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Check out the Exercise and Download the Practice Sheet HERE Artist: Tim Von Rueden (vonn)This exercise was a truly sweet! Below is a step by step on how I created each of the gemstones from the exercise practice sheet. I broke it down into each significant step on what was included or added:
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This is really cool - I like it!
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Man, they all look so real! I wish you could be my teacher! 
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Thank you! We are starting a fall workshop in which I will be a teacher, one on one, with 25 students. Maybe if this intrigues you, you should sign up when it opens up later this month.
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Oh? How does that work? How will i learn from you? Because this intrigues me a lot.
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Thank you so much for this tutorial. I always wonder how to make digital candy look better.
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so real that I want some gummy bears now
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great exercise. Also, it is "easy" to work on digital due to mutiple layers and all the tools what allow
mistakes anlongside with the "undo" option, but what about some texture or color utorials for
traditional drawing next time ? ^^
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I wouldn't call digital art "easy" because it still takes years of practice to get to a point like the above tutorial. In some ways it's harder because you don't have the natural blending or textures that occur in traditional mediums. If I want to blend two colors together with acrylics (let's say) all I have to do is lay the two colors down wet and then blend them together with a wet brush. A similar technique in digital can easily lead to blurry, muddy colors. It's actually easier for me to make smooth, hand-made gradients with acrylics than digital. (And yes, I know there's a gradient tool, but it's too even and recognizable and doesn't work for 90% of painted pictures IMO. It's kind of like using the default grass brush in some ways. I only use gradients on cel shaded pictures.)
Plus, you can get away with some things in traditional that you can't get away with in digital. I know some artists who color by memorization, as I like to say. Basically, they have a collection of colored pencils, and when they have to make a certain color (like blue, red, etc.) they'll lay down a base color using X pencil, add shades using Y pencil, and then add highlights using Z pencil. It can result in some pretty nice images. But when those same artists switch to digital, suddenly their shading looks bland and lifeless because they don't understand color theory. When you have 50 million colors to choose between instead of 50, knowing color theory is a helluva lot more important.
But regardless of a person's chosen medium, they still have to understand the fundamentals. If someone doesn't understand anatomy, lighting, or form, that will show no matter their chosen medium. Giving someone infinite tries doesn't help if they don't understand the process. Imagine if you asked a five year old to solve a differential equation and told them they have infinite tries. Do you think they'd magically learn all the information needed to solve that equation? I doubt it, especially given that differential equations == calculus 4 in a lot of schools. It will take them years of study to get to that point no matter how you look at it.
Simply put: If digital art were easy, then all digital artists would paint like Rembrandt.
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Good speach indeed, but all my message was saying is "why not doing a tuto for traditional media next time ?" because there is way more of digital than traditional. Nothing more, nothing less. "easy" was under sign to show the irony of this part of the comment and simply was a way to lead to the question.
I use diferent media myself (still in learning) and know both traditional painters and digital artists so don't worry, I know what you're talking about when mentioning the diferences of techniques and way of working. Also, if any art was easy, anyone could be pro at it, what is not the case at all of course.
So, simply put, It was a random asking for more traditional media tutorials, since they do good quality tutorials, what could help pepole instead of those numberous fake "good" tutorials about "how to draw in traditional media". I shure talk about those about proprtions, shading and so on what are completly wrong and lead pepole to mistakes, but what pepole follow blindly because they are everywhere on the internet.
Thanks again for the class speach, it was interesting to read
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Claiming all your message said was "why not doing a tuto for traditional media next time ?" is all fine and well, but quoting you "Also, it is 'easy' to work on digital..." making aboveClouds' well-reasoned explanation as to why digital art is in fact, more difficult than traditional art in many ways quite relevant.
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To the way you say it I don't know if it's a good or bad comment so I'll explain because
it was not ment to be bad against digital arts. Sorry if I'm clumsy but even if I write and understand quite correctly english, I still have hard times understanding some subtilities dues to it to not be my native language. It also explain my long way to talk, somehow ^^"
As I already said to AboveClouds it was an akward way to ask and "easy" was only reffering to one fact, not digital art in a whole. The said fact is that in digital art we can erase, move layer multiple times or even get back from numberous steps (or even get back to step one) and, when changing our mind, recover the work in the exact state it was. What is, of course, nearly impossible in Traditional art with such "simple" method as clicking a tool is.
As I am used to work with/for multiple media, from traditional drawing to embroiderie (making grid models), pixel art and animation/coding (for retro games). I also train to digital painting even if my level is too low to display deviations about it, mostly because I don't have any tablet to work with for now. But I need it to draw backgrounds and others things for the game projects so I keep training. (no 3D modeling for now, but I'll eventualy try someday when I get a better computer)
So..I shure know that Digital is not easier than Traditional, not more than Traditional is easier than Digital. Here's somes personal exemples I've experienced about it:
- Traditional is more instinctive for charadesign, and Digital offer the unilmited space to stay creative on large artworks without risks of going outside of the border.
- When shading in Traditional drawing you have a feeling that is not present in Digital, as you can interact with the matter, but brushs make texturing easier in Digital.
- Painting is more natural in Traditional, but we rarely achieve the kind of mix of colors that a Digital gradient can afford and adding light effects do not have the same methods too.
So my point of wiew about "what of Digital or Traditional is the easier" it's more a matter of "Digital offer more possibilities in a quicker way" than really that it's easier. Due to these facts of quick resizing, no page size restriction and quick method to make an artwork we can get going without losing the gasp of what we want to do, in the contrary of Traditional where you have to wait Ink/Painting to dry, or clay to bake before applying some colors and of course the color material what can end empty in middle of a work.
Pepole in Traditional media have great talent for holding the inspiration long enough to adapt to these contraint, in the same way as Digital artists have talent for working so fast without getting confused to change in techniques and aproachs so often. Each is easier to some kind of pepole, more difficult for others, depending on what methods and way of working is the better for them and match their personality and way of living.
Anyway, I never expected these comments to have this kind of answers. Whatever if the person is hobbyist or professional it's always interesting to see other artists points of wiew so if you want to answer, go ahead ^^
Note conserning the candy tutorial itself:
I think I got in "wall of text" mode again and that we are totally off subject
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If you want a traditional tutorial, why not simply ask "Could you do a traditional tutorial next time"? As it's worded now, it sounds like you're knocking all digital art. I have a knee-jerk reaction to people dismissing digital art as an art form because there are still a lot of people who believe that the computer just paints the paintings for you (or the tablet does).
But, yeah, I completely agree with you on the traditional tutorials. The same thing (unfortunately) happens with all tutorials, though. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people make broken tutorials and, when other people critique them, they just ignore them or wave it off as "Oh, but I did it quickly." Which... yeah, wow. I mean, if someone isn't going to make sure that a tutorial is correct... then why do it at all? Isn't that the point of a tutorial?
And I'd love to see a ConceptCookie traditional tutorial too! 
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Eh, I didn't view it as if he was "knocking off digital art". He was just expressing his opinion for what medium he thinks is easier, maybe prior experience? Also thinking about it digital art is easier in some concept such as you can always undo, but your right on that there are a lot more option, in not only color but also the variety of tools. And yes, I'm a new artist and I'm learning the fundamentals by traditional first (I think that's the right path right?) and I would enjoy a coloring tutorial on traditional art. Wow this post is old 2014.
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Yeah, I admit than when I re-read my first comment it's hard to see the irony or any "joke" in it. It was clumsy indeed and more because of my usual way of speaking than because I am not a native english speaker. As digital artist myself (more in game mechanics and pixel-art than paintings but anyway, each of us have diferent specialities) it would be stupid of me to dismiss digital arts, or even any arts since inspiration comes from everywhere. It was a good thing that you wrote this big speech, as there was always a chance (unfortunatly) that I be one of those random guys who dissmiss pepole you're talking about here.
For tutorials I agree too, and personaly I learnt more about volumes in books about how to sculpt than in "how to draw" tutorials or even books in store. Also, "thanks" to my young days when everyone was found of manga, I had very bad bases because of the plain and with no textures not shadows Anime style. It always make me smile when pepole were bad critiquers when I try and fail at textures, semi-realism and so on, but are "fans of my artworks" when it was a plain and rushed fanart in bad quality manga style.
Thanks to the school and childhood being a part of the past, I now see my mistakes. I even linked a old tutorial of mine with a good one from another deviant, as reminder list of common mistakes to intentionaly show that it was completly wrong. Instead of reading the description and going to the good tutorial, pepole reffered to it and said thanks. u.u
Anyway, thats why I was asking. Pepole need better tutorials to realy learn, and whatever the style. I seen the same amount of mistakes (but diferent ones) in both Manga and Comics styles I usualy work with. The worst part in it..is that for those styles the mistakes are not only from fans, but also in the official media we can find, and are abrove the "stylistic" part of it that can be allowed.
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Great, now I want to eat my monitor! They look super real to me, really good job
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....god damn it cookie! ...you make me hungry *licks the screen*
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