post some steps of a sketch, share shading techniques

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

#26

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

Take care.

Icaro

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

#28

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

hehe

#29

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 :smiley: Hope this work.

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Here’s more

#31

great post crazy bro, tonsa thanks :smiley:

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Some steps for a sketch-painting

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i have added a text for these steps in a post in my thread >> here << :slight_smile:

#33

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

#34

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

cheers

#35

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 :smiley: sorry

#36

Here’s my little attempt :slight_smile: (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.

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)and take it from there.

Stage 2:
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: 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!:
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!

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.

#37

thanks for this great post :slight_smile: told ya before love your way to wortk :smiley:

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 :wink:

keep it up :smiley:

#38

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

sketch:

Basic colours:

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

ssssoo more details

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.

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

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#39

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

#40

simply car sketch coloring