Pnate's Almost Daily Sketchbook

[pnate]

Thanks man! It really was awesome. It was so weird seeing all those incredible artists in real life. And they are all normal people! Who woulda thunk. You should go next year! Don't worry about your skill level, it's a learning experience regardless :)

As for Karla's demo, the demo I saw wasn't the one she posted on facebook of the girl with the fur and face tattoo. The way the event was laid out, there were 3 rooms with demos where the instructor gave sort of a lecture/demo and a main floor with four guys doing their thing all at the same time. The demo of Karla's I saw was when she gave her lecture thing and it was of a couple cloaked figures and a standing female figure holding a staff.

• She began by showing her reference, it looked like she photo composited some photographs she took of people wearing cloaks and a female figure
  
• She put the reference side by side with the canvas and blocked in her shapes with a dark value, designing the composition
  
• started adding basic colors and blocks of value according to her reference
  
• showed how she would add a layer on top, fill it with white, lower the opacity, then put in her lines on a new layer on top of that to work out the drawing
  
• she kept the lines pretty rough, just to indicate where things were
  
• she would then put that line layer on overlay and change the line color to like a darker brown type so that it would blend in with the paint layer
  
• then she paints on top of everything and it becomes a part of the painting
  
• When asked about tips for painting folds, she mentioned she looks at them like triangles
  

That was mostly what I got from the demo, hope it helps! The rest of it was just rendering and refining things.

sketchy