PrayingMantis
01-07-2011, 07:30 PM
Sorry about the title, it's quite hard to explain with a few words.
I'm learning to paint in photoshop and I think I grasped the basis, I'm painting landscape and I can lay in the basic colors and setting up the ligthing even if my colors are not perfectly accurate.
My problem is on the next step, detailling. I bought the massive black video from Whit Brachna on painting snow mountain.
While watching his video and in fact while watching many landscape from great artist, they seems to scribble to achieve details.
Like in this painting:
http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/videogames/guildwars/guild_wars_7.jpg
On Whit Brachna video it's even more noticeable because you can see the process.
It really seems to be random scribble, but it's not. If I scribble randomly and choose random color it will be just an incredible mess :).
What I would like to know is the thinking process behing these scribbles to define the details.
And on Whit brachna video he start these really early, I specially don't really like this method, I prefer the one described by Min Yum aka bumskee, it's easier to understand it doesn't look like pure magic.
I can understand the first step of a painting, laying down the main shape and lighting, but this one, seeing the detailling poping from nowhere and just seeing scribbling is quite hard to understand, it's not even explained in his video.
Does anyone have any idea, or any clue that could help to decypher this process?
A methodology or anything reproducible?
Thank you.
I'm learning to paint in photoshop and I think I grasped the basis, I'm painting landscape and I can lay in the basic colors and setting up the ligthing even if my colors are not perfectly accurate.
My problem is on the next step, detailling. I bought the massive black video from Whit Brachna on painting snow mountain.
While watching his video and in fact while watching many landscape from great artist, they seems to scribble to achieve details.
Like in this painting:
http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/videogames/guildwars/guild_wars_7.jpg
On Whit Brachna video it's even more noticeable because you can see the process.
It really seems to be random scribble, but it's not. If I scribble randomly and choose random color it will be just an incredible mess :).
What I would like to know is the thinking process behing these scribbles to define the details.
And on Whit brachna video he start these really early, I specially don't really like this method, I prefer the one described by Min Yum aka bumskee, it's easier to understand it doesn't look like pure magic.
I can understand the first step of a painting, laying down the main shape and lighting, but this one, seeing the detailling poping from nowhere and just seeing scribbling is quite hard to understand, it's not even explained in his video.
Does anyone have any idea, or any clue that could help to decypher this process?
A methodology or anything reproducible?
Thank you.