Digital Painting Video Demonstrations
This page of my website has a number of digital painting video demonstrations that I made while at the open figure model studio with a digital drawing tablet. The long figure model poses were usually 3 hours with breaks every 25 minutes or so and the short figure model poses could be as long as 25 minutes but were sometimes shorter. The figure model pose set up and lighting were of variable quality which usually reflects the venue and the monitor. Mostly the models are pretty good, so usually if there is something holding the situation back it is monitor or lighting.
I have a youtube channel which you can visit through the social media buttons in the page footer. For this website I have suppressed the ads and other related youtube content form the digital painting video demonstrations to improve the page visitor viewing experience so you might actually prefer to just look at the videos on my website as youtube is very commercial.
I take a typical traditional constructive approach to figure drawing and the digital painting video demonstrations can show you this. Typically I concentrate on staying close to the midline and use the “through, across and around” approach. For a digital painting I tend to think more about the areas of values and edges instead of concentrating on construction. There can also be a happy middle point with elements of both approaches.
One advantage I have found for using a digital drawing tablet is that line between drawing and painting is less clear media wise as there are less specific media characteristics to worry about. I find this is an advantage as I have spent more time drawing than painting. Overall there were less media specific issues to worry about with drawing, so I tended to be able to concentrate on art making more than painting where there was more to worry about in terms of wet media characteristics. However once I had moved over to digital media the media specific characteristics are less of the difference, instead painting and drawing are defined by your artistic approach rather than physical media characteristics.