Photoshop Tutorial

Pushing your boundaries! Trying a new style.

The only way you are going to improve in your craft is to push yourself at experimenting something out of your comfort zone.

Character design

In the past, starting a project was challenging, even overwhelming at times. My goal was to draw every day in order to improve and challenge my style or increase my creativity. But I would freeze and stare at my white canvas, not knowing what to draw that day. Other days, it would be the opposite. My mind would be filled with ideas, but then, I wouldn’t know where to start.

My guess is that you may say: “been there, done that!”

Tired of dealing with this, I came up with a process and I am going to share it with you.

Highlights and shadows, a YouTube tutorial, (April 19th, 2020)

In the YouTube video tutorial posted on April 19th, 2020, I showed how to use highlights and shadows to define features on your creation. They are a wonderful addition to digital art as they generate a nice false impression of a real photograph.

This easy trick transforms any drawings, or two-dimensional images, into stunning three-dimensional pictures, giving them shapes and form.

We call this in French, “Trompe l’oeil” which translate into English into “optical illusion.”

In order to achieve the effects, just remember the three very important rules