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Speed Painting or Fast Foward Painting?

Aug 10, 2007 Graphics, Photoshop, Videos

You may have seen one of several popular YouTube videos of Nico Di Mattia and other great graphics designers creating photo-realistic portraits in photoshop that, thanks to time lapse video, appear to been done in minutes. According to Wikipedia, speed painting is an exercise, primarily digital, in which one paints on a time budget, using already developed methods to create a piece. Contrary to (somewhat) popular belief, “Speed Painting” is not the same as a time-lapse video of a painting.

The video of John Locke painting by Nico Di Mattia showed the painting was done less than 6 minutes, but actually the real time took 4 hours. So Nico Di Mattia’s paintings do not fall directly under the speed painting category, they are commonly associated with it due to the time-lapsed nature of the video. I would call it a fast foward video painting. But if I were able to paint John Locke in photoshop, it would take a month to finish it. So how did Nico Di Mattia paint in less a day?

To be able to paint like him, you need a graphic tablet with a cordless pen and a cordless mouse, that plugs into a USB port. Using a pen rather than a mouse for drawing on a computer give you the feel like you’re drawing naturally and makes creating fine detail much easier.

Head over to his website to see the techniques, tools, and tricks he uses.

And watch his latest 6.05 minutes speed painting videos of Bumblelee which the painting was done in 19 hours of working…amazing!

And another video by Spacepaintings which was done in 1 minute,
and what category shall this type of painting goes into do you think?
Speed spray painted painting? fast spray painting?

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