LASSO - Lasso Painting [Brainstorm School, Armand Serrano]
- Publisher
- Brainstorm School
- Product Type
- Video Course
- Author
- Armand Serrano
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 16:52
- Release date
- Mar 1, 2021
- Skill level
- Project Files
- Yes
- Product Price
- $175
A purely practical, technical, and highly popular course. The Lasso Tool in Photoshop is often underrated and seen merely as a selection tool. Brainstorm School turns it into a powerhouse for digital painting, allowing artists to outpace traditional brush rendering by miles.
Week-by-Week Breakdown (Approximate):
- Week 1: Edge Control (Hard vs. Soft Edges). Understanding graphic quality. How to use the lasso to instantly create perfectly crisp edges, combined with using a large soft brush inside the selection to render smooth volumetric gradients.
- Week 2: Working from Silhouette and Mass. Painting with masses instead of lines (sketches). Fast-carving the shape of a monster, robot, or cliffside and blocking it in with a base value.
- Week 3: Value Studies and Lighting. Utilizing selections to precisely apply light and shadow. The lasso allows you to illuminate exact planes and polygons of an object without worrying about bleeding over the edges.
- Weeks 4–5: Speedpainting and Detailing. Combining this technique with textured brushes and photobashing. Creating complex, clean, and highly detailed concept art (usually environments or hard-surface designs) in a minimal amount of time.
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