。?

Anyway. And now let's say it's at some point, you need to convert it to a line drawing because don't forget the less kind of attributes and features you have inside your picture done. The more time and chance you have to play with the design.?

P36 - 01:44屬性特征借用照片，專注設(shè)計(jì)。?

So because right now you see I sketched on Top of a few things. And they just look like they're being sketched on Top of it, because I need to spend more time to actually kind of refining them and make them look like this photo.?

P36 - 01:57后期添加的看起來(lái)接近照片。?

Instead of doing that, we will go and simplify it. So we'll just go and use fine edges. If we use fine edges, we've got this.?

P36 - 02:08接下來(lái)用線稿。?

It looks too noisy to me. And usually use it with conjunction with the cutout filter like I did before.?

P36 - 02:15用之前用的剪切過(guò)濾工具。?

So basically, I apply first. I apply a fine edges.?

P36 - 02:23用調(diào)節(jié)邊界。?

So we just curve miss the bark. fine edges. And now we go stylize, fine edges. ?

P36 - 02:32風(fēng)格化 潤(rùn)色邊緣。?

And now we go to the filter, build a gallery, and apply cutout filter. So place the settings over here, it will give you different amount of detaining and stuff like that. So but overall it gives very solid base.?

P36 - 02:51過(guò)濾藝術(shù)走廊，找到線稿。?

And it just looks like a line drawing. It could look like some of the cure comics. And you need to do. For example, And now you can easily design because you're having less Information. You can go and start playing with it as you want. It just looks cool, because it's simple. ?

P36 - 03:22可以做倒影 顏色平衡。?

Now, because everything looks like a line drawing, you have more flexibility in terms of introducing something a little blue like alien as it was looking because before it was just everything was just photo real and to bring it to the level of photorealism it takes some time and experience, which you don't want to kind of spend time on. This one. It just looks way more graphic. ?

P36 - 04:29添加的設(shè)計(jì)像是平面而不是照片。?

And because you have all these flat areas, you can start introducing a hint of clouds,?

P36 - 05:07因?yàn)槟憧梢越梃b云彩的顏色。?

just stylizing everything heavily. just making like a comic book, but using photos, it's a big shortcut. instead of trying to redraw the photos, we steal photos.?

P36 - 05:21在照片基礎(chǔ)上繪制。?

We just use them straight away. Can you get this simplified, nice composition. So I just felt like I know we're not in the photo world yet, but showing you how to simplify by using line drawing process shapes method, you can have really nice things.?

P36 - 05:50可以用線條繪制的方式。?

And as I said, you can still like combine those together very heavily. Like for example, you can have this one. And then. I apply just cut out the filter to it. Then you got another different graphic look.?

P36 - 06:05但是可以用照片 剪切 濾過(guò)。?

Or you can set it and multiply. And you got like it. You could color lighting Information.?

P36 - 06:15多重層，燈光信息。?

You see all the shadow, all the highlights and shadows, kind of having a proper representation because you're simplifying the photos were making like a simple version of the film.?

P36 - 06:29看起來(lái)像是簡(jiǎn)潔版的影視劇照。?

Now then it's probably worth going back and refining these clouds. So they obeyed. They have the same lighting kind of scenario.?

P36 - 06:43加入云彩的顏色吸取劇照顏色。?

This is the way you use photos to simplify them. And this is the way we do photo quickly and efficiently. So let's move on and thank you very much.?