New website

Ill be moving this blog. If you have me linked. PLEASE update my link.

http://www.benjaminplouffe.com

THANKS for all the comments!

IM still trying to fix some things on the website. The comments seem to be broken right now. Im looking into it! Thanks for looking

UPDATE: Everything should be running fine now!

ducky lives

New ducky image added!

bock

The Furnace #2

Heres something more finished and refined. Was gonna hold off posting this one until i have more images done in the series BUT ill be away for a little while.

sunday afternoon doodle

Ducky reload

New Ducky image. Its an inbetween of 2 earlier paintings. Simple one i wanted to add for a while. You can see where it fits in on the Lost Ducky blog.

Setup

Heres a picture of my apt work space. Small desk. 10 year old wacom intuos 1 first generation ( Thanks wacom for good product.) Dell computer 4 gigs of ram 3 ghz dual core. Mac Keyboard and 25.5 inch samsung screen. 40 inch sansung lcd tv standing on a chair and a ps3 underneath for blurays. A canon scanner i rarely use.

Screen Shot of my photoshop setup. This is photoshop cs4, its pretty much like cs3 except for the adjustment panels on the left side and a few different icon positions on the top menu. This is what i find is a comfortable setup for me. My layers, tool presets, brushes and paths are all in the same box just different tabs. Easy for me to access and go intbetween tools. I keep the adjustment tab above that since i use Ajustment layers quite often. Top colour tab is setup to HSB colours. TO me thats the only logical way to paint in photoshop. I always thought picking colours by clicking the foreground colour box was wasted time and also not accurate.

The painting you see there is an early work in progress for a personla project.

As for tools i use in photoshop. I use the Paintbrush, Eraser, Pen tools ( mostly the freeform pentool) , The gradient tool in combination with the quickmask tool, Ajustment layers, Clipping Mask layers and sometimes the smudge tool. I might do a tutorial on several photoshop tools such as the Pen tool , clipping masks, custom brushes ect. Introduction to the basics.