oops file is to large…Im new at this
post some steps of a sketch, share shading techniques
kira-hime
#102
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! 
(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
#103
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:
LoTekK
#104
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.
TheFirstAngel
#106
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
#107
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. Thanks FirstAngel!
nblarson
#109
Speed paint that I did in about an hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxfDHVwAvQg&mode=user&search=
Kevissimo
#111
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…
spyroteknik
#113
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
Parcel-Sisters
#115
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
#116
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
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4, i realise that the color, light are not very interesting… i decide to change it ( level in photoshop )
5, color are ok, and ship design, so i can use the light
6, now i just have to finish it !!
i hope you will like it !! see ya
TheMightyMouse
#117
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:
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
#118
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
2-the base color,redish blue ambients but i’d like to remain dark overal
3-shaping out the structures
4- adding ornaments details ,dragon and color tweaks
5-complete,approximately 5 hours,final adjustment,adding fog to enhance the mood
a walkthrough wip sequence
molemoli
#119
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…
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
#120
wow this thread is really awesome, it helped me alot, thanks for all these great tutorials !