Photomanips for Beginners by kuschelirmel, journal
Photomanips for Beginners
What is a photomanipulation?
Photomanipulations are images that have been composed of two or more photographic elements to create something new.
This is what the gallery description states. But what does it mean?
It means that a photomanipulation is based on photographs.
Not sketches scanned in (like line art for example) or screenshots from a video game. However, if you scan a photograph or for example dried flowers, it would be considered a photograph; while a photograph taken of line art still remains a sketch and is not consiered a photograph. Video game screenshots are copyrighted images btw and as such cannot be used at all.
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Painting Backgrounds - Video Tutorials by Digital-Coloring, journal
Painting Backgrounds - Video Tutorials
The background behind your character can make the difference between a piece of character art and a work of art. The background tells the viewer a lot about what the character is doing.
For example, picture an image of Conan the Barbarian or another of your favorite warriors. If you created him standing in front of a desert sunset you may think he is in his homeland feeling clam and serene. Take the same image of him but picture him in front of frozen mountains and trees. Now you may picture him on some epic adventure. Finally, picture him in front of some kind of abstract background made of colored squares on pure black. You probably would