Gumroad Tutorials List
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EDIT (3/26/16): This thread got too long to properly edit. Also it was getting a bit unruly. So we've moved it to the Polycount Wiki:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Gumroad_Tutorial_List
Please keep posting new gumroads here, any sales you all have, etc. Just my advice but to use your name or company name. Listing a tutorial by X42dogg does not tell the buyer anything about you. That's just my 2 cents though. The list will get updated either way. Even for X42dogg.
There's a ton of great Artists doing gumroad tutorials these days. Here's a list to get started. Feel free to post others that you know of (Some of these fit into multiple categories. I'll do the best I can) and I'll add them.
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http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Gumroad_Tutorial_List
Please keep posting new gumroads here, any sales you all have, etc. Just my advice but to use your name or company name. Listing a tutorial by X42dogg does not tell the buyer anything about you. That's just my 2 cents though. The list will get updated either way. Even for X42dogg.
There's a ton of great Artists doing gumroad tutorials these days. Here's a list to get started. Feel free to post others that you know of (Some of these fit into multiple categories. I'll do the best I can) and I'll add them.
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That will help (:
https://gumroad.com/danluvisiart
I assume gumroad will be really flooded in the coming weeks seeing its success with some of the big artists out there so some info on the content given wouldn`t be a bad thing.
i`m buying Rafael Grassettis collection and Maxim Verehin`s brushes/rendering tutorial first so i`ll try to give a small breakdown of the content once i`ve watched them.
I've purchased Kyle Websters brushes and really like them. He has a lot so it's a bit hard to comb through which to buy. He used to have a starter pack. I had purchased that one. It has a bit of every type of brush in there. This is the one https://gumroad.com/l/VajQa
The Will Terrell sketchbooks vary in price at times (free now). He's got some great work. Worth a $5 or $10 to me.
James Gurney is more on the set up of the painting than the painting itself. But it's James Fing Gurney. How can you not support him? He said he has a watercolor one coming in the fall as well.
Ryan's VERTEX ones are free and super amazing. Get those!
https://gumroad.com/l/zAGa
Also, wanted to make sure to point out that if you're doing video previews and sharing them around, you can add annotated links in YouTube that point directly to your Gumroad product page (or your profile page of all of your stuff). We're on the short list of sites that YouTube allows to link out to within a video itself. Less clicks for buyers.
Yeah!
i bought 2 tuts from Dominic Qwek - Cthulhu and Biomech sculpting, didn't watch them all yet, just quickly looked through. Although Dominic explains rather slowly and in detail, his video lessons not for begginer lvl. Custom UI and brush presets as bonus in zip file. Recommended for people who wants to see sculpt-techniques from cg guru and use them in own works.
I'll do a few this afternoon.
http://www.victory3d.com/3d-sculpting/
That being said if you made a central review spot for these style of tutorials, you would have a site of actual use.
and leave a review. Please show etiquette as you leave a review for each artist's videos. Meaning if there is anything you didn't like, speak about how they can improve the tutorial instead.
Also, if anything, there should be links to the portfolio of each artist, and a link to their main Gumroad page. Unless I am missing something ? I don't really understand the point of the page really ... Also, if I go check Luvisi's vids from this aggregation page I only get to see a few of his vids compared to his real Gumroad page ... It's confusing !
Victor Mosquera - Foundation Values.
Review:
I went into this one looking to see if he had any interesting information, seeing as he went out and made a video focusing purely on values, i thought perhaps he would have something interesting to say.
However, while he demonstrates the creation of a functional black and white image, the theory he dished out can be summed up as, value is relative and use contrast and silhouette to make stuff stand out.
Other than that the production of the video was adequate and he spoke cleanly and clearly.
Would you recommend it?
No, the content is too basic, and teaches skills learnt from analogy instead of teaching actual theory. Even for beginners there is much better content out there.
Thanks for the review. I'm open to suggestions and feedback. I think this whole gumroad thing is really taking off in a good way. I agree it's hard to tell which tutorials are good but at $5 average each, I honestly have no problem paying an artist just to check out his process and workflow.
That said, you can get ZBrush UI at www.creatureworkshop.org for free. You don't have to buy my tuts to use it.
Ysalex, Nice I'm sure teriyaki pointed you in the right direction, the only reason i ask is that focusing on area of 2d to start is probably a good idea. Like focusing on line based art is probably the best place to start as it cuts out having to think about rendering and light.
oh, it's curious. I thought ctrl+paint is one of the best resources for beginners :poly141: Have you watched it's premium videos?
https://gumroad.com/bruceconners
Concept Art:
https://gumroad.com/davidlojaya
https://gumroad.com/nickhiatt
https://gumroad.com/wavingmonster
https://gumroad.com/l/BhyY
Photoshop Brushes:
https://gumroad.com/l/shiyoonink
https://gumroad.com/uxds
Concept Art:
https://gumroad.com/k04sk
https://gumroad.com/jamajurabaev#_=_
https://gumroad.com/michalkus
https://gumroad.com/frankhong
Dave Rapoza : Bog Witch - from Sketch to Line Art to Finished Colors!
Dave goes over his process of creating his work in a "comicbook style" (linedrawing with stylized colorareas) , theres one video in there that does a quick overview of all his layers and the entire process of how he approaches the style he works in and then theres the videos in which he works on the witch piece from start to finish.
The summary video is short and to the point so people who dont want to watch the entire 5 hours of the other piece being created dont have to watch it.
In the long videos he goes over what he does and why he does it for each step , he explains some stuff on composition and his coloruse but it stays relevant to the piece he is working on so no indepth info but practical nonetheless . Next to the technical info he also discusses his views on the industry and why he does what he does in a more general sense.
also includes his brushes and the final layered psd
5 dollar is a steal for this ! must buy if you`re interested in character art
Max Verehin - Organic shape-making brush set
Pretty much is what it says it is
His brushes he used for making organic shapes, a video demonstrating it (without audio), A summary image of the steps and his final layered PSD
I'm gonna make a small review for the videos so far I've seen by Mr. Anthony Jones, who has quickly become one of my favorite artists in 2D.
First off buy Painting with Confidence, the mentality of drawing and painting is explained to well and so level with beginners to intermediate artists, it is insane. Anthony Jones knows how to explain the dilemmas you'll face as an illustrator/painter. Plus it's got some great advice on values, painting strokes and brushes all the stuff you need to feel comfortable in future. And even the second one is pretty great, and he goes more in depth and revisionist over the first video.
That's all I can really recall at the moment it is 5AM for me, but those two videos are great. I'll post my thoughts on other AJ or any other gumroad tutorials later if you need. Trust me I've been on a tear buying them..
If anyone has bought Maciej Kuciara's character illustration tutorials and watched them let me know how it is, cos I've come close to buying the full 40 dollar series off the bat just because I wanna get good at characters so badly.
https://gumroad.com/jamajurabaev
Good quality teaching, and a cool dude to boot. He is the young man's Bobby Chiu except instead of drawing creepy cute stuff, he just draws creepy stuff :P. (there are a LOT of parallels to the two guys approaches to art)
https://gumroad.com/l/KhqF
I really enjoyed it, and he did a great job getting across a lot of information.
While I'm not the most amazing painter out there, i do feel like i have a technical and scientifically correct model for lighting that a lot of the pros out there don't even have, things like methods on how to extrapolate out shadow colour from your local colour, a proper explanation on exposure, filtering, SSS, how to construct specular locations, how inverse square law is just an approximation that is only useful in specific cases. ect.
(not implying that the pro's don't know their stuff, it's just they usually learn via analogy and as such can't explain the knowledge in a way that makes logical scientific sense, and perhaps there is one out there that has made satisfactory learning material in this direction.... but i haven't found it yet.)
I have a few methods of presenting the information though.
Currently the way I'm inclined to do it is line drawn animations inter-spliced with video I'll shoot of the physics working in real life, followed by a practical application in a painting program.
A lot of the stuff I'm going to show actually contradicts a large proportion of the painting content out there, so i feel having the video proof would probably add a lot of weight to the video.
Also once i get it made i want to run it by a lot of pro's and see what they think of it before i put it up for sale.
How does that sound to you guys?