George Lucas Painting Video!
posted by SEILER at 7:34 PM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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SEILER (Syler) is an award winning artist (who cares?), specializing in portraits, character design, and humorous illustration. Some of his clients include Rolling Stone, TIME magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Penguin Group, GOLF magazine, Guitar Player, The Weekly Standard, Business Week, MAD magazine and the Village Voice, among many others. SEILER also teaches drawing and painting high end caricature illustration at Schoolism.com When not drawing or painting, SEILER spends the rest of his time with his two gorgeous girls, Isabeau and Ava!
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35 Comments:
THAT was the coolest thing ever!
HEy Jason! You freakin rock! that was sweet!
wow man amaizing caricatures! benja
i'm just going to let everyone know that that song was ACTUALLY playing the entire time he was painting.
hahahahaaaa....I can believe it roderick!!!! Sounds like Jason was in character to do caricature!
wonderful, Jason...nice way to end off my special day today watching this...! I feel blessed!
love ya kid
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Stunning work Jason! Thanks for sharing this! Silly question having seen it - but how exactly do you transfer the drawing? (do you cover the back in graphite / charcoal)? May the force be with you young Seiler!
Well, Mister, I'm very impressed...
Thank you for sharing all these but same question ; what's exactly this way to transfer your first sketch on your paper ? (if you dare sharing all your secrets with some french drawers too...)
Thank you for everything, anyway.
truly amazing work.
Thanks for sharing.
Amazing Jason.
COOOOOOOOOOOOL .loved the camera angles. this was very cool my friend~T
Thank you so much everyone, I'm really glad you all liked it! The video was filmed by my friend Nathan, he edited it, put the music and everything all on his own . . . then surprised me with it! I think he did a great job!
As for how I transfer my images to the canvas . . . besides using the force, which I highly reccomend . . . . . . . . . I use old typewriter paper, the black on the back transers quite well . . . then I just beguin painting. The nice thing is that I can re-use the typewriter paper over and over again, I'm not sure if they make it anymore. It was given to me as a gift and I've made use of it ever since.
Thanks for the tips Jason! I half expect to see paintbrushes floating at your will in the next video!
Well, thanks a lot, Mister Seiler.
So simple that I couldn't think of it.
The Force, the old typewriter paper AND ... your talent, of course.
I'm a great fan.
Have a nice day.
Wow, that was fun. It was better than Episode one.
Truly spectacular!
Great tutorial(and amazing work)
NICE!!!
To anyone who can't find typewriter paper, Saral makes a transfer paper that's works really well and is reuseable. Make sure u look at the color before buying though. White is kind of useless.
A pleasure to watch! I've never seen one of those sticks you use to keep your hand off the canvas. What's that white thing at the end of it? Can you buy those, or did you make it?
awesome! Thanks for posting this. I love watching other artists at work.
Friggin' awesome!
When I used the stuff once upon a time, it was called _carbon paper_. It was easier to find in office supply stores than art stores, although these days anything is possible (since nobody actually TYPES anymore).
You can fake it by rubbing powdered graphite into a sheet of paper to use instead. Lay the graphite side against the painting surface, lay the sketch onto that, and burnish away.
Great work, by the way, and a really fun video. Well done! And yeah, Empire is one of the best soundtracks of the last thirty years, hands down.
-Allen
www.livinglightning.com
Dan, the stick thing is called a painting mahl. I use it to lay over my painting so I can steady my hand and paint in details. They cost about $30 in stores . . . I made mine for about $2, just bought a rod from ACE and some make up pads from the grocery store, then duct taped it to the top and put another pad over the padded duct tape . . . cheap and works perfectly!
Thanks again everyone, really glad you enjoyed it!
do you do this all in one run, or do you dry the layers in between?
Willz,
The George Lucas was done in layers . . . usually I paint wet into wet.
-Jason
that was greatness!
Jason, very nice work. I enjoyed seeing the process. One picky little question though. Do you always work with a lamp on the right side or was that more for camera lighting? I used to have the lamp on my right and my hand would cast a shadow onto what I was painting. Finally a buddy asked why the hell I was doing that. Anyway, fantastic stuff, keep it up.
That was pretty damn beautiful. I can tell a heck of a lot of work went into developing those skills, well done.
Were you using oil paint or acrylic?
how long did it take to paint in total??
wow........
wow !!! your work is very good man !!!
I am mexican cartoonist and your work it is wanderful!!
amazing..he is a great artist no doubt.
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May the talent be with you!
Really great- thanks for sharing your process-
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