Digital Art Show

via Newsvine - Digital images of all Rembrandt’s work on show.

I’d like to see this…

The life work of Rembrandt — all 317 known paintings, 285 etchings and more than 100 drawings — go on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to recreate the works as they emerged from the artist’s studio rather than as they exist today.

In some ways, the high resolution images are more authentic than the real paintings, said Ernst van de Wetering, a leading Rembrandt scholar who supervised the project.

Employing computer wizardry, pieces of canvas or panel that were sliced off centuries ago have been patched back on. Colors are restored to the vibrancy they had when they came off the master’s brush. Details hidden in darkness because of aging pigments emerge into view.

“The Complete Rembrandt, Life Size” exhibition opens Sunday in the former Amsterdam Stock Exchange building and runs through Sept. 7.

Computer Arts - Master 3D texturing and rendering.

Another cool tutorial from Computer Arts mag.

The new version of Photoshop makes importing and handling 3D files a snap. Justin Maller shows you how to go about texturing and integrating 3D with your composition

Korean Cultural Centre exhibits the Korean art of Manwha cartooning | Culture24.

Picture courtesy Korea Creative Content Agency

Exhibition: MANHWA 100: Centenary of Korean Comics, Korean Cultural Centre, London, until June 24 2009

When it comes to the Asian comics scene most of us have heard of the Japanese art of Manga, but in Korea they boast their own equally distinctive and highly influential form of cartooning called Manwha, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on June 2 2009.

Computer Arts - Using blends to create depth.

Working with vectors needn’t be flat, says Sara Haraigue, if you know how to breathe life into them through dynamic use of Illustrator and Photoshop

It’s important to know the possibilities offered by blends, gradients and masks for lighting your graphic compositions and adding depth of colour to detailed shapes within them.

And this tutorial will show you just what you can do with the tools available in Photoshop and Illustrator

A perfect example of good work leading to an inpressive client portfolio, London-based, Japanese artist Yuko Kondo has a website full of great images and good to see she exhibits prints and murals in plenty of galleries too.

The image here is for Merrydown, other clients include Nike, Coca Cola, Eurostar, Virgin, Orange etc. etc.

http://www.yukokondo.com

Computer Arts - Graduate Showcase 2009: call for entries.

Submissions are open to final-year students on graduate design programmes across the globe in the following categories:

Illustration & 2D
Graphic Design
3D Artwork
Web & Interactive Media
Animation
Video & Broadcast

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 19 June 2009.

For Presenters > SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 encourages artists, educators, engineers, filmmakers, innovators producers, researchers, and scientists throughout the world to submit their work for presentation in Yokohama, 16-19 December 2009.

Please review the program overviews and begin planning your submission. If you have questions about the programs or the types of work they are inviting, please contact the program chairs or myself. We will do our best to answer your questions and provide all the information you need to prepare a successful submission.

We look forward to learning how your recent achievements are contributing to the pulse of innovation.

Digital Artist 2009.

Digital Artist 2009 is a brand new competition for anyone with a passion for digital art and design from across the globe. It aims to inspire, recognise and reward the highest standards of digital art across a range of genres and categories from concept art, illustration, architectural visualisation, and animation to character design and videogame art.

The competition is organised by leading art and design magazines: Computer Arts, Computer Arts Projects, ImagineFX, 3D World and .net. You can find out more about the magazines on their official websites: www.computerarts.co.uk, www.imaginefx.com, www.3dworldmag.com, and www.netmag.co.uk.

Digital Artist 2009 is pleased to work in association with Intel as the official partner for competition.

There are thirteen categories to choose from and you may choose to enter a total of five submissions across all of them. The submission process is web-based. The competition is open for entries until the end of August, when a panel of judges will select the category winners and runners-up.

We have closed the gallery pages for the time being, we need to do some work on the software. Hopefully they’ll reappear soon but we are unlikely to be running any more of the online exhibtions.

Instead we will concentrate on showcasing on the main blog pages any good, interesting digital artists we discover.

So keep watching.

Making of Twisted Mind of Puyuh.

Leong Wan Kok has featured on Digital Show in the past, now for CG Arena he describes how he created this fascinating picture…

Hi, I’m WanKok. I have been involved in art industry for almost 12 years. Over my career path, I’ve been exposed to different techniques of creating digital art work for game industry, post production and publishing company. These experiences have somehow helped build up my personal way of rendering a scenes. In this tutorial, I’m happy to share my techniques and will walk you through the many steps I take, from initial conceptual work to final rendering.

Basically, this tutorial divides into 5 main sections: Brain Storming; Prior to Coloring; Coloring; Texturing; Final Touch Up. Each step of the way will be accompanied by WIP art works and shall also explain the tools and methods I used.

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