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Over the years I have produced a range of tutorials on artistic use of the computer. Most of them concerns rather general concepts and can hopefully give something regardless of which program you are using or even be of some interest for traditional, non-digital artists. Some examples of my art can be found in the gallery.
That said, to get the most out of these you should know that I mainly use the open-source image manipulation program GIMP. I also work a lot with the painter program MyPaint. These are both very powerful programs capable of great artistic expression. Being open-source programs, they are both legally free to download and use without any cost. They exist for many platforms, including Linux, Mac and Windows, so they are worth trying out if you haven't already.
The tutorials listed below tend are (ver

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Shrike - Study IIby *Griatch-art

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Sci-Fi

Sorry for repeating the same subject over and over, but I need the training.

I got a lot of good critique and feedback on my first Shrike Study

here on DA as well as elsewhere on the web (thanks!). Looking at it now, I myself can only agree with the critique, that's what a fresh eye will do for you!
However, as I sat down to try to fix things I came to the conclusion it was better to start all over again rather than to fix the old image. So I did, using roughly the same angle and concept (although I ended up using a different background and a slightly more realistic style).

Whereas I did intend the last one to be a "young" version of the main protagonist in my Shrike saga, I did this with her being older again. The proportions and angles should hopefully be better. I also experimented a bunch with giving more pores to the skin as well as many more things.

As usual, I'm very interested in getting feedback on this, it\'s by far the best way to improve.

MyPaint + GIMP, about 5 hours.

UPDATE: Fixed some aspects of this, thanks for the feedback!
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Griatch