About Me
- Bill Ferguson
- I am a Freelance Illustrator with a BFA in Illustration from The Ringling College of Art and Design. Currently I have finished illustrating a childrens book that will be published in April 2010. My prior work experience includes working as a Mural Artist and Display Artist for the Houston Museum of Natural Science's "Xploration Station". My interests include anything associated with Animation-(Background Design, Character Design and Story Boarding), Children's Books, Editorial Illustration, Greeting Cards, Theme Park Design, and all things related to Art. Take a look at my work and enjoy yourself. Let me know what you think. You can contact me at (billferguson83@yahoo.com) All works excluding you tube videos are copyrighted by Bill Ferguson 2011
11 comments:
bill you've been doing some cool stuff! i wish i could help with some painter tips but i haven't used it since comp. illustration. i do know there are some brushes in the brush library in p-shop that have some nice textures that you can mess with to make things look more organic. good luck!
Thanks Mauricio, I will post all the new work once it is done. Hope it turns out well though.
Bill- great stuff.
As far as i know, painter is nowhere as stable as photoshop and will perform slower and crash more. If you're trying to paint and the cursor seems to lag way behind your actual hand motions, try opening your brush preferences (there's a bunch of them) and look for the "stamping." Turn it down to a lower number and see if that speeds it up the program for you. Painter and Photoshop both make marks with their brush tools by "stamping" one image repeatedly and together they blend to mimic larger strokes. If you turn the stamping down, it will use less and maybe not bog your computer down so much.
Thanks for your help Duncan. I think I might take the easy way out and finish these in photoshop, if that ends up being the easy way out.
Bill I strongly belive you should use Photoshop. Just do a search on Google or yahoo for Custom Brushes for Photoshop. There are lots and lots of brushes and textures you can use. Try looking for dry media brushes and thick heavy brushes or wet media brushes and download them. Here is a link that might help. also check my blog in the links section there is a tutorials link click on it and search for the stuff you need. There is nothing that you can't do in Photoshop. and as you said just add some few details in Painter, or if freelance goes better get a faster computer. I know I ll be doing that. Good luck and keep up the good work..............
http://oceania.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=34412 I forgot to add the link
Thanks a million Alex.
Hello Bill,
First off I'd like to say thank you for the kind words you commented on my blog, very much appreciated!
Best with putting together imagery for your book!
Ever messed around with making custom brushes in photoshop? this link might help:
http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorials/guest/custombrush/custombrush.html
I was a big fan(still am) of Painter due to its painter like quality, but once I figured out how to custom a brush in PS I've been hooked! Try it out, hope it helps
Thanks a lot for your help Dennis.
hey bill, it seems i am a bit too late, but i never had much to say in the first place. but i would think you had the right idea. get the bulk done in photoshop, and touch it up with painter. good luck, and show dem pieces sucka!
Thanks anyway Steve. It's the thought that count's brotha.
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