2D艺术杂志 2DArtistMagazine040-Apr2009-Brad06.pdfVIP

Welcome to the Speed Painting section of the magazine. This month we’ve asked two artists to produce a speed painting based on a simple, one-line brief. Here we feature the final paintings and the overview of the creation processes. This month our talented artists, Ehsan Dabbaghi and Emrah Elmasli, tackle the topic: ‘As night fell, the darkness came alive’ Speed Painting Created In: Adobe Photoshop Concept With this kind of task, first of all we must think about what we want to paint. I personally thought about the topic for a couple of days and then got my thoughts down visually by painting three sketches in black and white. From those sketches, I could work out exactly what I wanted to achieve with my painting: to depict a story about a group who want to stay in a camp all night long, but where no one knows what will happen once the sun goes down and darkness reigns. Step 1 So, with the story in place, I can now get to work. I start by making a new blank canvas in Photoshop at 4000 x 2000 pixels. I use some shaped brushes and just play around with the black and white paint, getting a feel for shape and tone (Fig.01). I think it’s important to always try to work at about 50% or 25% zoom at this