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The Illustrator’s Guide to Photography
If you've ever seen one of Howard Lyon's reference packs, you know he's a master of shooting reference photography. In this new video, Howard will show you how he achieves such incredible results, time and time again. Howards goes over his equipment, lighting methods, post-production tips, and even includes a brief Q&A with the model to get her feedback. Getting great reference is absolutely essential to creating realistic paintings, and this video will help you…
YESTERDAY’S POST
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September 19, 2024 - Dug a little deeper into the high key overexposed painting thing again this week. I’ve been wanting to do a portrait of Kevin, our other mastiff for a little while now. He’s such a sweet old boy. Had it in my head to do like a “night lighting” portrait of him. He’s blind, and his eyes have that cloudy look to them that i think could look cool in that lighting scenario. But then a couple days ago, I snapped a blown out photo of him sleeping, and was drawn to the abstract vignetted quality of it, so I decided to give it a shot. Here's where we're at so far. Gridded this out because I really wanted to make sure I got the shapes as close to the reference as I could. There's so…
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