Hi Siju
I know you are fairly new to Painter. I hope this helps you out some in the development of your great figure-rendering-skill. Used your creature for the example, tried to tailor fit and develop a technique for you, that will allow you to take your great drawings, and turn them into paintings, while keeping the underlying drawing, and working on and within it. This technique can be taken much further with the great understanding of the human figure that you have, and is just one of many techniques used to creat paintings.
Step #1
Your line drawing done on white paper.
Step #2
Go to ‘effects’, select ‘apply surface texture’,
now select ‘using’ and then select ‘image luminous’
Right below that is a slide bar that says ‘appearance of depth’,
slide arrow all the way to left.
Now go to bottom and select ‘light color’
Now select color to tint entire drawing by pressing in square with your pen
and using slide bar at right to adjust that color.
Then press ‘add to custom colors’
Then press ‘OK"
Now move image around in "preview box’ to see if that is the right color you want.
If it is, press ‘OK"
If not go back and press ‘light color’ and try again.
Use above method any time during painting process to tint entire painting for unity of color etc.
After tinting painting you want to spot light it as if it were a piece of sculpture.
Creating shadow and depth using light. Just like in the movie studios.
For this effect you go to ‘effects’ once more and select ‘surface control’
Menu comes up select ‘apply lighting’
Now you have your spot lights for this image.
I used "splashy colors’ found in squares toward bottom of this menu for this image.
Now to work lights just drag them with your pen in preview box.
Big end of light to drag and place light, small end of light to aim spot light.
If you want more spot lights just touch pen in preview box and another spotlight will appear. If you get too many lights, drag unneeded lights to edge of preview box and aim away from box.
To select and change color of spotlight, go to box that says ‘light color’ select color and press ‘OK’
During this whole process don’t forget you always have the edit function in top left corner of screen.
These lights take a little bit of practice to get used to but have unlimited combinations and variables and are great once you master them.
After lighting this image I wanted to play with proportion and expression.
So, I went to ‘effects’ again, selected ‘surface control’
Menu comes up select ‘quick warp’. Used ‘bump’ and ‘swirl’ to add more bulk and arch to outside edge of face.
Play around with all the settings in here just for fun if nothing else.
Step #3
Now comes the fun part. Turning line into flesh. I didn’t want to destroy your lines because they perfectly describe the muscles of the face. I did however want to change the drawing into a painting and at the same time change the muscles to show their function of creating expression.
Method used to change character of lines.
#1 Used ‘blend and diffuse brush #1’ found in 'blender brushes section.
Went over entire face except teeth with this brush (lightly)
#2 Used ‘softener brush’ found in ‘tinting brushes’ section. Softened shadow areas.
#3 And most fun and important method. Went to top of screen and selected ‘layers’
Menu comes up and at bottom of menu is ‘dynamic plug-ins’
Select ‘dynamic plug-ins’ and another menu comes up. In that menu select ‘liquid lens’
Once you master "‘liquid lens’ brushes you can create, modify, distort, clarify etc. any expression or for that matter anything that you want.
The brushes tend to leave a jagged edge so all you have to do is hit that edge with the ‘softener’ brush found in the ‘tinting brush’ section.
The liquid lens brushes allow you to manipulate your painting as if it were a clay sculpture. Compressing, pulling, shaping with paint.
You can even change the direction of the eyeball using these brushes. Used them on your face to create smile and around eyebrow ridge and for beard, hair, ear, eye, fang.
They are great for making muscles work and relax etc.
In short these are the steps I used:
1 Tint entire canvas with color.
2 Spotlight with color light.
3 Instant warp
4 Diffuse lines
5 Soften shadow areas
6 Liquid Lens - which I like to call ‘shaper brushes’
7 I just barely touched on it in your face. This step is to go into the detail of face with oil and water color and tinting brushes… oils for hight light in eye, and teeth so far.
If you have any problems with, or questions about this technique, you know how to reach me…I will be more than happy to help you out…
Sorry this is so long but I couldn’t think of a shorter way to make it.
Take Care
Glenn
