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term='pj'/><category term='pinup'/><category term='japan'/><category term='habits'/><category term='aeg'/><category term='frazetta'/><title type='text'>Banana Orange</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' 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/&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="blognews1-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Noticias en el Blog&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No he actualizado el blog ultimamente, conseguí un trabajo regular, en realidad dos trabajos regulares, así que tengo menos tiempo. Reanudaré las actualizaciones del blog pero las moveré al Sábado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Gracias por la paciencia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-6378076259231160218?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/6378076259231160218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-news.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6378076259231160218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6378076259231160218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-news.html' title='Blog News'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6759896622734505596</id><published>2010-10-21T13:03:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-10-21T13:03:25.296-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='podcast'/><title type='text'>Sidebar Nation Podcast</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#sidebarnation-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey peeps&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been listening to a great podcast called  Sidebar Nation these days, since I'm running out of material with my regular podcasts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's very interesting, more about comics than anything else, but I'm a big fan of comics too (big surprise). They do interview a lot of great illustrators, there's an episode with James Gurney that you just have to listen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you're a fan of comics or you're looking for an inside look, it's got plenty of useful info.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sidebarnation.com/"&gt;www.sidebarnation.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="sidebarnation-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Sidebar Nation Podcast&lt;/h3&gt;Hola gente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He estado escuchando un podcast genial estos días llamado Sidebar Nation, ya que se me ha estado acabando el material de los podcast regulares que escucho mientras pinto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es bastante interesante, trata más acerca de comics que otras cosas, pero también soy un gran fan de los comics (gran sorpresa). También han entrevistado a grandes ilustradores, y tienen un capítulo con James Gurney que simplemente hay que escuchar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y si eres un fan de los comics, o estás buscando algo de información acerca de la industria, tiene bastantes tips útiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sidebarnation.com/"&gt;www.sidebarnation.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-6759896622734505596?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/6759896622734505596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/10/sidebar-nation-podcast.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6759896622734505596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6759896622734505596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/10/sidebar-nation-podcast.html' title='Sidebar Nation Podcast'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4642419505669762041</id><published>2010-10-07T12:21:00.011-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-07T12:49:36.568-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorial – Canvas Positioner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#artragecanvas-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;The canvas positioner is a very useful tool when you're painting in ArtRage, you can pop it up by clicking the canvas icon on the menu on top.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;With this tool you can zoom, rotate, or move the canvas, it's a good idea to have it showing all the time to save some time, though it can take some space on the program, so you'll need a decent sized monitor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TK3ysDSX49I/AAAAAAAAAeg/LVNSTRs8t4w/s1600/canvas-navigator.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="345" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TK3ysDSX49I/AAAAAAAAAeg/LVNSTRs8t4w/s400/canvas-navigator.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rotating the canvas is one of the most important things you can do with this tool, you can find an angle you're comfortable painting with or look at your composition from different points of view. While we're on the subject, you can flip the look of your canvas horizontaly by pressing H or vertically by pressing V on the Keyboard, this isn't a feature of the canvas positioner tool, but I won't write another tutorial just about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artragecanvas-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Canvas Positioner&lt;/h3&gt;El posicionador de lienzo (canvas positioner) es una herramienta muy útil cuando se está pintando en ArtRage, se puede encontrar haciendo click en el ícono de lienzo ubicado en el menú superior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con esta herramienta se puede hacer zoom, rotar, o mover el lienzo, es una buena idea tenerla siempre en el escritorio para ahorrar algo de tiempo, aunque puede tomar algo de espacio en el mismo, por lo que se necesita un monitor con un tamaño decente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TK3ysDSX49I/AAAAAAAAAeg/LVNSTRs8t4w/s1600/canvas-navigator.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="345" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TK3ysDSX49I/AAAAAAAAAeg/LVNSTRs8t4w/s400/canvas-navigator.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rotar el lienzo es quizás la función más importante que se puede hacer con esta herramienta, puedes encontrar un ángulo con el que estás cómodo para pintar, o mirar tu composición desde distintos puntos de vista. Mientras estamos en este tema, también se puede voltear el lienzo horizontalmente presionando H, o verticalmente presionando V en el teclado, esta no es una de las características de posicionador de lienzo, pero no escribiré otro tutorial solo acerca de eso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-4642419505669762041?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/4642419505669762041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/10/artrage-tutorial-canvas-positioner.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4642419505669762041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4642419505669762041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/10/artrage-tutorial-canvas-positioner.html' title='ArtRage Tutorial – Canvas Positioner'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TK3ysDSX49I/AAAAAAAAAeg/LVNSTRs8t4w/s72-c/canvas-navigator.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2469987174465615910</id><published>2010-09-29T15:41:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-07T12:50:53.556-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>New Chapters of The Circle of the Wilted Rose</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedrosenew-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a while since the last post I made promoting The Circle of the Wilted Rose webcomic, but now there are exciting news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Luf Creative Studios&lt;/a&gt; created a website for the comic at &lt;a href="http://wiltedrose.lufcs.com/"&gt;wiltedrose.lufcs.com&lt;/a&gt; to promote their new publishing system, where they update every monday, wednesday and friday instead of releasing a chapter every few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while we're at it, Joyce's work really improved in the last pages, she took a whole new turn with the style and it's looking great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the comic at: &lt;a href="http://wiltedrose.lufcs.com/"&gt;wiltedrose.lufcs.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedrosenew-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Nuevos Capítulos de The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/h3&gt;Ha pasado un tiempo desde la última vez que escribí acerca del comic The Circle of the Wilted Rose, pero ahora hay noticias bastante interesantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Luf Creative Studios&lt;/a&gt; creó un sitio web para el comic en &lt;a href="http://wiltedrose.lufcs.com/"&gt;wiltedrose.lufcs.com&lt;/a&gt; para promover su nuevo sistema de publicación, donde actualizan cada lunez, miércoles y viernes en vez de lanzar capítulos cada 2 semanas aproximadamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vean el comic en: &lt;a href="http://wiltedrose.lufcs.com/"&gt;wiltedrose.lufcs.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TKOWNOtp9TI/AAAAAAAAAec/G8SNP7-0wAs/s1600/p06_09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TKOWNOtp9TI/AAAAAAAAAec/G8SNP7-0wAs/s320/p06_09.jpg" width="227" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a class="addthis_button" href="" title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2469987174465615910?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2469987174465615910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-chapters-of-circle-of-wilted-rose.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2469987174465615910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2469987174465615910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-chapters-of-circle-of-wilted-rose.html' title='New Chapters of The Circle of the Wilted Rose'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TKOWNOtp9TI/AAAAAAAAAec/G8SNP7-0wAs/s72-c/p06_09.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-1484372356937957066</id><published>2010-09-09T14:13:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-07T12:28:02.022-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><title type='text'>Blog Order</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#blogorder-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Double post today&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was thinking that there's no point in having two blogs if I'm just going to repeat the info here and there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'll keep this blog for tutorials and columns/rants, and updates on Joyce's work too, and my &lt;a href="http://felipegaona.blogspot.com/"&gt;personal blog&lt;/a&gt; for displaying artwork.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That said, I'm moving DnD Mondays to my other blog, since it fits the "artwork" category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So follow my other blog too dammit!, it's getting lonely there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://felipegaona.blogspot.com/"&gt;felipegaona.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="blogorder-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Orden de Blogs&lt;/h3&gt;Estaba pensando que no tiene sentido tener dos blogs si es que simplemente voy a repetir la información aquí y allá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que mantendré este blog para tutorials y columnas/quejas, y actualizaciones del trabajo de Joyce también, y mi &lt;a href="http://felipegaona.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog personal&lt;/a&gt; para mostrar arte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dicho esto, voy a mover los Lunes de DnD a mi otro blog, ya que entra en la categoría de "arte".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Así que sigan mi otro blog maldita sea!, es un poco solitario allá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://felipegaona.blogspot.com/"&gt;felipegaona.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-1484372356937957066?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/1484372356937957066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-order.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1484372356937957066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1484372356937957066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-order.html' title='Blog Order'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5840912136514867437</id><published>2010-09-09T13:35:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-07T12:51:17.369-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jon hodgson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grayscale'/><title type='text'>Grayscale Conversion</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#grayscaleconversion-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I was having a chat with &lt;a href="http://www.jonhodgson.com/"&gt;Jon Hodgson&lt;/a&gt; who pointed me to a website with different ways of converting an image to grayscale. I started experimenting with an image, and damn, it makes a BIG difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I especially liked methods that could be adjusted with the sliders in Photoshop, you can customize your result a lot. Other methods are more straightforward, but I think they're all better than a straight desaturation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIkaWqL_lQI/AAAAAAAAAdg/1CFqtu9SHr8/s1600/desaturation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIkaWqL_lQI/AAAAAAAAAdg/1CFqtu9SHr8/s640/desaturation.jpg" width="513" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see in the image how different grayscales conversions look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the website: &lt;a href="http://www.blackandwhitedigital.com/Convert/%22"&gt;Black and White Conversion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="grayscaleconversion-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Conversión a Escala de Grises&lt;/h3&gt;Hoy día estaba hablando con &lt;a href="http://www.jonhodgson.com/"&gt;Jon Hodgson&lt;/a&gt; que me indicó un sitio web con distintas formas de convertir una imagen a escala de grises. Empecé a experimentar con una imagen, y vaya, hace una GRAN diferencia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me gustaron mucho los métodos que podían ser ajustados con los sliders en Photoshop, el resultado se puede personalizar mucho de esa manera. Otros métodos son más directos, pero creo que todos son mejores que una simple desaturación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIkaWqL_lQI/AAAAAAAAAdg/1CFqtu9SHr8/s1600/desaturation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIkaWqL_lQI/AAAAAAAAAdg/1CFqtu9SHr8/s640/desaturation.jpg" width="513" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pueden ver en la imagen cuan distintos pueden verse los métodos de conversión a escala de grises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este es el sitio web (en inglés): &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.blackandwhitedigital.com/Convert/%22"&gt;Black and White Conversion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a class="addthis_button" href="" title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-5840912136514867437?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/5840912136514867437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/grayscale-conversion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5840912136514867437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5840912136514867437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/grayscale-conversion.html' title='Grayscale Conversion'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIkaWqL_lQI/AAAAAAAAAdg/1CFqtu9SHr8/s72-c/desaturation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4578065170932277479</id><published>2010-09-06T23:22:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-09T13:32:07.227-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DnDMonday'/><title type='text'>DnD Monday 04</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#dndmonday04-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a WIP this time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to make something a little more ambitious, otherwise every DnD Monday will be just a character or a monster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope to have this finished by next week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="" name="dndmonday04-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Lunes de DnD 04&lt;/h3&gt;¡Solo un trabajo en proceso por ahora!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quería hacer algo un poco más ambicioso, de otra forma todos los Lunes de DnD serían solo un personaje o monstruo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Espero tener esto listo para la próxima semana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIWvwstu90I/AAAAAAAAAdY/Dbw7uSfQdK8/s1600/towerofdoom-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIWvwstu90I/AAAAAAAAAdY/Dbw7uSfQdK8/s320/towerofdoom-01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a class="addthis_button" href="" title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-4578065170932277479?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/4578065170932277479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/dnd-monday-04.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4578065170932277479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4578065170932277479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/09/dnd-monday-04.html' title='DnD Monday 04'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TIWvwstu90I/AAAAAAAAAdY/Dbw7uSfQdK8/s72-c/towerofdoom-01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4230052495054061623</id><published>2010-09-02T17:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T17:00:47.439-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>Resting the Eyes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#restingeyes-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if this is a common issue for everyone, but I tend to work relatively fast on an illustration, and the more time I spend on it, the more I begin to get tired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've found that it's really useful to rest the eyes and not look at the piece for a day or maybe more, once I return to it I can see some mistakes that I didn't know where there, but more importantly, I'm not tired of the image and I feel like working on it again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I'm captain obvious here, but I've edited the last two or three illustrations after posting them on my galleries (I had the reviewed version rejected on epilogue.net, and I know it looks better, I guess it depends on who reviews the artwork).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It wouldn't be a good practice to keep sending revisions for a client after delivering the piece, so if there's some time left in the deadline, I'll make it a philosophy of mine to leave the illustration alone for a while and revisiting it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="" name="restingeyes-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Descansando los Ojos&lt;/h3&gt;No se si esto es un problema común para todos pero tiendo a trabajar relativamente rápido en una ilustración, y mientras más tiempo paso en ella, más me cansa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que es realmete útil descansar los ojos y no mirar la pieza por un día o más, cuando a ella me fijo en errores que no sabía que estaban ahí, pero más importante que eso, no estoy cansado de la imagen y me dan ganas de seguir trabajando en ella.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quizás sea obvio para algunos, pero he editado las últimas dos o tres ilustraciones después de postearlas en mis galerías (de hecho en epilogue.net me rechazaron la versión revisada de una ilustración, y yo se que se veía mejor, bueno, supongo que depende de quien revise las imagenes).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No sería una buena práctica seguir enviando revisiones a un cliente después de terminar el trabajo, así que si es que queda un poco de tiempo antes de la fecha de entrega crearé la filosofía de dejar la ilustración a un lado para luego volver a revisarla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt 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term='DnDMonday'/><title type='text'>DnD Monday 03</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#dndmonday03-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barely made it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll leave the monster for another time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="" name="dndmonday03-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Lunes de DnD 03&lt;/h3&gt;Lograndolo apenas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Déjare al monstruo para otra ocasión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THx29-OMD0I/AAAAAAAAAdI/D3io4W0ETxk/s1600/barbarian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THx29-OMD0I/AAAAAAAAAdI/D3io4W0ETxk/s320/barbarian.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br 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Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THx29-OMD0I/AAAAAAAAAdI/D3io4W0ETxk/s72-c/barbarian.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2434690525321493957</id><published>2010-08-27T19:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T19:02:34.332-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorial – Stencils</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="artragestencils-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my favourite ArtRage tools is the stencil, if you know how to use them they can be a very powerful tool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although I don't normally use the standard stencils that ArtRage has, I've come up with a way of giving a little texture to my artwork by using stencils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All you need is a good texture image, in black and white and with a very high contrast, then just bring the image as a stencil by going to Tools &amp;gt; Stencil Options &amp;gt; Select Stencil From Disk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCS-U3tTI/AAAAAAAAAco/vC0z8H94ZgA/s1600/stencil-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCS-U3tTI/AAAAAAAAAco/vC0z8H94ZgA/s400/stencil-1.jpg" width="290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you bring an image as a stencil the black part becomes transparent and the white is opaque, the grays become different levels of opacity. Now you just need to paint on top of the stencil, and the paint won't go through the opaque part of the it, leaving a distinct texture or shape, like in the next image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCVtxvwmI/AAAAAAAAAcw/DTLeLMpQm2w/s1600/stencil-1-resultado.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="395" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCVtxvwmI/AAAAAAAAAcw/DTLeLMpQm2w/s400/stencil-1-resultado.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stencil can be inverted too, this is especially useful to put a higher contrast between the shapes or just using different colors without mixing them and ruining the texture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCX5HWr5I/AAAAAAAAAc4/ugsLX_jnals/s1600/stencil-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCX5HWr5I/AAAAAAAAAc4/ugsLX_jnals/s400/stencil-2.jpg" width="296" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCZpqcAZI/AAAAAAAAAdA/bB65fcFr3DQ/s1600/stencil-2-resultado.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="363" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCZpqcAZI/AAAAAAAAAdA/bB65fcFr3DQ/s400/stencil-2-resultado.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course you can also rotate, flip, and scale the stencil too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artragestencils-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Stencils&lt;/h3&gt;Una de mis herramientas favoritas de ArtRage son los stencils, si es que sabes como usarlos son una herramienta muy poderosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque normalmente no uso los stencils estándar que tiene ArtRage, idee una manera de usarlos para darle un poco de textura a mis trabajos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todo lo que se necesita es una buena imagen de textura, en blanco y negro con un contraste muy alto, luego simplemente se trae la imagen como un stencil al ir a Tools &amp;gt; Stencil Options &amp;gt; Select Stencil From Disk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCS-U3tTI/AAAAAAAAAco/vC0z8H94ZgA/s1600/stencil-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCS-U3tTI/AAAAAAAAAco/vC0z8H94ZgA/s400/stencil-1.jpg" width="290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando traes una imagen como stencil, la parte negra se vuelve transparente y la blanca es opaca, los grises se transforman en distintos niveles de opacidad. Ahora solo hay que pintar sobre el stencil y la pintura no atravesará la parte opaca, dejando una textura o forma distintiva, como en la siguiente imagen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCVtxvwmI/AAAAAAAAAcw/DTLeLMpQm2w/s1600/stencil-1-resultado.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="395" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCVtxvwmI/AAAAAAAAAcw/DTLeLMpQm2w/s400/stencil-1-resultado.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El stencil también puede ser invertido, esto es especialmente útil para poner un contraste mayor entre las formas, o simplemente usar colores distintos sin mezclarlos y arruinar la textura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCX5HWr5I/AAAAAAAAAc4/ugsLX_jnals/s1600/stencil-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCX5HWr5I/AAAAAAAAAc4/ugsLX_jnals/s400/stencil-2.jpg" width="296" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCZpqcAZI/AAAAAAAAAdA/bB65fcFr3DQ/s1600/stencil-2-resultado.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="363" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCZpqcAZI/AAAAAAAAAdA/bB65fcFr3DQ/s400/stencil-2-resultado.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por supuesto, también puedes rotar, voltear y escalar el stencil también.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2434690525321493957?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2434690525321493957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/artrage-tutorial-stencils.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2434690525321493957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2434690525321493957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/artrage-tutorial-stencils.html' title='ArtRage Tutorial – Stencils'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THhCS-U3tTI/AAAAAAAAAco/vC0z8H94ZgA/s72-c/stencil-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6760690777236831988</id><published>2010-08-26T21:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T21:05:45.745-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felipegaona.com'/><title type='text'>New Blog!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#newblog-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided to make a new blog for my personal stuff, I'll keep updating this one though, the other one will be for sketches, ideas and illustrations, nothing else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll also post the illustrations here, and I'll keep writing of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.felipegaonablogspot.com/"&gt;http://www.felipegaonablogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="newblog-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;¡Nuevo Blog!&lt;/h3&gt;Decidí hacer un nuevo blog para mis cosas personales, seguiré actualizando este eso si, el otro será para sketches, ideas e ilustraciones, nada más.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También postearé las ilustraciones aquí, y seguiré escribiendo desde luego.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.felipegaonablogspot.com/"&gt;http://www.felipegaonablogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-6760690777236831988?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/6760690777236831988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-blog.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6760690777236831988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6760690777236831988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-blog.html' title='New Blog!'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6598010866595373902</id><published>2010-08-25T17:48:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T17:53:33.923-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felipegaona.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='website'/><title type='text'>New Website</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#newwebsite-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just finished my new website / portfolio, it's real simple, just one html page, that'll be less maddening when I update it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can check it out at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.felipegaona.com/"&gt;http://www.felipegaona.com/&lt;/a&gt; (really original).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it doesn't work it's just because of the DNS propagation, you can try later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="newwebsite-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Nuevo Sitio Web&lt;/h3&gt;Acabo de terminar mi nuevo sitio web / portafolio, es bastante simple, solo una página en html, eso será menos enloquecedor a la hora de actualizar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pueden verlo en:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.felipegaona.com/"&gt;http://www.felipegaona.com/&lt;/a&gt; (muy original ¿no?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si es que no les funciona es por la propagación del DNS, intentenlo más tarde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-6598010866595373902?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/6598010866595373902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-website.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6598010866595373902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6598010866595373902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-website.html' title='New Website'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-3071479179679015231</id><published>2010-08-24T19:33:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T19:42:27.266-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='value'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='character'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BnW'/><title type='text'>B&amp;W Practice - Assasin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#bnwassasin-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still practicing with tones and values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm looking for some work in RPGs btw, or general fantasy genre illustration, if anyone has any info, that'd be great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="bnwassasin-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Práctica en B&amp;N - Asesina&lt;/h3&gt;Sigo practicando con tonos y valores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por cierto, estoy buscando trabajo en RPGs, o en el campo de la ilustración 'fantástica' en general, si es que alguien tiene algo de información, sería genial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THRYoVwVnTI/AAAAAAAAAcU/wAz2IJli16k/s1600/hood-09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 366px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THRYoVwVnTI/AAAAAAAAAcU/wAz2IJli16k/s400/hood-09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509125694238858546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-3071479179679015231?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/3071479179679015231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/b-practice-assasin.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3071479179679015231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3071479179679015231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/b-practice-assasin.html' title='B&amp;W Practice - Assasin'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THRYoVwVnTI/AAAAAAAAAcU/wAz2IJli16k/s72-c/hood-09.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-8739715097692636773</id><published>2010-08-23T19:09:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-23T19:15:47.963-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='character'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DnDMonday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DnD'/><title type='text'>DnD Monday 02</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#dndmonday02-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost forgot to post this here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Jaak, one of my player's characters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="dndmonday02-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Lunes de DnD 02&lt;/h3&gt;Casi me olvido de postear esto aquí.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este es Jaak, un personaje de uno de mis jugadores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THMAbQQovpI/AAAAAAAAAcM/4bnS4NwvPb0/s1600/jaak.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THMAbQQovpI/AAAAAAAAAcM/4bnS4NwvPb0/s400/jaak.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508747237425462930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-8739715097692636773?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/8739715097692636773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/dnd-monday-02.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8739715097692636773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8739715097692636773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/dnd-monday-02.html' title='DnD Monday 02'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/THMAbQQovpI/AAAAAAAAAcM/4bnS4NwvPb0/s72-c/jaak.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-1280095334684228217</id><published>2010-08-19T12:29:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-19T12:56:45.832-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photoshop'/><title type='text'>Checking Tones</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#checkingtones-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been working like crazy on trying to master the tones in my artwork, since some people say that when the tone is correct, the color doesn't really matter that much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came up with a method to do this, is not that innovative, but it serves it's purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I don't like working on grayscale before doing an illustration, and I work sort of alla prima, I'm constantly checking the tones in my images by desaturating them completely in Photoshop, especially in the early stages, this serves to check out the tones, keeping the higher contrast in the areas of interest, and as a study of lights and shadow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TG1htVmx4sI/AAAAAAAAAcE/rWVcdLJfEy4/s1600/hook-tonos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TG1htVmx4sI/AAAAAAAAAcE/rWVcdLJfEy4/s400/hook-tonos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507165350865789634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this illustration you can clearly see some examples of all that, although I did fix the tones a bit more in the following stages, this was a good starting point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="underpaintings-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Revisando los Tonos&lt;/h3&gt;He estado trabajando como loco en tratar de mejorar los tonos en mis imágenes, ya que algunas personas dicen que cuando el tono es correcto, el color no importa tanto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Encontré un método para hacer esto, no es tan inovador, pero sirve su propósito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya que no me gusta trabajar en escala de grises antes de hacer una ilustración, y trabajo alla prima, estoy constantemente revisando los tonos en mis ilustraciones al desaturarlas completamente en Photoshop, especialmente en las etapas más tempranas, esto sirve para revisar el tono, dejando el contraste más alto en las áreas de interes, y como un estudio de la luz y la sombra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TG1htVmx4sI/AAAAAAAAAcE/rWVcdLJfEy4/s1600/hook-tonos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TG1htVmx4sI/AAAAAAAAAcE/rWVcdLJfEy4/s400/hook-tonos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507165350865789634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En esta ilustración se pueden ver claramente algunos ejemplos de todo eso, aunque si arreglé los tonos un poco más en las siguientes etapas, este fue un buen punto de partida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-1280095334684228217?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/1280095334684228217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/checking-tones.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1280095334684228217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1280095334684228217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/checking-tones.html' title='Checking Tones'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TG1htVmx4sI/AAAAAAAAAcE/rWVcdLJfEy4/s72-c/hook-tonos.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-8864322685855552292</id><published>2010-08-16T15:17:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-23T19:17:35.191-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DnDMonday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DnD'/><title type='text'>DnD Monday 01</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#dndmonday01-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey everyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took a page from &lt;a href="http://www.jarreauwimberly.com/"&gt;Reau&lt;/a&gt; and I'm doing a weekly illustration with a theme, DnD, because, well, I love that game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So expect every monday to see a DnD related illustration, or whatever I can manage to do in that time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first one!, a rogue-ish character, I was going for a halfling at first but I had a different idea for my favourite race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="dndmonday01-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Lunes de DnD 01&lt;/h3&gt;Tomé una página de &lt;a href="http://www.jarreauwimberly.com/"&gt;Reau &lt;/a&gt; y empezaré a hacer una ilustración semanal con un tema, DnD, porque bueno, me encanta ese juego.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esperen todos los lunes ver una ilustración relacionada con DnD, o lo que sea que alcance a hacer en ese tiempo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Esta es la primera! un personaje picaresco, iba a hacer un halfling al principio pero tuve una idea distinta para mi raza favorita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGrD1lI3iPI/AAAAAAAAAb8/U-PVzgblphM/s1600/rogue17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGrD1lI3iPI/AAAAAAAAAb8/U-PVzgblphM/s400/rogue17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506428819683641586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-8864322685855552292?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/8864322685855552292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/dnd-monday-01.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8864322685855552292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8864322685855552292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/dnd-monday-01.html' title='DnD Monday 01'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGrD1lI3iPI/AAAAAAAAAb8/U-PVzgblphM/s72-c/rogue17.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4224305024291143772</id><published>2010-08-12T11:26:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-12T11:31:53.974-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorial – Square Head</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#artragesquarehead-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided to write two ArtRage tutorials in a row since I couldn't come up with a theme for the other column last week, and I had to write something while I'm waiting for inspiration to strike me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final option of the oils is the “square head” one, which simply consists in selecting a flat brush instead of the usual round one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGQTUlFv4qI/AAAAAAAAAbs/1rGwIKFW8SI/s1600/squarehead.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGQTUlFv4qI/AAAAAAAAAbs/1rGwIKFW8SI/s400/squarehead.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504545888828121762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This brush has the peculiarity that it's size doesn't obey the pressure of the stylus, after all, since it's a flat brush you can't lay a portion of it on the canvas (although I guess if one were to incline the brush one could place the tip on the canvas, but since I don't have a tablet that detects inclination in the stylus I haven't been able to verify this).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I usually use this brush for constructions and “square” objects, although it can also be used to give a more angled look to a face or cloth folds, it really depends on what you want to communicate with the brush stroke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artragesquarehead-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Square Head&lt;/h3&gt;Decidí escribir dos tutoriales de ArtRage seguidos ya que la semana pasada no se me ocurrió un tema para la otra columna, y tenía que escribir algo mientras la inspiración llega.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La última opción de los oleos es la de “square head” que es simplemente seleccionar un pincel plano en vez del más redondo para trabajar con él.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGQTUlFv4qI/AAAAAAAAAbs/1rGwIKFW8SI/s1600/squarehead.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGQTUlFv4qI/AAAAAAAAAbs/1rGwIKFW8SI/s400/squarehead.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504545888828121762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este pincel tiene la particularidad de que su tamaño no es ajustable según la presión que se ocupe, después de todo, como es un pincel plano solo se puede posar entero sobre el lienzo (supongo que si es que uno inclinara el pincel puede posar una punta del mismo, pero ya que no tengo una tableta que detecte la inclinación del stylus no he podido verificar esto).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generalmente ocupo este pincel para construcciones y objetos “cuadrados”, aunque también puede ser ocupado para dar un aspecto más duro u anguloso a los rostros o pliegues de la ropa, depende  de lo que se quiera comunicar con la pincelada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-4224305024291143772?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/4224305024291143772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/artrage-tutorial-square-head.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4224305024291143772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4224305024291143772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/artrage-tutorial-square-head.html' title='ArtRage Tutorial – Square Head'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TGQTUlFv4qI/AAAAAAAAAbs/1rGwIKFW8SI/s72-c/squarehead.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5518013127423210290</id><published>2010-08-02T15:26:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-02T16:00:41.145-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='book'/><title type='text'>Camera Work</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#camerawork-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recently bought a book called Camera Work, which is a compilation of the magazine with the same name edited by Alfred Stieglitz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all the atention I'd been giving to tone in my illustrations, I think a good black &amp; white photography book helps a lot, it really emphazises some of the things that I'm looking to do, and the photographies has this really mysterious feel to it, I don't know how to describe it really, it seems from another age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're looking to buy a photography book I really recommend this one, it was re edited by Taschen on their 25th aniversary and it has a good price, the only bad thing is that the size is small and I don't want my books just to sit on the shelves, I gave this one a really good look and analize it, so the spine is already a little worn out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, I'm open to recommendations if anyone knows about a good photography book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="camerawork-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Camera Work&lt;/h3&gt;Hace poco compré un libro llamado Camera Work que es una compilación de la revista con el mismo nombre editada por Alfred Stieglitz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con toda la atención que le he estado dando a los tonos en mis ilustraciones, creo que un buen libro de fotografía en blanco y negro ayuda bastante, realmente enfatiza algunas de las cosas que estoy intentando hacer, y las fotografías tiene una extraña sensación de misterio, es difícil de describir, son como fotos de otra época.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si están buscando comprar un libro de fotografía realmente recomiendo esto, fue re editado por Taschen en su aniversario 25 y es algo barato, lo único malo es que es un poco pequeño, y como no me gusta dejar los libros simplemente adornando los estantes le he dado una leída bastante extensa, y el lomo ya se ve un poco usado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por cierto, si conocen buenos libros de fotografía, estoy buscando recomendaciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFcjSPuxxGI/AAAAAAAAAbU/DfpA4cd2eNE/s1600/Stieglitz,+Camera+work.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFcjSPuxxGI/AAAAAAAAAbU/DfpA4cd2eNE/s400/Stieglitz,+Camera+work.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500904266223699042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFcjVmGhmlI/AAAAAAAAAbc/mpv1rIWPmtY/s1600/Stieglitz,+Camera+work+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFcjVmGhmlI/AAAAAAAAAbc/mpv1rIWPmtY/s400/Stieglitz,+Camera+work+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500904323768490578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFcjYfhDvBI/AAAAAAAAAbk/uLVK6zSstzU/s1600/Stieglitz,+Camera+work+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFcjYfhDvBI/AAAAAAAAAbk/uLVK6zSstzU/s400/Stieglitz,+Camera+work+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500904373540338706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-5518013127423210290?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/5518013127423210290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/camera-work.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5518013127423210290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5518013127423210290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/camera-work.html' title='Camera Work'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFcjSPuxxGI/AAAAAAAAAbU/DfpA4cd2eNE/s72-c/Stieglitz,+Camera+work.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-3684340039038400234</id><published>2010-08-01T02:51:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T03:06:56.133-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DnD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artorder'/><title type='text'>Illustration - Gotta Have a Hook</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#gottahaveahook-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here's my illustration for Art Order's Gotta Have a Hook Challenge, I quite liked the result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was interesting seeing the process of a DnD image, it helps a lot to do the thumbnails and sketches, I'll try to work with a lot of thumbnails from now, as they say, "think twice, draw once".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="gottahaveahook-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ilustración - Gotta Have a Hook&lt;/h3&gt;Aquí está mi ilustración para el desafío de Art Order 'Gotta Have a Hook', me gustó bastante el resultado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También fue interesante ver el proceso de una imagen de D&amp;D, ayuda bastante hacer los thumbnails (bocetos pequeños y muy rápidos) y bocetos más acabados, trataré de trabajar con más thumbnails desde ahora en adelante, como dicen "piensa dos veces, dibuja una".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFUc0YOYtcI/AAAAAAAAAbM/TY5Oe7w_3hs/s1600/hook-newsize.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 159px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFUc0YOYtcI/AAAAAAAAAbM/TY5Oe7w_3hs/s400/hook-newsize.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500334206084494786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-3684340039038400234?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/3684340039038400234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/illustration-gotta-have-hook.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3684340039038400234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3684340039038400234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/08/illustration-gotta-have-hook.html' title='Illustration - Gotta Have a Hook'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFUc0YOYtcI/AAAAAAAAAbM/TY5Oe7w_3hs/s72-c/hook-newsize.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2185326390606244225</id><published>2010-07-29T15:53:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T16:07:00.878-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorials Archive</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#artragearchives-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make it easier to find them, this blog post will be updated with all the ArtRage tutorials I make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorial-auto-clean.html"&gt;ArtRage Tutorial - Auto Clean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorial-insta-dry.html"&gt;ArtRage Tutorial - Insta Dry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-loading.html"&gt;ArtRage Tutorial - Loading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-pressure.html"&gt;ArtRage Tutorial - Pressure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/artrage-tutorials-thinners.html"&gt;ArtRage Tutorial - Thinners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or Suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt; Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a name="artragearchive-spanish"&gt;Spanish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Archivo de Tutoriales de ArtRage&lt;/h3&gt;Para hacer más fácil de encontrar los tutoriales, de ahora en adelante serán archivados en este post, que actualizaré regularmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorial-auto-clean.html"&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage - Auto Clean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorial-insta-dry.html"&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage - Insta Dry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-loading.html"&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage - Loading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-pressure.html"&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage - Pressure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/artrage-tutorials-thinners.html"&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage - Thinners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2185326390606244225?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2185326390606244225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorials-archive.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2185326390606244225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2185326390606244225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorials-archive.html' title='ArtRage Tutorials Archive'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5834366470257340549</id><published>2010-07-29T12:48:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T12:55:11.559-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorial – Auto Clean</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#artrageautoclean-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The auto clean option is very fun and useful if you know how to apply it, although to tell the truth I don't use it that much, I'll start paying more attention to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we open ArtRage auto clean is selected in the oils dialog by default, this means that each time we lift the brush (or well, the stylus) it's cleaned automatically and we acn apply clean brush strokes with the color we selected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGxY0WLqyI/AAAAAAAAAa0/bqE69-v5lD8/s1600/auto+clean.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 76px; height: 78px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGxY0WLqyI/AAAAAAAAAa0/bqE69-v5lD8/s400/auto+clean.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499371659922746146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;However, without auto clean, the brush isn't cleaned when we lift it off the canvas, so each time we apply it, it takes a bit of the color that's already been painted, gradually mixing the 'pigments'. This is obviously very useful to blend colors. If we want to clean the brush, all we have to do is click on the glass located near the bottom-right corner of the screen, the water on the glass also gets dirty with each time we clean the brush on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGxo2FmwrI/AAAAAAAAAa8/rhi59XU8jbc/s1600/autoclean.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGxo2FmwrI/AAAAAAAAAa8/rhi59XU8jbc/s400/autoclean.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499371935267996338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the first part of the image auto clean is off, we can see how the color is blended with each stroke applied, once the color has vanished,  I cleaned the brush and applied a second series of brush strokes, although you can't tell that much, but you can see were the brush initially touched the canvas in the second 'blue' stain, it has a much richer color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However with auto clean on, each stroke we apply has the original color, there's no need to clean the brush, and as you can see, the second stain doesn't have much of a difference with the first one, they both have a pretty strong blue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even with auto clean off, when you select a new color the brush is cleaned automatically, I guess since we don't want to stain our pallete with the brush, the program assumes that we cleaned everything real nice, that's good thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artrageautoclean-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Auto Clean&lt;/h3&gt;La opción de auto clean es muy entretenida y útil si se ocupa bien, aunque a decir verdad yo no la ocupo lo suficiente, le estoy empezando a poner un poco más de atención.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por defecto, cuando abrimos ArtRage auto clean está seleccionada en el cuadro de settings de los oleos, esto significa que cada vez que levantamos el pincel (o bueno, el stylus) este se limpia automáticamente y podemos aplicar pinceladas con el color puro que está seleccionado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGxY0WLqyI/AAAAAAAAAa0/bqE69-v5lD8/s1600/auto+clean.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 76px; height: 78px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGxY0WLqyI/AAAAAAAAAa0/bqE69-v5lD8/s400/auto+clean.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499371659922746146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sin embargo con la opción de auto clean deseleccionada, el pincel no se limpia cuando lo levantamos, así que cada vez que lo aplicamos sobre otro color también va tomando un poco de este y mezclando los 'pigmentos'. Obviamente esto es muy útil para realizar mezclas uniformes de colores. Si queremos limpiar el pincel todo lo que debemos hacer es hacer click en el vaso de agua ubicado cerca de la esquina inferior derecha, el vaso también se ensucia con el color que ocupamos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGx2EOpcsI/AAAAAAAAAbE/bNE0Y_5BNrY/s1600/autoclean-es.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGx2EOpcsI/AAAAAAAAAbE/bNE0Y_5BNrY/s400/autoclean-es.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499372162402316994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En la primera parte de la imagen anterior la opción de auto clean está desactivada, podemos ver como al aplicar color este se va mimetizando cada vez más con el amarillo que ya está puesto, una vez que el color ya se ha desvanecido mucho limpié el pincel y apliqué una segunda serie de pinceladas, aunque se aprecia poco, se alcanza a ver donde el pincel reposó en el lienzo inicialmente en la segunda mancha azul, esa parte es de un color mucho más puro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cambio con auto clean activado, cada pincelazo que apliquemos va a ser del color original, no hay necesidad de limpiar el vaso y como pueden ver, la segunda mancha es parecida a la primera también, con un color bastante puro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incluso con auto clean desactivado al seleccionar un color nuevo el pincel se limpia automaticamente eso si, supongo que como pintores no queremos manchar nuestra paleta con el color anterior así que el programa asume que limpiariamos muy bien todo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TFGxY0WLqyI/AAAAAAAAAa0/bqE69-v5lD8/s72-c/auto+clean.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-1091391202789157698</id><published>2010-07-25T15:25:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T15:34:16.325-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='webcomic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 7</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedroseseven-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two updates in two days, I'm on a roll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new chapter of The Circle of the Wilted Rose is up, you can read it on Luf's website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/news/86-wilted-rose-chapter-7.html"&gt;Chapter Seven - To Balthazar: Transformation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedroseseven-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Capítulo 7&lt;/h3&gt;Dos actualizaciones en dos días, estoy en una racha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El nuevo capítulo de The Circle of the Wilted Rose está ya en el sitio web de Luf:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/noticias/86-wilted-rose-chapter-7.html"&gt;Capítulo Siete- A Baltazar: Transformación&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TEyRPclCaqI/AAAAAAAAAas/EDwkZFv7iKk/s1600/09-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TEyRPclCaqI/AAAAAAAAAas/EDwkZFv7iKk/s400/09-7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497928939668138658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5625716364112008721</id><published>2010-07-24T18:00:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-24T18:08:35.047-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tone'/><title type='text'>Heather Hudson, Preaching About Tone</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#preachingtone-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm late again for my weekly posting, sorry about that, but I've been busy with tons of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was thinking about writing about tone and how to use it, but since the subject has been treated to death, I'll just leave a link to Heather Hudson's blog who explains the subject pretty nicely, it's been very helpful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far she's written 2 out of 3 posts, I'm waiting for the third one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hudillo.blogspot.com/2010/07/preaching-about-tone-1.html"&gt;Preaching About Tone #1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hudillo.blogspot.com/2010/07/preaching-about-tone-2.html"&gt;Preaching About Tone #2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="preachingtone-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Heather Hudson, Predicando Sobre el Tono&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuevamente estoy algo tarde para mi post semanal, me disculpo por eso, pero he estado muy ocupado con bastante trabajo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaba pensando en escribir sobre el tono y como usarlo, pero como el tema ha sido tratado hasta la muerte creo que tan solo dejaré unos links al blog de Heather Hudson que explica el tema de manera bastante entendible, ha sido muy útil para mi.ç&lt;br /&gt;Hasta ahora ha escrito 2 de 3 posts, estoy esperando el último.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estos son los links (están en inglés):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hudillo.blogspot.com/2010/07/preaching-about-tone-1.html"&gt;Preaching About Tone #1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hudillo.blogspot.com/2010/07/preaching-about-tone-2.html"&gt;Preaching About Tone #2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2395170017897170356</id><published>2010-07-15T15:57:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T16:00:53.266-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorial – Insta Dry</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#artrageinstadry-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuing with the characteristics of the oils in ArtRage we have the Insta Dry option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it's name indicates, insta dry allows to instantly dry the painting as soon as we place it on the canvas, because of this it's impossible to mix colors while the insta dry ticket is selected. Because of this the option is pretty useful to lay plain colors in the beggining layers and eliminate the white of the canvas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other thing about insta dry is that it doesn't allow changes in the brush pressure either, the percentage you have selected is what'll come out of the bristles, so if you have a very high pressure selected the impasto will be really noticeable. Here are some images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oTYNFNpI/AAAAAAAAAac/Cx4DaHZ8Qb8/s1600/instadry.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 123px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oTYNFNpI/AAAAAAAAAac/Cx4DaHZ8Qb8/s400/instadry.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494224752539416210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see how the appearance of the painting changes with the different options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you have insta dry activated and try to paint over an impasto image with a lower pressure the program will respect the highest impasto, to 'make holes' in the painting we have to unselect insta dry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oZV_8IOI/AAAAAAAAAak/kLeegc67NNs/s1600/instadry2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oZV_8IOI/AAAAAAAAAak/kLeegc67NNs/s400/instadry2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494224855026639074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can clearly see the difference of levels in the image, you can create really interesting textures this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artrageinstadry-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Insta Dry&lt;/h3&gt;Continuando con las características de los oleos en ArtRage, tenemos la opción de Insta Dry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como su nombre lo indica, insta dry permite que la pintura digital que ponemos en el lienzo se seque inmediatamente, debido a esto es imposible mezclar colores mientras el ticket en insta dry esté activado, por lo que es una opción muy útil para poner colores planos en la ilustración, como cuando se está trabajando en las primeras capas y se quiere eliminar el blanco del lienzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Existe otra particularidad de insta dry, y es que no permite cambios en la presión del pincel tampoco, el porcentaje que se tenga seleccionado será lo que saldrá de las cerdas, por lo que si uno tiene una presión muy alta seleccionada, el impasto que sale en la pintura es realmente notorio. Aquí hay unas imagenes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oTYNFNpI/AAAAAAAAAac/Cx4DaHZ8Qb8/s1600/instadry.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 123px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oTYNFNpI/AAAAAAAAAac/Cx4DaHZ8Qb8/s400/instadry.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494224752539416210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se puede ver como cambia la apariencia de la pintura con diferentes opciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si al tener insta dry activado pintamos con la presión más baja en una zona con mucho impasto tenderá a respetar el impasto más alto, para 'hacer hoyos' en la pintura tenemos que sacar la opción de insta dry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oZV_8IOI/AAAAAAAAAak/kLeegc67NNs/s1600/instadry2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oZV_8IOI/AAAAAAAAAak/kLeegc67NNs/s400/instadry2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494224855026639074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se pueden apreciar claramente la diferencia entre niveles en la imagen, esto puede resultar realmente útil para crear texturas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2395170017897170356?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2395170017897170356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorial-insta-dry.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2395170017897170356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2395170017897170356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/artrage-tutorial-insta-dry.html' title='ArtRage Tutorial – Insta Dry'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TD9oTYNFNpI/AAAAAAAAAac/Cx4DaHZ8Qb8/s72-c/instadry.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5092122264684364860</id><published>2010-07-08T13:37:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-08T13:44:41.715-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='underpainting'/><title type='text'>Types of Underpainting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#underpaintings-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lately I've realized how little I know about the theory of painting, I learned some of it in the university, but since I studied design instead of art, there are some things that eluded my radar, one of those things is the types of underpaintings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the underpainting is the initial layer done to erase the white of the canvas and hint the way the painting will look, there are many ways of doing it, the most known form is used to show the tones of the piece, done this way the painting is almost monochromatic at this stage. However, some artists such as Jan van Eyck worked with more colorful underpaintings, to also start showing the colors of the piece.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who have followed this blog are already familiar with grisaille, but that's just one style of many ways to work with an underpainting:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grisaille:&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe the most known tecnique, the first layer of painting is done in grayscale to make a complete tonal piece.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verdaccio:&lt;/strong&gt; Is a mix of black, white and yellow that was used in Italy. It's used in portraits since it enhances skin tones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blue Underpainting:&lt;/strong&gt; Utilized to paint landscapes, though it can be used for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many other ways to do an underpainting, maybe as many as there are colors, it's well known that Titian used redish colors, other painters use complementary colors to make the final piece vibrate, and finally there are those who use very similar colors to the ones they'll have in the final illustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think there's no right or wrong way to work with an underpainting, the colors may depend on the mood or scheme you want to apply, though the mentioned methods are the more accepted ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll give it a shot again soon, avoiding grisaille this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="underpaintings-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tipos de Underpainting&lt;/h3&gt;Ultimamente me he dado cuenta de lo poco que se realmente sobre la teoría de la pintura, si bien algo aprendí en los cursos de la universidad, al estudiar diseño y no arte que escaparon de mi radar, una de ellas son los tipos de underpainting (que podría ser traducido como 'pintura inferior', ya que es la primera capa de pintura, pero me parece que suena raro, así que tendrán que soportar 'underpainting' por ahora).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bien, el underpainting es la pintura inicial que se hace para eliminar el blanco del lienzo y empezar a mostrar como será la pintura, existen distintas maneras de hacerlo, la forma más conocida se utiliza sirve para realzar los tonos de la pieza, en estos casos se hace de manera monocromática o casi monocromática.  Sin embargo otros artistas como Jan van Eyck trabajaban con underpaintings más coloridos, para también empezar a mostrar los colores de la pintura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quienes hayan seguido este blog ya conocerán el grisaille, sin embargo este es solo una de las diversas formas de hacer el underpainting:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grisaille:&lt;/strong&gt; Una de las técnicas más reconocidas, la primera capa de pintura se hace en una escala de grises para hacer una pintura tonal completa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verdaccio:&lt;/strong&gt; Es la mezcla de negro, blanco y amarillo que se utilizaba en Italia. Se usa mucho para retratos puesto que produce ricos colores en la piel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Underpainting Azul:&lt;/strong&gt; Se utiliza para las pinturas de paisajes, aunque obviamente puede ser usado para otros propósitos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Existen otras muchas maneras de realizar underpaintings, quizás tantas como hay colores, se sabe que Titian usaba colores rojizos, otros pintores prefieren usar colores complementarios para que sus ilustraciones tengan colores que vibren, y finalmente hay quienes utilizan colores muy similares a los que tendrán en la pintura final.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que no hay una manera correcta o incorrecta de trabajar un underpainting, los colores pueden depender de la sensación o el esquema que se quiera aplicar, aunque los métodos mencionados si son los más aceptados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intentaré trabajar con un underpainting nuevamente, evitando el grisaille esta vez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-5092122264684364860?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/5092122264684364860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/types-of-underpainting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5092122264684364860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5092122264684364860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/types-of-underpainting.html' title='Types of Underpainting'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-8436705396461102200</id><published>2010-07-02T11:56:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T15:34:53.555-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='webcomic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 6</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedrosesix-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry for the lack of updates the last couple of weeks, I've been super busy and yesterday I had a killer headache, so I wasn't able to write something, I'll continue next thursday as usual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the new chapter of The Circle of the Wilted Rose is up:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/component/content/article/78-wilted-rose-chapter-6.html"&gt;Chapter Six - To Lot: Manipulation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedrosesix-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Capítulo 6&lt;/h3&gt;Hola a todos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disculpen por la falta de actualizaciones en el último par de semanas, he estado muy ocupado y ayer tuve un dolor de cabeza gigante, así que no puede escribir nada, continuaré con las columnas el próximo jueves como es usual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/component/content/article/78-wilted-rose-chapter-6.html"&gt;Capítulo Seis - A Lot: Manipulación&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TC4P52LfzwI/AAAAAAAAAaU/wYBUEpMf2Hk/s1600/wr-c6-p1-eng.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TC4P52LfzwI/AAAAAAAAAaU/wYBUEpMf2Hk/s400/wr-c6-p1-eng.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489342482281910018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-8436705396461102200?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/8436705396461102200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/circle-of-wilted-rose-chapter-6.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8436705396461102200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8436705396461102200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/07/circle-of-wilted-rose-chapter-6.html' title='The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 6'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TC4P52LfzwI/AAAAAAAAAaU/wYBUEpMf2Hk/s72-c/wr-c6-p1-eng.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6927051298197397860</id><published>2010-06-22T12:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-22T12:52:38.836-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fantasy earth zero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scout'/><title type='text'>Illustration - Red Haired Scout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#redscout-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A week ago I participated in the &lt;a href="http://news.deviantart.com/article/118049/"&gt;Fantasy Earth Zero fanart contest&lt;/a&gt;, it was an interesting subject matter and falled right up my alley.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results of the contest still haven't been published, I think this friday I'll know if I'm one of the finalists, the price is a Wacom Intuos, so I'm crossing my fingers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish to see the illustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="redscout-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ilustración - Scout the Pelo Rojo&lt;/h3&gt;Hace una semana participé en el &lt;a href="http://news.deviantart.com/article/118049/"&gt;concurso de fanart de Fantasy Earth Zero&lt;/a&gt;, era un tema interesante que caía justo en lo que hago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los resultados del concurso todavía no han sido publicados, creo que este viernes sabré si es que soy uno de los finalistas, el premio es una Wacom Intuos, así que estoy cruzando mis dedos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Está es la ilustración:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TCDqHnc9ZlI/AAAAAAAAAaI/vn-Qj3KN4IQ/s1600/scout.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TCDqHnc9ZlI/AAAAAAAAAaI/vn-Qj3KN4IQ/s400/scout.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485641762707695186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-6927051298197397860?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/6927051298197397860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustration-red-haired-scout.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6927051298197397860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6927051298197397860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustration-red-haired-scout.html' title='Illustration - 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This slider can be found in the settings dialog next to the pressure and thinners options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is probably option I less use in ArtRage, in fact I think I've never left the loading slider in less than 100%, which is an almost infinite oil on the brush. This is because I tend to paint with a really thick impasto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBqQvNDQHKI/AAAAAAAAAaA/maLESUIL940/s1600/loading.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBqQvNDQHKI/AAAAAAAAAaA/maLESUIL940/s400/loading.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483854636908551330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However the fact that the paint runs out is pretty useful in ArtRage, as you can see in the previous image, when the brush is drying out the painting looks very different because it begins to grab the paper's texture and it becomes a lot more transparent and uneven. The brush also picks up the fresh painting on the canvas as you paint, this can be seen in the last stain on the image, a dry brush that runs through the painting is loaded with that color, mixing the colors on the brush itself. This means that a dry brush can also be used to blend, if you just leave loading in zero, which would be a totally dry brush, the only thing it'll do is mix paintings already laid on the canvas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artrageloading-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Loading&lt;/h3&gt;Continuando con las opciones de los oleos en ArtRage tenemos la barra de 'loading' que representa cuanta pintura uno hecha en el pincel. Esta barra puede ser encontrada en el diálogo de settings junto a las opciones de presión ('pressure') y medium ('thinners').&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta es quizás una de las opciones que personalmente menos uso en ArtRage, de hecho creo que jamás he dejado la barra de loading en menos de 100%, que es un oleo casi infinito en el pincel. Esto es porque tiendo a pintar con un impasto realmente grueso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBqQvNDQHKI/AAAAAAAAAaA/maLESUIL940/s1600/loading.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBqQvNDQHKI/AAAAAAAAAaA/maLESUIL940/s400/loading.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483854636908551330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin embargo el hecho de que se acabe la pintura en ArtRage tiene distintas utilidades, como pueden ver en la imagen anterior a medida que el pincel se va secando la pintura luce muy distinta, puesto que empieza a tomar más la textura del papel y se vuelve algo más transparente y dispareja. El pincel también va recogiendo la pintura fresca en el lienzo, como se aprecia en la última mancha de la imagen, un pincel seco que pasa por encima de la pintura se carga con este color, mezclando colores en el pincel. Esto significa que el pincel seco puede ser utilizado también para mezclar colores, si es que se pasa el pincel con loading cero, es decir totalmente seco, lo único que hará será mezclar pinturas ya puestas en el lienzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2148545480269509714?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2148545480269509714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-loading.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2148545480269509714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2148545480269509714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-loading.html' title='ArtRage Tutorial – Loading'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBqQvNDQHKI/AAAAAAAAAaA/maLESUIL940/s72-c/loading.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4655637376461493825</id><published>2010-06-10T14:10:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-10T14:41:18.897-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='color bleed'/><title type='text'>Color Bleed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#colorbleed-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since this column tends to be pretty random and covers topics from advices about the world of illustration, some artistic tips and also personal rants, I decided that the subject today could follow on the 'artistic tips' category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some time ago I read that the skin tones are pretty neutral, one tends to think of them as close to the color pink, in white people that is, and even if this is true, the skin is specially affected by the color of the light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This phenomenon is called 'color bleed' or 'reflected light' and consists in the fact that objects transmit their color to other objects near them in different amounts, depending on the materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the painting of the Crowning of David I put special attention in this fact, since the characters are vampires and the light source is very strong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBExYdjmEWI/AAAAAAAAAZg/L8_df4iSxWs/s1600/color+bleed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBExYdjmEWI/AAAAAAAAAZg/L8_df4iSxWs/s400/color+bleed.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481216517807149410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nowadays this principle is used in 3D rendering in different ways, I'll leave a link with some examples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5615"&gt;Pixar Points&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="colorbleed-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Reflejo del Color&lt;/h3&gt;Ya que esta columna suele ser bastante azarosa y cubre desde consejos respecto al mundo de la ilustración, algunos tips artísticos y también quejas personales, decidí que hoy el tema cayera en la categoría de 'tips artísticos'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hace un tiempo leí o escuché por ahí que los tonos de piel son muy neutros, uno tiende a pensar en ellos como cercanos al rosado en la gente de tez blanca, y aunque esto es cierto, la piel es especialmente afectada por el color de luz que llegue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A este fenómeno se le llama 'color bleed' o 'reflejo de la luz' y consiste en el hecho de que los objetos transmiten su color a otros objetos que estén cercanos en mayor o menor medida, dependiendo de la materialidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En la pintura de la coronación de David puse especial atención en este hecho, ya que se trataba de vampiros y la fuente de luz en la pintura es muy fuerte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBExYdjmEWI/AAAAAAAAAZg/L8_df4iSxWs/s1600/color+bleed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBExYdjmEWI/AAAAAAAAAZg/L8_df4iSxWs/s400/color+bleed.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481216517807149410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy en día este principio se aplica en el 3D de distintas maneras, les dejo un link, en inglés, con algunos ejemplos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5615"&gt;Pixar Points&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-4655637376461493825?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/4655637376461493825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/color-bleed.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4655637376461493825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4655637376461493825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/color-bleed.html' title='Color Bleed'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TBExYdjmEWI/AAAAAAAAAZg/L8_df4iSxWs/s72-c/color+bleed.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-3444093187317540626</id><published>2010-06-09T14:08:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T15:34:53.558-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='webcomic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 5</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedrosefive-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new chapter of The Circle of the Wilted Rose is up on LuFCS' website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/news/70-wilted-rose-chapter-5.html"&gt;Chapter Five - To David: Revolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedrosefive-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Capítulo 5&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un nuevo capítulo de The Circle of the Wilted Rose está en el sitio web de LuFCS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/noticias/70-wilted-rose-chapter-5.html"&gt;Capítulo 5 - A David: Revolución&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TA_aqKYrymI/AAAAAAAAAZY/OfTyV3XoBFA/s1600/p07-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TA_aqKYrymI/AAAAAAAAAZY/OfTyV3XoBFA/s400/p07-5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480839689410431586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-3444093187317540626?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/3444093187317540626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/circle-of-wilted-rose-chapter-5.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3444093187317540626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3444093187317540626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/circle-of-wilted-rose-chapter-5.html' title='The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 5'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TA_aqKYrymI/AAAAAAAAAZY/OfTyV3XoBFA/s72-c/p07-5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6623502559653492982</id><published>2010-06-08T11:04:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:16:42.732-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Illustration - Coronation of David</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#coronation-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a new illustration for the series of pieces based on classical paintings, this time is Caravaggio's 'Coronation With Thorns'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was commissioned by Lufcs and based on the characters of 'The Circle of the Wilted Rose' web comic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish to see the illustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="coronation-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ilustración - Coronación de David&lt;/h3&gt;Esta es una nueva ilustración para la serie de pinturas basadas en obras clásicas, esta vez es la 'Coronación con Espinas' de Caravaggio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fue encargada por Lufcs y basada en los personajes del comic 'The Circle of the Wilted Rose'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TA5dfTvz8cI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/-UVzQ2l8s30/s1600/coronacion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TA5dfTvz8cI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/-UVzQ2l8s30/s400/coronacion.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480420589014610370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-6623502559653492982?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/6623502559653492982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustration-coronation-of-david.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6623502559653492982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6623502559653492982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustration-coronation-of-david.html' title='Illustration - Coronation of David'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TA5dfTvz8cI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/-UVzQ2l8s30/s72-c/coronacion.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-9100413635033663850</id><published>2010-06-03T18:00:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-03T18:02:42.908-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorial – Pressure</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#artragepressure-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the things that make ArtRage a great program is the oil's impasto, this is the volume of painting that you can see when aplying a brush stroke. This is controlled by the “pressure” option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a rather simple painting notion, when you put more pressure on the brush (or the stylus in this case) the more you'll be able to see the trail of the bristle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the next image you can see hiw the different levels of pen pressure change the way the painting looks, if we also apply thinners the trail of the brush will not be very visible since it leaves a very thin layer of painting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAgmG_IZkPI/AAAAAAAAAZI/0SjeJm5UxQU/s1600/pressure.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAgmG_IZkPI/AAAAAAAAAZI/0SjeJm5UxQU/s400/pressure.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478670848163942642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this is something very basic but interesting to use, I usually leave the pressure at 100% to obtain a very thick impasto with heavily marked bristles, then as I'm adding more and more details I work with a small percentage of thinners or reduce the impasto a bit in some areas. This doesn't mean that you have to work this way, an illustrator I know uses 40% pressure and his works are incredible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find the pressure option in the settings dialog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artragepressure-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Pressure&lt;/h3&gt;Una de las cosas que hace a ArtRage un gran programa es el impasto que dejan sus óleos, es decir el notorio volumen de pintura que queda al aplicar un pincelazo. Esto es controlado por la opción “pressure” (presión)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es una noción de pintura muy simple, mientras más se cargue el pincel (o el lapiz de la tableta en este caso) más se notará el rastro que deja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En la siguiente imagen pueden ver como los distintos niveles de presión cambian la manera en que se ve la pintura, también si agregamos thinners la pintura no podrá dejar un rastro muy marcado, puesto que deja una capa muy delgada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAgmG_IZkPI/AAAAAAAAAZI/0SjeJm5UxQU/s1600/pressure.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAgmG_IZkPI/AAAAAAAAAZI/0SjeJm5UxQU/s400/pressure.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478670848163942642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que es algo bastante básico pero interesante de ocupar, usualmente dejo la presión en 100% para obtener un impasto muy grueso y pinceladas marcadas, luego según haga detalles agrego algo de thinners o reduzco un poco el impasto en algunas áreas. Tampoco significa que haya que trabajar así, un ilustrador que conozco ocupa 40% de presión y sus trabajos son increíbles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pueden encontrar la opción de pressure en el dialogo de settings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-9100413635033663850?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/9100413635033663850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-pressure.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/9100413635033663850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/9100413635033663850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/06/artrage-tutorial-pressure.html' title='ArtRage Tutorial – Pressure'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAgmG_IZkPI/AAAAAAAAAZI/0SjeJm5UxQU/s72-c/pressure.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-3752251444189248332</id><published>2010-05-31T10:34:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:18:55.394-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='speedpainting'/><title type='text'>Speed Painting - The Huntsman</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#thehuntsman-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I gave Joyce some company last night since she was finishing up her comic, to stay awake I made this quick painting of my favourite Team Fortress 2 character, the sniper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took me around 3 hours to finish it, maybe I'll work on a fully rendered one eventually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="thehuntsman-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Pintado Rápido - The Huntsman&lt;/h3&gt;Anoche le hice algo de compañía a Joyce mientras estaba terminando su comic, para quedarme despierto decidí hacer este pintado rápido de mi personaje favorito del Team Fortress 2, el sniper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me tomó cerca de 3 horas terminarlo, quizás trabaje en uno más detallado eventualmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAPJ8AGiPvI/AAAAAAAAAZA/Bz_XdT9gKNE/s1600/sniper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAPJ8AGiPvI/AAAAAAAAAZA/Bz_XdT9gKNE/s400/sniper.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477443604469399282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-3752251444189248332?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/3752251444189248332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/speed-painting-huntsman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3752251444189248332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3752251444189248332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/speed-painting-huntsman.html' title='Speed Painting - The Huntsman'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/TAPJ8AGiPvI/AAAAAAAAAZA/Bz_XdT9gKNE/s72-c/sniper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-3496196773674745924</id><published>2010-05-27T15:07:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:19:00.096-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Working with Grisaille</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#workinggrisaille-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After many times of recomending to experiment and try different things, I decided to follow my own advice and finally work with Grisaille.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was very different from what I'm used to since this is about working in grayscale and I tend to put a lot of attention to color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After trying the tecnique I decided to do a mental list of the pros and cons I found:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It can be worked in very different ways&lt;/strong&gt; I've seen tutorials here and there and they're all very different, there are people that just use the tecnique to do the volumes while others do the whole image in grayscale. Which brings me to my second point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The more gray you use, the more work fixing colors you have&lt;/strong&gt; Shadows tend to be less saturated, so if you work with just the volumes it's not too much troubles fixing the colors later, but if you make the whole illustration in grayscale, it's hell to do so. Maybe this is why some people tend to use really saturated colors and layers whith effects after finishing up the grays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; It doesn't really save time if you don't know how to use the tecnique&lt;/strong&gt;Because you actually doing the illustration twice, one for volume, another for color, maybe there's a third time if you decide to fix everything afterwards. If you're not used to it, the volumes come out really slow, as always, you just have to practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Volumes look great&lt;/strong&gt; This is obvious, but if you just concentrate on the volumes, they look amazing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you work digitally, you'll have to use a lot of layers&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe this isn't a big deal for everyone, but I'm used to work in just one layer, maybe two if I want to cover up something later, but if you use this tecnique you'll have to use layers with the multiply and overlay properties for sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think those would be my thoughts on the subject, my veredict... well, it was very uncomfortable for me, as I've mentioned, what I like about an illustration is the richness and interaction between colors, which obviously doesn't happen this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I invite you to try the tecnique anyway, I've seen some good results with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish to see my result in grayscale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="workinggrisaille-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Trabajando con Grisaile&lt;/h3&gt;Después de recomendar muchas veces que experimenten y hagan cosas diferentes, decidí seguir mi propio consejo y trabajar con el Grisaille de una vez por todas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fue algo muy distinto a lo que estoy acostumbrado, ya que siempre pongo mucha atención al color y bueno, esto se trata de trabajar en escala de grises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Después de probar la técnica decidí hacer una lista mental de los pros y los contras que encontré:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Se puede hacer de muchas formas&lt;/strong&gt; He visto tutoriales aquí y allá y suelen ser muy distintos, a grandes rasgos, hay gente que solo usa el grisaille para los volúmenes, y otros hacen la pieza entera en escala de grises. Eso me lleva a mi segundo punto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mientras más gris, más trabajo arreglando los colores&lt;/strong&gt; Las sombras suelen ser menos saturadas, por lo tanto al trabajar los volúmenes primero no es mucho problema arreglar eso después, pero si se hace la ilustración entera en grises, es un infierno arreglar los colores después. Quizás por eso mucha gente usa colores muy saturados y capas con efectos después de terminar los grises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No ahorra tiempo realmente si no se sabe como hacer&lt;/strong&gt; Porque de hecho se trabaja la ilustración dos veces, una para los volumenes, otra para los colores, y si se quiere arreglar los colores, es una tercera vez, además, si uno no está acostumbrado a trabajar así, los volumenes salen muy lento, como todo, es cosa de práctica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Los volúmenes quedan bien&lt;/strong&gt; Esto es algo obvio, pero concentrándose solo en dar volumen a la pieza estos quedan realmente bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Si se trabaja digital, hay que usar muchas capas&lt;/strong&gt; Lo cual quizás no resulte sorprendente para muchos, pero yo suelo trabajar todo en una capa, quizás 2 cuando tengo que hacer detalles y 'tapar' cosas, pero al usar el grisaille es esencial ocupar capas en modos de multiply u overlay entre otros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que esas serían mis apreciaciones al respecto, mi veredito... bueno, lo encontré muy incómodo realmente, como ya he dicho, algo que me gusta de la ilustración es la riqueza e interacción entre colores, cosa que no suele ocurrir en este caso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los invito a probar la técnica de todas formas, he visto resultados realmente buenos con ella.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí está el resultado en grises de lo que trabajé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_7Zm7y4qsI/AAAAAAAAAY4/x3DBMdai43k/s1600/desitris-05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_7Zm7y4qsI/AAAAAAAAAY4/x3DBMdai43k/s400/desitris-05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476053459838479042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-3496196773674745924?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/3496196773674745924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/working-with-grisaille.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3496196773674745924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3496196773674745924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/working-with-grisaille.html' title='Working with Grisaille'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_7Zm7y4qsI/AAAAAAAAAY4/x3DBMdai43k/s72-c/desitris-05.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-298457222335797742</id><published>2010-05-26T14:41:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:22:24.594-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Illustration - Samurai-ko</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#samuraiko-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is another samurai illustration, I know I keep drawing this sort of subject but damn, I like japanese culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've also been reading Vagabond by Inoue Takehiko, I'm amazed by his art, it's pretty inspiring, I think I'll make my version of Miyamoto Musashi soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artragethinners-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ilustración - Samurai-ko&lt;/h3&gt;Esta es otra ilustración de un samurai, me doy cuenta que sigo dibujando este tipo de tema, pero bueno, me gusta la cultura japonesa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También he estado leyendo Vagabond de Inoue Takehiko, me impresionó su arte, es bastante inspirador, creo que haré mi versión de Miyamoto Musashi pronto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_1uK8n19XI/AAAAAAAAAYw/ghjy6l6xB18/s1600/samurai-ko.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_1uK8n19XI/AAAAAAAAAYw/ghjy6l6xB18/s400/samurai-ko.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475653856303379826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-298457222335797742?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/298457222335797742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/illustration-samurai-ko.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/298457222335797742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/298457222335797742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/05/illustration-samurai-ko.html' title='Illustration - Samurai-ko'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_1uK8n19XI/AAAAAAAAAYw/ghjy6l6xB18/s72-c/samurai-ko.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-7787764187902794493</id><published>2010-05-19T23:14:00.012-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:22:17.655-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artrage'/><title type='text'>ArtRage Tutorials – Thinners</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#artragethinners-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At last!, the first ArtRage tutorial is up, it took me a while to begin with this, I’ve been busy with a new part-time freelance job and, oh well, plenty of stuff actually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the first thing I’m going to write about is the most basic of the ArtRage tools, the oil, which must be the more life like looking oil tool I’ve seen in a software, way better than Painter’s Artists Oils as far as I can tell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always one of the first things I notice in a program is how it blends the colors together, while I’m not going to compare it’s blending capabilities to other programs, as I think the only program that doesn’t blend properly is Photoshop (although I haven’t tried the last version), that said, I will discuss something that’s very related to blending, thinners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As in a real painting (which is the whole point) a thinner is a solvent that dilutes the painting, making it more transparent and well, thin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using thinners in ArtRage changes a lot the way the oil acts, as you can see in the image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SqJGK9TII/AAAAAAAAAXw/xC_Yzy6AVHY/s1600/thinners-en.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SqJGK9TII/AAAAAAAAAXw/xC_Yzy6AVHY/s400/thinners-en.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473186520414112898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The brush strokes that don’t use thinners mix very well and you can even see the impasto, while in the second set of brush strokes you can’t see the impasto, the paint is actually thinner and harder to mix since it’s not transparent yet but it leaves a pretty uniform color. The third set of brush strokes has thinners up to 90%, that means a very thin layer of paint, the colors are mixed more by the opacity than actual painting blending, and since the paper is wet it can leave some stains on it, pretty cool huh?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SssMqQrVI/AAAAAAAAAYo/BK0sVFFivH4/s1600/thinners-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SssMqQrVI/AAAAAAAAAYo/BK0sVFFivH4/s400/thinners-box.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473189322474696018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The final set of brush strokes shows how different percentages of thinners interact together, you can see how by applying more or less thinners you can actually make the impasto areas more thin, leave chunks of paint here and there, or just make your painting more even.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thinners option is in the settings dialog along with pressure and loading, the two other basic oil characteristics we'll see in the following tutorials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you nex time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="artragethinners-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorial de ArtRage – Thinners&lt;/h3&gt;¡Por fin, el primer tutorual de ArtRage está en el blog, me tomó un tiempo empezar con el porque he estado ocupado con un nuevo trabajo freelance a medio tiempo, y bueno, muchas cosas que hacer en realidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De cualquier forma, lo primero que trataré va a ser la herramienta más básica de ArtRage, el óleo,  que debe ser uno de los oleos más reales que he visto en un software, mucho mejor que los Artists Oils de Painter desde mi punto de vista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como siempre, una de las primeras cosas que noto en un programa es como mezcla los colores, aunque no compararé esta vez sus capacidades de mezcla con otros programas, ya que pienso que el único programa que no mezcla correctamente es PhotoShop (aunque no he probado su última versión). Dicho esto, discutiré algo que está muy relacionado con la mezcla de colores, los thinners (adelgazadores de pintura).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tal cual una pintura real (que es todo el punto) un thinner es un solvente que diluye la pintura, haciéndola más transparente, y bueno, delgada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usar los thinners en ArtRage cambia mucho la manera en la que actúa el óleo, como pueden ver en la imagen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SqgVM388I/AAAAAAAAAX4/M1rRwrcMVNc/s1600/thinners-es.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SqgVM388I/AAAAAAAAAX4/M1rRwrcMVNc/s400/thinners-es.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473186919585674178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los pincelazos que no usan thinners se mezclan muy bien e incluso pueden ver algo del impasto, mientras que en el segundo set de pincelazos ya no se puede ver el impasto ya que la pintura es de hecho más delgada y más difícil de mezclar ya que todavía no es transparente, pero deja un color bastante uniforme al aplicarla. El tercer set de pincelazos tiene los thinners en 90%, eso significa una capa muy delgada de pintura, los colores se mezclan más por la opacidad que por una mezcla real de pintura y ya que el papel se moja de esta manera, pueden quedar algunas manchas de pintura en él, bastante real ¿no?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SssMqQrVI/AAAAAAAAAYo/BK0sVFFivH4/s1600/thinners-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SssMqQrVI/AAAAAAAAAYo/BK0sVFFivH4/s400/thinners-box.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473189322474696018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;El set final de pincelazos muestra como diferentes porcentajes de thinners interactúan juntos, pueden ver como al aplicar más o menos thinners pueden de hecho hacer más delgadas las áreas de impasto, dejar pedazos de pintura aquí y allá o tan solo hacer el pintado más uniforme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La opción de thinners está en el recuadro de settings junto con pressure y loading, las otras funciones básicas de los óleos que veremos en los siguientes tutoriales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Hasta la próxima!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_SrcAlxYgI/AAAAAAAAAYY/4ti4qOzil78/s400/logo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473187944845107714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt 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type='text'>The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedrosefour-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new chapter of 'The Circle of the Wilted Rose' comic is up at &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Luf Creative Studios' Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find it here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/series/65-wilted-rose-chapter-4.html"&gt;Chapter Four - To Pollux: Protection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedrosefour-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Capítulo 4&lt;/h3&gt;Ya salió un nuevo capítulo del comic 'The Circle of the Wilted Rose' en el sitio web de &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Luf Creative Studios&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pueden encontrarlo aquí:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/series/65-wilted-rose-chapter-4.html"&gt;Capítulo Cuatro - A Pollux: Protección&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_LAsBXbsjI/AAAAAAAAAXo/qhGi5d4pKkc/s1600/p07-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S_LAsBXbsjI/AAAAAAAAAXo/qhGi5d4pKkc/s400/p07-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472648359722070578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6446235766299710080</id><published>2010-05-14T14:22:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-14T14:35:06.004-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pinup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artorder'/><title type='text'>Tiefling Pin-up</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#tieflingpinup-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been busy again with some projects and helping Joyce a little with her comic, so I didn't have the chance to post this thursday again, sorry about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I managed to squeeze some time to work on the &lt;a href="http://artorder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Art Order&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://artorder.blogspot.com/2010/05/d-pin-up.html"&gt;DnD Pinup Challenge&lt;/a&gt;, it was fun to work on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish to see the illustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="tieflingpinup-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Pin-up Tiflin&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He estado algo ocupado nuevamente con algunos proyectos y ayudando a Joyce con su comic, así que no pude postear este jueves nuevamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De todas formas, logré sacar un poco de tiempo para trabajar en el desafío de un &lt;a href="http://artorder.blogspot.com/2010/05/d-pin-up.html"&gt;Pinup de DnD&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://artorder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Art Order&lt;/a&gt;, fue entretenido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les dejo la imagen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S-hf-sgqugI/AAAAAAAAAXY/TkKws_ALuos/s1600/frank_frazetta_deathdealerVI.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S-hf-sgqugI/AAAAAAAAAXY/TkKws_ALuos/s400/frank_frazetta_deathdealerVI.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469727278146173442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today Frank Frazetta, a master of fantasy illustration, died of a stroke at the age of 82.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was a great inspiration to a lot of artists, myself included, and one of the most gifted illustrators I have seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He indirectly taught me a lot, and my art has been heavily influenced by him, specially over the last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="ripfrazetta-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Frank Frazetta. 1928 - 2010&lt;/h3&gt;Hoy Frank Frazetta murió de un ataque al corazón a la edad de 82 años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fue una gran inspiración para muchos artistas, incluído yo, y uno de los ilustradores más talentosos que haya visto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me enseñó mucho indirectamente, y mis ilustraciones han sido infuenciadas mucho por él, especialmente en el último año.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 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href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="illoambush-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Illustration Ambush!&lt;/h3&gt;Esto va a ser un poco corto ya que estoy trabajando en algo ahora mismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay un nuevo podcast de Patrick Mcevoy y Jon Hodgson, excelentes artistas y muy agradables de escuchar, en el podcast hay una entrevista a Jon Schindehette también, muy recomendada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vean el blog en: &lt;a href="http://illustrationambush.blogspot.com/"&gt;Illustration Ambush Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img 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type='text'>Illustration: Samurai vs Serpent</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#samuraiserpent-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this is a new samurai/japanese illustration, god it's like I'm obsessed with the theme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drawing by Joyce&lt;br /&gt;Color: ArtRage&lt;br /&gt;Blending: SAI&lt;br /&gt;Details: Photoshop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="samuraiserpent-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ilustración - Samurai vs Serpiente&lt;/h3&gt;Bueno esta es una nueva ilustración de tema japonés/samurai, dios, es como si estuviera obsesionado con el tema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dibujo por Joyce&lt;br /&gt;Color: ArtRage&lt;br /&gt;Difuminación: SAI&lt;br /&gt;Detalles: Photoshop&lt;br 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term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedrosethree-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry for not updating in a while, I've been rather busy these past two weeks, but I'll begin updating again from now on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the third chapter of The Circle of the Wilted Rose is already avaiable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read it here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/series/48-wilted-rose-chapter-3.html"&gt;Chapter Three - To Desiderata: Revelation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedrosethree-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Capítulo 3&lt;/h3&gt;Hola a todos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disculpen el no haber actualizado por un tiempo, he estado bastante ocupado estas últimas dos semanas, pero empezaré a actualizar el blog regularmente de ahora en adelante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De cualquier forma, el capítulo tres de The Circle of the Wilted Rose ya está disponible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leanlo aquí:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/noticias/57-wilted-rose-chapter-3.html"/&gt;Capítulo Tres - A Desiderata: Revelación&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S9XK-YPZ6KI/AAAAAAAAAXI/ELfN6Ej_wWk/s1600/p11-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S9XK-YPZ6KI/AAAAAAAAAXI/ELfN6Ej_wWk/s400/p11-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464496895891728546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-7583458186669701906?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S9XK-YPZ6KI/AAAAAAAAAXI/ELfN6Ej_wWk/s72-c/p11-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-1949160431212786016</id><published>2010-04-13T11:32:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T11:45:46.745-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artorder'/><title type='text'>Eawolf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#eawolf-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a long time since my last participation in &lt;a href="http://artorder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Art Order&lt;/a&gt;, I did work on the Beholder challenge, but I hadn't participated in the longer challenges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had some free time now to work on the Mutation Nation challenge, so I did an eawolf, half wolf, half wedge tailed eagle, I generally liked the result, the pose may be a little stiff but I think it's ok, I thought of a million creatures to mix and finally didn't have enough time to work on a more elaborated pose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm still trying new things with my painting, I actually have something in mind for the next one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="eawolf-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Eawolf&lt;/h3&gt;Ha pasado bastante tiempo desde mi última participación en &lt;a href="http://artorder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Art Order&lt;/a&gt;, aunque si participé en el desafío del Beholder, pero no he trabajado en los desafíos más largos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora tuve algo de tiempo para trabajar en el desafío de Mutation Nation así que hice un eawolf (o aguilobo supongo), mitad aguila, mitad lobo, en general me gustó el resultado, creo que la pose quedó algo tiesa pero aún así está bien, pensé en un millón de criaturas para mezclar y al final no tuve tiempo de realizar una pose más compleja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todavía estoy intentando nuevas cosas en mis pintados, de hecho tengo algo en mente para el siguiente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S8SRgfqo9QI/AAAAAAAAAWw/myiVOqbIvJk/s1600/eawolf-final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S8SRgfqo9QI/AAAAAAAAAWw/myiVOqbIvJk/s400/eawolf-final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459648635722069250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a 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href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/04/eawolf.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1949160431212786016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1949160431212786016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/04/eawolf.html' title='Eawolf'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S8SRgfqo9QI/AAAAAAAAAWw/myiVOqbIvJk/s72-c/eawolf-final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-9011088261119707166</id><published>2010-04-09T14:37:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T23:12:39.990-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 – Color Pickers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#saicolorpickers-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SAI comes with a lot of color pickers, although the truth is that you won't need any other than the one that comes by default, which is a square with a circle around it that represents the tones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This square represents the HSV or HSB color mode, which stants for Hue, Saturation and Value or Brightness (which is the same thing). It's a color space based on the way the human being perceives color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S790qRdf9ZI/AAAAAAAAAWY/k3pqy8z650M/s1600/color-wheel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S790qRdf9ZI/AAAAAAAAAWY/k3pqy8z650M/s400/color-wheel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458209542986790290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of times a triangle is used instead of a square, this way each corner represents a variable of the model, in contrast, the corners of the square represent a mix of variables. This has it's advantages and disadvantages, maybe it's a bit harder to know the values that you're working with, if that becomes necessary, but having more space makes it easier to select the colors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The advantages of using this representation over others are plenty, first of all it doesn't define primary and secondary colors, which is a useful clasification for learning, but it's just that, a clasification, there are no colors that are more important than others, contrary to what one may think when learning to paint or use color spaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand it's very difficult to use RGB sliders in order to select colors,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and while a CMYK space is easier, instead of mixing light or pigments, with this representation of the HSV model you can pick the exact color you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally the color wheel shows the complementary colors by placing them on the contrary side of the circle, this makes its identification easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next image shows the different color mdels included in SAI, when selecting the colors in one space the sliders move on the others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S8UxVz9k8KI/AAAAAAAAAW4/JPHjfZ5XZIM/s1600/pickers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S8UxVz9k8KI/AAAAAAAAAW4/JPHjfZ5XZIM/s400/pickers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459824374052090018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edit: Thanks to DarlingMionette who pointed out I was wrong about the last color picker, it's a gradient mixer, that's what's nice about having people commenting.&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="saicolorpickers-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – Seleccionadores de Color&lt;/h3&gt;SAI viene con muchos seleccionadores de color, aunque la verdad no se necesita mucho más que el dialogo por defecto, que es un cuadrado con un círculo alrededor que representa a los tonos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este cuadro representa el modelo de color HSV, o HSB que vendría a significar Hue (Tono), Saturation (Saturación) Value o Brightness (Valor o Brillo, dependiendo de la nomenclatura, pero es lo mismo). Es un espacio de color basado en la manera en la que el ser humano percibe el color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S791EWA1lAI/AAAAAAAAAWg/e6h3NDXHFYA/s1600/color-wheel-es.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S791EWA1lAI/AAAAAAAAAWg/e6h3NDXHFYA/s400/color-wheel-es.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458209990885348354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muchas veces se ocupa un triángulo en vez de un cuadrado, de esa manera cada esquina representa una de las variables del modelo, a diferencia del cuadrado, que al tener una esquina más estas representan una mezcla de valores. Esto tiene sus ventajas y desventajas, quizás sea más difícil saber exactamente los valores con los que se trabaja, si es que eso es necesario, pero al tener más espacio es más fácil seleccionar los colores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Las ventajas de usar este modelo sobre otros son muchas, en primera instancia no define los colores en primarios y secundarios, que es una clasificación útil para aprender, pero es solo eso, una clasificación, no existen colores más importantes que otro, a diferencia de lo que se piense cuando se aprende a pintar u ocupar espacios de color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado es muy difícil para una persona ocupar sliders RGB para poder seleccionar colores, mientras que un espacio CMYK es más fácil, en vez de tener que mezclar colores luz o pigmentos, con esta representación del modelo HSV se puede seleccionar el color preciso que se quiere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por último, la rueda muestra los colores complementarios poniéndolos al lado contrario, esto facilita su identificación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La siguiente imagen muestra los distintos modelos de color incluídos en SAI, al seleccionar los colores en uno se mueven los sliders en los demás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S8UxtDpGi-I/AAAAAAAAAXA/VAEHcUkQWbE/s1600/pickers-es.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S8UxtDpGi-I/AAAAAAAAAXA/VAEHcUkQWbE/s400/pickers-es.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459824773398170594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S791NrtgSgI/AAAAAAAAAWo/BXqCu_JsDSs/s1600/pickers-es.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Edición: Gracias a DarlingMionette que me hizo ver que me estaba equivocando con el último dialogo de color, es un mezclador de gradients, eso es lo bueno de  tener gente que comente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none;" width="125" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-9011088261119707166?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/9011088261119707166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/04/sai-101-color-pickers.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/9011088261119707166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/9011088261119707166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/04/sai-101-color-pickers.html' title='SAI 101 – Color Pickers'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S790qRdf9ZI/AAAAAAAAAWY/k3pqy8z650M/s72-c/color-wheel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-7116562618609504797</id><published>2010-04-07T12:37:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T13:03:48.791-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>Illustration - Tristan Guidant le Peuple</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#tristanguiding-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an illustration for the comic series &lt;em&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/em&gt;. It was based on "La liberté guidant le peuple" by Eugène Delacroix.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose © Luf Creative Studios 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="tristanguiding-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ilustración - Tristan Guidant le Peuple&lt;/h3&gt;Esta es una ilustración de la serie de comics &lt;em&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/em&gt;. Fue basada en "La liberté guidant le peuple" por Eugène Delacroix.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose © Luf Creative Studios 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S7y1E86j0xI/AAAAAAAAAWA/I7Hx8tlvuIw/s1600/libertad-final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S7y1E86j0xI/AAAAAAAAAWA/I7Hx8tlvuIw/s400/libertad-final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457435945142047506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-7055204037698617710</id><published>2010-04-01T12:46:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T13:31:13.582-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>Look at a Book a Hundred Times</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#hundredtimes-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little while ago I realized that I tend to check my artbooks over and over again, whenever I take a little break I grab a book to pass the time, and of course to try to see if I can get some dark secret about the author's tecnique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if that has happened, but I do think that every time I see a book I can observe something different, it's very similar to what happens in the movies, when you watch one for the first time you put so much attention to the plot that you miss some of de details, but every time you watch it again you see something new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a very entertaining exercise to make, when I look at an image in different occasions I've ended up observing how a cloud is resolved, or how are the textures of the floor managed, things you usually don't put attention to but that are as important as the main figure, whichever it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you mix this with the exercise of copying the tecniques of an illustration, which allows to understand its content in a much deeper way, you can learn more from an author or its pieces, which is the whole point of looking at a reference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="hundredtimes-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Mirar un Libro Cien Veces&lt;/h3&gt;Hace poco me di cuenta de que suelo revisar los libros de arte que tengo hasta el cansancio, siempre que tengo un pequeño descanso tomo alguno para entretenerme mirandolo, además de tratar de descifrar algún oscuro secreto sobre la técnica del artista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No se si lo último ha pasado, pero si creo que cada vez que veo un libro puedo observar algo distinto, es muy parecido a lo que pasa en las películas, cuando uno ve una por primera vez está tan absorto en la trama que no se fija en los detalles, pero cada vez que la ve de nuevo se fija en algo distinto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es un ejercicio bastante entretenido de hacer, al observar una imagen en distintas ocasiones me he terminado fijando en como se resuelve una nube, o como son las texturas del piso, cosas que uno usualmente pasa por alto pero que son igualmente importantes que la figura central, sea la que sea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si es que además de esto se hace el ejercicio de copiar las técnicas de alguna ilustración, cosa que permite una interiorización del contenido mucho más profunda que la simple observación, se puede llegar a aprender mejor de un autor o su obra, que es lo que se busca al ver referentes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6227502433413720965</id><published>2010-03-31T11:46:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-31T12:03:30.102-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='copics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pinup'/><title type='text'>Pin-up - Mai Shiranui</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#maishiranui-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been wanting to draw pin-ups for a while now, I'm not sure why, just felt like it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, back in Lican Ray, were I took my vacations, I wanted to do some drawings that had nothing to do with my usual work, that way I could just relax and see what came out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did this piece of Mai Shiranui, with my warm gray and cool gray copics, it came out better than I thought, sadly I haven't been able to practice that style since my return to Santiago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="maishiranui-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Pinup - Mai Shiranui&lt;/h3&gt;He querido dibujar pin-ups desde hace un tiempo, no se porque en realidad, simplemente me dieron ganas repentinamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De cualquier forma en Lican Ray, donde fui de vacaciones, tuve la oportunidad de hacer algunos dibujos que no estuvieran relacionados con mi trabajo usual, de esa manera me podía relajar y ver que resultaba.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hice este dibujo de Mai Shiranui con mis Copics grises cálidos y fríos, resultó mejor de lo que pensaba, lamentablemente no he tenido tiempo de practicar el estilo desde que volví a Santiago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S7NkGv8iLlI/AAAAAAAAAV4/NEFWPR1u5OU/s1600/mai-shiranui.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S7NkGv8iLlI/AAAAAAAAAV4/NEFWPR1u5OU/s400/mai-shiranui.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454813640788160082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6227502433413720965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6227502433413720965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/pin-up-mai-shiranui.html' title='Pin-up - Mai Shiranui'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S7NkGv8iLlI/AAAAAAAAAV4/NEFWPR1u5OU/s72-c/mai-shiranui.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-8634469228856525634</id><published>2010-03-26T13:13:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T15:34:53.564-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='webcomic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedrosetwo-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second chapter of The Circle of the Wilted Rose is up on &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Luf Creative Studios' Website&lt;/a&gt;, that was fast, wasn't it?, well it took me a couple of weeks to write the first post since I was on my vacations (and there was an earthquake).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read it here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/series/48-wilted-rose-chapter-2.html"&gt;Chapter Two - To Tristan: Reanimation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish for a couple of images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedrosetwo-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Capítulo 2&lt;/h3&gt;El segundo capítulo de The Circle of the Wilted Rose está en el &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Sitio Web de Luf Creative Studios'&lt;/a&gt;, eso fue rápido ¿no?, bueno, en realidad escribí el primer post un par de semanas después de que saliera el primer capítulo, ya que estaba de vacaciones (y hubo un terremoto).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo pueden leer aquí:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/series/48-wilted-rose-chapter-2.html"&gt;Capítulo 2 - A Tristán: Reanimación&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6zgJTzlNPI/AAAAAAAAAVw/lccebKV6h3I/s1600/wr-c2-p0-esp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6zgJTzlNPI/AAAAAAAAAVw/lccebKV6h3I/s400/wr-c2-p0-esp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452979699378894066" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6zgCDghkUI/AAAAAAAAAVo/IjZXrhXDRRc/s1600/p_02-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6zgCDghkUI/AAAAAAAAAVo/IjZXrhXDRRc/s400/p_02-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452979574744912194" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-8634469228856525634?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/8634469228856525634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/circle-of-wilted-rose-chapter-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8634469228856525634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/8634469228856525634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/circle-of-wilted-rose-chapter-2.html' title='The Circle of the Wilted Rose - Chapter 2'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6zgJTzlNPI/AAAAAAAAAVw/lccebKV6h3I/s72-c/wr-c2-p0-esp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-3765040761802184036</id><published>2010-03-25T14:27:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-25T14:52:28.605-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>Sai 101 – Controlling the Canvas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#saicontrollingcanvas-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some times when I draw I realize that the drawing is not right, the human figure may be unbalanced, etc. In this ocassions I put the paper against the light to see the mistakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In SAI, and in many other programs, you can do something similar, the superior bar on the program shows how you can control the image, as you can see on the next image. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udOMdPnOI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/8xdAYAxGD0c/s400/canvas-control.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452624641049730274" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 24px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The first thing you see is the selection ticket, to tell the truth I haven't found a difference with or without the ticket, I assumed that you can realize the actions according to what you have selected, but that's not it. Then we can see the zoom dialog, you can also zoom using the mouse or tablet scroll or with the zoom tool, so it's really not important.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is worth it is the next dialog with degrees, this allows to rotate our view of the document, we can use the arrows in the bar or the supr and end keys on the keyboard. This is very useful when you want to draw straight lines, or if you have a figure laying down, just as you rotate the paper when you draw. My only complain about it is that you can only rotate in certain established degrees, in other softwares the rotation is very precise, however it doesn't need OpenGL like Photoshop to do it, which simplifies the whole thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, you can see the mirror mode dialog, which obviously reflects the image, it has a box that shows if the image is normal or inverted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udg04DZ5I/AAAAAAAAAVg/KXcvZhvQiJY/s1600/invertido.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udg04DZ5I/AAAAAAAAAVg/KXcvZhvQiJY/s400/invertido.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452624961137239954" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udd4m41SI/AAAAAAAAAVY/ItccMtUf5x8/s1600/normal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udd4m41SI/AAAAAAAAAVY/ItccMtUf5x8/s400/normal.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452624910599378210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This image shows how the same document can look when you mess with this options. It's important to mention that these tools only control how we view the document, so it doesn't really change it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In other news&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been switching to ArtRage, always looking for the more realistic look on my paintings, I still have a lot to learn, but I'm getting there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The SAI 101 column is running out, I can still think of a couple of subjects I want to go over, but eventually I'll switch to ArtRage tutorials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have a subject you'd like me to explain send me an e-mail at &lt;a href="mailto:fgaona@bananaorange.com"&gt;fgaona@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt; with the subject SAI 101, or leave a comment in the SAI 101 Archive post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="saicontrollingcanvas-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – Controlando el Lienzo&lt;/h3&gt;Algunas veces cuando he dibujado algo me doy cuenta de que no está derecho, de que la figura humana está desbalanceada, etc. En estas ocasiones pongo el papel contra la luz para ver los errores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En SAI, y en muchos programas, se puede hacer algo similar, la barra superior que pueden ver en la siguiente imagen permite controlar como vemos el documento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udOMdPnOI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/8xdAYAxGD0c/s400/canvas-control.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452624641049730274" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 24px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Lo primero que se ve es el ticket de selección, la verdad es que no he encontrado ninguna diferencia con o sin este ticket, lo que yo asumía es que permite realizar las acciones en relación a lo que uno tenga seleccionado, pero no es así. Luego podemos ver los recuadros de zoom, también se puede ocupar el scroll del mouse o tableta y la lupa, así que no es realmente muy importante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo que si vale la pena es el siguiente recuadro con grados, este permite girar nuestra vista del documento, podemos ocupar las flechas o las teclas suprimir y fin. Esto es muy útil cuando se quiere dibujar líneas rectas, o cuando se tiene una figura acostada, tal como uno gira el papel para dibujar ciertas cosas. Mi única queja al respecto es que solo se puede girar el documento en ciertos ángulos predeterminados, en otros software el giro es muy preciso, sin embargo no necesita ocupar OpenGL como Photoshop para la tarea, lo cual simplifica el asunto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por último se ve el recuadro de modo espejo, que obviamente permite reflejar la imagen, tiene un recuadro que indica si la imagen está normal o reflejada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udg04DZ5I/AAAAAAAAAVg/KXcvZhvQiJY/s1600/invertido.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udg04DZ5I/AAAAAAAAAVg/KXcvZhvQiJY/s400/invertido.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452624961137239954" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udd4m41SI/AAAAAAAAAVY/ItccMtUf5x8/s1600/normal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udd4m41SI/AAAAAAAAAVY/ItccMtUf5x8/s400/normal.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452624910599378210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udd4m41SI/AAAAAAAAAVY/ItccMtUf5x8/s1600/normal.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Esta imagen muestra como un mismo documento se puede ver jugando con estas opciones. Es importante destacar que estas herramientas solo controlan como vemos el documento, por lo tanto no hace un cambio real en el mismo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;En Otras Noticias&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me he estado cambiando a Artrage para hacer mis ilustraciones, siempre buscando que se vean más realistas, todavía tengo mucho que aprender, pero ya estoy mejorando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los cursos de SAI se están acabando, todavía puedo pensar en un par de temas que quiero cubrir, pero eventualmente cambiaré a tutoriales de ArtRage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si tienen un tema que les gustaría que explique envienme un e-mail a &lt;a href="mailto:fgaona@bananaorange.com"&gt;fgaona@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt; con el tema SAI 101.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-3765040761802184036?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/3765040761802184036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/sai-101-controlling-canvas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3765040761802184036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3765040761802184036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/sai-101-controlling-canvas.html' title='Sai 101 – Controlling the Canvas'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6udOMdPnOI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/8xdAYAxGD0c/s72-c/canvas-control.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5238728873343552839</id><published>2010-03-24T11:24:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T11:34:36.347-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Illustration - Kagehisa Anotsu</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#anotsu-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've always liked japanese culture, well, actually since I started watching Rurouni Kenshin on TV. So working for the Legend of the Five Rings is just great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, since I'm obsessed with the subject, I tend to draw it even in my spare time, so here is an illustration I did a couple of days ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't recognize him, he's Kagehisa Anotsu of the Blade of the Immortal manga, damn good manga, by far my favourite, and the author, Hiroaki Samura, must be one of my favourite artists too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always skip the spanish to see the image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="anotsu-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ilustración - Kagehisa Anotsu&lt;/h3&gt;Siempre me ha gustado la cultura japonesa, bueno, en realidad desde que vi Rurouni Kenshin en la televisión. Así que trabajar para La Leyenda de los Cinco Anillos es genial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y ya que estoy obsesionado con el tema, tiendo a trabajar en él incluso en mi tiempo libre, así que aquí hay una ilustración que hice hace un par de días.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El es Kagehisa Anotsu, del manga La Espada del Inmortal, un excelente manga, mi favorito por mucho, además el autor, Hiroaki Samura, es uno de mis artistas favoritos también.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6oin_cn4aI/AAAAAAAAAVI/K_FcbvOtzAc/s400/anotsu.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452208369327137186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-5238728873343552839?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/5238728873343552839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/illustration-kagehisa-anotsu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5238728873343552839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5238728873343552839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/illustration-kagehisa-anotsu.html' title='Illustration - Kagehisa Anotsu'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6oin_cn4aI/AAAAAAAAAVI/K_FcbvOtzAc/s72-c/anotsu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6323212830692730434</id><published>2010-03-23T12:32:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T15:34:53.567-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='webcomic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wilted rose'/><title type='text'>The Circle of the Wilted Rose</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#wiltedone-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just wanted to share some of the pages of the Circle of the Wilted Rose comic Joyce has been working on, I think they're really nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the comic here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/series/18-the-circle-of-the-wilted-rose.html"&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And skip the spanish to see the pages!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="wiltedone-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/h3&gt;Solo quería compartir algunas de las páginas del comic The Circle of the WIlted Rose en el que Joyce ha estado trabajando, creo que quedaron muy bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lean el comic aquí:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/series/18-the-circle-of-the-wilted-rose.html"&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-6323212830692730434?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/6323212830692730434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/circle-of-wilted-rose.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6323212830692730434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6323212830692730434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/circle-of-wilted-rose.html' title='The Circle of the Wilted Rose'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S6jgjaEMGuI/AAAAAAAAAU4/iZubG_Yb9c8/s72-c/p04_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2626489820882234172</id><published>2010-03-18T11:56:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:49:02.310-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>Tone and Color</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#toneandcolor-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A while ago I mentioned the classic &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharing-tips-thursday-about-lighting.html"&gt;Grisaille tecnique&lt;/a&gt;, where you begin by painting just the tone of an image in black &amp; white and then lay the color on top of that, people that use this tecnique say that it's much easier to achieve volume if you forget the color for a moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, it turns out that this idea could be right, because according to the latest hypothesis the visual brain processes the tonal information separately from the color information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The color process specialies in identifying what an object is, while the tonal information is used to locate that object in the space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's funny how new tecnology can validate ideas that were already taken into account, the grisaille tecnique has been used for a long time and it resurfaced thanks to digital coloring, since the colors that usually came up muddy with traditional media can now be worked until they come up right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I personally haven't used this tecnique since I usually paint everything in just one or two layers and don't use the different color modes of the softwares (multiply, lighten, etc). But it could result in an interesting experiment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more info read:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/02/two-streams-hypothesis.html"&gt;Gurney Journey: The Two-Streams Hypothesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="toneandcolor-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Tono y Color&lt;/h3&gt;Hace un tiempo mencioné la clásica &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharing-tips-thursday-about-lighting.html"&gt;técnica del Grisaille&lt;/a&gt; donde se comienza pintando los tonos de una imagen y luego se pone el color encima, quienes usan esta técnica alegan que es mucho más fácil lograr volumenes correctos si es que se olvida el color por un momento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno resulta que esta idea podría estar en lo correcto, puesto que según las últimas hipótesis el cerebro visual procesa la información tonal de separada de la información del color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El procesamiento del color se especializa más en identificar que es un objeto, mientras que la información tonal sirve para ubicarlo espacialmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es curioso como nueva tecnología puede validar ideas que ya estaban teniendo en cuenta, la técnica del grisaille se ocupa desde hace mucho tiempo, y ha resurgido gracias al coloreado digital, ya que los colores que generalmente quedaban algo sucios con medios tradicionales ahora pueden trabajarse hasta quedar bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personalmente no he intentado utilizar esta técnica, usualmente pinto todo en una u dos capas y no ocupo mucho los distintos modos en que pueden estar (multiplicar, aclarar, etc). Sin embargo podría resultar un experimento interesante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para más información lean&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/02/two-streams-hypothesis.html"&gt;Gurney Journey: The Two-Streams Hypotesis (inglés)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2626489820882234172?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2626489820882234172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/sharing-tips-thursday-tone-and-color.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2626489820882234172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2626489820882234172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/sharing-tips-thursday-tone-and-color.html' title='Tone and Color'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4894817162173871533</id><published>2010-03-09T00:10:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T02:09:28.238-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='website bananaorange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chile'/><title type='text'>We're Back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#back-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At last we're back from our late vacations in Lican-Ray, it was nice being there, although as you may have heard there was a massive earthquake in Chile, we were without electricity for a while and the aftershocks barely gave us the time to sleep, but little by little the things went back to normal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Santiago and other cities the thing was worse, my family was out of electricity for days, there were pillaging and riots, but also a lot of help and good will, it made me proud of being Chilean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, we have some news, the new website of &lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;Banana Orange&lt;/a&gt; is up, I had it ready for a while now but I was waiting for some NDAs to clear. I'll have to update this blog which I think I'll do tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also the first issue of &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/series/18-the-circle-of-the-wilted-rose.html"&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/a&gt; is up, this is the comic Joyce has been working on for &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Luf Creative Studios&lt;/a&gt;. Check it out at their website on this link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/en/series/18-the-circle-of-the-wilted-rose.html"&gt;Chapter 1: To Lot Initiation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think I have anything else new to say, I've been working with copic markers and experimenting with styles, you'll get to see some samples on this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll resume the usual columns again, I think there are lots of people interested in the SAI tutorials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="back-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;¡Hemos Vuelto!&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Hola a todos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por fin volvimos de nuestras tardías vacaciones en Lican-Ray, fue bonito estar allá, aunque como quizás se hayan enterado, hubo un gigantesco terremoto en Chile, estuvimos sin electricidad por un tiempo y las réplicas no nos dejaban dormir muy bien, pero poco a poco las cosas fueron volviendo a la normalidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En Santiago y otras ciudaddes las cosas fueron peores, mi familia estuvo sin electricidad por días, hubieron disturbios y saqueos, pero también mucha ayuda y buena voluntad, me hizo sentir orgulloso de ser Chileno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De cualquier forma, tenemos algunas novedades, el nuevo sitio de &lt;a href="http://www.bananaorange.com/"&gt;Banana Orange&lt;/a&gt; está arriba, lo tuve listo por un tiempo ya pero estaba esperando a que pudiera mostrar algunos trabajos, tendré que actualizar este blog lo que creo que haré mañana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También el primer número de &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/series/18-the-circle-of-the-wilted-rose.html"&gt;The Circle of the Wilted Rose&lt;/a&gt; está arriba, este es el comic en el que Joyce ha estado trabajando para &lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/"&gt;Luf Creative Studios&lt;/a&gt;. Pueden verlo en su sitio web en este link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lufcs.com/es/series/18-the-circle-of-the-wilted-rose.html"&gt;Capítulo 1: A Lot Iniciación&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No creo que tenga mucho más que decir, he estado trabajando con copic markers y experimentando con otros estilos, ya verán algunos ejemplos en este blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También retomaré las columnas usuales de nuevo, creo que hay harta gente interesada en los tutoriales de SAI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" 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actually next week, but I've been busy trying to finish the work I've been doing these week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you soon!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="vacations-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Vacaciones&lt;/h3&gt;Disculpen no haber escrito esto ayer, pero como habrán notado no hubo artículo de Sharing Tips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voy a irme de vacaciones, de hecho la próxima semana, pro he estado ocupado terminando los trabajos que he hecho durante estas semanas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Nos vemos a la vuelta!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6730000365786268942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/6730000365786268942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/02/vacations.html' title='Vacations'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-7927026009366491151</id><published>2010-02-11T17:50:00.009-03:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T12:29:41.612-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 – Again With the Textures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#painteffect-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rt5r5XH9I/AAAAAAAAAUI/M_vBYJ3dh_8/s1600-h/paint-effect-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 63px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rt5r5XH9I/AAAAAAAAAUI/M_vBYJ3dh_8/s400/paint-effect-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091487946317778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As you may have noticed, I'm a little obsesive with the texture thing, I think they're essential for a good painting, and SAI has a lot of options to use textures, this time is the turn of the “paint effect”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I briefly discussed this method when I first mention there were different ways to apply textures, this new option applies them as if the canvas was made of this texture, which means that it applies it evenly on the document.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may think that if you just paint with the same texture without touching the sliders you'll get the same result, but there are some differences when applying the textures this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, here we can see a texture applied on the brush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuNafFpWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/SMgF3jgsXdU/s1600-h/solo-papel-chico.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuNafFpWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/SMgF3jgsXdU/s400/solo-papel-chico.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091826870101346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the same texture applied as paper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuF4fjq3I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/ZWoLdAZthqI/s1600-h/solo-textura.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuF4fjq3I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/ZWoLdAZthqI/s400/solo-textura.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091697486179186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all we can see how the texture is applied differently, when you apply it as a brush you can paint the color of your choice evenly, the darker places become different levels of opacity (transparency), however when you apply the texture as a paint effect, you can tell there are different tones, the darker places of the texture are in fact, darker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuF4fjq3I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/ZWoLdAZthqI/s1600-h/solo-textura.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuVh-v2ZI/AAAAAAAAAUg/cZEXvirlyrE/s1600-h/solo-papel-grande.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuVh-v2ZI/AAAAAAAAAUg/cZEXvirlyrE/s400/solo-papel-grande.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091966320892306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also see in this same example how you can scale the texture simply by messing with the “scale” slider, you can also make it more or less noticeable with the bar on the right that represents opacity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although you can't see it in these examples, the texture is applied on the whole canvas, but you can only see it where there's painting, a complete example would look like this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rueo_sI_I/AAAAAAAAAUo/mt0H0I6gvNw/s1600-h/papel-todo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 285px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rueo_sI_I/AAAAAAAAAUo/mt0H0I6gvNw/s400/papel-todo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437092122822714354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to this way of placing textures, you can apply different effects, the idea is to leave the canvas texture precisely as a canvas, trying to imitate the look of them, and reserve the brush textures for more complex effects, here we can see how this two ways could look together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RukoJoILI/AAAAAAAAAUw/5-EE0hDKC2I/s1600-h/textura%2Bpapel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RukoJoILI/AAAAAAAAAUw/5-EE0hDKC2I/s400/textura%2Bpapel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437092225675174066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can start mixing textures for some interesting effects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="painteffect-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – De nuevo con las Texturas&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rt5r5XH9I/AAAAAAAAAUI/M_vBYJ3dh_8/s1600-h/paint-effect-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 63px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rt5r5XH9I/AAAAAAAAAUI/M_vBYJ3dh_8/s400/paint-effect-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091487946317778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Como ya se habrán dado cuenta, soy un poco obsesivo con el tema de las texturas, creo que son esenciales para hacer una buena ilustración, y SAI tiene muchas opciones para ocupar texturas, esta vez le toca el turno a los “paint effect” (o efecto de pintado en español).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya había tocado brevemente este tema cuando mencioné que existían distintas maneras de aplicar las texturas, esta nueva opción las aplica como si el lienzo estuviera compuesto por esta textura, es decir, en todo el documento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quizás piensen que si pintan parejo con la misma textura les quedará en todo el lienzo también, pero esta manera de aplicarla tiene algunas diferencias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por ejemplo, podemos ver una textura aquí aplicada como textura de pincel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuNafFpWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/SMgF3jgsXdU/s1600-h/solo-papel-chico.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuNafFpWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/SMgF3jgsXdU/s400/solo-papel-chico.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091826870101346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y aquí podemos ver la misma textura aplicada como papel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuF4fjq3I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/ZWoLdAZthqI/s1600-h/solo-textura.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuF4fjq3I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/ZWoLdAZthqI/s400/solo-textura.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091697486179186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Podemos ver primero que nada como la textura es aplicada de manera distinta, cuando se pone una textura en un pincel este pinta con el color de manera regular, y las partes más oscuras se vuelven distintos niveles de opacidad (transparencia), sin embargo al aplicar la textura como efecto de pintado, se pueden notar diferentes tonos, los lugares más oscuros realmente serán más oscuros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuVh-v2ZI/AAAAAAAAAUg/cZEXvirlyrE/s1600-h/solo-papel-grande.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RuVh-v2ZI/AAAAAAAAAUg/cZEXvirlyrE/s400/solo-papel-grande.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437091966320892306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También en este segundo ejemplo podemos ver como se puede escalar la textura simplemente deslizando la barra de “scale”, también se puede hacer más o menos notoria con la barra a la derecha que representa la opacidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque no lo pueden apreciar en estos ejemplos, la textura está aplicada en todo el papel, solo que es notoria en las partes pintadas, un ejemplo completo se vería así.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rueo_sI_I/AAAAAAAAAUo/mt0H0I6gvNw/s1600-h/papel-todo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 285px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rueo_sI_I/AAAAAAAAAUo/mt0H0I6gvNw/s400/papel-todo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437092122822714354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gracias a esta distinta manera de aplicar texturas, se pueden aplicar distintos efectos, la idea sería dejar la textura de lienzo como precisamente un lienzo, tratando de imitar como estos se ven, reservando las texturas del pincel para dar efectos más complejos, aquí podemos ver estas dos formas se podrían ver juntas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RukoJoILI/AAAAAAAAAUw/5-EE0hDKC2I/s1600-h/textura%2Bpapel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3RukoJoILI/AAAAAAAAAUw/5-EE0hDKC2I/s400/textura%2Bpapel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437092225675174066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pueden probar mezclando las texturas para ver como quedan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-7927026009366491151?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S3Rt5r5XH9I/AAAAAAAAAUI/M_vBYJ3dh_8/s72-c/paint-effect-box.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-7459078053100656739</id><published>2010-02-04T23:03:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:49:29.893-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>Ninja Mountain Podcast</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#ninjamountain-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article will be a little shorter than the others since I'm with little time because of all the projects I'm working on, but it's still very useful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've read about the &lt;a href="http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ninja Mountain Podcast&lt;/a&gt; for a while, it's about different subjects related to the entertainment industry and how to be a professional artist, it's very similar to what I do on this column, so  I started listening to the podcast about a week ago, and it has excellent tips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have the time to listen to it I very much recommend it, it's nice and funny, and you can relate to the themes they talk about. The podcast has been running for 50 episodes, and they're all really good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ninja Mountain Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="ninjamountain-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Ninja Mountain Podcast&lt;/h3&gt;Este artículo será un poco más corto que los demás ya que estoy algo apretado de tiempo por los proyectos en los que estoy trabajando, pero no por eso es menos útil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desde hace tiempo he leído acerca del &lt;a href="http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com/"&gt;podcast de Ninja Mountaint&lt;/a&gt; que trata diversos temas de la industria del entretenimiento y de como ser un ilustrador profesional, muy parecido a lo que hago en esta columna, y hace poco me puse escucharlo, y tiene excelentes consejos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lamentablemente el podcast está en inglés, como mucha de la información disponible en internet, pero si pueden entenderlo realmente se los recomiendo, es muy ameno y gracioso, además creo que uno se puede sentir identificado con los temas. Ya llevan 50 episodios y todos son realmente buenos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este es el link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ninja Mountain Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-7459078053100656739?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/7459078053100656739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/02/sharing-tips-thursday-ninja-mountain.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/7459078053100656739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/7459078053100656739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/02/sharing-tips-thursday-ninja-mountain.html' title='Ninja Mountain Podcast'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-1622802274549894023</id><published>2010-01-28T20:28:00.011-03:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T20:38:32.424-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 – Types of Brushes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#typebrushes-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few days ago I was talking to a friend that wanted to color digitally a piece, I asked what he had in mind specificaly, he replied “digitally”. I realized that I hadn't cover something fundamental in SAI, wanting to explain how to create brushes I skiped the brushes that the program brings by default.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeEmpXInI/AAAAAAAAASw/0TofZ5xB3Ng/s1600-h/herramientas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 173px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeEmpXInI/AAAAAAAAASw/0TofZ5xB3Ng/s400/herramientas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937165004579442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Even in digital media there are different ways to do things, normally this differences are the same than the ones in traditional painting, since the program usually imitate those tecniques, and SAI doesn't stay behind on this, as you can see in the box on the right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I'll do a quick review of every painting tool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pen. The pen is one of the simplest tools, it's very much like the basic brush  with hard edges in Photoshop, but it behaves a little different, the pen doesn't blend or dilutes, and it doesn't have persistence, it's just a 100% opacity brush, ideal for hatching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeN-J0DOI/AAAAAAAAAS4/g05Aj9RwHiI/s1600-h/achurado.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 199px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeN-J0DOI/AAAAAAAAAS4/g05Aj9RwHiI/s400/achurado.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937325933530338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Airbrush: Continuing the Photoshop similarities, this is a tool with soft edges ideal for details, it has  more variation than the pen but you still can't use the blending sliders. However, the edge hardness in advance settings is specially important.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeXApzaCI/AAAAAAAAATA/pfecTpc1fIw/s1600-h/airbrush.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 311px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeXApzaCI/AAAAAAAAATA/pfecTpc1fIw/s400/airbrush.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937481223399458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brush: The basic brush, it's a nice imitation of acrylics or oils, and the most customizable tool available, it can be blended and diluted, and SAI has by default a lot of different brush shapes, you can work with round or flat brushes, and with bigger or smaller bristles, I personally think it's the best tool of the program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Iee1nVppI/AAAAAAAAATI/fHgo69jTH1E/s1600-h/brushes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 248px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Iee1nVppI/AAAAAAAAATI/fHgo69jTH1E/s400/brushes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937615699224210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Water: A watercolor looking brush, tecnically it's just a 'Brush' tool without a particular shape or texture, thanks to the color dilution it makes for a good watercolor imitation. Ideal for smooth blendings and smudge some areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IemKyWX2I/AAAAAAAAATQ/-0sHgGQ_0ns/s1600-h/water.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 276px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IemKyWX2I/AAAAAAAAATQ/-0sHgGQ_0ns/s400/water.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937741641637730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marker: The colors of this tool can't be diluted but it does have blending and persitence, they usually leave the brushstroke of the marker and it's difficult to blend the colors 100% together, which is not necessarily a bad thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ieuk2Gy-I/AAAAAAAAATY/J9OlXAvWVJA/s1600-h/marker.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ieuk2Gy-I/AAAAAAAAATY/J9OlXAvWVJA/s400/marker.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937886075669474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olwater: Using a specific texture this tool gives the impression of painting over wet paper, the stain runs in different directions. Ideal to work on effects that require more texture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ie3S89RSI/AAAAAAAAATg/1aB_VrW7Ymc/s1600-h/olwater.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 219px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ie3S89RSI/AAAAAAAAATg/1aB_VrW7Ymc/s400/olwater.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938035891389730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acrylic: Not very different from the typical 'Brush' but it does include a canvas like texture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfACPKl2I/AAAAAAAAATo/saReou5z0DA/s1600-h/acrylic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 316px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfACPKl2I/AAAAAAAAATo/saReou5z0DA/s400/acrylic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938186023180130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paper: In small size it's a great pencil imitation, maybe one of the best I've seen on a computer, the mix between the brush shape and the texture is ideal. But at big sizes it's just another brush with texture. It's better for drawing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfHfyBhhI/AAAAAAAAATw/Q7CUmZVq-rs/s1600-h/paper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 174px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfHfyBhhI/AAAAAAAAATw/Q7CUmZVq-rs/s400/paper.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938314213099026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crayon: A very texturized tool, it's not close enough to a real crayon, but it's useful to texturize a painting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfN_qMs7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/1y8hvQ-RwE4/s1600-h/crayon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 277px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfN_qMs7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/1y8hvQ-RwE4/s400/crayon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938425849426866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blur: A classic smudge tool, not very different from the 'Water' tool, but if you don't want to touch the sliders it's a good choice. You can achieve smudging effects by placing blending and dilution on 100% in any brush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfW6GJcrI/AAAAAAAAAUA/xuaCC0BAbgQ/s1600-h/blur.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 223px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfW6GJcrI/AAAAAAAAAUA/xuaCC0BAbgQ/s400/blur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938578974864050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, I hope this was useful, sorry for the late post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="typebrushes-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – Tipos de Pinceles&lt;/h3&gt;Hace unos días hablaba con un amigo que quería pintar una pieza digialmente, yo me preguntaba que como lo haría especificamente, a lo que el respondió “digital”. Me di cuenta de que no había explicado algo fundamental de SAI en mi afán de crear distintos pinceles, y era explicar los pinceles por defecto que trae el programa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeEmpXInI/AAAAAAAAASw/0TofZ5xB3Ng/s1600-h/herramientas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 173px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeEmpXInI/AAAAAAAAASw/0TofZ5xB3Ng/s400/herramientas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937165004579442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Aún en medios digitales existen distintas maneras de hacer las cosas, normalmente las diferencias son las mismas que en el pintado tradicional, puesto que los programas imitan las distintas herramientas, y SAI no se queda atrás en esto, como pueden apreciar en la caja a la derecha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A continuación una explicación pequeña de cada herramienta para pintar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pen: El pen o lapiz tinta es una de las herramientas más simples, se semeja mucho al pincel básico con bordes duros de Photoshop en cuanto a forma, pero se comporta de manera distinta, el pen no se puede mezclar o diluir, y no tiene persistencia, es tan solo 100% opaco, ideal para hacer lineas o achurar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeN-J0DOI/AAAAAAAAAS4/g05Aj9RwHiI/s1600-h/achurado.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 199px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeN-J0DOI/AAAAAAAAAS4/g05Aj9RwHiI/s400/achurado.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937325933530338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Airbrush: O aerógrafo, siguiendo con las similitudes con Photoshop es una herramienta con bordes suaves, ideal para hacer detalles, tiene algo más de variación en cuanto a opacidad que la tinta, pero no se pueden usar los sliders de mezcla etc. Eso si, toma especial importancia la dureza del contorno en las opciones avanzadas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeXApzaCI/AAAAAAAAATA/pfecTpc1fIw/s1600-h/airbrush.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 311px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeXApzaCI/AAAAAAAAATA/pfecTpc1fIw/s400/airbrush.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937481223399458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brush: El pincel básico, es una imitación algo fidedigna de acrílicos u oleos y la herramienta más personalizable, se pueden ocupar mezcla y las demás opciones, y SAI trae por defecto muchas formas de pinceles, se puede trabajar con unos redondos o planos, y con cerdas más grandes o chicas, a mi gusto la mejor herramienta del programa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Iee1nVppI/AAAAAAAAATI/fHgo69jTH1E/s1600-h/brushes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 248px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Iee1nVppI/AAAAAAAAATI/fHgo69jTH1E/s400/brushes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937615699224210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Water: Un pincel parecido a las acuarelas, técnicamente es un 'Brush' sin una forma particular de pincel ni texturas, gracias a la disolución del color puede dar una apariencia de acuarela bastante convincente. Ideal para hacer mezclas suaves y difuminar algunas áreas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IemKyWX2I/AAAAAAAAATQ/-0sHgGQ_0ns/s1600-h/water.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 276px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IemKyWX2I/AAAAAAAAATQ/-0sHgGQ_0ns/s400/water.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937741641637730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marker: Sus colores no se pueden diluir pero si tienen mezcla y persistencia, suelen dejar el rastro del plumón siendo dificil lograr mezclas de colores uniformes, lo cual no es necesariamente una desventaja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ieuk2Gy-I/AAAAAAAAATY/J9OlXAvWVJA/s1600-h/marker.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ieuk2Gy-I/AAAAAAAAATY/J9OlXAvWVJA/s400/marker.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431937886075669474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olwater: Con una textura de SAI esta herramienta crea la impresión de un pincel sobre papel húmedo, la mancha corre en distintas direcciones. Ideal para efectos particulares que requieren algo más de textura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ie3S89RSI/AAAAAAAAATg/1aB_VrW7Ymc/s1600-h/olwater.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 219px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2Ie3S89RSI/AAAAAAAAATg/1aB_VrW7Ymc/s400/olwater.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938035891389730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acrylic: No dista mucho del pincel típico o “brush” pero si incorpora una textura que simula un lienzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfACPKl2I/AAAAAAAAATo/saReou5z0DA/s1600-h/acrylic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 316px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfACPKl2I/AAAAAAAAATo/saReou5z0DA/s400/acrylic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938186023180130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paper: A tamaños pequeños es una gran imitación de un lapiz grafito, tal vez una de las mejores que he visto en un computador, la mezcla entre la forma del pincel y la textura es ideal. Sin embargo a tamaños grandes puede parecer más bien otro pincel con textura. Sirve más para dibujar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfHfyBhhI/AAAAAAAAATw/Q7CUmZVq-rs/s1600-h/paper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 174px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfHfyBhhI/AAAAAAAAATw/Q7CUmZVq-rs/s400/paper.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938314213099026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crayon: Una herramienta en particular muy texturizada, no se asemeja lo suficiente a un crayón, pero si sirve para texturizar cuando se pinta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfN_qMs7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/1y8hvQ-RwE4/s1600-h/crayon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 277px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfN_qMs7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/1y8hvQ-RwE4/s400/crayon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938425849426866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blur: Un difuminador clásico, no es muy diferente de usar la herramienta “water” pero si no quieren estar tocando los sliders es una buena opción. Se pueden lograr efectos de difuminación poniendo la mezcla y disolución en 100% en cualquier pincel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfW6GJcrI/AAAAAAAAAUA/xuaCC0BAbgQ/s1600-h/blur.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 223px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IfW6GJcrI/AAAAAAAAAUA/xuaCC0BAbgQ/s400/blur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431938578974864050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bien, espero que les haya servido este tutorial, disculpen la tardanza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1622802274549894023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1622802274549894023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/01/sai-101-types-of-brushes.html' title='SAI 101 – Types of Brushes'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S2IeEmpXInI/AAAAAAAAASw/0TofZ5xB3Ng/s72-c/herramientas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2952402422550910437</id><published>2010-01-21T19:01:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:49:45.761-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>Gourney Journey Blog</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#gurney-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been following the blog of James Gourney, called &lt;a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gourney Journey&lt;/a&gt;, for a couple of months now, and I’m really impressed by the amount of advices and material he shares, each post is a treasure chest of information for any artist, and I just a few lines he manages to explain things better than any book I have read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, instead of doing the same thing, I invite you to visit his blog, take some time and read the posts, you won’t be sorry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m planning on making a spanish translation with his permission, but if you’re reading this, you’re probably not interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So visit his blog at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gourney Journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="gurney-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Gurney Journey Blog&lt;/h3&gt;Desde hace unos meses que he estado siguiendo el blog de James Gourney, llamado &lt;a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gourney Journey&lt;/a&gt;, y en realidad he quedado impresionado por la cantidad de consejos y material que pone a disposición, cada post es un tesoro de información para cualquier artista, y en solo unas líneas logra explicar la materia mucho mejor que cualquier libro que haya leído.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que en vez de intentar hacerlo yo mismo, los invito a visitar su blog, tómense el tiempo y lean los posts, no se arrepentirán.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El único problema es que sus posts están en inglés, pero si están interesados, pensaba pedirle permiso al autor para traducirlos al español, pero solo lo haré si es que les interesa, así que ¡háganmelo saber en los comentarios! (bueno supongo que siempre puede decir no también).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por ahora solo visiten:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gourney Journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2952402422550910437?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2952402422550910437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharing-tips-thursday-gourney-journey.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2952402422550910437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2952402422550910437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharing-tips-thursday-gourney-journey.html' title='Gourney Journey Blog'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-7328829267247778177</id><published>2010-01-14T21:51:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T02:13:43.080-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 – More About Linework</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#saimorelinework-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although there's not much more to explain about the linework in SAI, I did wanted to mention one more thing to complete the tutorial&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's something that caught my attention a lot when working with vectors in SAI, and it's the way they look, in every other program that I know of these don't have any type of “effect”, because vectors by definition have to be plain colors, however in SAI they have a pixelated border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8UQG_6iI/AAAAAAAAASQ/FWxDU4WIe94/s1600-h/maslinework-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 91px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8UQG_6iI/AAAAAAAAASQ/FWxDU4WIe94/s400/maslinework-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426763132112464418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What does this mean? That although the options of brush shape and texture are blocked, you can still change the appearance of the lineart by changing the type of brush you're using, located on the next dialog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With these icons we can get our brush to have a softer or harder border, it's not a great change, but it  does allow some flexibility when inking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8gB00AzI/AAAAAAAAASg/pReR8pZJUOs/s1600-h/maslinework-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 364px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8gB00AzI/AAAAAAAAASg/pReR8pZJUOs/s400/maslinework-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426763334436520754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It occurs to me that you can think of the vector in SAI as a kind of skeleton that holds up the line, and that structure can be modified in direction and shape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take Care!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="saimorelinework-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – Más Acerca del Linework&lt;/h3&gt;Aunque no quedaba mucho que explicar acerca del linework en SAI, si quería mencionar una cosa más para completar el tutorial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay algo que me llama la atención mucho de los vectores en SAI y es la manera en la que se ven, en todos los demás programas de vectores que conozco estos no tienen ningún tipo de “efecto”, puesto que por definición tienen que ser de colores planos, sin embargo en SAI tienen un borde pixelado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8UQG_6iI/AAAAAAAAASQ/FWxDU4WIe94/s1600-h/maslinework-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 91px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8UQG_6iI/AAAAAAAAASQ/FWxDU4WIe94/s400/maslinework-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426763132112464418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;¿Qué significa esto? Que aunque las opciones de forma del pincel y textura están bloqueadas, aún así se puede cambiar la apariencia del delineado cambiando el tipo de pincel que se ocupa localizando el cuadro a continuación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con estos íconos podemos lograr que nuestro pincel tenga un borde más blando o duro, no es un gran cambio, pero si permite cierta flexibilidad a la hora de entintar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8gB00AzI/AAAAAAAAASg/pReR8pZJUOs/s1600-h/maslinework-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 364px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8gB00AzI/AAAAAAAAASg/pReR8pZJUOs/s400/maslinework-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426763334436520754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se me ocurre que uno puede pensar en el vector de SAI como en un esqueleto que sostiene la línea, y este esqueleto puede ser modificado en dirección y forma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Saludos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-7328829267247778177?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0-8UQG_6iI/AAAAAAAAASQ/FWxDU4WIe94/s72-c/maslinework-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4360100435022003138</id><published>2010-01-08T15:47:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T16:00:57.942-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='textures'/><title type='text'>My New SAI Texture</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#newsaitexture-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like to work on my SAI textures from time to time to get better results, I wasn't completely happy with the last one I've been using, and I think I came up with a better one, it tiles up almost perfectly and works very well while changing the blending bar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always skip the spanish to see the texture and download it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="newsaitexture-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Mi Nueva Textura de SAI&lt;/h3&gt;Me gusta trabajar de vez en cuando en mis texturas de SAI para obtener mejores resultados, no estaba completamente feliz con la última que estaba usando, y creo que pude hacer una nueva, se repite casi perfectamente y funciona muy bien cuando cambio la barra de mezcla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pueden verla y descargarla a continuación&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not too long ago I was reading one of the million blogs I've subscribed to, and I stumbled upon a program that caught my attention, it's Alchemy, and it's used to generates abstract shapes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a very fun little program that counts with different tools to draw and end up with very interesting results, you can draw a mirror image, hide the result while you're drawing, draw according to the sound picked up by the microphone, and many other things. All with the idea of creating shapes and stains that stimulate the creativity of the user.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you work as a concept artist or if you're just without a clear idea of how to start your works, try this program, it'll make your mind working.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The program is based on Java, so you'll need to have it installed to use it, once that's done you can download Alchemy from it's official website at &lt;a href="http://al.chemy.org/"&gt;Al.chemy.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish blurb for one of my results, tell me what you see!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="alchemy-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Compartiendo Tips los Jueves – Alchemy&lt;/h3&gt;Hace poco leyendo uno de los tantos blogs a los que estoy suscrito por RSS me topé con un programa que llamó mucho mi atención, se trata de Alchemy, y sirve para generar formas abstractas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es un programa muy entretenido que cuenta con diversas herramientas para dibujar y terminar con resultados muy interesantes, se puede dibujar en espejo, esconder el resultado, dibujar de acuerdo al sonido captado por el micrófono y muchas otras cosas, todo con el ánimo de crear formas y manchas que estimulen la creatividad del usuario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si se trabaja como artista de conceptos o si se encuentran sin una idea concreta para empezar sus trabajos, prueben este programa, de seguro hará que sus mentes se pongan a trabajar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El programa está basado en Java, por lo que necesitarán tenerlo instalado para poder usarlo, una vez hecho eso pueden descargar Alchemy desde su página oficial:  &lt;a href="http://al.chemy.org/"&gt;Al.chemy.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí les dejo uno de mis resultados, ¡diganme lo que ven!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/S0aNB_ou1tI/AAAAAAAAASA/P9f4alMuQKQ/s1600-h/alchemy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 172px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0AonTM-FI/AAAAAAAAAQo/S-EZTW10NzA/s400/linework-layer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490224168237138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Since the latest tutorial was the last one about brushs, it's time to move onto a new subject that involves different characteristics in SAI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to draw, ink or work the line in any way in SAI there's a completely new way to do this, different to the one we would use with the brushes, although you can use them too, but it's much easier to create a special line work layer, like the one in the right figure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is done by selecting the icon with the pen that's above the layers, and when you have one of this special layers you'll see that the tools change to the ones in the figure below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0A3-w0fHI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/XSiOwT8QNeE/s1600-h/linework-tools.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 173px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0A3-w0fHI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/XSiOwT8QNeE/s400/linework-tools.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490488164514930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have now the following tools:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pen / Eraser: To draw and erase the lines.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Weight: To change the weight of the line once it has been drawn.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Color: With this one we can change the color of the line.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edit: To handle the points of the line (more on this later)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pressure: Adjusts the pressure of the tablet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Select / Deselect: Self explanatory&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Curva / Línea: Creates lines choosing the beggining and end points.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The most important thing, and what we'll see in this tutorial to avoid making it too long, is the difference between these tools and the ones in a normal layer, since we have two pens, what makes them different?, well, the linework layers are based in vectors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vectors are graphics based in geometric objects with mathematical values such as color, weight, etc. It may sound a little complicated, but there's no need to learn this, SAI will handle vectors very much like pixels, so it's not necessary to learn the theory. What you need to know is that, thanks to these values, the lines we draw can be edited afterwards, and because of this you can draw something with more precision and without the fear of making a mistake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, if we take the pen, we can draw a line like this one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BC-SxKrI/AAAAAAAAARA/H9o7VN3zC38/s1600-h/linework1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BC-SxKrI/AAAAAAAAARA/H9o7VN3zC38/s400/linework1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490677017029298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This doesn't look different from a line drawn by a normal tool, however, if we press the control key over the line, we'll see that is made of points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BSSmGqmI/AAAAAAAAARQ/wf3PfS8eX2U/s1600-h/linework-points.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BSSmGqmI/AAAAAAAAARQ/wf3PfS8eX2U/s400/linework-points.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490940164876898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These points are key places where you can take the line and edit it's shape, for example, if we keep pressing control, and drag the mouse from one of these points, we'll see how the point moves and the line changes according to this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BhhXOzHI/AAAAAAAAARg/vpNGLgYZlFw/s1600-h/linework-control.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BhhXOzHI/AAAAAAAAARg/vpNGLgYZlFw/s400/linework-control.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421491201827064946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if we press shift, we can drag a whole sector of the line, generating a much more armonic change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BxZLqHvI/AAAAAAAAARw/LtwcGA6Kvc8/s1600-h/linework-shift.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BxZLqHvI/AAAAAAAAARw/LtwcGA6Kvc8/s400/linework-shift.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421491474508947186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if we don't want to have so many points, we can press alt and click on one of them to erase it, again the line will change to take it's new shape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0B3_xMn0I/AAAAAAAAAR4/gp7i9mhCmmk/s1600-h/linework-alt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0B3_xMn0I/AAAAAAAAAR4/gp7i9mhCmmk/s400/linework-alt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421491587946159938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the basic about the linework layers, as you can see you can adjust the lines in a lot of ways after drawing them, this is their main characteristic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the next tutorial I'll write a little more about the same subject, that way this article is not too long and I have some material for the next one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Holidays!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="sailinework-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Linework&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0AonTM-FI/AAAAAAAAAQo/S-EZTW10NzA/s1600-h/linework-layer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 172px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0AonTM-FI/AAAAAAAAAQo/S-EZTW10NzA/s400/linework-layer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490224168237138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ya que el tutorial anterior fue el último que trató el tema de los pinceles, es hora de pasar a algo distinto y que involucra nuevas características de SAI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si se quiere dibujar, entintar, o trabajar la línea de cualquier manera en SAI, existe una forma totalmente, distinta a la que utilizariamos con los pinceles, aunque claro, esta se puede ocupar también, pero resulta mucho más cómodo crear una capa especial para líneas, como la de la figura de la derecha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto se hace seleccionando el ícono con plumilla que se encuentra arriba de las capas, y al tener una de estas capas especiales verán que nuestras herramientas cambiarán a las que muestra la figura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0A3-w0fHI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/XSiOwT8QNeE/s1600-h/linework-tools.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 173px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0A3-w0fHI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/XSiOwT8QNeE/s400/linework-tools.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490488164514930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí contamos entonces con las siguientes herramientas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pen / Eraser: Para dibujar y borrar líneas.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Weight: Sirve para cambiar el grosor de la línea una vez ya fue dibujada.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Color: Con esta podemos cambiar el color de la línea después de hacerla.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edit: Para poder manejar los puntos de la línea (más acerca de esto después).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pressure: Ajusta la presión del lapiz&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Select / Deselect: Selecciona o deselecciona.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Curva / Línea: Crea líneas eligiendo el punto de inicio y el punto final.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Lo más importante y, que trataremos en este tutorial para que no salga demasiado largo, es la diferencia crucial entre estas herramientas y las de una capa normal, ya que contamos con dos pen, ¿qué los hace tan distintos?, pues bueno, las capas de línea están basadas en vectores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los vectores son gráficos basados en objetos geométricos y con valores matemáticos como color, peso, etc. Suena un poco complicado, pero no hay porque aprender esto, SAI maneja los vectores de manera similar a los pixels, por lo que no es necesario aprender su teoría. Lo que si tenemos que saber, es que gracias a estos valores las líneas que formamos pueden ser editadas después de hacerlas, y debido a eso se puede dibujar con algo más de presición y sin miedo a equivocarse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por ejemplo, si tomamos el pen, podemos hacer una línea como la siguiente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BC-SxKrI/AAAAAAAAARA/H9o7VN3zC38/s1600-h/linework1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BC-SxKrI/AAAAAAAAARA/H9o7VN3zC38/s400/linework1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490677017029298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se puede dibujar sin mayor diferencia de una línea hecha por una herramienta común, sin embargo, si es que presionamos control sobre la línea, podemos ver que esta está compuesta de puntos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BSSmGqmI/AAAAAAAAARQ/wf3PfS8eX2U/s1600-h/linework-points.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BSSmGqmI/AAAAAAAAARQ/wf3PfS8eX2U/s400/linework-points.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421490940164876898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estos puntos son lugares clave donde se puede tomar la línea y editarla en su forma, por ejemplo, si seguimos aprentando control, y arrastramos el cursor desde un punto, veremos como arrastramos el punto, y la línea se mueve de acuerdo a eso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BhhXOzHI/AAAAAAAAARg/vpNGLgYZlFw/s1600-h/linework-control.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BhhXOzHI/AAAAAAAAARg/vpNGLgYZlFw/s400/linework-control.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421491201827064946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si en cambio apretamos shift, podemos arrastrar todo un sector de la línea, generando un cambio mucho más armónico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BxZLqHvI/AAAAAAAAARw/LtwcGA6Kvc8/s1600-h/linework-shift.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0BxZLqHvI/AAAAAAAAARw/LtwcGA6Kvc8/s400/linework-shift.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421491474508947186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y si es que no queremos tantos puntos, podemos presionar alt y hacer click sobre uno para eliminarlo, nuevamente  la línea cambiará para ajustarse a su nueva forma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0B3_xMn0I/AAAAAAAAAR4/gp7i9mhCmmk/s1600-h/linework-alt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sz0B3_xMn0I/AAAAAAAAAR4/gp7i9mhCmmk/s400/linework-alt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421491587946159938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto es lo básico sobre las capas de líneas, como ven pueden ajustarlas de muchas formas incluso después de hacerlas, esta es su principal característica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el siguiente tutorial enseñaré un poco más al respecto, para que no salga tan largo este artículo y tener más material preparado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Felices Fiestas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br 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/&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="holidays-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;¡Felices Fiestas!&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiero agradecer a todos los que han visitado el blog a lo largo de este año, me alegra saber que algunos de ustedes se interesan en leer las cosas que escribo y espero que los tutoriales de SAI les hayan sido de utilidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y ya que estamos tocando ese tema, esta semana será la primera sin una columna, ya que he estado algo ocupado con las celebraciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Pásenlo bien!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a 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type='text'>When you're Ready</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#ready-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry for the late article today, these last days I haven't felt like sitting in front of the computer on the afternoons with the heat here in Santiago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically today's column is about how we don't listen to the critique or some advices (ironically because this is a column about advices), most of these times, it's because of the pride that we have on what we do, but other times I think it's simply because we're not ready to see what they're telling us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think you can't learn something until you really understand it, you can perhaps imitate it, or you'll try to do it just because you were told to, but these things won't stick until they make that click in your head that happens when you can finally see something that was in front of our eyes this whole time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's nice when this happens, a couple of days ago it happened to me with the way I hold the pencil, I've always held the pencil in a weird way, and I usually rest my hand in the paper, but at that time I thought “drawing without touching the paper will give me more freedom”, and it really worked, because I understood it, and wow I heard that phrase a lot of times before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This doesn't mean that we shouldn't listen to critique or advices, on the contrary, it's good to hear them, and if you can internalize them to provoque that enlightening moment on purpose, even better, but you gotta know that if the changes are artificial they won't last long, and you'll be able to apply what you learned only when you're ready.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="ready-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Cuando estés Listo&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disculpen la tardanza en el artículo de hoy, estos últimos días no dan muchas ganas de sentarse frente al computador en las tardes con el calor que está haciendo en Santiago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irónicamente la columna de hoy trata de como muchas veces no hacemos caso a la crítica o a los consejos (ironicamente porque esta es una columna de consejos), muchas de esas veces, es por el orgullo que tiene cada uno de lo que hace, pero otras veces creo que es simplemente porque no estamos listos para ver lo que nos están diciendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que uno no aprenderá algo hasta que realmente lo comprenda, puede imitarlo quizás, o puede intentar hacerlo solo porque se lo dijeron, pero nada de esto se quedará hasta que llegue ese click en la cabeza que nos pasa cuando finalmente podemos ver algo que estuvo frente a nuestros ojos todo este tiempo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es simpático cuando eso pasa, hace poco me pasó con la manera de tomar el lapiz, siempre lo he tomado muy extraño y suelo apoyar la mano en el papel, pero en un momento pensé “levantar la mano me dará más soltura de trazo”, y realmente funcionó, porque lo comprendí, y vaya que había escuchado esa frase antes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto no significa que debamos hacer oidos sordos a la crítica o consejos, al contrario, es muy bueno escucharlos, y si es que se pueden interiorizar para provocar ese momento de iluminación a propósito, aún mejor, pero hay que saber que los cambios artificiales no duran mucho, y que uno podrá aplicar lo que aprendió solo cuando esté listo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" 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term='SAI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tutorials'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 – Creating a Brush Tool</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#brushtool-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After many tutorials about the different aspects of the brushes, It's time to create a whole new brush from scratch, it's nothing complicated and it allows you to create a completely new tool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To begin, we'll need to locate the squares where the tools are, we'll right click in a unoccupied spot and select the type of brush we want to create, in this case a brush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxnxKxCvI/AAAAAAAAAQE/BcUmuBp4760/s1600-h/brushtool1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 396px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxnxKxCvI/AAAAAAAAAQE/BcUmuBp4760/s400/brushtool1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014630080088818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you'll be able to see the brush with the default characteristics that SAI creates, this is with simple circle as elemap, no texture, etc. Before we fix this, we'll double click the tool. A dialog will appear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxrLz20dI/AAAAAAAAAQM/jUATxayQKP8/s1600-h/brushtool2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 183px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxrLz20dI/AAAAAAAAAQM/jUATxayQKP8/s400/brushtool2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014688771363282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here you can name the tool, which appears in the first line of the tool square, and give it a short description, which appears in the second line, this is useful if we have two “pencil” tools for example, one can be a thin pencil, and the other one a broad pencil, and we can tell them apart this way. The stabilizers are not important for now, so you can just leave them be, besides, if you want you can double click the tool later at any time to change the values. Finally, the shortcut key to access the tool, very useful if you plan to use it constantly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxt4WtCdI/AAAAAAAAAQU/teKypJwIDtk/s1600-h/brushtool3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 184px; height: 170px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxt4WtCdI/AAAAAAAAAQU/teKypJwIDtk/s400/brushtool3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014735088421330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should have a square similar to the one on the image, with the name you chose obviously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the important part, if you have created an elemap, you can select it where it says simple circle, you can also choose the texture, color blending, dilution, etc. With this, your brush will be complete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, it's extremely easy, you don't need to save the changes since when you create the square for the brush that slot will be saved in SAI along with all the other characteristics you use, if you want you can just leave it that way without moving a thing, or you can play with the options, careful though, since the brush is not a fixed tool, and as any brush in SAI it'll have the last values you used on it, so careful moving the characteristics too much if you won't remember them later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These brushes will be saved in the tolnrm folder in the SAI program folder, there you can see all the .ini files which simbolize a tool according to it's position on the grid, my new tool has the numer 23.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxxKBV52I/AAAAAAAAAQc/X6UQ32yL3Gk/s1600-h/brushtool4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxxKBV52I/AAAAAAAAAQc/X6UQ32yL3Gk/s400/brushtool4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014791370270562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If  you open one of this files you'll be able to see the characteristics of the brush right there, although that's completely unnecesary, what's interesting is that by changing the number on the file itself you can move it around in the grid of the program, since the name dictates it's position.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, remember that if you make any changes done outside the application you must start SAI with the program start-sai.exe or it won't recognize the changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="brushtool-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – Como Crear una Herramienta de Pincel&lt;/h3&gt;Después de muchos tutoriales acerca de distintos aspectos de los pinceles, ha llegado el momento de crear un pincel completo, no es nada complicado y permite crear una herramienta totalmente nueva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para empezar, necesitamos localizar la cuadrícula donde se ubican las herramientas, haremos click derecho en un cuadrado desocupado y pondremos el tipo de herramienta que queremos crear, en este caso un pincel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxnxKxCvI/AAAAAAAAAQE/BcUmuBp4760/s1600-h/brushtool1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 396px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxnxKxCvI/AAAAAAAAAQE/BcUmuBp4760/s400/brushtool1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014630080088818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora aparecerá el pincel con las características por defecto que trae SAI, es decir con el elemap en simple circle, sin textura, etc. Antes de arreglar esto, hacemos doble click en la herramienta. Aparecerá el siguiente dialogo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxrLz20dI/AAAAAAAAAQM/jUATxayQKP8/s1600-h/brushtool2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 183px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxrLz20dI/AAAAAAAAAQM/jUATxayQKP8/s400/brushtool2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014688771363282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahí se puede nombrar la herramienta, lo cual aparecerá en la primera línea del cuadro, y darle una descripción corta, que aparecerá en la siguiente línea, esto sirve por ejemplo si tenemos dos lápices, uno puede ser “Lapiz fino” y el otro “Lapiz grueso”, lo que los hace fáciles de diferenciar. Los estabilizadores no son importantes por ahora, así que los pueden dejar como están, además si quieren pueden hacer doble click en la herramienta en cualquier momento para cambiar sus valores. Finalmente, la tecla rápida para acceder a ella, muy útil si planean ocupar esta herramienta constantemente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxt4WtCdI/AAAAAAAAAQU/teKypJwIDtk/s1600-h/brushtool3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 184px; height: 170px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxt4WtCdI/AAAAAAAAAQU/teKypJwIDtk/s400/brushtool3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014735088421330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deberían tener un cuadro parecido al de la imagen, con el nombre que eligieron claramente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora viene la parte importante, si ya han creado un elemap, pueden elegirlo donde dice simple circle, también pueden elegir la textura, mezcla de colores, disolución, etc. Con esto su pincel quedará completo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como pueden ver, es extremadamente simple, no hace falta guardar los cambios ya que una vez se crea el recuadro para el pincel ese slot se guardará en SAI junto con todas las características que uno ocupe, si quieren pueden ocuparlo tal como lo dejaron sin mover nada, o pueden jugar con las opciones, ojo eso si, que el pincel no es una herramienta fija, y como todo pincel de SAI simplemente tendrá las últimas características que hayan utilizado en él, así que cuidado con mover demasiado los valores si no los recuerdan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estos pinceles se guardarán en la carpeta toolnrm de SAI, ahí pueden ver todos los archivos .ini, cada cual simboliza una herramienta según su posición en la cuadrícula, mi nueva herramienta tiene el número 23.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxxKBV52I/AAAAAAAAAQc/X6UQ32yL3Gk/s1600-h/brushtool4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyJxxKBV52I/AAAAAAAAAQc/X6UQ32yL3Gk/s400/brushtool4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414014791370270562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Si es que abren el archivo, pueden ver las características del pincel ahí mismo, e incluso editarlas, aunque es absolutamente innecesario, lo que si es interesante es que cambiando el número del archivo mismo pueden moverlo en la cuadrícula del programa, pues el nombre dicta su ubicación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por último recuerden que si hacen cualquier cambio fuera del programa deben empezar sai con la aplicación start-sai.exe o no reconocerá los cambios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5207971051193730998</id><published>2009-12-11T01:17:00.023-03:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T01:31:44.326-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='steps'/><title type='text'>Mad Scientist Steps</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#scientiststeps-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been saving the steps of some illustrations I work on, so I decided to show them from now on, these are the steps for the Mad Scientist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="scientiststeps-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Pasos del Científico Loco&lt;/h3&gt;He estado guardando los pasos de algunas de las ilustraciones en las que trabajo, así que decidí mostrarlos de ahora en adelante, estos son los del Científico Loco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ_nSI7dI/AAAAAAAAAP8/N-gyrItGd_c/s1600-h/mad-scientist-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ_nSI7dI/AAAAAAAAAP8/N-gyrItGd_c/s400/mad-scientist-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413830321790053842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ8_S3XjI/AAAAAAAAAP0/R5n8kahMLJc/s1600-h/mad-scientist-03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ8_S3XjI/AAAAAAAAAP0/R5n8kahMLJc/s400/mad-scientist-03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413830276695940658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ4p9PSrI/AAAAAAAAAPs/f9sLvn-CnHU/s1600-h/mad-scientist-05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ4p9PSrI/AAAAAAAAAPs/f9sLvn-CnHU/s400/mad-scientist-05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413830202248612530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ03gIXkI/AAAAAAAAAPk/6VwMBbnj1WE/s1600-h/mad-scientist-07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ03gIXkI/AAAAAAAAAPk/6VwMBbnj1WE/s400/mad-scientist-07.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413830137165143618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJuAAKsaI/AAAAAAAAAPc/JMNWnKs_XF4/s1600-h/mad-scientist-08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJuAAKsaI/AAAAAAAAAPc/JMNWnKs_XF4/s400/mad-scientist-08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413830019187913122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJn2-_alI/AAAAAAAAAPU/uCQTs5L5NK0/s1600-h/mad-scientist-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJn2-_alI/AAAAAAAAAPU/uCQTs5L5NK0/s400/mad-scientist-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413829913687845458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJh3nmwGI/AAAAAAAAAPM/qoiNBGfIHk4/s1600-h/mad-scientist-11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJh3nmwGI/AAAAAAAAAPM/qoiNBGfIHk4/s400/mad-scientist-11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413829810778980450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJYKoPt4I/AAAAAAAAAO8/bRjX8n7hCEY/s1600-h/mad-scientist-13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJYKoPt4I/AAAAAAAAAO8/bRjX8n7hCEY/s400/mad-scientist-13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413829644083246978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJUV68YiI/AAAAAAAAAO0/Zg8IbrPjShU/s1600-h/mad-scientist-16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJUV68YiI/AAAAAAAAAO0/Zg8IbrPjShU/s400/mad-scientist-16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413829578394984994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJJQe-5oI/AAAAAAAAAOs/Mk5yenDjXLg/s1600-h/mad-scientist-19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJJQe-5oI/AAAAAAAAAOs/Mk5yenDjXLg/s400/mad-scientist-19.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413829387956971138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJDhjPxYI/AAAAAAAAAOk/35iGlkvdTMY/s1600-h/mad-scientist-22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJDhjPxYI/AAAAAAAAAOk/35iGlkvdTMY/s400/mad-scientist-22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413829289459041666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHI_xm-TTI/AAAAAAAAAOc/QpodgimkEd8/s1600-h/mad-scientist-25.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: 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cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHIq5Z70KI/AAAAAAAAAOM/xxfGw07NqLE/s400/mad-scientist-28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413828866365706402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHInbiYZBI/AAAAAAAAAOE/eSB8izZDoZ0/s1600-h/mad-scientist-32.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHInbiYZBI/AAAAAAAAAOE/eSB8izZDoZ0/s400/mad-scientist-32.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413828806808462354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHIbkJ_1eI/AAAAAAAAAN8/CvLbsFmqFKw/s1600-h/mad-scientist-34.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHIbkJ_1eI/AAAAAAAAAN8/CvLbsFmqFKw/s400/mad-scientist-34.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413828602963678690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHIXRG_VTI/AAAAAAAAAN0/eEazR1W9Lgk/s1600-h/mad-scientist-35.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHIXRG_VTI/AAAAAAAAAN0/eEazR1W9Lgk/s400/mad-scientist-35.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413828529131312434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHIUL7hJdI/AAAAAAAAANs/n0BPKbHsc6s/s1600-h/mad-scientist-37.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHIUL7hJdI/AAAAAAAAANs/n0BPKbHsc6s/s400/mad-scientist-37.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413828476201412050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SyHJ_nSI7dI/AAAAAAAAAP8/N-gyrItGd_c/s72-c/mad-scientist-01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6975626162887653066</id><published>2009-12-10T23:37:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T23:43:44.631-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>SAI Post Delay</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#saidelay-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been running some errands today and wasn't able to write the SAI tutorial, I'll write it tomorrow morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="saidelay-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Retraso del Post de SAI&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estuve ocupado hoy haciendo unos encargos y no pude escribir el tutorial de SAI, lo escribiré mañana en la mañana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" 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type='text'>Contests</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#contests-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I mentioned in the last article, I have been participating in some contests since I haven't received any new commissions, I came up with two pieces that I'm very proud of, and of course with Joyce's help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can begin to see some influence by Frazetta in these.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="contests-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Concursos&lt;/h3&gt;Como mencioné en el último artículo, he estado participando en algunos concursos ya que no he recibido nuevas comisiones, hice dos piezas que me dejaron bastante feliz, y por supuesto, con la ayuda de Joyce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pueden empezar a ver algo de la influencia de Frazetta en estas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sx1nRGsbLTI/AAAAAAAAANU/KlwAtdeZwQI/s1600-h/kiseki-final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sx1nRGsbLTI/AAAAAAAAANU/KlwAtdeZwQI/s400/kiseki-final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412595870721584434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sx1ng_zY7bI/AAAAAAAAANc/hVi82BRWJMg/s1600-h/mad-scientist.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sx1ng_zY7bI/AAAAAAAAANc/hVi82BRWJMg/s400/mad-scientist.jpg" alt="" 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href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/3345073528615996623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/contests.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3345073528615996623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/3345073528615996623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/contests.html' title='Contests'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sx1nRGsbLTI/AAAAAAAAANU/KlwAtdeZwQI/s72-c/kiseki-final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5721912432820960913</id><published>2009-12-03T18:56:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:50:45.086-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>The Roads that Lead to Rome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#rome-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been drawing and painting more than before these days, my workflow is usually higher when I have more commissions, but these days i don't have much work to do, so I decided to participate in some contest to improve my productivity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days I've noticed the different ways illustrators work in, I always compare my workflow to Joyce since I can watch her work very close, she always wanted to work on comics (and now she's working on one), since she's very fast at deawing and has an excellent understandment of human figure. On the other hand I can't draw as fast and I like to color every drawing, and I've always wanted to work as an illustrator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's hard for an artist to do everything good, one can always see the faults and use some tricks to “deceive” the spectator, there are those who are good at drawing landscapes, or designing characters, working on the human figure, mixing colors, etc. And I don't think there are many people that can do all these things. Since you never stop learning when you're an artist, the more years you have in the business the better you become, always practicing what's missing and polishing what's right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, nowadays there are different ways to do things, so I wanted to talk about a few of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Some tools to help you improve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's always good to look for tools that can make the work easier, here is a list of the ones I use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/"&gt;Google Sketch Up&lt;/a&gt; it's a program that's being used by artists nowadays, it's a very simple 3D application perfect to use as a base for backgrounds, you can then improve it or just paint over it. I can almost assure that this program is being used in titles like Batman or Red Robin.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://kuler.adobe.com/"&gt;Kuler&lt;/a&gt; is a website by Adobe that collects different color sets, there are some spectacular combinations and they can give good ideas, you can also download them and use them in Adobe programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.posemaniacs.com/"&gt;Posemaniacs&lt;/a&gt; is a great resource for those who have troubles with the human figure, not only does it have a million references, but it has exercises to improve the drawing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/"&gt;Easy Paint Tool SAI&lt;/a&gt; is a program that you may be familiar with if you read this blog, it has a lot of options to paint but it can also help with the lineart with it's vector tools.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mayang.com/textures/"&gt;Mayang&lt;/a&gt; has an amazing number of textures to apply on your renders, be it that you work in 2D or 3D you'll find them useful, and they're in a good resolution too.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I personally love these ways of “cheating” maybe you'll curse me for this, but I think iof someone like Da Vinci lived in this times he would use this resources, after all he was recognized for inventing new ways of working and using the top technology of his times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="rome-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Los Caminos que Llevan a Roma&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estos días he estado dibujando y pintando más que antes, usualmente mi ritmo de trabajo aumenta cuando tengo más encargos, pero estos días no he tenido muchos, así que he decidido participar en algunos concursos para aumentar mi productividad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En este tiempo me he dado cuenta de las distintas maneras de trabajar que tienen los ilustradores, siempre comparo mucho mi flujo de trabajo con el de Joyce ya que es a quien más puedo observar, ella siempre ha querido dedicarse a los comics (y ahora está participando en uno) ya que es muy rápida dibujando y tiene un excelente manejo de la figura humana. En cambio yo suelo demorarme algo más en dibujar pero me gustan las piezas más acabadas, y siempre he querido dedicarme a la ilustración.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es difícil para un artista hacerlo todo bien, uno siempre puede ver falencias en su trabajo y usar trucos para “engañar” al espectador para que no se fijen en ellas, hay quienes son buenos para dibujar paisajes o diseñar personajes, trabajar en la figura humana, mezclar colores, etc. Y no creo que existan demasiadas personas que puedan hacer todas estas cosas bien. Como el dibujo es algo que nunca se deja de aprender, mientras más años se lleva en el oficio uno se vuelve mejor, siempre practicando lo que falta y puliendo lo que está bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin embargo hoy en día existen muchas formas de hacer las cosas, así que quería hablar acerca de algunas de ellas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Herramientas que ayudan a mejorar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siempre es bueno buscar herramientas que puedan facilitar el trabajo, aquí tengo una lista de las que uso:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sketchup.google.com/intl/es/"&gt;Google Sketch Up&lt;/a&gt; es un programa muy utilizado por dibujantes hoy en día, es una aplicación 3D muy simple que es perfecto como base para un fondo, luego este se puede pintar o mejorar. Es más, casi puedo asegurar que en títulos como Batman o Red Robin se utiliza este programa.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://kuler.adobe.com/"&gt;Kuler&lt;/a&gt; es un sitio de Adobe que tiene distintos set de combinaciones de colores, algunas combinaciones son espectaculares y pueden dar muy buenas ideas, además se pueden descargar y utilizar en las aplicaciones de Adobe.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.posemaniacs.com/"&gt;Posemaniacs&lt;/a&gt; es un gran recurso para aquellos que tienen problemas con la figura humana, no solo presentan referentes sino que tienen ejercicios que se pueden hacer para mejorar el dibujo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/"&gt;Easy Paint Tool SAI&lt;/a&gt; es un programa que ya conocerán si es que leen este blog, tiene muchas opciones para pintar pero también ayuda para entintar digitalmente con sus herramientas vectoriales.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mayang.com/textures/"&gt;Mayang&lt;/a&gt; tiene una cantidad de texturas increíbles para aplicar los render, ya sea que se trabaje en 2D o 3D pueden hacer uso de ellas, además están en muy buena resolución.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Personalmente amo estas formas de “hacer trampa” quizás vayan a maldecirme por esto, pero creo que si alguien como Da Vinci viviera en esta época utilizaría estos recursos, después de todo el fue reconocido por inventar nuevas formas de trabajar y utilizar la tecnología de punta de la época.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" width="125" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-5721912432820960913?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/5721912432820960913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/sharing-tips-thursday-roads-that-lead.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5721912432820960913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5721912432820960913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/sharing-tips-thursday-roads-that-lead.html' title='The Roads that Lead to Rome'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-972482516783670415</id><published>2009-11-26T21:37:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-11-26T21:40:23.907-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 - Persistence</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#persistence-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been more busy lately, so I wasn't able to write earlier, but here's the new SAI tutorial anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can guess, this one's about persistence, the last characteristic related to mixing paint in the program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike the other concepts, persistence is easy to explain, it's about how much a color persists when it's applied on the canvas, and, just like the other principles, it depends a lot on the color that was already “painted”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always, this can be better explained with an image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fcrO3-tI/AAAAAAAAANE/Zu-3NvxLf98/s1600/persistence.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fcrO3-tI/AAAAAAAAANE/Zu-3NvxLf98/s400/persistence.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408576254997166802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first line is for control, and it has the blending and persistence bar in 0, the dilution bar will be always in 0 during this exercise. Then we can see the blending bar in 100 and persistence in 0, as you can see, when we blend this much the color you can hardly appreciate the red from the brushstroke, leaving a very minor zone where the colors blend, and then the original blue. The next bar has persistence in 60 and blending in 100, there we can really see what it means that the color persists, even though the blending bar is very high, you can still see the original color, producing a more interesting mix. We finally have the persistence and blending bar in 100, we can see how the red color is mostly unaffected by the blue, because it persists despite the blending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fj1MjZ5I/AAAAAAAAANM/JZzlH-xhAcs/s1600/persistence-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fj1MjZ5I/AAAAAAAAANM/JZzlH-xhAcs/s400/persistence-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408576377930868626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This doesn't mean that persistence is the contrary to blending, just like dilution, you can use the three bars together to achieve the desired effects. You can find the persistence bar just below the dilution one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the last info about the brushes, the next tutorial will be about how to create a brush tool with all it's characteristics and saving it in SAI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until then!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="persistence-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – Persistencia&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He estado más ocupado ultimamente, y debido a eso no he podido escribir más temprano, pero de todas maneras aquí está el nuevo tutorial de SAI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como pueden adivinar, este trata de la persistencia, la última característica relacionada con la mezcla de pintura en el programa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A diferencia de otros conceptos, la persistencia es algo fácil de explicar, trata de cuanto persiste un color al aplicarlo en el lienzo, y al igual que los otros principios, depende mucho del color que ya se encuentre “pintado”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuevamente esto puede ser mejor ilustrado con una imagen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fcrO3-tI/AAAAAAAAANE/Zu-3NvxLf98/s1600/persistence.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fcrO3-tI/AAAAAAAAANE/Zu-3NvxLf98/s400/persistence.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408576254997166802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La primera línea es de control y tiene la barra de mezcla y persistencia en 0, la barra de disolución se encontrará en 0 durante todo este ejercicio. Luego podemos ver la barra de mezcla en 100 y la de persistencia en 0, como pueden ver, al mezclar tanto el color ya casi no se aprecia el rojo con el que se hizo el pincelazo, quedando una zona de mezcla muy leve y más que nada el azul original. La siguiente barra tiene la persistencia en 60 y la mezcla en 100, ahí podemos ver lo que significa que el color “persista” aunque la barra de mezcla está muy alta, todavía se puede ver el color original, produciéndose una mezcla más interesante. Finalmente tenemos la barra de persistencia en 100 al igual que la de mezcla, ahí podemos ver como el color rojo es muy poco afectado por el azul, ya que persiste pese a la mezcla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fj1MjZ5I/AAAAAAAAANM/JZzlH-xhAcs/s1600/persistence-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fj1MjZ5I/AAAAAAAAANM/JZzlH-xhAcs/s400/persistence-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408576377930868626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tampoco significa que la persistencia sea exactamente lo contrario de la mezcla, al igual que la disolución, se usa en un conjunto para lograr los efectos deseados. Pueden encontrar la barra de persistencia justo debajo de la de disolución.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya que he pasado todo lo pertinente a pinceles, el siguiente tutorial tratará acerca de como crear una herramienta pincel con todas sus características y guardarla en SAI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Saludos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-972482516783670415?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/972482516783670415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-persistence.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/972482516783670415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/972482516783670415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-persistence.html' title='SAI 101 - Persistence'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Sw8fcrO3-tI/AAAAAAAAANE/Zu-3NvxLf98/s72-c/persistence.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-1703504505426781560</id><published>2009-11-19T19:37:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:50:55.576-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>On the Shoulders of Giants</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#giants-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I got carried away by an illustration I'm working on, so I'm a little behind on today's article, but I didn't want to move the day again because the name of the column wouldn't make any sense, so here we go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been looking at the books I bought with Frazetta's art a lot these days, and I'm more suprised each day with his illustrations, he has some things that I've yet to see on other artists, and that's pretty impressive having in mind the thousands of people that imitate his style, I'm certainly studying his works myself to see what I can use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nonetheless, a lot of the editors of the books by Frazetta write things like “his legions of imitators”, “stop trying to imitate Frazetta's paintings”, “there's just one Frazetta”, while all of this is true, I find it very odd, why do they think I bought the books?, even without paying too much attention one is influenced by the artists one admires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this cases I remember a lot of sayings, one by Picasso specially caught my attention “good artists copy, great artists steal”, obviously this is a little extreme, but stealing an interesting characteristic, a color palette and making it your own isn't something bad, of course you have to try to stand out, create a style, etc, but there are a lot of good things that can just be learned by practice, this is why in a lot of art schools the students go to the museums to copy famous paintings, by doing it they learn a lot better than just by observing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By now is obvious that every artist should have an identity, and this identity is more clear in some people, but that doesn't mean you can't get to that point in different ways, during my trayectory I've wanted to work like a lot of artists, at first I really liked the style of some mangakas or certain anime, I think Kenshin kindled my love for japanese graphic; I then try to imitate some comic artists, specially the ones that worked on Batman; and now I really like some artists that work for Magic, like Kev Walker or Jeff Miracola.  I don't think this is wrong or it's simple imitation, thanks to the first I fell in love with Ukiyo-e, North American comics are perfect to learn anatomy, besides Batman has a great use of perspective, and Kev Walker's way of using color and his character designs are just spectacular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this “imitation” forges us as illustrators, I've listened that one doesn't find his illustration style, but the style finds you, I don't totally agree with this but I can say that not every decision you make as an artist is conscious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So just go copy Frazetta or any other artist you like really, there aren't enough Frazetta's around anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="giants-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Sobre los Hombros de Gigantes&lt;/h3&gt;Hoy me entusiasmé bastante con una ilustración en la que estoy trabajando, así que retrasé escribir lel artículo de hoy, eso si, no quiero correr el día porque el nombre de la columna ya no tendría sentido, así que aquí vamos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He estado mirando mucho los libros de Frazetta que compré, y cada vez me sorprendo más con sus ilustraciones, tiene cosas que aún no le he visto a mucha gente, y eso que siempre hay miles de personas que imitan su estilo, ciertamente estoy estudiando sus trabajos yo mismo para ver que puedo rescatar y ocupar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin embargo, muchos de los editores de Frazetta escriben en los mismos libros “sus legiones de imitadores”, “dejen de intentar pintar como Frazetta”, “solo hay un Frazetta”, mientras todo esto es verdad, me parece extraño, ¿para qué creen que uno compra los libros?, incluso sin poner demasiada atención uno es influenciado por los artistas que admira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En estos casos recuerdo muchos dichos, me llamó mucho la atención uno de Picasso “los buenos artistas copian, los grandes artistas roban”, obviamente es un poco extremo, pero robar una característica interesante, una paleta y hacerla de uno no es algo malo, por supuesto hay que intentar resaltar, crear un estilo, etc, pero hay cosas buenas que solo se pueden aprender por práctica, por lo mismo en muchas escuelas de arte los alumnos van a los museos a copiar los cuadros famosos, al hacerlo los interiorizan mucho mejor que al solo observarlos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claramente cada artista debería tener una identidad, y en algunos esa identidad es mucho más notoria que en otros, pero eso no significa que no se pueda llegar a ella de distintas maneras, durante mi trayectoria he querido dibujar como muchos artistas, al principio más en el estilo de algunos mangakas o cierto anime, creo que Kenshin inició mi amor por la cultura japonesa; luegoquise imitar dibujantes de comics, especialmente de Batman; y ahora me gustan muchos artistas que trabajan para Magic, como Kev Walker o Jeff Miracola. No creo que esto esté mal ni sea simple imitación, gracias a lo primero me enamoré del mundo del Ukiyo-e, los comics norte americanos son perfectos para aprender anatomía, además Batman siempre tiene un manejo de la perspectiva especialmente bueno, y Kev Walker maneja del color y diseño de personajes de una manera espectacular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toda esta “imitación” nos va forjando como ilustradores, he escuchado que uno no encuentra su estilo sino que el estilo lo encuentra a uno, no estoy totalmente de acuerdo con eso, pero si puedo decir que es cierto que no todas las decisiones que uno toma como dibujante son conscientes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que salgan a copiar a Frazetta o cualquier otro artista si quieren, no hay suficientes Frazettas en el mundo de todas maneras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" width="125" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-1703504505426781560?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/1703504505426781560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sharing-tips-thursday-on-shoulders-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1703504505426781560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/1703504505426781560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sharing-tips-thursday-on-shoulders-of.html' title='On the Shoulders of Giants'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-7328533546684188904</id><published>2009-11-13T09:58:00.010-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T14:46:05.245-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='archive'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 Archive</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#saiarchive-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just like the Sharing Tips section the SAI tutorials have been around for a while now, so I'll compile them in this page from now on. I'll update it regularely&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/04/sai-101-color-pickers.html&lt;br /&gt;"&gt;SAI 101 - Color Pickers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/sai-101-controlling-canvas.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Controlling the Canvas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/02/sai-101-again-with-textures.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Again With the Textures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/01/sai-101-types-of-brushes.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Types of Brushes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/01/sai-101-more-about-linework.html"&gt;SAI 101 - More About Linework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/sai-101-linework.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Linework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/sai-101-creating-brush-tool.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Creating a Brush Tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-persistence.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Persistence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-dilution.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Dilution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sai-101-textures.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Textures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sai-101-creating-brushes.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Creating Brushes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/09/sai-101-blending.html"&gt;SAI 101 - Blending&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or Suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt; Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a name="saiarchive-spanish"&gt;Spanish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Archivo del Curso Básico de SAI&lt;/h3&gt;Tal como la columna de Compartiendo Tips los tutoriales de SAI han estado ya en el blog por un tiempo, así que los compilaré en esta página de ahora en adelante. La actualizaré regularmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/04/sai-101-color-pickers.html&lt;br /&gt;"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Seleccionadores de Color&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/03/sai-101-controlling-canvas.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Controlando el Lienzo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/02/sai-101-again-with-textures.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - De Nuevo con las Texturas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/01/sai-101-types-of-brushes.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Tipos de Pinceles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2010/01/sai-101-more-about-linework.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Más Acerca del Linework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/sai-101-linework.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Linework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/12/sai-101-creating-brush-tool.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Crear una Herramienta de Pincel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-persistence.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Persistencia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-dilution.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Disolución&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sai-101-textures.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Texturas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sai-101-creating-brushes.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Como Crear Pinceles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/09/sai-101-blending.html"&gt;Curso Básico de SAI - Mezclando&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-7328533546684188904?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/7328533546684188904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-archive.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/7328533546684188904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/7328533546684188904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-archive.html' title='SAI 101 Archive'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4295879557976316891</id><published>2009-11-12T12:01:00.010-03:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T12:13:42.458-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>Sai 101 - Dilution</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#dilution-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's time to write something new in the SAI 101 article, and now is about the dilution of colors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've written before about &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/09/sai-101-blending.html"&gt;blending vs opacity&lt;/a&gt;, but SAI has the option of diluting the colors too, and it works differently from the others. In this option, the colors are diluted similar to applying water to a watercolor, or medium to an oil, making the color more transparent before applying it on the canvas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then, ¿how's this any different from opacity?, well the dilution just works in a whole new way, here are some examples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkU5qpeLI/AAAAAAAAAMc/iDYd6grB1QQ/s1600-h/dilution.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkU5qpeLI/AAAAAAAAAMc/iDYd6grB1QQ/s400/dilution.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233594433435826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first line represents opacity, then blending and finally dilution. As you can see, the three options are very different. Opacity will always multiply one color over the other, but blending mixes the color in a “real” way, while dilution applies the color already diluted, and mixes it very little, but you can see however how is affected by the color on the canvas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's interesting about this example is that the diluted brushstroke has a blending bar on 0 percent, if we imagine this is a real painting, it would mean applying a diluted color over an already dry canvas, where there would practically be no color mixture. In practice, dilution is used along with blending, and it just simbolizes the concentration of color we're going to apply, if the canvas was still fresh, the diluted colors would also blend better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkaqsu41I/AAAAAAAAAMk/27jr8xt6cuw/s1600-h/dilution2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 305px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkaqsu41I/AAAAAAAAAMk/27jr8xt6cuw/s400/dilution2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233693494862674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This image is the perfect example of the dilution and blending principle, it gives the impression of working with watercolors, huh?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, it's also important to explain that just like in the case of blending, in dilution is important where the brushstroke starts, the dilution won't act the same way if we start over one color or the other. Here is another example using the brushes in the first image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkgjmzxeI/AAAAAAAAAMs/nFpabyd2TNE/s1600-h/dilution3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkgjmzxeI/AAAAAAAAAMs/nFpabyd2TNE/s400/dilution3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233794670183906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can notice how opacity is the only one not affected by this principle, this is because it doesn't correspond to any traditional painting principle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, in the case of working with just one color, dilution is the only tool that allows to manipulate it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkl19EfmI/AAAAAAAAAM0/TlYjhZ0pLJs/s1600-h/dilution4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 371px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkl19EfmI/AAAAAAAAAM0/TlYjhZ0pLJs/s400/dilution4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233885494738530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, obviously if we apply 10% red over 100% red, the result will be 100%, which is exactly what happens with opacity, if we also try to mix red with red, the result will be red, but if we dilute the color and mix it with the same color but more concentrated, you'll be able to affect the original color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwktCci2eI/AAAAAAAAAM8/SwHb_U514RM/s1600-h/dilution-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 63px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwktCci2eI/AAAAAAAAAM8/SwHb_U514RM/s400/dilution-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403234009107061218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You can find the dilution bar just under the blending one, I usually dilute my colors 10% or 12%, but of course it varies according to what I need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you liked this tutorial, I certainly learned a lot with it too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="dilution-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de Sai – Disolución&lt;/h3&gt;Hola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy es hora de escribir algo nuevo en el Curso Básico de SAI, esta vez se trata de la disolución del pintado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya antes había escrito sobre la &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/09/sai-101-blending.html"&gt;mezcla de colores contra la opacidad&lt;/a&gt;, pero SAI presenta una opción más, que es la de diluir los colores, y que actua de una manera diferente a los otros. En esta opción los colores se diluyen como al aplicar agua en una acuarela o medium en los oleos, volviéndose más transparentes antes de aplicarlos en el lienzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero entonces ¿qué tan diferente es esto de la opacidad?, pues simplemente la disolución actua de una manera distinta, acá hay unos ejemplos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkU5qpeLI/AAAAAAAAAMc/iDYd6grB1QQ/s1600-h/dilution.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkU5qpeLI/AAAAAAAAAMc/iDYd6grB1QQ/s400/dilution.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233594433435826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La primera línea que ven es la de opacidad, luego la de mezcla y finalmente la de disolución. Como pueden ver, las tres actuan de una manera muy distinta. Opacidad siempre se multiplicará sobre el color anterior, la mezcla en cambio mezcla los colores de manera “real”, mientras que la disolución aplica el color ya diluido y se mezcla muy poco, pero si se alcanza a ver afectada por el color anterior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo interesante de este ejemplo es que el pincel con disolución tiene la barra de mezcla puesta en 0, si imaginamos que este es un cuadro físico, significaría aplicar una capa de un color diluido sobre un lienzo ya seco, donde practicamente no habría mezcla de colores, en la práctica la disolución se usa junto con la mezcla, y tan solo simboliza la concentración de color que vamos a aplicar, si el lienzo estuviera todavía fresco, los colores disueltos también se mezclarían mejor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkaqsu41I/AAAAAAAAAMk/27jr8xt6cuw/s1600-h/dilution2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 305px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkaqsu41I/AAAAAAAAAMk/27jr8xt6cuw/s400/dilution2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233693494862674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta imagen ejemplifica perfectamente el principio de disolución y mezcla, da la impresión de estar trabajando con acuarelas ¿no?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También hay que explicar que como en el caso de la mezcla de colores es importante donde empieza la pincelada, la disolución no siempre actuará de la misma manera si empieza sobre un color o sobre nada. Acá hay otro ejemplo utilizando los pinceles de la primera imagen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkgjmzxeI/AAAAAAAAAMs/nFpabyd2TNE/s1600-h/dilution3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkgjmzxeI/AAAAAAAAAMs/nFpabyd2TNE/s400/dilution3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233794670183906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nótese como la opacidad es la única no afectada por este principio, puesto que no corresponde a un principio de pintado tradicional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, en el caso de trabajar con un solo color, la disolución es la única herramienta que permite realmente manipularlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkl19EfmI/AAAAAAAAAM0/TlYjhZ0pLJs/s1600-h/dilution4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 371px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Svwkl19EfmI/AAAAAAAAAM0/TlYjhZ0pLJs/s400/dilution4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403233885494738530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como pueden ver, obviamente si aplicamos 10% de un color sobre 100% el resultado va a ser 100%, que es lo que pasa con la opacidad, si es que también intentamos mezclar rojo con rojo, el resultado va a ser rojo, pero si diluimos el color y lo mezclamos con el mismo pero más concentrado, si se logrará afectar el color original.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwktCci2eI/AAAAAAAAAM8/SwHb_U514RM/s1600-h/dilution-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 63px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwktCci2eI/AAAAAAAAAM8/SwHb_U514RM/s400/dilution-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403234009107061218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pueden encontrar la barra de disolución justo debajo de la de mezcla, usualmente yo diluyo mis colores en un 10% o 12%, claro que varía dependiendo de lo que necesito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Espero que les haya gustado este tutorial, ciertamente yo aprendí mucho con él también.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" width="125" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-4295879557976316891?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/4295879557976316891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-dilution.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4295879557976316891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/4295879557976316891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/11/sai-101-dilution.html' title='Sai 101 - Dilution'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvwkU5qpeLI/AAAAAAAAAMc/iDYd6grB1QQ/s72-c/dilution.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-6911663811794069687</id><published>2009-11-09T12:10:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:51:06.763-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='collaborations'/><title type='text'>Collaborations</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#collaborations-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I mentioned before, I've been very busy working at the &lt;a href="http://www.camlibro.cl/filsa/"&gt;International Book Fair&lt;/a&gt; these days, it's been very entertaining but also very tiring, and between all the stuff I had to do on thursday, I didn't have the time to sit down and write the column, I hope you can forgive that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I have the time, I can write the new Sharing Tips Thursday (or Monday in this case) today, collaborations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a long time I've been working with Joyce in many of our projects, when I was little I always liked watercolors, so I started painting and specialized in coloring, while Joyce really liked comics, so she started drawing much more than me. It was natural then that when this super studio was formed she handled lineart and I did the paintings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think is hard for an artist to be good at absolutely everything, while there are some genius around and we're still relatively young, collaborations help us create better pieces when done correctly, we also can learn from each other's mitakes and criticize our work, there's a lot of room for growth in collaborations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there are also some troubles with collaborations:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can stop working on the problems you have if you count on someone to work on them for you.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Professionally the money is divided in two, so not only the quality has to be twice as good, you must also work twice as fast.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;There will always be different artistic views, which can generate discussions or troubles at work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;It's important to keep working in your faults to improve, but I also always remember a phrase from the movie “Mimi wo Sumaseba” by Studio Ghibli there isn't only one way to live life, there are all kind of artists and ways to do things, there are those who draw in the computer, those who draw traditionally and those who start their pieces with stains; there are traditional artists, digital and a mix of both, there are all sorts of ways to improve and do things, the important thing is not only to learn, but to have fun in the process and find your own way to do things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This thursday I'll write the SAI column for those interested, there are still a few details about SAI I have to write about but the tutorials needed to create a complete brush are close to finish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for reading!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="collaborations-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Colaboraciones&lt;/h3&gt;¡Hola a todos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como ya he mencionado, he estado ocupado trabajando en la &lt;a href="http://www.camlibro.cl/filsa/"&gt;Feria Internacional del Libro&lt;/a&gt; estos días, ha sido bastante entretenido pero muy cansador también, y entre todas las cosas que tuve que hacer, el Jueves no tuve el tiempo suficiente para sentarme y escribir la columna, espero puedan disculparme por ello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como no hay plazo que no se cumpla, hoy escribo la nueva entrega de Compartiendo Tips los Jueves (o los lunes en este caso), las colaboraciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desde hace tiempo que vengo trabajando con Joyce en muchos de nuestros proyectos, desde chico siempre me habían llamado la atención las acuarelas, así que empecé a pintar y me especialicé en colorear, mientras que a Joyce le gustaban mucho los comics, y por ende dibujaba bastante más que yo. Era natural entonces que al hacer nuestro super estudio ella se encargara de dibujar y yo de pintar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que es difícil para un artista ser bueno en absolutamente todo, si bien existen aquellos genios y todavía somos relativamente jóvenes, las colaboraciones ayudan a crear mejores piezas cuando se hacen correctamente, además se aprende el uno de otro y se critican los trabajos, existe mucha oportunidad para crecimiento en las colaboraciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero también existen algunos problemas en las colaboraciones:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Se puede tender a no trabajar en los problemas que uno tiene si es que el otro los puede realizar.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Profesionalmente, el dinero se divide en dos, así que no solo la calidad tiene que ser el doble de buena, sino que se tiene que trabajar el doble de rápido.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Siempre existirán diferentes visiones artísticas, lo que puede generar discusiones o problemas en el trabajo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Es importante seguir trabajando en las faltas de uno para mejorar, pero también siempre recuerdo una frase de la película del estudio Ghibli “Mimi wo Sumaseba” no existe solo una manera de vivir la vida, existe todo tipo de artistas y de maneras de hacer las cosas, están aquellos que dibujan en el pc, los que dibujan tradicionalmente y aquellos que empiezan sus piezas con manchas más que dibujos, existen también artistas tradicionales, digitales, y una mezcla de ambos, en fin, hay todo tipo de formas de mejorar y hacer las cosas, lo importante no solo es aprender, sino divertirse en el proceso y encontrar un camino propio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este Jueves si escribiré la columna de SAI para aquellos interesados, todavía faltan algunos detalles técnicos pero van quedando pocos tutoriales para poder crear un pincel completo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Saludos y gracias por leer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-4211795209164516591</id><published>2009-11-08T00:13:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T00:21:18.608-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='devir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myl'/><title type='text'>New Myths &amp; Legends art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#newmyths-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been very busy with my new temp work at &lt;a href="http://www.devir.cl/"&gt;Devir&lt;/a&gt;, so I haven't been able to draw or paint as much as I'd like, but I did see some of the art me and Joyce made for &lt;a href="http://www.myl-online.cl/"&gt;Myths and Legends&lt;/a&gt; was released, you may have seen it on our header, but here's the complete illustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, I decided to write the Sharing Tips Thursday column I owe this Monday, I'll let you know when it's up the usual way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="newmyths-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Nuevas ilustraciones de Mitos y Leyendas&lt;/h3&gt;He estado muy ocupado con mi nuevo trabajo temporal en &lt;a href="http://www.devir.cl/"&gt;Devir&lt;/a&gt;, así que no he tenido la oportunidad de dibujar o pintar tanto como me gustaría, pero si vi que algunas de las ilustraciones que hicimos con Joyce para &lt;a href="http://www.myl-online.cl/"&gt;Mitos y Leyendas&lt;/a&gt; fueron lanzadas, quizás la hayan visto en nuestro header, pero aquí está la ilustración completa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por cierto, he decidido escribir este Sharing Tips Thursday el lunes que tendré algo más de tiempo, ahí lo anunciaré como suelo hacerlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvY5ANl30BI/AAAAAAAAAMM/7NvxgChc9NE/s1600-h/Daga.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SvY5ANl30BI/AAAAAAAAAMM/7NvxgChc9NE/s400/Daga.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401567478888779794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aniversary'/><title type='text'>Aniversary</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#aniversary-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey people&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm working on Devir for a few weeks, and today is my 5 years aniversary with Joyce (so if you had any doubts, yeah, we're a couple) so I'll post the Sharing Tips column tomorrow or maybe in the night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="aniversary-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Aniversario&lt;/h3&gt;Hola a todos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He estado trabajando en el stand de Devir en la Feria del Libro y estaré ocupado por un par de semanas, además hoy también es mi aniversario de 5 años con Joyce (si tenían alguna duda, si, somos una pareja) así que postearé la columna Sharing Tips mañana o quizás en la noche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-3214197952488464465?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2774770718824468431</id><published>2009-11-02T11:40:00.008-03:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T15:37:15.116-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frazetta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='book'/><title type='text'>Frazetta's Books</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#frazetta-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a while now I've been reading about Frazzeta's influence in the industry, and although I was somewhat familiar with his work, I didn't really know his art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, after being invaded by his presence, I just had to buy some of his books, expect to see some changes in my paintings!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish for some pics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="frazetta-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Libros de Frazetta&lt;/h3&gt;Por un tiempo ya he estado leyendo acerca de la influencia de Frazzeta en la industria, y aunque estaba algo familiarizado con sus trabajos, he de decir que no conocía realmente su arte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero, después de ser invadido por su presencia, simplemente tuve que comprar algunos de sus libros, ¡esperen ver algunos cambios en mis ilustraciones!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su75VU7C-jI/AAAAAAAAALs/ksP87ukPqiY/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su75VU7C-jI/AAAAAAAAALs/ksP87ukPqiY/s320/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399527148052740658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;That's the beautiful USPS package / Ese es el hermoso paquete de USPS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su75lO6K82I/AAAAAAAAAL0/ecSGaH3bl_w/s1600-h/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su75lO6K82I/AAAAAAAAAL0/ecSGaH3bl_w/s320/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399527421316363106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are the books Legacy and Testament, I'm missing just one called "Icon" / Estos son los libros, Legacy y Testament, solo me falta uno llamado "Icon".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su7526ofB4I/AAAAAAAAAL8/PUVz2V7JCOA/s1600-h/3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su7526ofB4I/AAAAAAAAAL8/PUVz2V7JCOA/s320/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399527725111117698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Random pages from the Legacy book / Páginas al azar del libro Legacy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su76D7gmRTI/AAAAAAAAAME/ht9YMrIMaQg/s1600-h/4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/Su76D7gmRTI/AAAAAAAAAME/ht9YMrIMaQg/s320/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399527948684772658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Random illustration from the same book / Ilustración al azar del mismo libro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2774770718824468431?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' 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essential to create a good brush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, the specifics of the files:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The images must be square and sizes in 2 exponential. Like 128, 256, 512, etc. I use 512 x 512 textures because they allow for a better amount of detail.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;They must be BMP files.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The colors must be indexed (Color mode index).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;They go in the blotmap, brushtext and papertext folders.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The textures must be tileable.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunS5OtDnXI/AAAAAAAAALM/DfBbU3bz3Go/s1600-h/oilpastel.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunS5OtDnXI/AAAAAAAAALM/DfBbU3bz3Go/s400/oilpastel.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398077509021703538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually that last point is not absolutely necessary, while if one of the others fail the texture just won't work, but it's important to have it in mind because of the way SAI uses the textures in the brushes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When using these textures, SAI tiles the image in the canvas, so if the texture is not tileable, the corners will look weird and generate visible squares in the illustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTKzHwJjI/AAAAAAAAALU/WJvvCPSKyJw/s1600-h/tileable.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTKzHwJjI/AAAAAAAAALU/WJvvCPSKyJw/s400/tileable.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398077810855126578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although this example is not perfect, you can see how the image is tileable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTVrQ2pUI/AAAAAAAAALc/NUPTHmT9Lz8/s1600-h/brushtext-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 74px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTVrQ2pUI/AAAAAAAAALc/NUPTHmT9Lz8/s400/brushtext-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398077997724378434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;These images go in the brushtext folder, and just like the elemaps you can change the opacity of the texture in the box on the right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bear in mind that the texture's opacity variation can be hard to control, the pen pressure also influences the look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's an example of the brush with textures at diferent opacities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTeGw90LI/AAAAAAAAALk/8O8P3hmN3xk/s1600-h/textures.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTeGw90LI/AAAAAAAAALk/8O8P3hmN3xk/s400/textures.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398078142545776818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On the other hand, textures can also be used to shape a pencil just like an elemap, those files go in the blotmap folder and they're very useful to create irregular brushes, ideal for special effects on the ilustration. You can select this option on the brush form box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other textures can go on the papertext folder, these are used to lay the image over the whole document, like the paper itselft was made of this material, this option can be interesting, but to tell the truth, I haven't experimented much with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Textures are essential to make the painting look less digital and artificial, they can give expression to the illustrations and help denote the material of the objects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="saitextures-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Curso Básico de SAI – Texturas&lt;/h3&gt;Aunque ya había mencionado antes el uso de texturas en otra columna, y expliqué un poco como se utilizan en SAI, me pareció buena idea profundizar en el tema, ya que son esenciales al crear un buen pincel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Primero las especificaciones técnicas de las imágenes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deben ser cuadradas y crecer exponencialmente de 2 en 2, es decir 128, 256, 512, etc. Yo hago mis texturas de 512 x 512 porque permite la cantidad suficiente de detalles.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Se guardan en archivos BMP.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Los colores deben ser indexados (Modo de color index).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Se ponen en las carpetas blotmap, brushtext y papertext.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deben ser repetibles.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunS5OtDnXI/AAAAAAAAALM/DfBbU3bz3Go/s1600-h/oilpastel.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunS5OtDnXI/AAAAAAAAALM/DfBbU3bz3Go/s400/oilpastel.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398077509021703538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, el último punto no es absolutamente necesario en realidad, mientras que si alguno de los demás fallan la textura no funcionará, pero es importante tenerlo en cuenta debido al modo en que SAI utiliza las texturas en los pinceles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al utilizar texturas para un pincel SAI repite la imagen como cuadrados en el lienzo, por lo que si la textura no es repetible, los vértices se verán extraños y generará cuadrados visibles en la ilustración.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTKzHwJjI/AAAAAAAAALU/WJvvCPSKyJw/s1600-h/tileable.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTKzHwJjI/AAAAAAAAALU/WJvvCPSKyJw/s400/tileable.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398077810855126578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Aunque este ejemplo no es perfecto, si se puede apreciar como la textura es repetible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTVrQ2pUI/AAAAAAAAALc/NUPTHmT9Lz8/s1600-h/brushtext-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 74px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTVrQ2pUI/AAAAAAAAALc/NUPTHmT9Lz8/s400/brushtext-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398077997724378434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Estas imágenes se guardan en la carpeta brushtext, y al igual que los elemap se puede variar la opacidad de la textura en la caja de la derecha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eso si, la variación de la opacidad de las texturas puede ser difícil de controlar, también entra en juego la presión del lapiz al aplicar las pinceladas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acá hay un ejemplo del pincel con texturas en distintas opacidades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTeGw90LI/AAAAAAAAALk/8O8P3hmN3xk/s1600-h/textures.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunTeGw90LI/AAAAAAAAALk/8O8P3hmN3xk/s400/textures.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398078142545776818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Por otro lado, las texturas se pueden utilizar para dar forma a un pincel tal como un elemap, esos archivos van en la carpeta blotmap y sirven para crear pinceles muy irregulares, ideales para dar efectos especiales a la ilustración, esta opción se selecciona en el cuadro de forma del pincel. Otras texturas pueden ir en la carpeta papertext, que sirven para aplicar la imagen sobre todo el documento, como si el papel mismo estuviera hecho de esa materialidad, esta opción puede ser interesante, pero sinceramente no he experimentado mucho con ella.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Las texturas son esenciales para que el pintado no quede tan digital y artificial, pueden agregar cierta expresión a los trabajos y ayudar a denotar la materialidad de los objetos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2807217516587925984?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2807217516587925984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sai-101-textures.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2807217516587925984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2807217516587925984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sai-101-textures.html' title='SAI 101 – Textures'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/SunS5OtDnXI/AAAAAAAAALM/DfBbU3bz3Go/s72-c/oilpastel.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-407720435063220528</id><published>2009-10-28T00:16:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T00:21:55.025-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>Marker Sketches Part III</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#markersthree-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are the last sketches I did, the first two are my characters Casimiro and Jan, I really liked how Jan turned out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="markersthree-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Bocetos con Rotuladores Parte III&lt;/h3&gt;Estos son los últimos bocetos que hice, los primeros dos son mis personajes Casimiro y Jan, me gusta mucho como quedó Jan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/Sue4tTUwCJI/AAAAAAAAAFk/jO1YoBKyTOw/s1600-h/b03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/Sue4tTUwCJI/AAAAAAAAAFk/jO1YoBKyTOw/s400/b03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397485766847760530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-407720435063220528?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/407720435063220528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/marker-sketches-part-iii.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/407720435063220528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/407720435063220528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/marker-sketches-part-iii.html' title='Marker Sketches Part III'/><author><name>Joyce Maureira Z.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01408755906801223826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y8uMreGk8iI/TkGOjX-fDXI/AAAAAAAAAHc/PmchaX299bQ/s220/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/Sue4tTUwCJI/AAAAAAAAAFk/jO1YoBKyTOw/s72-c/b03.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-5916987964830973</id><published>2009-10-27T00:27:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T00:19:37.340-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>Marker Sketches Part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#markerstwo-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuing the last post, I decided to draw women with exagerated features (very voluptuos or angular)in order to loosen up the hand. It's easier for me to construct female bodies, because you have more possibilities when you want to exagerate the features.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="markerstwo-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Bocetos con Rotuladores Parte II&lt;/h3&gt;Continuando con el post anterior, decidí decidí dibujar mujeres kon fisikos exagerados (angulosos o voluptuosos) para soltar la mano. Es más facil para mi construir cuerpos femeninos, porque dan más posibilidades a la hora de exgarear rasgos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/SuZqbJTsonI/AAAAAAAAAFc/d7IeOfK4I9E/s1600-h/b02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/SuZqbJTsonI/AAAAAAAAAFc/d7IeOfK4I9E/s400/b02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397118218037666418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-5916987964830973?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/5916987964830973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/marker-sketches-part-ii.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5916987964830973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/5916987964830973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/marker-sketches-part-ii.html' title='Marker Sketches Part II'/><author><name>Joyce Maureira Z.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01408755906801223826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y8uMreGk8iI/TkGOjX-fDXI/AAAAAAAAAHc/PmchaX299bQ/s220/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/SuZqbJTsonI/AAAAAAAAAFc/d7IeOfK4I9E/s72-c/b02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2004554639866790465</id><published>2009-10-26T13:11:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T13:30:56.783-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>Marker Sketches</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#markersone-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other night I was feeling a bit gloomy. I wanted to begin an illustration but didn't have much ideas and I was very tired too. Nonetheless, I did feel like drawing something, so I decided to do so anyway. I grabed my brand new box of markers and started sketching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought it'd be a nice exercise drawing something cleaner, the sketching process usually takes me a lot of time because I'm used to throw a lot of lines in the drawing (I really think I'm the only one in the world that can actually see a figure in my sketches). It worked great!. I made some basic human figure drawings in very little time, and I also had a nice time drawing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this is a great exercise to loose the hand and improve the structure of the drawings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skip the spanish part to see some results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="markersone-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Bocetos con Rotuladores&lt;/h3&gt;La otra noche me sentía algo desanimada. Queria empezar una ilustración, pero no tenia muchas ideas y, además, me sentía bastante cansada. Sin embargo, tenia ganas de dibujar, y decidí aprovecharlas de todas formas, Tome mi caja de marcadores de colores y comencé a hacer rayas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creí que sería un buen ejercicio intentar dibujar utilizando pocas líneas, ya que usualmente me demoro mucho al bocetear porque utilizo demasiadas rayas (realmente creo que soy la unica persona en el mundo que podría ver alguna figura en mis bocetos). Y funcionó!. logre hacer figuras humanas básicas en muy poco tiempo, y además, pase un muy buen rato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que el ejercicio me ayudo a soltar el trazo y a estructurar mejor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/SuXOcEBsNVI/AAAAAAAAAFU/5Ov31iQ2jDM/s1600-h/b01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/SuXOcEBsNVI/AAAAAAAAAFU/5Ov31iQ2jDM/s400/b01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396946709985899858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2004554639866790465?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2004554639866790465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/marker-sketches.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2004554639866790465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2004554639866790465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/marker-sketches.html' title='Marker Sketches'/><author><name>Joyce Maureira Z.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01408755906801223826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y8uMreGk8iI/TkGOjX-fDXI/AAAAAAAAAHc/PmchaX299bQ/s220/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A94-qDSbnJc/SuXOcEBsNVI/AAAAAAAAAFU/5Ov31iQ2jDM/s72-c/b01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2615106192531713085</id><published>2009-10-22T13:09:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:51:15.429-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharing tips'/><title type='text'>Consistency</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#consistency-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some reason I feel like I wrote the last article of this column a century ago, a lot has happened these weeks, and some of those things are pushing me to write about this subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past I wrote about how to &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/09/sharing-tips-thursday-creating-your-own.html"&gt;create your own style&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharing-tips-thursday.html"&gt;importance of experimenting&lt;/a&gt; in order to achieve this, but I failed to mention that is also essential to keep a level of consistency in your work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you work as a professional illustrator you can't keep jumping between styles all the time, art directors look for a clear direction in your line of work, and that all the pieces have approximately the same level and tecniques. This is obviously because they don't want to hire an illustrator and be wondering what kind of artwork will be delivered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there are a lot of illustrators that handle different styles, and there are those who can adapt their work to what the client is asking for, and show a variety of pieces in their portfolios. This is all very good if the illustrations clearly have different styles, like semi-realistic, funny, cartoony, etc. As long as you can tell there's a control over the tecnique that allows to do all that, and it's not just the artist trying different things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may make my previous advice about experimenting look bad, but it's not that it can't be done, you just have to be careful:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;If it's a professional job, it's better to take small steps than to change everything all of the sudden.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you want to show the piece in your portfolio, make sure that it has a style that's different enough from the rest and is not just a change of tecniques.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you want to do something very risky, if probably best to try it on a personal piece, it may even result in a failed experiment.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;That way you can keep a certain level of professionalism and consistency in your work while at the same time level up by trying different things, the idea is to eventually find a style that you're comfortable with, or a lot of them, and keep it. Then you can just eternally improve in other aspects such as lighting, color, human figure, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This way your portfolio will be more attractive to future clients / employers, if you're looking to pursue a job in the industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until the next time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Questions or suggestions?&lt;/h4&gt;Drop an email to &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="consistency-spanish"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Consistencia&lt;/h3&gt;Por alguna razón siento como si hubiera escrito el artículo anterior de esta columna hace como un siglo, han pasado hartas cosas estas semanas, y algunas de ellas me empujan a escribir este tema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el pasado escribí acerca de como &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/09/sharing-tips-thursday-creating-your-own.html"&gt;crear un estilo propio&lt;/a&gt; y lo &lt;a href="http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharing-tips-thursday.html"&gt;importante que es experimentar&lt;/a&gt; para hacerlo, sin embargo hay que mencionar también que es esencial mantener un nivel de consistencia en los trabajos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando se trabaja profesionalmente como ilustrador, no se pueden dar saltos de estilo todo el tiempo, los directores de arte buscan que tu línea de trabajo tenga una dirección clara, y que todas las piezas tengan el mismo nivel y técnica aproximadamente. Esto es obviamente porque no quieren  contratar a un ilustrador y no saber con que tipo de ilustración va a salir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por supuesto hay muchos ilustradores que manejan diversos estilos, y hay otros que pueden adaptarse a lo que piden, y muestran una variedad de piezas en sus portafolios. Eso está muy bien si es que las ilustraciones tienen claramente estilos distintos, como semi-realista, divertido, fantástico, cartoon, etc. Mientras se note claramente que hay un manejo de la técnica tal que permite abarcar todo eso, y no que simplemente se están probando distintas cosas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto quizás deja mal al consejo anterior de experimentar, pero no es que no pueda ser hecho, tan solo hay que tener cuidado:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Si se trata de un trabajo profesional, es mejor dar pequeños pasos que cambiar todo repentinamente.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;En caso de querer mostrar la pieza en un portafolio, asegurarse de que tiene un estilo suficientemente distinto a las demás y no es solo un cambio de técnica.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Si se quiere hacer algo muy arriesgado, es mejor dejarlo como una pieza personal, incluso podría resultar como un experimento fallido.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Así se puede mantener cierto nivel de profesionalismo y consistencia en el trabajo mientras al mismo tiempo se sube de nivel probando diversas cosas, la idea de esto es eventualmente encontrar un estilo con el que se esté cómodo, o varios de ellos, y quedarse con él. Luego se puede mejorar eternamente en otros aspectos como iluminación, color, manejo de la figura humana, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De esta forma el portafolio será más atractivo para sus futuros clientes / empleadores, si es que buscan perseguir una carrera en el mundo de la ilustración.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Hasta la próxima!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;¿Preguntas o Sugerencias?&lt;/h4&gt;Envíen un email a &lt;a href="mailto:contact@bananaorange.com"&gt;contact@bananaorange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a title="data:post.title" url="data:post.url" class="addthis_button"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="16" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=fgaona"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8728956564080888392-2615106192531713085?l=bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/feeds/2615106192531713085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sharing-tips-thursday-consistency.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2615106192531713085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8728956564080888392/posts/default/2615106192531713085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bananaorange-studio.blogspot.com/2009/10/sharing-tips-thursday-consistency.html' title='Consistency'/><author><name>Felipe Gaona</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12491520248207395278</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StZCUYFee-I/AAAAAAAAAJc/CxDZfGkTp_k/S220/avatar200px.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728956564080888392.post-2194109545704060623</id><published>2009-10-15T00:21:00.009-03:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T10:52:12.406-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAI'/><title type='text'>SAI 101 – Creating Brushes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="#saibrushes-spanish"&gt;Saltar al español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuing with this collection of SAI mini tutorials, I'll write about another one of my favourite characteristics of the program, the creation of brushes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think in almost every painting program you can create brushes, it's certainly very easy to do something basic in Photoshop, you make a stain, select it, and then go to Edit &gt; Define Brush Preset. But there's something about SAI that I liked a lot, how simple and complete it is to create a brush with an elemap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaVtBvHoFI/AAAAAAAAAKE/dHB8RSrxUg8/s1600-h/elemap-empty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10px 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 63px; height: 63px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaVtBvHoFI/AAAAAAAAAKE/dHB8RSrxUg8/s400/elemap-empty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392662204615467090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The thing about this image that comes with SAI as the file elemap-empty.psd in the do-it-yourselft folder is that it defines the most important aspects about a brush, the shape and bristles it has. The circle represents the area where you can draw the brush, and the cross is just a guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaXxnLxUOI/AAAAAAAAAKc/EnSqRFJtefs/s1600-h/flat3-big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 201px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaXxnLxUOI/AAAAAAAAAKc/EnSqRFJtefs/s400/flat3-big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664482410483938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, I made this pencil named flat3, you can see it zoomed in on the image, I did it because I wasn't happy with the flat brushes that came with SAI, I considered them more round than I liked. In this brush, and every brush for that matter, the black pixels represent a bristle, well, not excactly, because the brush wouldn't have enough bristles, but it's what it represents anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaYaZouejI/AAAAAAAAAK0/jRKQ9kW2xxI/s1600-h/brushes-box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 114px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaYaZouejI/AAAAAAAAAK0/jRKQ9kW2xxI/s400/brushes-box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392665183148472882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;By creating a brush this way you can define the shape first, and then the space between the bristled, that way you can make the brush stroke more or less evident when you paint, which also can be regulated by playing with the density of the brush in the box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an example of the same brush with different densities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaYgnrwJEI/AAAAAAAAAK8/07D0SduZhO0/s1600-h/density.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eGcsBjJNG2M/StaYgnrwJEI/AAAAAAAAAK8/07D0SduZhO0/s400/density.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392665289998476354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Although there's not much of a different between 100% and 75%, you can appreciate how the brush changes according to the density, this combined with t
