I was really, really hoping that this was going to be tutorials on how to use Photoshop to make graphics in the style of Leonard Da Vinci's Notebooks. But it very much wasn't
DaVinci Ice is part of the internet, he created very pretty Photoshop works for people with good taste. I spent days trying to photoshop like him, and when I saw the lighter he engraved I died. He was just too good.
I'll help you with Leonardo. Firstly, it is sad, but not everyone can afford Photoshop. And when we speak on the internet, we don't just reply to each other, but to all. So we must switch to an Open Source alternative here.
We have two influential programs GIMP, and Krita. While I love GIMP, there is something special inside Krita. The Image Reference Tool sits above the window, it allows you to stretch a "meta-layer" over the layers of your art.
Fury, Anger, Contempt, results.
The old artists turn in their graves. Leonardo becomes secretly green with envy, and Salvador Dalí is ready to rise with a "handful" to throw at the critics.
If you allow a young artist to stretch a reference image over the entire canvas, and set the opacity to 50%, and create a camera obscura, for free, and effortlessly.
If you allow a young artist to trace original photos under Krita... like Leonardo they will be able to study, the color, the cheeks, the invisible details.
Art has always called to you,
and art it is an important part of every human being.
And if someone ever tells you that what you do is not art,
know that they are mad, and you are free to invent your own movement.
bryanrasmussen the best way to study the way Leonardo DaVinci did, is to begin with hyper realism in Krita. And if you are not a fan of computers then just use a wall projector, and glass for mixing and testing your colors (place the glass over your reference image to match the color you are mixing).
As to replicating the Codex Leicester art style on paper search for "sanguine pencil" that will come really close, here you can project a face outline using a mini projector, often called a pico projector.
Don't let anybody trick you into practicing the face shape first, you learn or memorize that automatically as you jump past this step (with reference images or projectors) and dive right into the gentle shadows, right into giving outlines life.
Should this approach prove to be beneath you (or other commenters in here), help the little ones, anyway. Help children begin with hyperrealism, and unencumbered with shame of nonsense, as they are - they'll become great artists in no time.
This was one of the most surreal and irritating posts I’ve ever come across on hacker news.
Landing on a page that just says “ This site is formatted for viewing in 1024 x 768 or higher resolution.”
Followed by “ I am sickened by the recent
acts of terrorism inflicted upon thousands of
innocent people. You may scare us, but you
WILL NOT terrorize us.”
Then trying to Google DaVinci Ice, only for google to interpret my in-quotation search, as me looking for photoshop tutorials on how to make an ice effect. So thanks google…
Had I just read the broken html archive site further I would have seen I could enter the gallery without being on desktop. Through two redirects and an alert, mind you. Only to find that any of the tutorial links don’t load images, or require you to download an .exe
I’m not sure where this comment is going. This whole experience was weird and makes me long for days that I wasn’t even a part of. Thank you?
DaVinci's website is 25+ years old now. In some way the art is from the beginning of the earliest more creative websites.
1024x760, for some, is a statement that demands a decent computer. A lot of people had 800x600 resolution. And DaVinci Ice made it clear that his art required more.
I hate to say, but by internet standards the website is an archaeological artifact.
The web.archive.org link shows the last time the site was up. It is gone now. Goggle returns nothing. The subdomain return DNS errors.
As to the UX. Back then we used to put up these dumb a$$ door pages, before you entered a website. It is like a splash screen, in many ways.
And this was right after 9/11 so DaVinci Ice passionately, and angerly, put up the banner.
This is the world of the old Hacker Manifesto, my friend. Which is extremely valid today due to the nuclear threat just made on the free world.
I am sorry, but the past must not be forgotten. Even if it does not work well on modern gadgets.
Here is another piece of history, from that era, The Hacker manifesto in text, not crazy HTML goofyness.
I never knew who DaVinci Ice was, I just came across his work on the internet, and loved the colors and art so much, that I remembered to look him up 20+ years after that.
I also posted a link to Fravia, https://fravia.net/ which may even be more confusing.
(Ps, to me the modern web is broken, my general purpose computer can't handle javascript, I love my PI Zero and this other cheap $35 thing that can't render big images without crashing. I can't view many sites, most. And I only know instagram as a website with thots that was bough by facebook. I never got it to render on my screen and I don't care enough to pull it up on my desktop.)
I am sorry, I wish the website worked for you the way it used to in 2000. That art was amazing, still is.
I appreciate the further context you provided! Sincerely. I replied to your comment because I didn’t want my random thoughts outshining the post’s/your’s!
I didn’t mean my initial comment to be overly negative, though, reading back through it I can see how it can be. I was born in 1995. I wasn’t aware of the internet until much beyond that time, so I greatly appreciate posts like this, despite being held back by modern standards and modern search engines.
I’m a designer at heart. I absolutely adore old internatage, the weirdness and frustration upon finding this post were within context. This all is so old to modern-day life that having to work through examining and processing it is a task within itself, and an enjoyable at that. Especially if anyone else is like me and only uses their phone during the weekends to read hackernews!
I got a lot of enjoyment going through the archive webpage links as they are on a phone, but come Monday, it’ll definitely be the first thing I peruse :)
There are actually ready-made Photoshop actions for this (search for downloads).
Personally, I was hoping for flow diagrams in mirror writing on how to device an image editing software and a folio with some neat illustrative drawings about its intended use. (Oh, is this actually what the Voynich manuscript is all about?) ;-)
"Despite its 3D appearance, this interface is 100% hand painted in Adobe Photoshop 5.0 using the airbrush tool. No plugins of any kind were used. All shading and highlights are carefully applied by hand. Although very time consuming, this method affords the artist greater control as opposed to letting the computer decide how it should look. ;)"
Photoshop 5 came out in 1998, so this maybe 25 years old. It is still really good, it makes me want to install enlightenment and play with the settings:
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 35.6 ms ] threadI'll help you with Leonardo. Firstly, it is sad, but not everyone can afford Photoshop. And when we speak on the internet, we don't just reply to each other, but to all. So we must switch to an Open Source alternative here.
We have two influential programs GIMP, and Krita. While I love GIMP, there is something special inside Krita. The Image Reference Tool sits above the window, it allows you to stretch a "meta-layer" over the layers of your art.
Fury, Anger, Contempt, results.
The old artists turn in their graves. Leonardo becomes secretly green with envy, and Salvador Dalí is ready to rise with a "handful" to throw at the critics.
If you allow a young artist to stretch a reference image over the entire canvas, and set the opacity to 50%, and create a camera obscura, for free, and effortlessly.
If you allow a young artist to trace original photos under Krita... like Leonardo they will be able to study, the color, the cheeks, the invisible details.
Come to RGD https://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn/ grab a image of the face, make sure you have pen and tablet, and trace.
Day by day, you can build your own Codex Leicester by tracing one one side, and note taking on the other.
Search for "how to sell digital art" and platforms that allow you to put up paywalls, and teach others how to build their own Codex Leicester.
Do not let lairs trick you out of the practice of art, by convincing you that you must immediately know how to draw a face.
They are using imperfect techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaDogDQdpws
You are more than mnemonics, you are a genius, always have been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQPEZdBTOeE
Art has always called to you, and art it is an important part of every human being.
And if someone ever tells you that what you do is not art, know that they are mad, and you are free to invent your own movement.
bryanrasmussen the best way to study the way Leonardo DaVinci did, is to begin with hyper realism in Krita. And if you are not a fan of computers then just use a wall projector, and glass for mixing and testing your colors (place the glass over your reference image to match the color you are mixing).
As to replicating the Codex Leicester art style on paper search for "sanguine pencil" that will come really close, here you can project a face outline using a mini projector, often called a pico projector.
Don't let anybody trick you into practicing the face shape first, you learn or memorize that automatically as you jump past this step (with reference images or projectors) and dive right into the gentle shadows, right into giving outlines life.
Should this approach prove to be beneath you (or other commenters in here), help the little ones, anyway. Help children begin with hyperrealism, and unencumbered with shame of nonsense, as they are - they'll become great artists in no time.
Landing on a page that just says “ This site is formatted for viewing in 1024 x 768 or higher resolution.”
Followed by “ I am sickened by the recent acts of terrorism inflicted upon thousands of innocent people. You may scare us, but you WILL NOT terrorize us.”
Then trying to Google DaVinci Ice, only for google to interpret my in-quotation search, as me looking for photoshop tutorials on how to make an ice effect. So thanks google…
Had I just read the broken html archive site further I would have seen I could enter the gallery without being on desktop. Through two redirects and an alert, mind you. Only to find that any of the tutorial links don’t load images, or require you to download an .exe
I’m not sure where this comment is going. This whole experience was weird and makes me long for days that I wasn’t even a part of. Thank you?
1024x760, for some, is a statement that demands a decent computer. A lot of people had 800x600 resolution. And DaVinci Ice made it clear that his art required more.
I hate to say, but by internet standards the website is an archaeological artifact.
The web.archive.org link shows the last time the site was up. It is gone now. Goggle returns nothing. The subdomain return DNS errors.
As to the UX. Back then we used to put up these dumb a$$ door pages, before you entered a website. It is like a splash screen, in many ways.
And this was right after 9/11 so DaVinci Ice passionately, and angerly, put up the banner.
This is the world of the old Hacker Manifesto, my friend. Which is extremely valid today due to the nuclear threat just made on the free world.
I am sorry, but the past must not be forgotten. Even if it does not work well on modern gadgets.
Here is another piece of history, from that era, The Hacker manifesto in text, not crazy HTML goofyness.
http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/7/3.txt
And here is Loyd Blankenship himself, with annoying microphone noise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tEnnvZbYek
I never knew who DaVinci Ice was, I just came across his work on the internet, and loved the colors and art so much, that I remembered to look him up 20+ years after that.
I also posted a link to Fravia, https://fravia.net/ which may even be more confusing.
It breaks my heart to know he passed away in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia
(Ps, to me the modern web is broken, my general purpose computer can't handle javascript, I love my PI Zero and this other cheap $35 thing that can't render big images without crashing. I can't view many sites, most. And I only know instagram as a website with thots that was bough by facebook. I never got it to render on my screen and I don't care enough to pull it up on my desktop.)
I am sorry, I wish the website worked for you the way it used to in 2000. That art was amazing, still is.
I didn’t mean my initial comment to be overly negative, though, reading back through it I can see how it can be. I was born in 1995. I wasn’t aware of the internet until much beyond that time, so I greatly appreciate posts like this, despite being held back by modern standards and modern search engines.
I’m a designer at heart. I absolutely adore old internatage, the weirdness and frustration upon finding this post were within context. This all is so old to modern-day life that having to work through examining and processing it is a task within itself, and an enjoyable at that. Especially if anyone else is like me and only uses their phone during the weekends to read hackernews!
I got a lot of enjoyment going through the archive webpage links as they are on a phone, but come Monday, it’ll definitely be the first thing I peruse :)
Personally, I was hoping for flow diagrams in mirror writing on how to device an image editing software and a folio with some neat illustrative drawings about its intended use. (Oh, is this actually what the Voynich manuscript is all about?) ;-)
so static and light
"Despite its 3D appearance, this interface is 100% hand painted in Adobe Photoshop 5.0 using the airbrush tool. No plugins of any kind were used. All shading and highlights are carefully applied by hand. Although very time consuming, this method affords the artist greater control as opposed to letting the computer decide how it should look. ;)"
Photoshop 5 came out in 1998, so this maybe 25 years old. It is still really good, it makes me want to install enlightenment and play with the settings:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020203085841/http://enlightenm...
I can’t imagine anyone who’s 25 or younger wrapping their head around this. It’s from an entirely different age.
Here is Eric's Freedom Downtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN4fCK23Srk
Captain Crunch, and Woz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FufYSx2_6Bg
Evil Society Whose Plot Was To Control The Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDk82bLYscg
Spot a fed 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMHZ4qQuYyE
And Loyd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tEnnvZbYek
(Wasn't there a huge documentary about Legion Of Doom, or was that a book?)