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Painting and Sculpting Tiki on the iPad and other crazy stuff |
Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
|  Posted: 2013-05-06 8:13 pm Permalink
I'm always experimenting on stylizing objects. This was my take on palm trees.
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-06 8:16 pm Permalink
So you want the sundown 15 minutes later. With digital you just multiply 2 layers together. It doesn't just darken the image, it darkens the colors, giving a more natural look.
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-06 8:27 pm Permalink
OK, folks this is not at all tiki, but I wanted to illustrate to anyone who was thinking of trying Ipad or computer painting that a good online community can really help a person get better. As I have said I am not much more than a so so cartoonist, but by working this last 6 months and producing one image a day and following online tutorials, I have greatly improved. This image was a feature image on the SketchClub website today. A few images a day are featured. Hundreds are uploaded everyday ...... I'm sorry it is no tiki, but the Dude is cool too.
For sure .... THE DUDE ABIDES
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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Joined: Jul 19, 2009
Posts: 5356
From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-05-07 12:37 am Permalink
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-07 8:11 pm Permalink
I wish I was a talented painter, but I am not. The images I produce are not meant to be great art. What I make are designs, illustrations, patterns, and humorous cartoons. I finds lot of uses for them. This next section goes away from tiki sculptures (I will soon get back to that) and more into pattern making. This method might inspire folks to give this simple technique a try .....
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-07 8:14 pm Permalink
Now this is one of the coolest things about digital brushes. You can take a fairly high resolution image and turn it into a rubber stamp brush. This is a very simple tiki shield design I created myself.
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-07 8:16 pm Permalink
Another simple design element
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-07 8:19 pm Permalink
A very simple abstract tiki design.
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-07 8:24 pm Permalink
So what is this all good for? Add some color and texture and stamps and you end up with a nice pattern.
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-07 8:27 pm Permalink
I tiled the pattern and used it for a background. I took the first tiki and colored the stamp brush in a very contrasting color. I think it makes a nice combo.
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Holler Waller
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Joined: Mar 13, 2011
Posts: 166
From: NW TN
| Posted: 2013-05-08 03:34 am Permalink
Nicely done
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-08 6:25 pm Permalink
Thanks for checking my stuff out Holler ......
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Gene S Morgan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-08 6:28 pm Permalink
Now, I'm gonna take this pattern stuff to another level. I want to show how this can be useful and fun.
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Gene S Morgan
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-08 6:30 pm Permalink
Another simple design element stamp.
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Gene S Morgan
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 18, 2011
Posts: 342
From: Midwest the navel of the USA
| Posted: 2013-05-08 6:33 pm Permalink
Another simple tiki stamp.
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