The cool guy himself teaching us how to make cool designs? I’m in. Nice work!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Haha. Yep, that's me alright! :) Thanks man.

I've only started using this technique in going in w/ the silhouette first and the results so far have been great. The resulting work definitely has that 'cool' factor that you mentioned. Thanks for expanding on this topic further, it's really helpful and informative :)

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome to hear! I love that technique - you just kind of scratch around until something just clicks into place.

I can see you're loosening up your paint strokes even compared to stuff you were doing just a few months ago! Always awesome to see the pros you love evolve and develop new aesthetics. Great video Hardy!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man! I really appreciate that and thanks for noticing :)

This looks so good! The lighting is perfect :D

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Awesome - thank you!

Hello Hardy! Thank you very much for your wisdom. I really like the vibe both your art and videos have, they have such comforting and dreamy quality and feel unique. Also music choice and pace of the video add to this effect. Thank you for what you are doing and wish you all the best!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Ive been a pencil illustrator for many years , so when doing digital art i just grab a pencil brush, put my tongue out , and draw and draw and draw for hours on end. Then, after and half dead! I paint it! I decided to try using silhouettes after watching a video of yours. I did in 2 days what would have taken me 4 or 5 days easily ! You're giving us gold here! Thank you so much, both for the lectures and for the amazing paintings you create! So inspiring.

@fowlerillus

5 ай бұрын

That is so awesome. I had a similar journey and it really was a lightbulb when I realized that there were all of these steps that I could skip! I'm glad this was helpful :)

This was spot on! Listened to it while eating. The part where you spoke about letting go and breathing life into the painting was by far the best advice ive heard. That and managing which parts of the drawing you render more

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad to hear this! That was such a lightbulb moment for me and made such a different in how much I was enjoying and being satisfied by my work.

Amazing video! I love to see your process too! Keep the great work on, Hardy!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Great video as always So many learnings in a single video thanks for posting the quality content

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure and thanks for checking it out

Thanks man this motivated me and made me smile a lot

@fowlerillus

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it Exactly what I was hoping for.

Your channel is so COOOLL thank you for your tutorialsss

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

This was beautiful, almost emotional. I loved it, thank you for the great content!

@fowlerillus

2 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for letting me know

It helps a lot to watch your process, thank you!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for such great content!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Amazing video! I love to see your process too! Keep the great work on, Hardy!You are my new friend and artist teacher😍

@fowlerillus

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm so glad you liked it. Cheers :)

"Edgy" and "Cool" video! Many thanks, Hardy for these great points of good design!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you liked it :)

i don't know what was more beautiful, you talking about art or the painting.

@fowlerillus

7 ай бұрын

Oh wow, thank you :)

Damn, That looks incredible. Thanks for this

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you liked it.

Very helpful advice and drawing process!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Sweet! Glad you liked it.

awesome video, ty! I plan on working these concepts into my games

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad! Thanks for letting me know.

Wow your art is amazing, keep up the amazing work! 💖🙌✨

@fowlerillus

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Uuuuugh Hardy this design is so badass!!! I've been getting more into hard surface design, designing with big shapes and thinking about striking silhouettes first, bit the major thing i'm stuck on is color, and how to apply it without looking terrible. I love to render, but color is definitely a weak point that i need a lot of help with.

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate it. I know what you mean - color can be tricky with hard surface. One approach that I find pretty workable is going pretty achromatic to begin and then adding those pop colors with layer modes later. For example this one was mostly gray until those bright orange multiply layers and overlay blooms went in. Good luck!

Wooooow sooo cool I love it

@fowlerillus

10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you like it.

Very cool!

@fowlerillus

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

Amazing video!! "Space faring profit company" got me so goood ahahaha

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Haha, super eloquent of me :) That should be the actual corporation name in James Cameron's next sci fi epic. Seriously though, I love how grounded his stuff is.

Seriously great teacher. Sometimes I just listen to your videos as a soothing kind of exercise lol.

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Oh thanks :) I think I sound like I got hit with a tranquilizer dart but I appreciate it :)

@cheeseburger347

Жыл бұрын

@@fowlerillus lol

thank you so much

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

the man the myth , the legend

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

😎

Hardy, I wish that you would talk more into the technical and practical aspects of the work, like what you are doing with the layers and what brushes you are using, etc.

@fowlerillus

9 ай бұрын

Hi! I totally get that, I know most of these videos are pretty philosophical and fuzzy. I teach classes on the specific principles and techniques involved. This mech is actually part of a project tutorial kit - not trying to put on the salesman hat but if you're interested I can certainly link this.

So unbelievably gorgeous, Hardy. If I were at home, I would have immediately rushed to my laptop to start creating something myself. However, for now, I'll just let this video continue to inspire me for tomorrow's work instead 😉

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Bas! That's so nice to hear. I hope you're doing well!

@CowboyBoomBoomSlim

Жыл бұрын

@@fowlerillus Living the life!

Thanks for yet another great piece and the explanations. TO me personally, the hardest part is those "loose finishing strokes" where I have to literally destroy the edges I've been working on so hard. I find myself at ease when I paint things with traditional media - this way I don't have to imitate brushstrokes and can concentrate on the details. But I am limited to the resolution of the canvas and cannot use liquify, lol. How do we get the best of both worlds?!

@fowlerillus

10 ай бұрын

Great question and very tough to answer. I'm not sure if there is a way to really get the best of both worlds. I think that trying to keep things loose and textured takes extra work in digital art BUT you certainly get those nice benefits of all of the safety nets and ways you can rework everything. My advice is to grab a few of your paintings that you like and make some copies of the flattened final product and then just experiment with fun ways to mess them up :) It's actually really fun and you might bump into a method that you want to apply to future paintings.

dude i love your vids, can you teatch us how you use your masks?

@fowlerillus

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, I can definitely do a video on that. Thanks for the suggestion

This piece is SIIICK!!!

@fowlerillus

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you like it

what's that square shape brush name? it looks so cool for blocking and sketching!!

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. That's something that I made. It's just a diamond shape that I squashed flat. I think pen pressure is set to size jitter. Other than that, it has a few texture dynamics.

can you perhaps show the process from greyscale to color/early rendered image? there is a big skip between those steps lol

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I definitely edited this one down since it was such a long project. I can definitely include that in a future machine video, but it's basically just adding multiply and overlay layers to add those color accents.

Do you use any kind of reference while making these robotic arts? Or do you make it straight from you mind?

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

I definitely spend some time getting inspired by real world stuff and other art before getting started. Kind of shopping for ingredients to reassemble over my own shapes. From there it's shape carving (following a formula that works really well) and trying to evoke things like human posture in this case.

mate im begin, whats the brush

@fowlerillus

7 ай бұрын

Brushes are available for free in the Freebies channel of our Discord community which can be joined here www.digitalpaintingstudio.com/community

Oh man I miss Titanfall.........................................Oh and yeah, the video is awesome, I'm just here wondering if my Ronin and Ion miss me

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

I know! Me too :)

may we see your old portfolio one day? i doubt you putting time in the rendering would make the piece less "alive". Maybe other factors you mentioned in the video is needed too, to make a cool piece. I think i get what you mean by saying it's not about rendering things to death. Just putting this here ,hoping to see your disection of your old works.

@fowlerillus

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's an awesome idea. I do a bit of that in my academy curriculum (just showing examples of what I thought a concept artist should do and how I later learned how wrong I was), but that would make for a great YT video. Thanks!

El gato

@fowlerillus

22 күн бұрын

Si

@LiamRomanis

22 күн бұрын

@@fowlerillus in the negative space.

@fowlerillus

22 күн бұрын

@@LiamRomanis Oh my god! Now I get it. I swear that was unintentional. Haha-amazing!