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Doing a Project from Start to Finish
By  Danny Staten
Introduction
This tutorial is not meant to be a claim that I am by any means the perfect artist. Nor is it to imply that any of the techniques I present are the only way to create things.
There has been some interest expressed in my doing a tutorial, and I rather enjoyed making a previous tutorial. Since I made the last tutorial, my methods have evolved drastically
so I have opted to create this new tutorial.
This tutorial will be extensive, covering everything from the initial creation phases of the piece titled Harmony all the way to the final product. For those of you who are more interested in
seeing a particular section of the tutorial, you can use the table of contents on this page to go to a specific section. For those of you who have the time to go through the whole tutorial,
I think many of you will find valuable things in each section.
Finally, I apologize for the copyright text over all the images. The piece I am doing the tutorial of is going to be a very rare card making the art, and all work associated with its creation
valuable. So I feel that I must take steps to protect it. I ask all who view this site to please respect copyright laws, and show some sort of appreciation for this tutorial simply by not
using any of these images at all.
Table of Contents
Taking your work to a new level: My rambling on what it takes to get where I hope to some day be as an artist.
Birth of a project: Initial sketches, planning, canvas preperation.
Painter Basics: Painters work space, pallates, tools etc.
Start Painting: Starting out.
The Planet: Steps to making the planet and creatures
The Deity: Steps to creating the deity
The Elements: Creating each element
Wrapping up: Final thoughts.
FARP Article Guestbook
| Date | Name | Comment | | | 14 May 2003 |  Kelly ´xeno_girl´ Wright | Wow! What a tremendous tutorial! For the past year or more I've been feeling rather lackluster in my art, like I'm so close to making an artistic breakthrough but don't know how! I think this tutorial has helped me realize how to make that breakthrough. You've helped me understand that it doesn't matter how good others' artwork is compared to mine, in fact there's no point in comparing, but that I can learn and better my art if I just try hard enough and devote the time. I can't wait for the challenges that lie ahead of me. Thank you so much for sharing your insights with all of us! | |
| 15 Jan 2004 |  Sandra J. Luthi | Thanks very much for this tutorial! It was great and very inspiring, I'm just about to start with a major artwork (for year 12) and this has been a very great help for me, so thanks! | |
| 10 Apr 2004 |  | I think you should stick to your tutorials.. much better than many others i've seen.. 5 stars | |
| 31 Jul 2004 | Anonymous | This was interesting, but it showed me how impatient I am. I have so many ideas on the run that I would never be able to finish anything if I followed your process. Any suggestions to satisfy my muse and be able to spend a proper amount of time on my artwork would be helpful. | |
| 28 Apr 2005 |  Amanda Jane Penrose | A very well written and detailed article. Like others, I realise now how impatient I am. Actually, I already knew it, but you might just have inspired me to actually do something about it  Thanks for all your hard work. | |
| 14 Jul 2005 | Michael <mmcclure79@gma...com> | OMG! This was absolutely amazing tutorial, just the type of thing I've been looking for. In fact the piece you used to illustrate your points has inspired me to do something similar. It really taught me alot and makes me want to do better. | |
| 5 Aug 2005 | UnKnown | Amazing article! I love it!  It has a heck of a lot of very good points (and very good artwork!), and it's clear and everything else...wonderful picture, and wonderful article! Thank you! ^_^ | |
| 11 Dec 2005 |  Emily Clarke | This is a really useful tutorial. I have recently started dabbling in digital art and found it great fun, although i have to admit, nothing beats being able to actually touch real paint and feel the layers through it. I've been using PSP7 for my pictures so far. Not having a perminent palette tool is quite annoying (if there is a tool i haven't found it yet) but i got round it by keeping blobs of colour on a new layer which i could delete afterwards. | |
| 24 Jan 2006 | Anonymous | Excellent work on this tutorial. But I would say that you should have been worked a little more on the legs of the human creature. | |
| 22 Aug 2006 |  Ele 'Beruthiel' J. | Whoo... best tutorial I've seen here on FARP so far!
I'm not terribly interested in digital art (for the moment, anyway...) but I have to say the most useful part of this tutorial was the first few sections where you talked about references and so on. I've been using references for most of my pictures, but not very confidently... and until now I thought lead-up sketches were a waste of time.
I think I'd convinced myself that professional artists just launched straight into artworks because they "knew" what to draw. Your story about your teacher was really helpful. I'll start doing proper lead-up sketches now... | |
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