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CodeNothing
03-26-2005, 08:20 PM
This is just a quick little tutorial on painting in photoshop. It was a daily sketch i did for the DSG, the topic was :"There's a girl involved"

I just learned some cool new quick tecniques from the guys i work with and decided to share them with everyone.

First just make a new document. I like to tone my canvas to a middle grey or middle value because it helps you gauge you lights and darks more accuratly.

http://img75.exs.cx/img75/9260/0014lk.jpg

Sense this is only suposed to be a quick sketch, i found an Image to use rather than paint a figure myself. Doing this doesnt have very much artistic merrit to it, but if your working for an employer on a job they could care less about your artistic principals. They just want there image as quickly and efficiently as possible.

So i got a Natalie Portman image.

http://img87.exs.cx/img87/973/0025bt.jpg

Then i erased out the black background. I wasnt too carefull, because its just a sketch. Its not suposed to be perfect. and if you try to make everything clean it will probably look worse than if you had just been loose with it. I also kept that piece of couch. I might as well paint it into the picture.

http://img181.exs.cx/img181/3355/0035be.jpg

Then using mostly the lasso tool and paint bucket i blocked in the environment.

http://img50.exs.cx/img50/6713/0045mx.jpg

Once your whole canvas is covered go search the net for a texture. I chose this rust texture. Its good to spend a day and just go around collecting these things in a folder. If you get a collection of a hundred or so it will save you a lot of time later.

http://img174.exs.cx/img174/7519/0058hc.jpg

Then copy paste the texture on a new layer above your image. Scale it so it covers everything.

http://img173.exs.cx/img173/7527/0061lm.jpg

Now we are going to make the texture a "multiply" layer. But if we do that now it will look cheesy. It will look like a photograph ghosted on your image. So use the lasso tool to zig zag a bunch of cuts, copy paste, and rotate/flip them randomly. Just make it look random and chaotic.

http://img110.exs.cx/img110/5788/0073wg.jpg

Now you change the texture layer to a "Multipy" setting and lower the opacity so its not too overbearing. You just want a light texture. Then, Flatten the image. Thats important.

http://img209.exs.cx/img209/7660/0081ko.jpg
CodeNothing
03-26-2005, 08:21 PM
So at this point Natalie looks very out of place. She is a photorealistic element in a very simple environment. so we need to make her look more like a painting. I used the "paint daubs" filter, then faded the effects in the "Edit" menu. You will just have to play with the settings and get a feel for it. The object is to make it look like she is made up of brush strokes.

http://img27.exs.cx/img27/9421/0095xq.jpg

So after i faded the paint daubs, i still wasnt satisfied with her, so i applied a "Watercolor" filter, and then faded that as well. I also applied the rules of oil painting and softened certain lines and made some brush strokes of my own. If you dont it will end up looking realy cheesy.

The shadows in the scene were done with a combination of The burn tool, and airbrushing dark paint. I like to burn as much as i can because it keeps the chroma of the shadows, but you do it too much and the color becomes over saturated. You can also use the sponge tool to fix that.

http://img66.exs.cx/img66/5901/0109ko1.jpg

Then i painted the rest of the couch, and started lighting the outdoors. I used a very light yellow color, and paintbrush for the light. I changed the paintbrush setting to "Color Dodge" which allows you to litteraly paint light onto your objects. Also you need to lower the streingth of your brush to belloe 10% or you will just burn super hot light on everything.

http://img219.exs.cx/img219/6943/0117ui.jpg

Then i applied the paint daubs, and watter color on the outdoors. gives it better texture. I also started painting light on the objects in the room. I used the laso tool for the cast shadows on the floor. As you can see textured objects like the bowl on the table get a great effect with very little effort. All you needed was the base color, the texture, and a color dodge paintbrush.

http://img11.exs.cx/img11/4677/0132ke.jpg
apply some watter color and paint daubs to the rest of the environment,
And thats it! quick sketch. :)
Mysterious X
03-26-2005, 09:06 PM
this is so very helpful and creative..thank you :thumbsup:
paperclip
03-26-2005, 09:19 PM
............................:love:
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