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FablePaint — Digital Fieldwork Tutorial
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Alternate Title: ESDA's Techniques for Working in the Digital FieldSo many people have begged me to make a backgrounds tutorial that I finally gritted my teeth and made one. This doesn't involve even half of what I do to make a digital landscape, but it should teach you how to better use the tools you have and inspire you to mess around and play with Photoshop some more. I hope you'll create your own techniques for making backgrounds, mine's are not the best nor are they the only ones.
And if it sucks when you make it the first time, try a second time. Practice makes perfect.
Cheerio!
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Hi!!, where can I find the tutorial? I dont understand. Can you help me?
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This was uploaded before DA's current fullview system was in place. You have to click "download" to see the image now.
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Thank you so much! By the way I love your work in the BBA it is fantastic!! Your very good thx!,
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Wish this would open on my phone. Oh well. I was just wondering if you take background commissions. I am working on an animated film and I am looking for a bg artist. Thanks for your time.
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Wow this is so helpful! Thanks so much for making it!!!
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how do you get this tutorial to open up? ass i see is the tree
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What an awesome tutorial!I will really help me!!!I think...
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Let me tell you how long I have been looking for a decent tutorial on how to make a good looking field of grass, long, short, or whatever.
Literally two years.
I don't know how I never found this before to be honest, I guess I just wasn't looking hard enough but I just want to thank you for this. I might even have to try out the tree sometime too when I get the chance!
Your tutorial was used here: [link]
In short, thank you. (:
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No prob! I suggest you continue tweaking the technique yourself. I've moved away from it as my painting skills have increased and now am a bit more advanced in my landscape painting methods. And there's no substitute for painting from life. Find a photo and reference it to get practice.
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Aye! It was my first try, but I will definitely be working with it and changing things as I get better. I'm still horrendously new at backgrounds, so right now I guess I'm just learning the technique to be able to paint from life. (:
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Wonderful! I encourage you to keep at it. And just because you feel it sucks doesn't mean you should stop. My first arts sucked too.
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Lol, no, I never feel like my art sucks anymore. Haven't felt that way for a few years now! I guess it comes when you accept that literally everything you do is a learning experience. I've been so afraid of backgrounds I'd never do them, or I'd make very simplistic ones. It's hard, but totally worth it.
Anyway, thanks again so much for the tutorial. C:
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This will be a great help for me since I stink at digital art
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UGH. Thank you so much; I needed this like you wouldn't believe~!
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I LOVE this tutorial, your backgrounds are amazing.
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I had a go at manipulating the brushes and etc and came up with a similar image to yours. (except yours is 10 times better than mine 
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The tree is a fail, and the grass not far behind it, but im quite happy with how the clouds turned out. What do you think?
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Thank you so much !
I've used this to draw the background and here's my result: [link]
I know I failed but I learned something 
by time, I believe, I will be better in that
Thanks a lot for the awesome tutotial
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I clicked to enlarge the picture, but I still can't see anything. would it be too much to ask to upload a larger image?
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Awesome tutorial! It really helped me out and learned me stuff about PS I did not know about
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but i have only "Defult brushes", no "natural"...
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They come with Photoshop. Do a help search for them, you'll find them
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search where, i don't have any other brushes then "defult" thingy 
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hey! LOVE the tutorial!! great job!! 
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Thank you for putting this up! It's been extremely useful to me. (I've never been the best background person...)
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Amazing tutorial. This helped me a lot. ^^ And I totally agree that PS brushes suck.
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Really awesome tutorial, thanks so much! Used for this: [link]
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I love this technique! I've been using it for all my tarot cards. Here's a [link] if you want to see them.
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Whao. Intense. BUT I DID it. I will show you the results soon. whew.
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This has really helped me out, even though I used GIMP ^_^ Thanks a lot for making it
[link]
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hi! your tute is really helpful! I used it here: [link]
thank you!!!
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this has really helped me ESDA!!! I've used the tree technique for my own comic actually!
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