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Over the past several years the line of demarcation between illustration and fine art has been forever changed. Historically speaking illustration has always been viewed by the fine art snobs as a lesser form of art. Mainly because they view illustration as a mere commercial driven commodity and prefer art created for the sole sake of creating art instead. This of course is a tired and flawed perception that only elitists hold to.

In today’s competitive market an illustrator should pursue both arenas of creativity be it commercial or fine art. The age of art snobs has come to an end and it’s time for illustrators to create and captivate a new generation of fine art lovers.This tutorial will help you understand how to take your digital art and create gallery quality reproductions of it that have a nice authentic hand crafted quality to them.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Fine, Art, Gallery, Textures

  File Size: 19.4 MB

1. ko wrote: June 26, 2008 at 6:55 am

   I’ve read all of these illustration tutorials and I’d just like to say thanks, as they’ve been an inspiration in my work.

   Any chance for a video tutorial podcast?

2. admin wrote: June 26, 2008 at 9:22 am

   I am currently exploring an option to use ustream to document with via video. But when something takes 8hrs it’s a bit hard to bake it down for video. Perhaps some “Methods” driven short videos explaining certain things would be better?

3. ko wrote: June 27, 2008 at 3:08 am

   Yeah, something similar to the classes already posted, but in video format, i.e. a walkthrough of the methods used to get from a blank piece of paper to the finished project. Something like, for example, Photoshop Workbench, but obviously, done sequentially as you’d have to turn 8 hours into 10 minutes.

4. kdowning wrote: July 23, 2008 at 12:53 pm

   Did you use a local printer, or did you find a good one online?

5. admin wrote: July 24, 2008 at 12:03 am

   Yes I located a local service bureau who can run out large format prints onto a matte canvas substrate. A good national franchise that can do this is “Fast Signs” but when I checked their prices it was about $45 more than what I paid for the large format printout and that didn’t include the wood framing the other place included.

   Obviously larger towns will make this easier to compare and shop around.

6. ScottyDoo wrote: July 26, 2008 at 1:30 am

   I currently run the print department at a sign shop here in my town. I’ve got 3 printers with capabilities up to 8′ wide. Art such as this is what I would prefer to be doing, but my company just doesn’t want to go there. They said, and I quote “artist’s are too picky, we just don’t want to deal with it”. Looks like I may have to go out on my own.

7. ggunther wrote: August 22, 2008 at 12:42 pm

   Thanks for a great tutorial. This really inspired me to make larger, ‘art’ versions of some of my illustrations as I progress.

8. karl wrote: February 23, 2009 at 8:47 pm

   why is it that your final art file specs say 8×8 at 300dpi…but your output is 48×48?

9. admin wrote: February 23, 2009 at 9:02 pm

   Karl,

   It’s a typo in the notes. It should read 48×48 for both the final art and output specs.

10. glitschka studios | illustrative designer : Temporal Infestation wrote: August 12, 2009 at 2:32 am

    [...] to add authentic texture and protect the image. We documented our process of this arts creation here. This artwork is available for licensing. “Temporal Infestation” Illustration [...]

11. mario wrote: February 17, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    Me parece increible y admirable que quieras y tengas el tiempo de compartir estos datos tan interesantes muchas felicidades por esa disposicion y entrega, y tambien por la calidad de tu trabajo, me encanto este tutorial y realmente me es muy util.
    Muchas gracias, y nuevamente felicidades

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