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Showing posts with label William Low. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Low. Show all posts
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Scenes from Saturday's Book Signing
Sandwiched in-between Jerry Pinkney's keynote and and the Networking Buffet Dinner, Beth Kephart, Kendra Levin, Rafael Lopez, William Low, Kate Messner, and Linda Sue Park signed their books for appreciative attendees!
Friday, July 30, 2010
William Low - Publishing Pixels: Picture Book Illustration in the Digital Age
William Low is the illustrator and writer of some gorgeous picture books, including Machines Go To Work, Old Penn Station, and Chinatown, just to name a few. He has been teaching painting and illustration for over 20 years. Low's illustrations are beautifully painted, and considering the painterly style, it's pretty surprising that he works completely digitally. He switched to digital 15 years ago. Today, in session 1 of his 4-part SCBWI workshop, he'll be giving an intro to Photoshop painting.
Right off the bat, we have a document to refer to with a list of some highly useful shortcuts, as well as an overview of the layers palette. I took Low's session a while back at a New York winter conference, and I found the info on the document so helpful that I took the document to work with me and referred to it for some time, until I had almost all of the shortcuts memorized. He also hands out some files on flash drives for us to use during the session.
Low starts off by quickly taking us through his process using a sample from his book, Willy & Max. The start of his process involves photo references and models, which he paints over in Photoshop. Amazing to see a piece take shape from beginning to end!
We review some basic shortcuts. Low notes that it's not necessarily important to memorize every single shortcut, but rather the ones that you use the most.
Using some shortcuts and one of the files he handed out to the class, we learn how to create a really beautiful and painterly gradient. This looks so much more natural than simply filling a space with a Photoshop gradient. We also take a look at a file and discuss the importance of using layers efficiently, as well as some new functions in CS4 and 5.
This has been a great refresher course in basic Photoshop functions, and a reminder that it really is possible to create painterly images in Photoshop. I'd definitely suggest this intro session to Photoshop beginners and anyone who wants to bring a more natural, painted style into their Photoshop work. Can't wait to see what else Low will cover in the other sessions!
Right off the bat, we have a document to refer to with a list of some highly useful shortcuts, as well as an overview of the layers palette. I took Low's session a while back at a New York winter conference, and I found the info on the document so helpful that I took the document to work with me and referred to it for some time, until I had almost all of the shortcuts memorized. He also hands out some files on flash drives for us to use during the session.
Low starts off by quickly taking us through his process using a sample from his book, Willy & Max. The start of his process involves photo references and models, which he paints over in Photoshop. Amazing to see a piece take shape from beginning to end!
We review some basic shortcuts. Low notes that it's not necessarily important to memorize every single shortcut, but rather the ones that you use the most.
Using some shortcuts and one of the files he handed out to the class, we learn how to create a really beautiful and painterly gradient. This looks so much more natural than simply filling a space with a Photoshop gradient. We also take a look at a file and discuss the importance of using layers efficiently, as well as some new functions in CS4 and 5.
This has been a great refresher course in basic Photoshop functions, and a reminder that it really is possible to create painterly images in Photoshop. I'd definitely suggest this intro session to Photoshop beginners and anyone who wants to bring a more natural, painted style into their Photoshop work. Can't wait to see what else Low will cover in the other sessions!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
William is offering a Premium Workshop called PUSHING PIXELS: PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE .
Here's a bit from Jaime's post in which she offers a nice roundup of previous TEAM BLOG interviews with a number of the amazing Summer Conference speakers.
Click here to read the full post.
More great pre-conference interviews popping up all over. Jolie's been talking to Ginger Clark, Arthur Levine. Suzanne's chatted with Rachel Vail. Lee's whooped it up with Paul Fleischman. Alice has gabbed with Jennifer Rees, Francesco Sedita. And Martha Brockenbrough brought down the INTERVIEW HAMMER—Mac Barnett, Rubin Pfeffer, Gennifer Choldenko, Greg Pincus, and Gail Carson Levine.
You've read all about Mac McCool here on CocoaStomp. So it is with great pleasure that I add another name to the pre-conference interview pile of goodness, William Low!
And after reading this, you may think, dang, I wish I could sit in on this workshop series. And the good news is, you still have time to sign up for it! A few spots are left, but they are dwindling fast.
The conference is only about two weeks away--and TEAM BLOG will be and bringing full conference coverage your way!
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