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Les archives sont l’endroit où je place des articles plus anciens qui ont encore de la valeur, des travaux qui ne sont plus d’actualité, mais pas obsolètes. Une écriture qui appartient à la longue chronologie du voyage, préservée parce qu’elle continue d’informer, d’inspirer et de se connecter à l’art que je crée aujourd’hui.

Archive

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A Quick and Easy Watercolor with Photoshop’s Art History Brush

Turn a flower photograph into a loose watercolour-style image with Photoshop’s Art History Brush. This archived tutorial sets up a painting surface, develops the background and flowers, and adds finishing touches without relying on the Watercolor filter.

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Tutorial: Paint a Portrait from Scratch

Begin a digital portrait with a drawing and a blank canvas rather than relying on photographic cloning. This archived Corel Painter project explores a more freehand approach, choosing colours and developing the painting from its underlying structure.

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Tutorial: Create Gold Jewelry with Photoshop, Part One

Turn clean black-and-white line art into the appearance of gold jewellery with Photoshop Layer Styles. This archived first installment develops a butterfly design using shading, gradients and surface effects inspired by Nathan Smith’s methods.

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Tutorial: Photorealistic Portrait of a Cat, Part 2

Complete the cat portrait by texturing the foliage and building fur in separate tonal layers. This archived continuation explains how saved selections and carefully observed hair detail contribute to a photorealistic digital painting.

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Tutorial: An Easier and Better Way to Create a Sketch

Create clean line art from a photograph using Photoshop’s Minimum filter. This archived tutorial develops a sketch through a sequence of layers and tonal changes, then explores a method for introducing colour.

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Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Pencil Drawing

Create a pencil-style rendering from a photograph through tonal preparation and Photoshop processing. This archived tutorial uses Topaz Adjust to develop a strong black-and-white source before building the drawing effect without manual sketching.

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Add Dramatic Lighting to Portraits

Reshape an evenly lit portrait with a Curves adjustment layer and a mask. This archived Photoshop tutorial builds dramatic side lighting while keeping the original image intact and leaving the strength of the effect open to refinement.

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Tutorial: Engraving Designs in Stone with Photoshop

Create the appearance of an engraved stone design from simple line art. This 2010 Photoshop tutorial explores lighting and surface effects as a way to introduce detailed carved decoration into a digital painting.

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Inspiration: Nathan Smith

An archived introduction to Nathan Smith’s intricate Photoshop and fractal artwork. The profile highlights his gold ornament, gemstones and layered designs, along with tutorials he shared to explain the techniques behind them.

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Tutorial: Create Gold Jewelry with Photoshop, Part Two

Add a gemstone and its setting to the gold butterfly begun in part one. This archived Photoshop tutorial builds on the existing line art and Layer Styles to give the central jewel colour, dimension and a polished finish.

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Tutorial: Painting Alla Prima with Corel Painter

Explore the direct, expressive approach of alla prima painting in a digital setting. This archived Corel Painter article discusses blocking in large shapes, using confident brushwork and developing a painting without becoming trapped by rigid outlines.

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Inspiration: Scott Deardorff

An archived profile of Scott Deardorff’s detailed digital portrait painting. The article looks at how refined brushwork, altered lighting and carefully rendered eyes can transform a photographic reference into a visibly painted image.

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