Digital Art Using 3D and 2D Techniques plus Q&A

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Digital painting using 3D Blender techniques with 2D painting. Plus talk about important art fundamentals and learning.
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[@nihiloss1]

i can totally relate when you said you wanted to be an animator but discovered you liked painting better

[@warrenricardo5244]

I know it is kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good site to watch new movies online ?

[@prestongary145]

@Warren Ricardo flixportal :)

[@warrenricardo5244]

@Preston Gary thanks, I signed up and it seems like a nice service :D Appreciate it!

[@prestongary145]

@Warren Ricardo No problem =)

[@marcobucci]

Hi folks! Here's a list of the artists mentioned in this video: 14:25 Drew Struzan - illustrator/fine artist 18:27 Aaron Blaise - animator, illustrator, KZbinr, ex-Disney guy 20:30 Scott Christensen - landscape fine artist 27:52 Joseph Zbukvic - watercolor fine art painter 34:29 Frank Frazetta - illustrator (deceased) 34:50 John Singer Sargent - portrait painter (deceased)

[@A.Witting]

Adding Joseph Zbukvic for the unfamiliar ones googling Josef Bookfish :) Thank you for your videos, Marco!

[@yancowles]

@@A.Witting Josef Bookfish is an excellent artist in his own right, I imagine.

[@marcobucci]

@@yancowles lol yes, Josef Bookfish, too! Have edited my comment accordingly :)

[@yancowles]

@@marcobucci I believe he always subtlety inveigled his motif, that of an eel reading plato's republic, in to all his later work.

[@salwa5476]

Hi Marco, when you mention some great artist could you put their names on the screen or description? it would be SO helpful for all of us non english natives, because it's really hard to hear or spell their names properly just from hearing them i really appreciate your work!

[@marcobucci]

Very good point - I hadn't thought of that! Will do in the future, for sure. Here's a list of who's mentioned in this one: 14:25 Drew Struzan - illustrator/fine artist 18:27 Aaron Blaise - animator, illustrator, KZbinr, ex-Disney guy 20:30 Scott Christensen - landscape fine artist 34:29 Frank Frazetta - illustrator (deceased) 34:50 John Singer Sargent - portrait painter (deceased)

[@salwa5476]

Thank you so much!

[@photomatik]

Beautiful! I never expected one of your videos to start with Blender, but great workflow and I love the result! Your work really hits all sorts of emotions!

[@marcobucci]

Thanks! Yeah, I've kept my Blender use behind-the-scenes for a while. Had to run it through its paces, I suppose, before trotting it out on KZbin :)

[@marcobucci]

@Ilgar Hmm, it depends on what you want to learn. You can do so many things with Blender. My video class will cover the fundamental skills needed to do this 3D/2D work. But I think it's nice to learn about Blender's lighting functionality and basic modeling. Blender Guru is a good channel for that stuff (though he's so popular I'm sure you already know about him).

[@yancowles]

@Ilgar +1 for Blender guru although I generally just search for tutorials based on whatever it is I'm trying to do at the time and you usually find one that's appropriate. I use it in bursts for my freelance work when I need to create 3d assets for animations so my requirements tend to be quite specific. I've never done any ground up series of tutorials but I am reasonably competent at using it now (as least, I like to think so).

[@user-vo6fd6gg6i]

Hi Marco, just wanted to say thank you for the effort you put into your videos and teaching. I'm not an art school student or anything like that and was a little frustrated about painting, thinking I'll never be that good. But your videos changed my mind, even if I'm not a great painter right now I can enjoy the painting process itself. I feel like I'm making a progress. Big thanks to you!

[@lawmsangaroyte6952]

Thanks Marco Bucci for doing such a great job and your advice

[@SamReevesWrites]

Thank you for what you said about a beginner painter and painting from imagination. That puts my mind at ease. Also, thank you for clarifying about painting from photographs vs real life. Before today, no one has given me a truly convincing argument for this. It makes sense now. Looking forward to the full Blender tutorial.

[@AlwaysRats]

I've binged your videos in the last week and I want to thank you for helping me get over a big block and giving me confidence to try new things. You explain things so well. Folk have tried hammering things like 'ambient light' to me and I never quite grasped it until I watched your examples. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I look forward to seeing more. ♥

[@marcobucci]

I'm glad I could help!

[@kardrasa]

Those skellys are cute. Awesome work Marco!

[@AmmarYaqoub1020]

Hi marco bucci. So happy to see you working with blender

[@anhhuynhkimnguyen6793]

Right when I started to get interested in 3D modeling :)

[@rendelladaisy6382]

Thank you so much for the awesome video and beautiful picture! You also answered a lot of my questions! :)

[@ryuuskesuke9760]

Marco, you make awesome paintings and please make more animations similar to cindy's love story. You are amazing and also an inspiration.

[@miguelfernandez9961]

Hey man, I just found your channel. I’m a senior in college looking up some lighting tips, and I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing what you’ve learned about what you do. I’m excited to explore more of what you have to share.

[@anirudhkumar5518]

I feel you

[@elenip6445]

Thank you so much, Marco!!!

[@someone-kt7uk]

I actually have been waiting this

[@maggiecheung9530]

you are a great teacher, thank you!

[@vladislavserenko6724]

Painting on 1 layer, you sir da MVP.

[@andrewpereira3573]

Amazing Work

[@gisisodia]

Amazing as always. Thanks a lot Master Bucci!

[@orianagonzalez9989]

Hello Marco, today I needed a new point of view in my work and watching your videos and listening to your anecdotes, I realize new sort of things that made me move on. Thanks a lot for have this channel. Today you became my new mentor, lol. I also wanted to ask you if you have any essentials books that you recommend us, to remember us the basics of art and design (composition, color, form, etc). I like to read before go to bed, and I have a need for improve my techniques. Thank you so much again, hope u the best.

[@grasiano3d]

Amazing vídeo man! Tks!

[@kevinpopescu9741]

So two of my favorite youtubers (you and borodante) are putting out videos about using 3D to help issues with geometry, composition and perspective in a painting right around the same time. Do you know his channel? :D Anyway I'm really pleased with that! I never really thought about it and I'm really excited to try it out especially because I'm having some perspective issues on a painting I'm doing right now. There's just way too much houses in different orientations and stuff. I could get it to look good but it would take a while to figure everything out.

[@robertcrockerWCS]

Thank you so much for your response to my question. The tip about thumb-nailing from life really clicked with me. I am def still a beginner and really want to improve my simplification skills and I am going to integrate "life thumbnailing" into my general practice for sure. Thanks again!

[@marcobucci]

Awesome! Thanks for participating in the Q&A :)

[@MAP233224]

Amazing painting really

[@Tajiri1986]

Hello Hello Hello Marco! Just as i come home from class i got this notification. Best greet ever :D

[@zioneig-tassiello2602]

Very informative video, please do more Q&as

[@RihuwaMidori]

Everytime I watch your videos I want to like them again

[@xxDianaxx33441]

i love this!

[@uppstart9820]

Amazing!

[@ghost2031]

Thanks for the video, very helpful. PS: i still have the brush you emailed me years ago.

[@graysbygrace]

learned something new from this.

[@mnsog5249]

beautiful

[@guitarbreakfull]

awseome please more Q&As ^^

[@shaikfiroz9501]

Thankyou Sir....

[@YandereKnows]

thanks

[@matthultimatum9095]

Awesome

[@mtpstv94]

I've tried for ages to get into this and I just can't find my place to begin. I watch countless videos, but once I get into Photoshop I am instantly frustrated with dealing with brush settings, pen lag on occasion, trying to figure out where to begin and how to do it that I just give up and it drives me insane. So I just watch more videos.

[@RubyLime1]

19:03 Thanks for answering my questions! And super extra thanks for those suggestions, I feel like that clears things up in my head quite a bit, like i've been approaching it the wrong way Also the rush thing definitely applies to me haha. It might also partly be why I'm not really getting much out of my studies because I dont take the time to really analyze it - something to work on!

[@marcobucci]

Thanks for the question, labotor!

[@aswanthk2068]

I actually give it a thumb up 👍 ..before starting the video😄........as always.. i knew his videos cant be bad...

[@unknowjlm]

I actually gave you a thumbs up before entirely reading your comment... :3

[@aswanthk2068]

Oh really!

[@kushkungvivo744]

Good video

[@KevlarOxyTheARTofVideoGames]

Hi Marco... first to say, awesome video, you're one of my favourite KZbin arists so keep doing it, please :) Question: Is your Blender course going to be using 2.8?

[@marcobucci]

Thanks! And yes, the course is done using Blender 2.8.

[@Juanaponymous]

Always love your vids! Question: do you see any pitfalls or downsides an artist should be aware of when using 3D as a base?

[@marcobucci]

I think a big one is that basic 3D renders (as I'm using here) tend to look very sterile, and far from illustrative or painterly. You have to apply a heavy hand of painting to reverse that, so if you use 3D as a base for your 2D work, be prepared to essentially re-draw or re-paint whatever you export from the 3D software.

[@FeedMeYourSoul]

sowhere your brushes or now i have to buy them?

[@makanansari144]

Amazing work I learned a lot! thank you! also try Blender 2.8 it has more new cool features, I have a question about dark and shadows, I remember watching a video tutorial from Ryan Lang about Dynamic Range in paintings that can tell emotions, it was like Dark Scene with light accent or Contrast scene for giving you more intense feeling, so how we should execute this approach in our paintings to keep the darkest dark and lightest light in specific range to tell better story with dynamic range!

[@marcobucci]

Thanks for the question - that is certainly fodder for a whole other video! I'll keep it in mind. And yes, Blender 2.8 is super cool (it will be the software I use in my video class, so it's fully up to date :)

[@rexs.5188]

Hi Marco, I've gone through many of your videos and i'm unable to explain how much they have helped me. If it's okay please tell me how to practice digital painting and brushwork. I've forever been stuck with an ugly artwork, can't seem to move forward.

[@MorbidlyObeseCat_Ch]

ayy you're back

[@marcobucci]

I try to never leave!

[@Banana-cc5rx]

any tips or video guides on how to study composition for illustrations? I've tried searching and watched other videos regarding it but doesn't seem to get anything from it. :/

[@marcobucci]

I have one video that touches on things to look for: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5fOn4ahrrNplZI

[@Joao-pe8ur]

Little known fact: this is not a sped-up video. This is Bucci working on his normal speed.

[@riccia888]

Nice vide! Please make a tutorial about thumbnail composition please

[@marcobucci]

Good idea

[@wiktorbudzinski7364]

Hi Marco, great video as always :) I was wondering what do you think about limited time studies? Like for example 1 hour portrait study? I imagine it helps to learn to paint faster, but on the other hand you may not manage to learn what you were trying to study in the first place. For example I usually need more time to get colors accurately, so I am not sure if 1 hour color study makes sense for me. Any thoughts?

[@marcobucci]

I'm of two minds about that one. I do think a time limit is good. For things like gesture drawings, having a 1-2 minute limit on each pose really promotes capturing the essence of the pose, rather than anatomy/lighting/detail. With painting it can be a little more troublesome because it's pretty easy to make a mess quickly. So what I'd recommend is, with a time limit, also make sure you're limiting which fundamentals you're using. You could probably do a sketched value study from the live model in 30 minutes. Maybe a more rendered one in 1 hour. But adding colour? You'll probably need longer. I think learning to paint faster depends more on how well you understand each fundamental (drawing/values/edges/color temperature), rather than how often you force yourself to paint fast. When I paint a slow painting my studio - but really take the time to understand how it's all coming together fundamentally - I can exercise that knowledge faster in a sketch.

[@wiktorbudzinski7364]

Marco Bucci thank you for the response :) I will try doing some shorter value studies as per your suggestion. And maybe some shorter composition studies, as 1 hour thumbnail seems like something I may manage to do

[@Apoyamosaroyce89]

4:14 ¿What does it mean "thumbnail"? sorry, I don't speak English.

[@marcobucci]

Thumbnail just means a very small sketch.

[@Wachomen]

Everything is fine, but I had an account in DrawCrowd and although my art is not surprising because I do not dedicate the time I need, I uploaded several of my sketches and ideas, and the League of Legends people stole these concepts to create Zoe and El new NUNU and now ... how do I do it?

[@DrAdnan]

Ive never heard of someone creating a 3D construction to get a rough for their 2D 😮

[@kullenberg]

James Gurney

[@marcobucci]

Oh yeah, I'm definitely not breaking any ground here. I learned this approach about a decade ago when I was a matte painter at a studio. I just started revisiting it in my own work this year. And software like Blender is really making strides to bridge the gap from 3D to 2D.

[@DrAdnan]

Interesting, I always thought 3D modeling would take way too long for this process to be efficient (especially with my older computer).

[@franciscocataldo9238]

Do u think its a good idea to use easy poser in android? Dont have the pc to use blender haha

[@marcobucci]

Sure! Whatever helps pre-viz something is cool. As with any pre-viz tool, just make sure you're not using it as a replacement for fundamental drawing skill.

[@franciscocataldo9238]

@@marcobucci im usin it as reference. I saw some pics from a contest and a lot were traced and it was blatantly obvious!

[@TheCivildecay]

what are thumbnails?

[@yancowles]

Ah Blender, it is awesome although I found the initial learning curve somewhat steep having previously been used to Cinema 4d and suchlike. At first, it seems kind of deranged - why is mouse select based on a right click, what's with the weird dialogue windows that look like something from the 1990s! Oh god, and the accidentally creating new windows in the interface, I defy anyone just starting out to not end up with dozens of little windows that you keep trying to remove only to spawn more of the damn things. You get used to it though and you can change select to a left click easily enough and, oh yeah, IT'S FREE!

[@boutheinadammak4116]

What is thumb nail?

[@teetsieroll4529]

19:19 exercises

[@zahras6564]

is spoke season

[@abdulmalik2388]

6:33 what is that awesome brush that gives a slight black outline for every stroke?

[@marcobucci]

Just turn the 'wet edges' option on to get that!

[@user-os8ty8so7w]

能有字幕么..我听不懂诶.. sub-title.pls my English very poor.

[@blameyourm8519]

Thumbnail count? Xd

[@sirfruitloops7308]

34:50 Haha, everybody in America loves sargent. Sargent seems to be to American painters what Rembrandt is to european painters.

[@Atman94]

Second ! Yaay

[@not_myosotis813]

Sounds like Marco is speaking to us from the void. spooky

[@marcobucci]

haha - it's my new studio that I moved into just this week. Still a touch echoey :)

[@sgtpepper91]

12:10 i wonder if this is related to symbol drawings, (you know, the kind people who don't draw draw) then. Are you painting your preconceived notion of what a victorian mansion background would look like, a poor representation, instead of what it actually is? Like a beginner would draw a simple symbol of the eye or nose? Also, i like that in your picture, the most warm colours are present in the vaguely (and probably intentionally) heart-shaped elevation in the floor

[@william982]

Why this reminds me of sans and paps?

[@exlibrisas]

And here I can't even find shaping tools in blender...

[@ouberon916]

But what brushes DO you use lmao jk

[@jorge62142]

WOW DO YOU LIKE SARGENT? NO JOKE! U.U

[@guotyr2502]

Bruh ,I so wish to see how furries would look like in your style

[@JasSinghOnline]

funny BORODANTE is doing the same thing, trying to use blender as a way to "cheat" and make his artwork better

[@marcobucci]

Hmm, I wouldn't think about it that way. I could have drawn those coffins with traditional tools (see my other videos where I do just that). As I discussed in this video, 3D is a good way of laying down many fundamentals all at once (value/shape/perspective in this case). It's a great way to explore ideas, which is relevant in today's entertainment industry. But it only works when you have solid drawing skills to back it up. That's what makes it not cheating. It's simply a tool that allows you to find what you're looking for, faster!

[@JasSinghOnline]

@@marcobucci oh no i didn't mean that you were cheating lol, i was only referring to BORODANTE'S video :) BTW very good video and I really enjoyed the way you explain things

[@marcobucci]

@@JasSinghOnline Ah, got it - my apologies for the misunderstanding.

[@lawmsangaroyte6952]

Thanks Marco Bucci for doing such a great job and your advice