DarkHero_ Painting Tutorial
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Hi,
Here is a tutorial/step-by-step of my latest painting. Just thought I d share it with you guys for X mas.
let me know if anything isnt clear. Thanks
Here is a tutorial/step-by-step of my latest painting. Just thought I d share it with you guys for X mas.
let me know if anything isnt clear. Thanks
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lol at using the mona lisa for colour btw :P
About the painting - maybe the trail shape on the right, middle height could be pushed back in the mist/perspective fog a little. Also I feel like the white negative space around the character on the left side of the picture could be filled with dark to balance the composition. But thats just a matter of taste!
Inspiring!
i read somewhere (probably in your sketchtrhead) that those are small gradients as a new brush. i tried that out a bit, but no matter what i set the spacing to, i always got some chunkey stuff: if i made sharp corners, really fast it would always skip some parts. so can you share those brushes?
really nice way to add color as well!
is it strange that i can still kinda see the mona lisa in your final image?
Mop: yeah it becomes more obvious when you know what painting was used.
Normally I would take my time a bit more just to make sure we can recongize the blurred image. hehe
About the brush thing, the credit goes to Mathias Verhasselt (m@), his brushset has a nice variety of gradient brush. http://mv.cgcommunity.com/echange/matbrushes07.zip
I like the "93" one
to make it from scratch, open this image in photoshop :
Make a brush with the pic. Edit->Define brush preset,
and make sure spacing is set to "25" and angle jitter is set to "direction"
I hope it helps! If its still not working, maybe it has something to do with photoshop versions, Ill need to investigate more on that.
Thanks alot:)
Well mind you, there is no right or wrong way to do digital paintings. Actually from what I've seen, there are 2 very common ways, but millions of differentiations to these 2 paths.
There is the "round, hard brush with low opacity" and then there is the "100% opacity brush with smudging". Going either way, is completely dependent on the time, effort and look you're going for. This is a nice method of sketching, for sure, so if that's the look you're going for then this method is effective. If you're going for realism, you'll most likely look to the smudge or low opacity directions. I find a mixture of both is a great knowledge to have to do any fine detailing, as well as doing realistic painting or full on concept work complete with color. Kudos either way for taking the time and explaining your technique Wizo.
Currently in your tutorial there is no way to get the cools back other than Undo or re-painting - which is fine too, I'm probably thinking more like a texture artist than a painter/illustrator here!
...just thought I'd mention that, Layer Masks are your friend!
Who said anything about right and wrong?
I am always interested in learning new techniques and this was a really cool tut to show a different style.Thanks Wizo for taking the time to document your process. The Mona Lisa move was brilliant:)