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It's my 3rd month of stay here in UAE, but still can't spot store selling linsed oil <for oil painting>... Does anyone here know where could i find some so I could start my craft. Nyway, Is there any artist org here?

Art is my possesion. If you have same interest, I'll be glad to share ideas with you

try Dubai Library Distributors...

Try digital painting!!
Its cool!.
Here..check out mine.

how does this work??

I do lineart on paper
Scan it into photoshop
paint/airbrush

using one of these

but ofcos...you'd need a really good scanner too...
good graphic card....2ghz CPU atleast.....good 17" monitor (Don't buy LCD..they suck. Buy CRTs).

Wow!! Abs, nice painting!
Do you have more?

i do. U can visit my website.

http://www.narmir.com/wizard

I learn how to make a simple webpage while I was jobless....so...forgive me. I think it loads pretty slowly....and alot are not done right.

All the drawings in it were drawn about 6 years ago.

Abs, you have such great talent! It would be nice to do some tutorials one time.

tu...tutorials?

Oh man..I thank you for your compliments.....
I am no where near the level to teach.

I don't mind sharing thou.

Thanks mate

Nice work. Post some tutorials mate.

well I just do pencil drawings on paper,
scan into computer in High-Res,
Touch-up pencil lines.

Then I "fill" in the selected colours into the "parts" of the drawing.
Then I airbrush in the Highlights..
then mid-tones....and then Shadows.
Then I do some texturing on places with..say..fabric,wood,sand...etc.
Then I do the speculars (Hot spots where most light is reflected of)
Add in "deep" shadow areas.

Remove pencil lines and replace them with a darker version of the nearby color. (Try to avoid using keylines)

Advise would be to use a smooth paper. ( I just use better grade photocopy A4 papers)

Use a blue pencil as it is easier to remove.

And then finally add in the backgrounds.

A good understanding of lighting helps.

But the most important part of this is....practise..practise....practise.

It takes alot and don't give up when you produce crap. Every artist starts that way.

1 trick I use is I look at the reverse of my pencil drawing against light.
If it still looks alright when you look at it..then your drawing proportion is OK. A proportionate drawing is the start of a succuessful piece of work.

I will try to show some progress of my next drawing.

But I just got to Dubai not long and work is really heavy. Will have to ship my Computer from my homeland....soon I hope. I need my Counterstrike .

Cheers friends
God Bless.

abs wrote:Try digital painting!!
Its cool!.
Here..check out mine.

i m really impressed, u got a talent abs!

wish i could help u ya sweet mary

hey sweetmary, do you have any of your work online? I'd like to see what you're up to

visited the local galleries yet? I'm exhibiting a few pieces in XVA at the moment

abs wrote:I do lineart on paper
Scan it into photoshop
paint/airbrush

using one of these

this costs like 400 bucks eh?

sweet mary wrote:It's my 3rd month of stay here in UAE, but still can't spot store selling linsed oil <for oil painting>... Does anyone here know where could i find some so I could start my craft. Nyway, Is there any artist org here?

Art is my possesion. If you have same interest, I'll be glad to share ideas with you

i'm pretty sure I spotted some at 'Talent' on Sheikh Zayed road, between the spinneys and defence round about bits. on the left if you're heading towards Dubai.

very good website

sweet mary wrote:It's my 3rd month of stay here in UAE, but still can't spot store selling linsed oil <for oil painting>... Does anyone here know where could i find some so I could start my craft. Nyway, Is there any artist org here?

Art is my possesion. If you have same interest, I'll be glad to share ideas with you

Hi Sweet Mary,

Here are some places you could go and try, pretty sure they will have what you need:

The Dubai Art Centre. It is a community art centre and they have a small shop. Think it is near the Palm Strip...but been a long time since I went there.

There is another art centre and community art project further down the beach road. Take the turning before Twon Centre Mall if you are coming back from the Burj Al Arab and there is a large white villa there on the left side.

The Art Shop. In the Jumeirah Beach Centre. This is the small mall just before the Macgrudys mall and Spinneys opposite Palm Strip. They sell most art materials including oils and acrylics as well as pre-stretched canvases and art board in a variety of sizes.

Office Mart, Karama. Not a place you would expect to find good art materials but they have a surprising stock of almost everything! It is on the main road from Bank Street down to Karama, just past the Baby Shop on the same side. Big orange and black frontage and parking at the rear.

I find that acrylics are more common here as you can control the drying time by putting addatives with them. In the summer they can dry far too quickly and, if you need to work into them after application, you will find them crusting. Oils are fine, but the heat can play merry hell with some of the weaker pigments such as Burnt Sienna and Cerulean Blue. They tend to become very 'thin'. You need to make sure your underpainting is quite bold...

Best of luck! Look forward to seeing some of your work online...

Dubai Knight