From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch
- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland, welcome to Deke's Techniques. I've always been a fan of 20th century art, but recently I got hooked on abstract art. That is art that is abstracted from organic or figurative forms. Like this figure here. A head does not have to be a head, a leg does not have to be a leg, a thing we cannot speak of can be a thing that we can. Which is why today I'm going to show you how to paint like Joan Miro. Joan, I'm sure I'm butchering his name, but it's actually two syllables, because he was Catalonian and this is his 1978 painting Figure, star. Now this isn't the real thing, this is my painting of it, because I'm painting like Joan Miro. Could be something altogether different, but still so Miro. Now I'll be painting inside an app called Adobe Photoshop Sketch running on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. As with any app, especially one from Adobe, it might not be around anymore by the time you watch this, which is why you can use any drawing or painting app that you like. Or you can use Photoshop combined with a Wacom tablet or Photoshop on the Mac along with an iPad as a second display. There are all kinds of options. So don't get hung up on the tools, get hung up on the art. Here, let me show you exactly how this, the thing you see beside me know, works. So here we are inside Photoshop looking at that artwork once again that I drew based on the piece Figure, star by Joan Miro. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my iPad, but it could just as easily be an Android device, and I'll launch Adobe Sketch, which as you can see here, is also called Adobe Photoshop Sketch. Although you could be working with some other drawing application. And then I'll open this project here and I'll create a new document by tapping the plus sign in the bottom right corner of the screen and then I'll go up to the top left corner and select my iPad Pro Landscape setting right there and I will create a new document. Now you should know that because I'm left-handed I've set things up a little differently, so that the brushes appear on the right-hand side of the screen and the layers appear on the left-hand side. Now I'm going to start things off with this second to top pen, this guy right here. Notice that I've set the color to black, which is very important, and I've gone ahead and made the size of the brush a little bigger and you can do that just by dragging on this size bubble here. And notice if I tap this little settings icon down at the bottom we are working with the Ink Pen. Now I'm going to switch to the full screen by tapping this icon in the top right corner of the screen, which goes ahead and hides the interface. And now I'll go ahead and draw a kind of body. Now notice it's a little lumpy, not very happy with that brush stroke. And so if you want to undo something in Adobe Sketch you just do a two finger drag to the left. And in my case I've got to do so three times in a row. So two finger drag from the right to the left. And then I'll go ahead and try to see if I can draw something that's a little smoother. And sometimes Sketch has a tendency of delivering blobs of paint every once in a while, so I'll just go ahead and make this side a little thicker, just by drawing it in. And again, I'm working with an Apple Pencil, so this happens to be a second generation Pencil, which allows for pressure sensitive input and you can draw it directly on the surface of the tablet, which is totally awesome, of course. And I'll go ahead and make this guy thicker as well. And I have to say that I have been doing a lot of drawing on my iPad recently and I am just loving it. All right, so that's the body, let's say. Now I'm going to draw a kind of neck and I'm going to have it come down a little bit and end with this kind of blob of a head. So obviously we're not going for anything even mildly resembling realism. Instead I'm trying to communicate in that line and dot language that Miro pioneered. And so I'll go ahead and give this guy some kind of cartoon feet right here. Maybe make them a little thicker at the end, like so. And that helps to give this guy a kind of action stance, as if he's almost falling over. All right, now I'll draw that other blob that appears over on the left hand side of the figure, perhaps the sun, don't know. And then I'll go ahead and draw a star. Now in the case of the actual piece, Figure, Star, Miro created an eight-pointed star. I'm just going to create a six pointed star, so that it's a kind of asterisk in the sky. All right, I'm going to go ahead and bring back the interface by tapping that top right icon once again. And this time I'm going to switch brushes by clicking on the brush icon up there at the top and then selecting this top brush, which by default is Graphite, by the way. You can see it right here, Graphite Pencil. And I want it to be a little bigger, so I'll just go ahead and drag the size up. I'm happy enough with the color. And now I just want to create kind some extra lines down here at this location in order to fill out the artwork. And it's almost as if we're painting in some kind of depth where the body is concerned. Now notice if I zoom in here you can see that I'm making some of the details lighter, because I'm painting with gray, as opposed to black. Now I can go ahead and change that color if I want to by tapping on the color circle right there and taking it down to black, like so. And then I might go ahead and reduce the size of my brush and paint in some black graphite, like so, but we're still going to have that problem where I'm lightening the artwork in the background. What I want to do at this point is multiply those brush strokes, but I went ahead and painted them on that same layer, which is really a problem. So what I'm going to do is undo all those graphite strokes by tapping on this undo icon right here, which is going to bring up this clock, and I'll tap on the clock. And now notice that you can drag back and you can go very far back indeed if you want to, or then you can go forward in time until I'm seeing that first graphite brush stroke, that's the bad stroke, so I'll go ahead and undo this point here. And then I'll add a layer by tapping on the plus sign above the layers over here on the left-hand side of the screen and selecting Sketch Layer. Image Layer is if you want to import a photographic image, by the way. We just want to draw, so I'll tap Sketch Layer. And now I'll try again. I'm going to reduce the size of my brush a little bit more and then I'm just going to go ahead and paint in these brush strokes right here. Now that they're black they're not really lightening the brush strokes on the background, so we don't have to worry about the multiply blend mode, but we do have the option of changing the mode if we want to and I'll show you what that looks like in just a moment. But first I'm just going to go ahead and paint this stuff right here, let's say. And maybe paint around into this region and I'm going to fill in some of this light detail in the top right corner of the body. Not sure if you saw what I was doing there, but in any event, maybe I'll add a little bit of a graphite brush stroke here too. And then let's say it was gray as opposed to black and you wanted to make sure you were multiplying things in, then you would tap on that Sketch Layer thumbnail right there in order to bring up this Sketch Layer panel and see the word Normal? Just tap on it and you have access to all of the blend modes that are available to you inside Photoshop. So I'll go ahead and tap Multiply here and I should say, I'm recording this thing a couple of months in advance. I don't know if Adobe Sketch will still be out there. That just occurred to me. We may have Photoshop running on the iPad by then, that is supposed to happen at some point. So again, you can use any app that you like. All right, now you may recall that the original artwork features a couple of squares, one red and one yellow. And so I'm going to create those on an independent layer by tapping on the little plus sign. Now, of course, Miro did not have access to layers, so in a way I'm cheating. All he had was acrylic paint that he kept layering on top of the canvas. So this is a great example of how technology helps us. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and switch back to the Ink Pen right there, that second guy, tap on it again in order to bring up these options. Tap on the color and drag this guy all the way out to the right-hand side and then increase the brightness, so that we have red. And now I'll just go ahead and hide that guy. And I'll paint in a square right about at this location. Now I'm not interested in getting an exact square or altogether filling it in for that matter either. I'm going to reduce the size of my brush and have a little bit of fun with this guy. So we want to keep things expressive, again, we're not shooting for anything resembling realism at this point. And I might even go ahead and drag this guy down a little bit, like so. And then maybe fill it in a little more, like this. So it's really up to you how your shapes look in the end. All right, now I'm going to tap the color again and this time I'm going to drag up, so that we have a shade of yellow. And I'll go ahead and create another square at this location here and fill it in with a little obvious gestural detail here. And something like this I think looks pretty nice. And now, just to center my artwork on screen I'll just give it a pinch, like that, so a two finger pinch. And then I'll go ahead and switch to the full screen mode, so that we can take in what we've created so far. And that's at least one way to paint like Joan Miro, in my case, armed with an iPad Pro running Adobe Photoshop Sketch. If you're a member of LinkedIn Learning I have two, count them, two followup movies in which I take my artwork so far and I add a kind of watercolor wash of a background. And then I'll show you how to sign your artwork as if you were Joan Miro himself to create this final masterpiece. Excited? I am too. Deke's Techniques, each and every week, keep watching.
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Contents
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767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 20191m
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768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern9m 5s
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769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns6m 56s
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770 Coloring your mandala pattern7m 48s
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771 The final full-color mandala6m 27s
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772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode1m 1s
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773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode3m 21s
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774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 20196m 30s
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775 Applying a global edit from the control panel4m 8s
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776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 20198m 29s
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777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines8m 10s
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778 Freeform gradient limitations6m 29s
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779 Crop and develop a great white shark8m 54s
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780 Sharpening your great white shark6m 11s
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781 Low vibrance and high saturation9m 3s
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782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness9m 11s
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783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop1m
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784 Recording an action to play all actions9m 37s
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785 Draw something, color the outlines8m 46s
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786 Combining multiple works of line art7m 3s
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787 Group your line art, clip to the group4m 9s
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788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop6m 32s
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789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 20191m
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790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop1m 59s
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791 The White Walker begins9m 25s
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792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop3m 58s
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793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin8m 37s
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794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows6m 21s
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795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop5m 57s
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796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes10m 46s
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797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils6m 40s
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798 Adding a cold and gloomy background12m 18s
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799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes6m 25s
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800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option5m 29s
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801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask8m 35s
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802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw6m 20s
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803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop14m 37s
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804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream8m 45s
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805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters6m 37s
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806 Combining distortions with blend modes10m 5s
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807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space12m 48s
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808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern8m 27s
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809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator6m 57s
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810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator4m 31s
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811 Making one pattern fade into another6m 23s
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812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer1m 35s
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813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator14m 55s
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814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers7m 23s
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815 Aligning your many gobstoppers5m 54s
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816 Blending line textures in Illustrator12m 58s
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817 Combining object blends with a pattern8m 40s
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818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects9m 52s
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819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern5m 36s
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820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator7m 33s
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821 Positioning the tips of your arrows7m 17s
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822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern8m 50s
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823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair5m 50s
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824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye8m 6s
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825 Adding windows to the houses pattern10m 46s
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826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern4m 32s
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827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels6m 58s
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828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern7m 18s
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829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels7m 55s
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830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels3m 20s
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831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends6m 18s
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832 The downside of using blends in patterns3m 35s
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833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator9m 49s
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834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients4m 3s
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835 Painting paths with opposing gradients13m 51s
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836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator6m 42s
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837 Drawing an impossible hex object14m 8s
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838 Creating impossible latticework5m 46s
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839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch9m 46s
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840 Painting a watercolor wash background8m 23s
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841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró4m 17s
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842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop9m 1s
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843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size11m 5s
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844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?14m 10s
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845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene11m 47s
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846 Painting a Rorschach background9m 22s
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848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?10m 4s
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847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop10m 35s
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849 Hand turkey 20191m 56s
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850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad10m 6s
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851 Drawing a highly articulated hand9m 50s
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852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand12m 33s
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853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails9m 3s
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854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey9m 6s
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855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers13m 30s
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856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?11m 14s
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857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad13m 6s
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858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 29m 13s
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859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 310m 17s
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