post some steps of a sketch, share shading techniques

[TheFirstAngel]

now here's howo i buiilt up this little sketch, i just was inspired by Sylanya's latest work and remembered having done something simular in aquarell a while back wich i gave away, and thought i reaproach the idea as a sketch. here's 4 steps how i done it :)


rough blocking, normal paint mode
http://www.angel3d.ch/content/digital_paintings/sketches/firewaves_01.jpg


shadow and light basecolors, soft and hard light paint mode

http://www.angel3d.ch/content/digital_paintings/sketches/firewaves_02.jpg


sharpen contours normal paint mode

http://www.angel3d.ch/content/digital_paintings/sketches/firewaves_03.jpg

final touches: set sharp highlights, colordoge up fx light and there's the final sketch. all painted with a hard round brush on shrinking diameter :)

http://www.angel3d.ch/content/digital_paintings/sketches/firewaves_04.jpg

hope you enjoyed or join sharing :)

[Sylanya]

Wow, this is so neat, and really great of you to share with everyone. And that sketch was inspired by me? (which pic?) LOL, thanks for sharing this, this is a great idea. :thumbsup:

[MichaelZHsee]

subscribed~:D
i'll see what i can contribute to the thread when i get back to town,thanks alot sacha,for sharing this awsomeness:thumbsup:

[digital-bobert]

Angel asked me to contribute some stuff so here it goes.

This is a step by step of the painting for the cover of my new book "Creature Sketches" (http://www.imaginismstudios.com/books.html)

20+ images

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar01.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar02.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar03.jpg

[digital-bobert]

building up the background

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar04.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar05.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar06.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar07.jpg

[digital-bobert]

some more step by step

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar08.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar09.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar10.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar11.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar12.jpg

[digital-bobert]

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar13.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar14.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar15.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar16.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar17.jpg
almost done....

[digital-bobert]

last bunch of steps

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar18.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar19.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar20.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar21.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/baterpillar22.jpg

[digital-bobert]

a bunch of touch ups and color corrections and it's done.

Here's how the cover ended up. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO (http://www.imaginismstudios.com/books.html)
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/820/1636/1600/cover001.jpg (http://www.imaginismstudios.com/books.html)

[Salubri3i]

This is a great Idea. Thanks to both of you guys. :applause:

[Squibbit]

Awesome, bobby

excellent idea, angel :thumbsup:

.

[makaron]

gonna study this thread everyday :bounce:

[TheFirstAngel]

thanks you very much bobby, this is absolutely great, i think many many ppl will be very happy about his thread :) thank you very much for posting such detailed steps :)

[jmBoekestein]

Great idea, and great stuff... Nice to see some people actually have a rationally explicable method. :)

*blinks oddly*

[TheFirstAngel]

Hi everyone!
I thought to start a thread where people can show there sketching technique.
Everyone can post tutorials and brushes and stuff in this thread.
Since I was asked several times to do some tutorials (still don't feel like I have enough experience for that.....) I thought I should start this thread.

I answered some questions in some sketchgroup topics but they get lost.
Nobody will search for the old threads to get some information. So I thought this
could be good as a sticky thread so everyone can share there knowledge at any time.

Thnx Roberto for the sticky feature!

So here are some of my files.

Goro's Brushes (compatible with Photoshop CS) 2.8MB (http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goros_brushes.abr) UPDATED 11.09.2005!
(these are not only my custom brushes. many brushes are collected from other artists)

Hangar 86 painting tutorial (http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/hangar_86_tut.html)

Jungle painting screencapture divx505 AVI 14MB (http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goro_jungle_tut.avi)

http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goro_jungle.jpg (http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goro_jungle_tut.avi)

Port painting screencapture divx6 AVI 20MB (http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goro_port_tut.avi)

http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/goro_port.jpg (http://www.area-56.de/tutorials/port.avi)

Cheers!
Goro

Tutorials:
Art Techniques and Theories Forum (http://www.cgtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=166) @ CGTalk
Artistic Anatomy and Figurative Art (http://www.cgtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=177) @ CGTalk


Painting Tut (http://www.3dfever.com/keko/newpaintforweb3.rar)comic Character divx 3m (by Keko (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=54602))
Painting Tut (http://www.3dfever.com/keko/drawingforweb.rar)Robot divx 9 m (by Keko (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=54602))
Painting Tut (http://www.3dfever.com/keko/NewPaint.rar)Face divx 7m (by Keko (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=54602))
Painting Tut (http://all-final.com/download/keko_paint.rar) (by Keko (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=54602))
Painting Tut (http://www.akenar.com/TMP/little_demo_by_telemaco.rar) (by Telemaco (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=65065))
Painting Tut (http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm) (by Niklas Jansson (http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/index.htm)) (thnx Kieronh (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=5546) for the link)
Eye Painting Tut (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=227727) (by Enayla (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?userid=45074))
Boogiepop Phantom (http://matsuru.net/sforum/index.php?showtopic=34) (by Matsuru (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?userid=42677))
Rei Ayanami (http://www.matsuru.net/center_pages/rei_sbs001.htm) (by Matsuru (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?userid=42677))

Freeware Painting Tools:
OpenCanvas 1.1 (http://www.foxden.net/~terriekitten/OC11B72.EXE) (check ou network function)
Artrage (http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html) nice tool for sketches and doodles!

WPE's (OpenCanvas event files)
done by supervlieg and me (http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/teamprojects/supervlieg_goro_200904.wpe) (lineart sup coloring me)
done by stephan.s shoque and me (http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/marc_stephan_goro_18.03.04.wpe) (remember those names? :))
done by taron333 and me (http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/teamprojects/taron_goro_rcdarstly.wpe)

Brushes
Some cool custom brushes (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=195002&page=1&highlight=brushes) of balistic (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=388)
Various Brushes from www.creativemac.com (http://www.creativemac.com/articles/recommendarticle.jsp?field=pageviews) (thnx for the link jannis (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=118426))
Huge listing of PS Brushes (http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14636) (thnx Kieronh (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=5546) for the link)
Custom Brushes (http://koti.mbnet.fi/teimo/erikoinen/other/Erikoinen-brushes.abr) of Erikoinen (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?userid=34226)

more to come....

see the whole thread here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=200222

[Arc80]

Nice thread bro :thumbsup:

I'll try and put something up as well. Lets have fun with this, heehee

cheers

[Vyse-soa]

I'm seldom satisfied with my results, anyway, here's my usual approach, maybe it helps someone.
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/welkesblatt/anim.gif

[TheFirstAngel]

Vise_soa thanks for posting this, written it in your guestbook, love the mood you have in your works, and as for the slideshow, great! thanks a lot :)

[SamsonsReaper]

my lil contribution:http://www.leventep.com/Pics/step1.jpg

[SamsonsReaper]

http://www.leventep.com/Pics/step2.jpg

[SamsonsReaper]

http://www.leventep.com/Pics/step3.jpg

[SamsonsReaper]

http://www.leventep.com/Pics/step4.jpg

[SamsonsReaper]

http://www.leventep.com/Pics/2_Example/D.jpg

[TheFirstAngel]

SamsonsReaper: Thank you very much for the great in-d post, great job :) :tumbsup::beer:

[enthombed]

Hey Samson, tnks so much for show how you do this awesome piece my friend.

Take care.

Icaro

http://www.leventep.com/Pics/2_Example/D.jpg

[SamsonsReaper]

glad you like it !:buttrock:BTW, thats D the vampirehunter :twisted:

[TheFirstAngel]

thought so :) great design of him. would feel slightly bothered if I had a hand that argues with me all the time :p

hehe

[Arc80]

Crazy bro invited me to post something. So here's a little landscape study i did. The third rough is on my website, so i have to update that :D Hope this work.

[Arc80]

Here's more

[TheFirstAngel]

great post crazy bro, tonsa thanks :D

[audit]

Some steps for a sketch-painting

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/86audit19/cgforums/Tut/R2.jpg


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/86audit19/cgforums/Tut/R3.jpg


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/86audit19/cgforums/Tut/R4.jpg


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/86audit19/cgforums/Tut/R5.jpg


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/86audit19/cgforums/Tut/R6.jpg


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/86audit19/cgforums/Tut/R7.jpg


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/86audit19/cgforums/_Regard_.jpg


i have added a text for these steps in a post in my thread >> here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3618776&postcount=134) << :)

[TheFirstAngel]

very nice post audit, thanks a lot for this :)

[Arc80]

Nice steps audit. It really works well. Is that dry brush medium that you're using?

cheers

[audit]

first angel - no prob, glad to be able to contribute

arc80 - thanks. it's actually the chalk brush. I believe it's a default, but I'm not sure since I have totally messed up my brush libraries :D sorry

[Iridyse]

Here's my little attempt :) (from my own thread)

Stage 1. I usually don't save any stages before this because I'm running out of space on my comp. I think I have a screenshot somewhere though, I'll look for it. I cropped the image in the end so this version is slightly different.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hiiri/raven1small.jpg
Ok, so here I use my regular round brush. Yea I'm one of those idiots who use it almost all the time. I just don't like to be hassled enough to look for the other brushes when I'm working. I whip out the texture brushes only much much later. Anyway, I've just laid down the basic colours in this one. I stopped doing line drawings a few months ago. It was too restrictive and I found myself colouring inside the lines which made the painting look very flat and boring. So now I just take a big brush and make an oval-ish blob on the canvas, paint the darks for the eye socket, the shadow under the nose, the upper lip and the shadow under the lower lip (like this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hiiri/aldog.jpg))and take it from there.

Stage 2: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hiiri/raven2small.jpg
Some more refining. I put in the stitched up lips on a new layer just to see how it would look (it's a fav. of mine!) but it didn't quite suit the image so I got rid of it. I'm going to use it in another image though, mwahah. Then on another layer I did some work on the eyes and the veins.

Stage 3:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hiiri/raven3small.jpg Ok I just added some colour to the hair and highlights too (which weren't looking nice so I took them off later). I went back to the first layer (I don't work with more than 2-3 layers, it messes up my computer) and added more orange/yellow to it. Then I added the same colour on the second layer too (the one with the veins) just to integrate it with the first one. I could have erased it here and there, it would have looked the same but I prefer painting over.

Almost there!: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hiiri/raven4small.jpg
Ok, here's where the refining/texturing begins. I hated the mouth so I changed it completely (I love this one! I always have a hard time drawing closed mouths, I'm very used to painting mouths that are slightly open) I finally decided on the highlights on the eyes . The background was too plain so I added really subtle texture and then painted over it, and again, and again. I used some crosshatching brushes to add some texture to the face, added some reds here and there. Also worked on the forehead a bit.

And the final! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hiiri/raven5.jpg

Ok, that's that. I think it will be easier to see how I've gone from one stage to another if you open the stages in different tabs (if you're used a browser that supports it) and click through them.I'm terrible at explaining , I apologise for that.

[TheFirstAngel]

thanks for this great post :) told ya before love your way to wortk :D

Ok, so here I use my regular round brush. Yea I'm one of those idiots who use it almost all the time. hahaha welcome to the club and greets form another idiot ;)

keep it up :D

[howlinghorse]

here you go! hope it's helpful.
The steps to a painting I've just finished.

sketch:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/ceinwah/arab1.jpg

Basic colours:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/ceinwah/arab2.jpg

detail detail detail

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/ceinwah/arab3.jpg

a close up at this point... everything is still very rough

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/ceinwah/arab4.jpg

ssssoo more details

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/ceinwah/arab5.jpg

I tend to do the background last, in a portrait piece such as this where it isn't the focal point but more abstract... I like clouds so it usually ends up being clouds.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/ceinwah/arab6.jpg

And the final touches (I love this bit best of all)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/ceinwah/arabcopy.jpg

:)

[TheFirstAngel]

thanks for this really beautifull post Ceinie :) awesome work :)!

[rawwad]

simply car sketch coloring

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/6860/010yt1.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/6549/026xj.jpg

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7734/034gp.jpg

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/1155/048wx.jpg

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9522/051qk.jpg

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5223/062mv.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7113/074ua.jpg

[rawwad]

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3175/082eg.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/496/099mh.jpg

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/7513/109tt.jpg

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3921/113ss.jpg

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8240/124fz.jpg

final pic
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1959/13fin1ow.jpg

[rezado]

can any one please tell me how can i attach my image into this forum PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

[rezado]

Btw that car is hot:scream:

[Kyena]

Since Sacha asked me a bit ago to contribute here I am using a current wip to post some steps. This is one of several illustration for the X-Box version of an Arcade Card Game. This going to be the red queen:

Rough sketch for the approval part. I don't really like sketching (since I am a lazy bum) but if you work with AD they need to have something to look at >_<

http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen1.jpg

I normally start blocking in colors very messy. Honestly, I still have a hard time finding the right colors and adjust them on the go. Here is an early step with defining the light/shadow environment and some rough colors. I already incorporate the background since it is important to make the characters colors work and pop:
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen2.jpg

As always, I start working out the facial features first. I just really need them to make me want to go on painting. There are certain things I always use as pointers in any painting (highlight on the nose and inside the inside corner of the eye, darker parts undernath the eyes to shape the underlaying form, for example)
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen3.jpg

Now, since I know it's better, I don't tend to finish the face completely before going to work on other parts. It's still quite rough and I only used the hard edged round brush with flow set to pen pressure until now. I vary the size a lot though. For blocking in it's good to use the brush tip quite bigger then you think you would need it. It also helps with creating a base for the blending. I picked a rather dramatig red for the start of her clothing. This is going to be more painterly and stronger colors since it is for a card illustration.
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen4.jpg

More rough tryouts - I just paint until I see something evolve. I always have an idea but let the brush do most of the work until I see something I can work with for more details.
I also decided to have her hair up in some kind of side buns to create a more "royal" look.
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen5.jpg


Now that I have the general colors and idea for the whole painting I go back to the face and work in more details. I added freckles (I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE freckles :D) with my special sprinkle brush, used the hard edged brush with both size and flow set to pen pressure to give special areas more weight and clearness. I also started to "model" the darker part in her hair a bit more. It's quite important to also have all different kind of values in the darker part to give it more depth.
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen6.jpg

I know start to color pick from the face and adjust them with the HSB slider. Make the shadows a bit more saturated where they need to be (like the darker part of her nose, lips and so on). I know try to remember all the theory. Add a bit more blue to the inside of her eyes and on parts where the skin is thinner. It's probably quite hard to see, though. I also colorpick colors from the face and use them on her collar for example. This is a good way to "bring" the painting together.
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen7.jpg

Here you see the changes on her face. The colors are a bit stronger now due to the changes I mentioned earlier. I also started to add some more additions to her hair and clothing.
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen8.jpg

This is where I am at the moment - after about a day of work. Some more dramatic darker shades on the face give her a slightly evil touch. I started to work some more on the hair and started to rough in some of the clothing's shading.

To create a bit of depth specially for the hair: I rough in the overall shape, use the eraser tool with the hard edged brush or sometimes the airbrush to create the edges and curls and then use the blur tool (not the filter) to blur special parts out. I use that tool quite a lot to create depth.
http://www.tascha.ch/tutorials/queen/queen9.jpg

[ACantarel]

Here´s a timewarp quicktime which shows the progress of my "lumbercrabs" painting.

www.cantarel.de/lbtimewarp-cgtalk.mov (http://www.cantarel.de/lbtimewarp-cgtalk.mov) - 1.2 MB

http://www.cantarel.de/lumbercrab_fortimewarp.jpg

Cheers
André

[twisteums]

as advised me pap87, i post here some steps of a recent still-life-study
hope you'll like it...

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2361/wipetudedoc6gh.jpg


here the final version (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=370559&page=1&pp=15)

[TheFirstAngel]

Tibor, Tascha, Twisteums, Acantarel, thanks for those fantastic posts. :beer:

[umbrellasky]

wow great thread! Thanks everyone some awsome tut's :D

[Squibbit]

awesome stuff , peoples!

ACantarel, that was a great timewarp, end result rocks:thumbsup: ;

Kyena's pic looks too cool to begin with, boo ;

twisteums.. i habitually get somewhere around pic 4 with my stuff,
pic 7, i dunno where dat comes from :surprised


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[eilidh]

Thanks for the insight, everyone. :)

I was asked by a couple of people about the brushes I used for my latest speedpainting; so I'm cross-posting this from my sketch & WIP thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=370970).

The full piece:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/eilidheln/wildthings2.jpg


A close-up, so that you can see what's going on:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/eilidheln/wildthings_closeup.jpg

The leaves were rendered in roughly three stages.


For the basic folliage I used one of the custom photoshop leaf-shaped brushes. I decreased its roundness at about 20-something%; Slightly angled. Size jitter is optional; minimum size diameter at 30-40% angle jitter around 10%. Scattering, both axes, ca. 250-300%. Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow at Pen Pressure. All these values can vary of course.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/eilidheln/wildburn_br1.jpg

I went on erasing and blurring some of the edges here and there to remove the stamped like effect; I next switched to Painter, where I used the Pepper Spray from the Airbrush menu, with the feature slightly increased (so as to have larger specks). I kept my pen tilted so as to have a larger spread. This was used relatively sparingly and I erased a lot of it once I came back to Photoshop.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/eilidheln/wildburn_br2.jpg
(50% original size)

Photoshop again, blending in; not just black or dark colours now, but also colours I picked from the sky and environment, or intermediate tones. The brush is a standard hard round brush, roundness decreased at about 50%, slightly angled. I changed the angle several times while painting -- this was the same with the leaf-shaped one. Size jitter about 30% (Control: Pen Pressure), Angle jitter 14% (Control: Off), Scatter: both axes, ca. 500%; Other Dynamics: Opacity and Flow at Pen Pressure. Again, I'd periodically adjust these, especially scattering.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/eilidheln/wildburn_br3.jpg


Hope this is clear enough. :)

[Dile]

uhm, i was supposed to get something for this thread as well, but I can now see
that theres nooooo purpose with that... would only make
this thread look funny and unserious lol

Very nice work guys, thanks alot for shareing!

[ACantarel]

Thanks for the nice words :)
twisteums: just great! I was really surprised when I saw how sketchy the first step is :eek: I would start with a very detailed line drawing which consumes too much time :p

Cheers
André

[Mcuzino]

Keep on Keepin on

[Dekus]

twisteums: om my.. that is photorealistic dude!! amazing..

heres my progress:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d76/Dekus/progress.jpg

and heres the final painting: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37145243/

Hope you like it.. ;)

[Libor]

nice stuff here!

http://www.cgart.org/paint/bman_steps.jpg
well a bit older w.i.p. but I think it works anyway...

[Katea]

Beautifull WIPs guys :)
Sasha - that's a really great idea to to start this thread :)
Tascha - I've got to say - I don't paint as wonderfully as you :banghead: - but I have to say I have some pretty similar problems and habbits while painting. I do too focus on the face while painting, I have trouble adjusting colours so I do it with the help of HSB sliders, I love freckless and the depth-blurr effect :) Will you be posting Red Queen on DA as a separate, finished piece?

[Ego]

Great thread. I love the workflow.

[escapizm]

wow, i can't believe i only just discovered this thread. i'll be watching!
makes me realise just how erratic and disorganised my own process is, but hey i'm sure practice makes perfect!

[notpill]

Hi guys. My little contribute to this fantastic thread.
This one it's based on Daryl Mandryk's 'random' tecnique. Some other Cgtalkers asked me to share the process and this is The Thread:scream: to share it.

http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/212628/212628_1157304064_medium.jpg


--

1. In Photoshop, open new canvas and set to 72 dpi (easy to control big brushstrokes)
2. with a big brush start to blobbing and scribbling randomly...
3. ....searching for intersting shapes...

http://www.giulianobrocani.com/PVT/suburbs/1-3.jpg



4. Sculpting and carving shapes with eraser and brushes (big brushes)WITHOUT ZOOMING in and out.
5. Blockin' shapes with layer mask. Separate background, foreground, midground.


http://www.giulianobrocani.com/PVT/suburbs/4-5.jpg


6. Defining the focus point (here the sky's highlights its my focal point).
Here I upsized the canvas to 300 dpi

7. Tweaking colors and shaping the midground with speedy brushstrokes and the same sketchy approach...

http://www.giulianobrocani.com/PVT/suburbs/6-7.jpg


8,9,10 detailing.


http://www.giulianobrocani.com/PVT/suburbs/8-final.jpg

[emcD]

Notpill:
wow, nice step-by-step "tutorial"!!
it helped me very much. thank you!

[cypherx]

notpill, gorgeous work on that one, and great tutorial.

twisteums, that end result is just perfect, but I love the process

[xric7]

very nice tutorial and final image Notpill.thanks a lot for sharing.:bounce:
and thanks all people here and Sacha.:thumbsup:

[SamsonsReaper]

made a tutorial check it out here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=412008)

[jpedro]

samson, that tut rocks!

[TheFirstAngel]

thanks all for the kick ass new posts ya rock!
Levente: great tut, kick ass :D

[Dekus]

Heres a video capture of me, speedpainting! You can analyze it and give comments to improve my paintings!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1185315254254818108&hl=en

and heres the final image: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41641267/?&q=by%3Adekus+in%3Ascraps&qh=sort%3Atime

[TheFirstAngel]

kewl :)


here's a sketch session i made for warpy, you can download the clip of it here
http://www.angel3d.ch/bryce/warpysml_full_divx.rar

here's the sketch itself :)
http://www.angel3d.ch/bryce/sketchwarpy.jpg

hope you enjoy

[vincent1]

Angel,

That is one fantastic piece of training video. I enjoyed looking at your painting process very much and learned a lot from it. Thank you.

[TheFirstAngel]

you're welcome Vince, thats what this thread is supposed to do :) glad it helped you, so here's another little sketchvid, this time something i been asked for by many as well, a girl sketch :) well i could have blended smover and worked it out more but its basically just about keep up a good speed and get values and skintones in place :)

here's the little sketch,
http://www.angel3d.ch/content/tutorials/clips/girlpaint_sml.jpg

and the clip, rightclick save as here (http://www.angel3d.ch/content/tutorials/clips/girlpaint_divx.rar)
freestyle sketchingsession without refs, ps on a wacom cintiq 21ux

enjoy

[twstdelf]

:thumbsup: I love this thread, very interesting and inspirational. Thank you TheFirstAngel for starting it, and everyone for their contributions, this is very helpful. :)

[jpedro]

great vid sacha, thanks for sharing:thumbsup:

[joeydee]

Thanks for starting this thread and sharing your experience!

Far from being perfect, this is a 1h realtime capture of my current technique to paint comic style adventure backgrounds and their walkbehinds with sharp edges:
http://www.tonetube.ch/demo_tower.jpg
http://www.tonetube.ch/tower.exe

Sorry for posting an exe file - I don't like them as well, but it seemed to be the best way to compress an 1h hires video somewhat lossless. Captured with bbflashback, just to let you know the source of the exe file.

[Dekus]

Heres the process:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d76/Dekus/Progress_collab.jpg

And heres the final image: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=437621

[Kyena]

Sacha, how can you capture your screen while working? I would love to try that out.
And on a sidenote: I hope you are ok :)

[Salubri3i]

this thread gets better and better. :D

[Reverence]

Sacha, how can you capture your screen while working? I would love to try that out.
And on a sidenote: I hope you are ok :)

this probably would work if ur os ish windows..:)
but here it is.. make sure that the window on top is ur workplace in PS, then by pressing ALT+PrtScr(located in the top keys probably nested beside the F keys of ur keyboard)
after that open a new document, in PS then paste.. whoalla..theres ur capture...
^__^

woah, TheFirstAngel, thx for the video links and tut links posted in page 2

[jess116]

This is a fantastic thread! Helps noobs like me understand where to start. Wonderful Art
(omigod i got so much to learn.. @_@)

[Dironik]

Fantastic thread :bounce: Very usesfully.
Thanks a lot.

[kaladen]

Hello everyone,
I made some captures while working so here is a little step by step.

Placing basic color over all the body just to get an idea of the light
and shadows.
First, I paint the character with round basic brushes, Usually ona colored
background. Notice the color samples on the left to set the skin tone I want
to use.
http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step01.jpg

Smoothing the shapes and colors.
I do not use the zoom at this stage, in fact I will try not tu use it until
the last steps.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step02.jpg

Create the surrounding light and environment

Here again, just place big color strokes to get an idea of what will be around the character.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step03.jpg

Building the forest

Using custom brushes, I build the trees and leaves

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step04.jpg

[kaladen]

Enlight the background

I place some light effect such as glows, atmospherics in the background and bright spots here and there to create volume and depth. I add details to improve the depth of field.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step05.jpg

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step06.jpg

Still improving the depth by adding details to the hair (still without zooming)

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step07.jpg

The armor and the clothes

Ok, let's begin to talk seriously, like I did for the body, I paint the armor
with basic brush and quite big round color strokes.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step08.jpg

[kaladen]

Working on the reflections and highlights of the brushed metal.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step09.jpg

The clothes are done using the same technique. Notice that I changed the levels of the background. This is just an adjustment layer that I use to set the black level to a dark grey.
This allows me to clearly see what black part belongs to the character and what part
belongs to the background.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step10.jpg

Sometimes I put a flat colored layer to rest my eyes a bit. This will not
appear in the final image, it's only to get some comfort while working.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step11.jpg

Adjusting the back ground and set the approx settings of light to get an idea
of what it looks like. Adding details to the character. I usually paint the accessories
during this step. In fact if I see that some parts will be in the shadowed areas,
I will not add too many details to savesome time.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step12.jpg

[kaladen]

Finishing the image

Here come the details, Here I use many kind of brushes, especially if some textures
are needed.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step13.jpg

Here is a very important part of the work.
I add shadows and lights again to incorpore the character into the environment.
This is also the step where I work on "radiosity fake rendering" .

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step14.jpg

Adding details again and painting the foreground.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02wip/step15.jpg


Ok that's it, then I work on some details, (just the parts that need to)
Finally, I make a last setting on lights transparency and color adjustments.
This is to create a better overall lightning.

Here is the final Image.

http://www.gorkovan.be/cgtalk/wip/darkelfe02.jpg

That's it, keep paint, all of you, cause i see so many good things here.
Greetings to all,
Kal.

[Dekus]

kaladen: Whoa... amazing result! and a very interesting technique!

[xeNusion]

not bad. still looks not finished

[LunaticSymphony]

Can you elaborate on it being unfinished? I'd like to know what areas of the painting you're referring to...

[kaladen]

In fact, that's true you can say "it looks unfinished" but let me remind you that the purpose of this was to share techniques that I use, I did this especially for this thread. I am working on speed techniques and custom brushes combined with basic brushes, everything without using the zoom to quickly get a good overall aspect and then finishing by details, wich in this case was not the main purpose.

Next time I will post a complete step by step with an accomplished final image, that's a promise.

Kal.

[MarciahL]

I really love this thread, and its helped me a lot. But I really hope somebody could explain moore about the brushes that u guys use for different stages. I see u writing about them, but I dont know how to use them or why .. ?

or if any of u got a good tutorial on it, please let me know

[LunaticSymphony]

I think you're talking about texture brushes that are used for skin, hair, metals or cloths, walls, natural wood, etc right? That's a great question. Are there any tutorials or anyone willing to share their different brushes and what effects they try to get with each?

[TheFirstAngel]

Kaladen: thanks for this fantastic post, very cool :D

MarciahL: texture brushes can be extremely useful but i think every artist has his own ways to use them. in my case, i usually use texture brushes in 2 main stages:
1 stage, all values are more or less in place and i want certain timeconsuming thngs like dragonscales, armortypes like a chainmail or something else with repetative patterns. then, i make a brush for this or pick one i already made to upspeed the progress.
phase2: the very last moment to use textures is when you're finishing your work and want to break up some of the specular highlights add structures like fabric or micro bumps on metal rocks or cellular highlights on skin.
A good way to do that, drop your historybrushs mark on the actual stage, then use the historybrush with your texture you want to add on multiply, screen, hardlight or colordoge as you like to add some texture in the illuminated sections. whenever you feel you overdone it, switch back to normal paint mode on the history brush and paint back the original smove surface.
Another good way is just paint the texture on a new layer, erase what you don't need of it, drop it. pick any blendmode for the layer as you like. this works well for atmospherics, reflections or whatever you like to have full controll over in general, a technique i use quiet often.
And texture rule in general. Only add texture where you want to have your focal point. the piece gets busy very fast when you overdo the texturing. only boost the contrasts where you want the major attention of the watcher. hope that gave you some clues :)

[MarciahL]

thanx for the reply angel. I got a little smarter :)

Generelly I suck at drawing.. just trying to get better, doesnt do me any good though. I never get good at drawing perspective. :) Everything just fail when I try draw a human from any point of view.
unfortenly I dont have so much time to practice. I only sit down with it once or twice a week.

I went trough this post when I was kinda trying to learn from drawing. Watching how others do it. A lot of good posts here. Ill just keep it up and maybe Ill be better some day :P

Stickmen here I come..

thanx again :)

[claymover]

Thanks for creating such a great thread! I am a newbie to digital art and this helps me understand what kind of steps are taken to draw and paint digitally to create a finished work. Thanks again~ :thumbsup:

[Alabaster]

Very intersting to see how everybody works. Great thread!

[Gord-MacDonald]

such a great thread - than you to all of the contruibuters!!!

Gord

[auklet]

:thumbsup: very good and beautiful
but i want you go on draw..

[nblarson]

Here's a video of a speed painting...total real time was a little over 40 min

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BSAuoOQtxc

I know the shadows are exaggerated, but I like a more chiaroscuro when I do grayscale portraits.

[O.Martin]

From an earlier thread from 2005
Earlier thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=233343)

1. - The rough sketch
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/001.jpg
2. - The cleanup sketch
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/002.jpg
3. - The reviced sketch
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/003.jpg
4. - Painting the grayscale luminance (airbrush)
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/004.jpg

[O.Martin]

5. - Colouring the skintones (airbrush)
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/005.jpg
6. - Painting a simple diffuse backround. Adding more colours.
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/006.jpg
7. - Removing the "sketch-guide". Adding more rough details.
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/007.jpg
8. - Cleaning up the outline. Smoothing/blending colours. Adding more shadow, and highlights.
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/008.jpg
9. - More shadow and adding skin details. Detailing the beard. Adding a highlight to the nose for more depth.
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/009.jpg
10. - Lot's of contrast work. Adding hair. Slimming the neck. Done! (at least for now... puh!) Effective time from start to finnish = ca 10 hours
http://www.omartin-design.com/images/tutor/bad/010.jpg
11. Oups... not done after all...
Made new hair
http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/2856/2856_1114485310_medium.jpg


Final image (http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/2856/2856_1114485310.jpg)

Cheers!
O.Martin

[cosmicapple]

Here's a 1 hour sketch I did recently, I created a video at the same time to show how it was created. Thought it might fit this discussion neatly.

http://www.thedogfromthefuture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/b-movie_bug1_sml.jpg
My technique - as you will see in the vid is a fairly standard light and shade technique - the same you probably did at school when learning light and shade on a ball. It didn't come out quite as I hoped so I called it a b-movie bug.


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/573225/b_movie_bug_with_sound_effects/

Higher res image is in the gallery at www.thedogfromthefuture.co.uk (http://forums.cgsociety.org/www.thedogfromthefuture.co.uk)

Dan.

[wildcory1]

/Users/coryjespersen/Desktop/girl-on-rock.jpg
Attached is a little something I did for a CG Challenge

[wildcory1]

oops file is to large...Im new at this

[kira-hime]

FirstAngel, thanks for those awesome screencap sessions you posted! I was following along pretty well until I realized...you were opening the color picker with a shortcut. Could you tell me me the hotkey, or did you have to set it yourself? That would save me a ton of time going back to the palette every time, and I couldn't seem to find it in the photoshop shortcut thread...thanks! :D (Also, I hope I didn't just imagine this out of some subconcious idea due to the sped up cursor jumping around!)

Also...subscribed!

[Cole]

FirstAngel, thanks for those awesome screencap sessions you posted! I was following along pretty well until I realized...you were opening the color picker with a shortcut. Could you tell me me the hotkey, or did you have to set it yourself? That would save me a ton of time going back to the palette every time, and I couldn't seem to find it in the photoshop shortcut thread...thanks! :D (Also, I hope I didn't just imagine this out of some subconcious idea due to the sped up cursor jumping around!)


Its kind of a pain in the butt to set up because you have to use a third party program to do it, you can't move the tools palette, and it doesn't work in fullscreen (tab) mode when the palettes are hidden... but... heres how you do it:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76315

[LoTekK]

Speedpaint I did yesterday, with ref. First proper 2d paint in some time, and it felt good after a few weeks of nothing but modelling and texturing.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/LoTekK/unicorn-steps-1.gif

End result (http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/LoTekK/unicorn3.jpg)

[kira-hime]

Thanks for that link Cole, I will have to check that out. :)

[TheFirstAngel]

Could you tell me me the hotkey, or did you have to set it yourself?
simply hit the "alt" key, it makes your brushtip switch to eyedrop tool... for colorpicker palette i simply hit the foreground/background colorfield.:)

[kira-hime]

Yeah, that's the way I do it as well but I guess the sped up video made it look like the color palette was just opening by itself. Oh well, maybe on a future version. :D Thanks FirstAngel!

[geniusdev_anshu]

hey guys thanx a lot
these r extremely useful for a beginner like me

[nblarson]

Speed paint that I did in about an hour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxfDHVwAvQg&mode=user&search=

[towarlock]

I like, very good speed painting!

[Kevissimo]

This is such a wonderful and useful thread! I wish I had stopped by years ago when I was just beginning to explore and experiment with digital painting! Would have saved me a lot of headache and confusion, haha! Amazing and inspirational stuff...

[Medhi]

My painting of watermill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw4OWVB9-7g

[spyroteknik]

These are old, I've posted them before too, but these are the sped up/funky music added versions, re-whoring them out in the vain hope of competing with fanart vids in the sclipo/wacom challenge, would appreciate a click (but only if you think they're worth it) Oh what I'd do for a cintiq :)


http://www.sclipo.com/video/speedpaint-1-3-scene-setting-cloud-formations
http://www.sclipo.com/video/speedpaint-2-3-scene-setting-cityscapes

http://www.sclipo.com/video/speedpaint-3-3-scene-setting-foreground-character

[bBaSha]

hi, this is one of my old works, painted over the sketch with photoshop
C & C

[Parcel-Sisters]

Hey, nice job everyone! It's amazing to see all the different techniques and how great they come out! This thread is an awesome idea!

Here's the link to the steps to a sketch I made:
http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs20/f/2007/302/c/9/Red_Elf_Steps_by_Parcel_Sisters.gif

Here's the finished sketch (of better quality than above):
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs20/f/2007/302/5/7/Red_Elf_by_Parcel_Sisters.jpg

[PAOOO]

hi all, some people asked me to show my work flow, so i show you one of my speed painting :)

1, i search the ambiance, composition, and light
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1592/69566179wm5.jpg


2
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1672/18009864ey5.jpg


3
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8783/12028939ek5.jpg

4, i realise that the color, light are not very interesting... i decide to change it ( level in photoshop )

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6562/59751281ah3.jpg


5, color are ok, and ship design, so i can use the light
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/3379/95075463zi1.jpg


6, now i just have to finish it !!

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/4680/97650838iv0.jpg

i hope you will like it !! see ya

[TheMightyMouse]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/2071978143_2c438830cc_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2220/2101020743_96406fc05f.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/2092888957_6c97bb716c.jpg

The elf is not even half finished and I'm planning on doing away with alien arms coming out of his head because originally the image was going to be apart of a bigger concept piece (you can see some of the other characters I was going to work on in the top sketch) but unfortunately as of the moment I do not have time to pursue this so the lone elf will have to do. I'm quite happy with the elf so far because it is the very first time I've tried digital painting and creating an image without the use of black/colour lines to hold the design together, my work is normally flat bright cartoons with no shadow or texture at all, example here:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1433/749957285_ffdd02efb7.jpg
The Elf was done in Photoshop Elements using a tablet. I worked from my original sketch which I first coloured in in flat base colours (you can see the body and hair is still presently in this cartoon looking state) and then I proceeded to shadow, light and colour in the details. I worked on seperate layers, duplicating the layer each time I wanted to add something new such as shadow or light. I left the original lineart in and just work up to them, eventually painting over the top of them and blending'em out as I get to'em. To help I took some photo's of myself pulling the expression of the character to self as references for shadows and proportions of the face. It took a couple of hours to do, quite long really but because it was my first and so I took my time, anything I do next will probably be done in half the time.

If I'm happy with the final design I am planning on making a more in depth tutorial of my progress if it would be of any use to anyone else.

[MichaelZHsee]

nice stuffs all over,it seems like everyone has a certain way to do your art:)
heres alil contribution of mine

greyscale sketch-a 20 mins sketch of the overal composition,i wanted to show the charater's point of view where peeking at the dragon though the huge pillars
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1322/s1ol5.jpg

2-the base color,redish blue ambients but i'd like to remain dark overal
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5003/s2rz2.jpg

3-shaping out the structureshttp://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2576/s3wk9.jpg

4- adding ornaments details ,dragon and color tweaks
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8383/s4bg8.jpg

5-complete,approximately 5 hours,final adjustment,adding fog to enhance the mood
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1275/s5ai7.jpg

a walkthrough wip sequence
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/218/hallscenesequencewipnewqd7.gif

[matiasmorrison]

Hi everyone...
Well I'm pretty new at this...& amateur too...so I'm just walking my first steps in photoshop/wacom painting...
I'd like to share with you a WIP of what could be a funny death character...
first with no background, & then with a downloaded background, just to set up an environment...

http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/265065/265065_1197640558_large.jpg
I know there's a long way to go from here, but you have to start somewhere...
Please critique!!! Be as mean as you can be!
Most of the work around here is pretty intimidating...

Later on I'll post some steps of this...
__________________
Matias

[stanis]

wow this thread is really awesome, it helped me alot, thanks for all these great tutorials !

[MattVogt]

1.5 hr self portrait from mirror!

http://mattvogt.com/post/2008-02-12.jpg

http://mattvogt.com/uploads/2008-02-12/2008-02-12.html

First visit to this thread..... I love you all

[Sampsonx]

MichaelZHsee how did you make the detail on the concrete/ground. is it a texture, brush or?

Thanks

[TheChosen]

Hey!
First of all: Great thread! helped me a lot!:buttrock:
Many thanks to Kaladen for his great work. This was very usefull.
One Question: Did u use your bruches on 100% opacity all the time?
I could imagine that it would be very hard to create smooth transitions this way.
And i really want to know how create custom texture brushes :D

Looking forward to see more great stuff here!
(and i apologize for my terrible english)

greez
TheChosen

[Donglu-LittleFish]

This is such an inspiring thread! Learnt a lot from different great artists.
Here is my part to contribute. :)

"Traces of Wisdom"

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm58/Donglu/traces%20of%20wisdom%20step%20by%20step/oldwoman01a-1.jpg

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm58/Donglu/traces%20of%20wisdom%20step%20by%20step/oldwoman03a-1.jpg

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm58/Donglu/traces%20of%20wisdom%20step%20by%20step/oldwoman05a-1.jpg

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm58/Donglu/traces%20of%20wisdom%20step%20by%20step/oldwoman06a.jpg

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm58/Donglu/traces%20of%20wisdom%20step%20by%20step/oldwoman08a.jpg

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm58/Donglu/traces%20of%20wisdom%20step%20by%20step/oldwoman10a.jpg

[lachoneus]

Great Thread! Its really cool to see different proccesses that other artists go through. Very inspiring. Thanks.

I put together a little step by step with a portrait I did of Christina Ricci.

http://www.totodojo.com/chris%20step%201.jpg


http://www.totodojo.com/chris%20step%202.jpg

http://www.totodojo.com/chris%20step%203.jpg


http://www.totodojo.com/chris%20step%204.jpg


http://www.totodojo.com/chris%20step%205.jpg


http://www.totodojo.com/chris%20step%206.jpg


Thanks again for this thread.

[nathanmckenna]

Ello, great thread!

This is a 1.5 hour speed paint for a client but I want to go back into it one more time based on forum crits. Feedback and hard crits encouraged! :)


A) Quick application of colour and basic mountain shape (I used the polygon select tool for this) in photoshop.
http://www.nathanmckenna.co.uk/firefly/redeyefortress_A.jpg

B) Imported it into ArtRage2 and put in some textured line work. Really easy to do this, very nice and intuitive program.
http://www.nathanmckenna.co.uk/firefly/redeyefortress_A2.jpg

C) Back in photoshop now, adding some soft clouds trying to pull directional focus with my strokes.
http://www.nathanmckenna.co.uk/firefly/redeyefortress_A3.jpg

D) On a new layer I add some block shapes for the foreground, this will be a bridge leading to a tower. I used the polygon select tool again for most of this.
http://www.nathanmckenna.co.uk/firefly/redeyefortress_A4.jpg

E) Started adding in details - looking back I should have defined depth more by making the tower lighter.
http://www.nathanmckenna.co.uk/firefly/redeyefortress_A5.jpg

F) I had to add in another tower for this job - why didn't they tell me at the start!? So I did that really quickly but you can see how much further away it looks just by making it lighter or allowing some of the background colours fade over the top.
http://www.nathanmckenna.co.uk/firefly/redeyefortress_A6.jpg

G) Final touches. I'm pretty happy but still with problems:
The mountain looks too high in contrast, needs to fade out more and this is ruining the composition - the tower and the mountain seem to be fighting for focal attention.
Have I overdone that bloom on the left there? Is bloom the new lens flare? ...NO! ..NOOOoooo!
I'm not so good at perspective and I didn't measure up for this one, so not sure if that feels right.
Is it too dark?
http://www.nathanmckenna.co.uk/firefly/redeyefortress_A7.jpg

thanks for reading.

[MichaelZHsee]

MichaelZHsee how did you make the detail on the concrete/ground. is it a texture, brush or?

Thanks

Hi Sampsonx,sorry for tha very late reply,i havent been visiting this thread for a long time now,just realised that u have posted a question for me,the detail on the concrete was done using texture brush:)

[hidus]

hello,
i posted how i work through my digital painings in here
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=31&t=695949

[Djampa]

This is such an inspiring thread! Learnt a lot from different great artists.
Here is my part to contribute. :)

"Traces of Wisdom"




Oh my... a Tibetan lady, at least a Tibetan ´Buddhist´ lady. So nice painting !
Inspired me a lot to finish my solitary yogi painting... :)
Thanks for sharing Donglu :)

This tread is superb ! Thanks Sacha !

BTW I just posted on the WIP 2D a thread sharing a wip of a study from a Davvy Jones painting, maybe I choose the wrong place to post that... the place should be here...

So here it goes... (next post)

[Djampa]

WIP Gif: (may take long to load, be patient if in low band)

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e259/SculpMan/digital%20paintings/wip_anim2.gif

A plate of WIP (exclusive to this thread) - click it to enlarge

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e259/SculpMan/digital%20paintings/edu_davy_jones_wip_138copy.jpg (http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e259/SculpMan/digital%20paintings/edu_davy_jones_wip_138copy-1.jpg)

Finished piece:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e259/SculpMan/digital%20paintings/edu_davy_jones140.jpg


Thanks for watching, I wait for C&C.

[jamihn]

http://fc80.deviantart.com/fs41/f/2009/019/e/5/Doctor_Doom__MD_by_angryzenmaster.png

Been a while since I've been here, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. Anyway, I did a timelapse video (http://angryartmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/01/doctor-doom-md.html) of this sucker so you can see how it was drawn. Did this on my Nintendo DS with Colors! (it's a homebrew painting program).

[TheFirstAngel]

nii may repost the file since i been tired and messed up the codecsettings, its distorted and has tons of relicts.

made this for pixelbrush.net 's speedysection, also been asked to do another one of these :) ok this is to motivate you to get it down quick and dirty cuz its fun that way http://www.pixelbrush.net/forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

its a speedy, doesnt have to be perfect just straight forward and fun. about an hour, no refs no plan no idea, just scribbling what comes http://www.pixelbrush.net/forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

http://www.angel3d.ch/content/tutorials/clips/knockknock_1024.jpg

now i hope you're having fun and enjoying the clip of this sketchsession http://www.pixelbrush.net/forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif



www.angel3d.ch/content/tutorials/clips/knock_knock_by_thefirstangel.rar (http://www.angel3d.ch/content/tutorials/clips/knock_knock_by_thefirstangel.rar)

in case you dont see an image, the codec is divx, version 7 is out ugrade or get it here:
http://www.divx.com/en/products/software/windows/divx

and for those who havent got rar, get it here:
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

[Pandaren117]

Wow, you guys are AMAZING!

You all make it looks so easy, but I think ti's probably not.

The way you guys blend the colors together like a real painting, is that just a combination of semi low opacity brushes and color sampling?

[sprogis7]

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4225/bird9005905.jpg (http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bird9005905.jpg)
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/bird9005905.jpg/1/w455.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img528/bird9005905.jpg/1/)

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7546/bird18890153.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bird18890153.jpg)
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/bird18890153.jpg/1/w455.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img8/bird18890153.jpg/1/)

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/346/bird28917830.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bird28917830.jpg)
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/bird28917830.jpg/1/w454.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img14/bird28917830.jpg/1/)

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8967/bird49255046.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bird49255046.jpg)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5373/bird51550793.jpg (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bird51550793.jpg)

This work flow seems to work really nice, I started this yesterday, and finished it early this morning. I got it from one of the Gnomon digital painting tutorials, I invite ANY newcomer to digital painting to try it out, this is my first creature design and I think it came out pretty nice for a first attempt.

[brunothurner]

the fullsize piece is in my portfolio
hope u like...

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/4193/allinone.jpg

[edwintenwolde]

http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g93/375093/375093_1243337486_large.jpg

I'm a starting Concept Artist, And made this design on paper with some grayscale markers for fun. Please give me some commentary about the things you like or this like about the drawing...

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