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(Will move to Scraps tomorrow.)
A couple people were interested in my process, so I tried to remember to take progress shots this time. Here's a general overview of how I've been painting digitally lately; hopefully it will be useful or at least interesting to people!
For years and years I tried to paint in Photoshop, but just couldn't get it to turn out in a way I was happy with. I decided that this year I was going to start tackling the Photoshop Painting hurdle for realsies, and got some excellent advice from fellow artists. I also decided to try painting in PS as if I were painting with oils--that is, create an underpainting to get value range, and then paint over that with colors. I find that not only is it easier to tackle shading (value) separate from color (hue/saturation), but it's easier to play around with colors and come up with more dynamic color schemes.
It's not the fastest way to work, but this method, combined with tips from friends, has made coloring in Photoshop something that I actually enjoy now x) No more heavy reliance on Screens or Multiplies, woo! I'd also *highly* recommend James Gurney's Color and Light book to anyone who wants to get a better grasp on, well, color and light.
The last step is where Photoshop really shines--lots of tweaks with Adjustment Layers, and texture layering with various stock resources I've collected over the years. My favorites are Lost and Taken (www.lostandtaken.com) and Mayang (http://mayang.com/textures/).
At any rate, enjoy!
A couple people were interested in my process, so I tried to remember to take progress shots this time. Here's a general overview of how I've been painting digitally lately; hopefully it will be useful or at least interesting to people!
For years and years I tried to paint in Photoshop, but just couldn't get it to turn out in a way I was happy with. I decided that this year I was going to start tackling the Photoshop Painting hurdle for realsies, and got some excellent advice from fellow artists. I also decided to try painting in PS as if I were painting with oils--that is, create an underpainting to get value range, and then paint over that with colors. I find that not only is it easier to tackle shading (value) separate from color (hue/saturation), but it's easier to play around with colors and come up with more dynamic color schemes.
It's not the fastest way to work, but this method, combined with tips from friends, has made coloring in Photoshop something that I actually enjoy now x) No more heavy reliance on Screens or Multiplies, woo! I'd also *highly* recommend James Gurney's Color and Light book to anyone who wants to get a better grasp on, well, color and light.
The last step is where Photoshop really shines--lots of tweaks with Adjustment Layers, and texture layering with various stock resources I've collected over the years. My favorites are Lost and Taken (www.lostandtaken.com) and Mayang (http://mayang.com/textures/).
At any rate, enjoy!
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Unspecified / Any
Gender Male
Size 900 x 1264px
File Size 394.1 kB
I love WIP pieces, its always really neat to watch it come together. c:
Definitely awesome... but I am still unclear as to how you got it to essentially look like marker. D:
I think it's the value ranges I use, and the blending style? I tend to blend it so that values/colors "bleed" into each other, which is a very marker/watercolor/translucent media look, as opposed to a more hard-edged blending style like you might find with an oil painting, or the high contrast of an oil painting. Also, I texture the pictures so that they have a lot of paper texture, which enhances the "translucent" look, making it look more like marker.
your process is so clean and efficient
goodness you are gifted , brilliant!
goodness you are gifted , brilliant!
Wow, this is great! :D If you still have problems with painting in PS, try checking out http://www.ctrlpaint.com/. I've heard it's got great tips!
I'd love to learn how to ink sketches more quickly. Right now I use Illustrator, which looks great and gives me a lot of control, but it seriously takes forever since I draw everything in with the pen tool. Do you have any tips on where to start learning other techniques?
I don't have the patience for Illustrator, even though I know it would do me good! I learned to ink with Microns and brushes/brush pens, and try to apply that technique to my digital work. I don't like inking in Photoshop, because the brush responsiveness just isn't fast enough for how I ink (I like to use quick strokes, as opposed to slow ones..the faster you move the brush, the less jitter you get, and the better "flow" the line has). I love the inking tools in SAI, TVPaint is great, and Sketchbook Pro is decent, depending on the look I'm going for. To practice.. do practice strokes every day, varying line weight and curves, practice straight lines, practice consistently weighted lines.. find ink illustrations you admire, and try tracing them or replicating them! Try a variety of tools; some will just feel more natural to you than others, and eventually you'll find your favorite program/brush/pen/whatever :3
Hope that helps!
Hope that helps!
Thanks for the advice. I've tried a couple different things (SAI being one of them, which was cool), but I haven't really spent a lot of time with it. I guess it's just like anything else, gotta put the time into it. =)
This is really helpful, what layer values did you use after the value painting?
That's really interesting. I do it sort of opposite and feel like everythings sorta bland and plastic. I am gonna try this!! Thank you for the inspiration. <3
O: I thought it was traditional for a moment, still really good :3
Have you ever messed with Photoshop before SC6? I'm impressed with what that program can do.
Yep! I've been using Photoshop since 3.0, but primarily used LE (yuck!) until I was able to grab CS with a student discount. Since then, I've kept up to date with current versions as they've been released. I didn't like CS5 a whole lot, but CS6 is <3 <3 3
I only used CS5 for a 30 day trial. I couldn't get more than one image to pull up at a time. I friend help me get a legal copy of CS6 and talk about being impressed. Before that, I was using Corel Painter 11. I still use it for things. My only complaint about it, is that it gives a white hue, when I paint out side of a layer. The icon that you see was my frist CS6 image.
What was your (or overall) blending process? Like brush and opacity/flow settings and how you approach it in terms of thinking
I map Brush Opacity to Pen Pressure (in CS5 you can do this by clicking the little icon next to Opacity in the top tool bar when you're in Brush Mode), and make frequent use of the Eyedropper to select various color ranges for blending. I try to work dark to light, but save my darkest and lightest values for last.
How do you alter the gray shading from gray scale to coloring?
I know that just using gray alone to shade makes an image look unnatural and dirty, and you quite clearly have various color tones in your work.
But I'm not aware to go from gray to color <_<
I know that just using gray alone to shade makes an image look unnatural and dirty, and you quite clearly have various color tones in your work.
But I'm not aware to go from gray to color <_<
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