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I am a designer with some illustration experience, but I really want to sharpen up my 2D skills... learn how to draw portraits and character design with Painter or Photoshop...
Anyone in Amsterdam in a position to teach, or any short courses / workshops available? I am not interested in a full course or in a piece of paper; just want to have someone who can guide me through digital painting!
Don't go too specific, I really doubt whether you can find a course to fit your needs exactly. Personally, I'd separate the subject from the technique, and find a course on figure drawing or portraiture and, secondary, a course on Painter or Photoshop. The former shouldn't be too hard too find, the latter could be found in online tutorials or books. Something like portraiture is exactly the same in charcoal as in Photoshop, the main difference that a portrait in Photoshop is without charcoal, and a charcoal portrait doesn't need Photoshop.
You know, using paint in Painter isn't that different from real life. If you learn painting on a canvas first, I guarantee you'll pick up Painter like it was nothing. Find a quick course in oil painting to learn the basics of color and blending, and how to progress through the stages of developing realistic imagery. Then when you're realy for digital, there are some quick tutorials in Painter that can help you learn the user interface.
And as for Amsterdam.. c'mon, there's gotta be tons of ppl willing to teach drawing/painting from life for a quick buck. This country's teeming with hobby artists.
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For anyone that knows me well it comes as no shock that I am an avid reader. I'm no Justine but on average I read two books a month. Sometimes I read more (Divergent series, anyone?) and sometimes I read less (umm…remember that time in my life when I was running around the house like a crazy person trying to figure out the best way to test the changes in thermogenesis due to amylin agonists? No? Well, just ask my roommate. The one who doesn't use a litter box…). But overall, I'd say that I read more than your average working woman. So that's why my Kindle is so great. Finished a book waiting for the bus to come? No problem, I've got a dozen more waiting in the wings to be opened and enjoyed. It's light, I love the case, and I can download books from anywhere. What's not to love? There is also the added enjoyment of being able to check out library books. What? Checking out library books online? To send to my Kindle? And read for freeeee? It's the best. (Also the best…no late fees. And I've racked up my fair share of those in the past.)
But, do you want to know the best feature? It has a little panel on the bottom that estimates the time left for me to finish reading not only the chapter, but the book. I cannot get enough of it. It brings joy to my life every time I flip the digital page and see the number go down.
But then sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes, like when I started reading Les Mis, it tells me that I have 59 hours and 43 minutes left in the book. Seriously? It can be a bit daunting to begin reading a huge book and while I knew this was a book that I would likely finish in more than a few weeks, I still took on the task. But my Kindle is making it harder. And I don't like that.
I like the challenge of reading classics and sometimes struggling through the more boring and overly descriptive parts. I like reading Jane Austen and immersing myself in a culture quite foreign to mine. I love reading the books that inspired the authors of today. But I don't like being told that it will take me decades to read. My only hope is that the calibration is off. So that's what I'm telling myself in the interim. Because I don't want to hate Les Mis and I especially don't want to hate my Kindle over all of this nonsense. That would be ridiculous…