I’m impressed by your ease with digital sketching. It’s been several years now since I switched to the tablet and I’m still not as comfortable with it as I am with the pencil. Something about the feel of the pen…
Anyway, here’s the paintover. It’s a quick dirty job and I dropped the stains, but hopefully it still gets the point across.
Thanks for the inspiring and insightful tutorial. I had a question though… I enjoy the entire process until I have to color it. On your new color layer after laying the base values, do you use a normal layer with an opacity brush for the coloring? I find when I do that, I tend to shift the values at times. Also, with different values of color, do you select a lighter version of the color, or do you just paint over the values you already have down? I find it difficult to work with a color opacity brush, over something I already have the base values for. Thanks! Again, awesome work!
Coaaal, I’m working in Photoshop and I’m setting the layer options for the color layer to ‘color’. PM me if you need some Photoshop tips.
Setting the layer to color will allow you to paint with whatever color you want and it will maintain most of the value work from previous layers. I’m also painting with 100% opacity on the brush. Where that deviates is a setting on the brush to control opacity with pen pressure.
After I have the basic colors down I’m creating a new ‘normal’ layer above the color. There I use the eye dropper to grab a color/value combination and start painting the finer details.
Let me know if any of this seems vague and I’ll expand a bit, or even create a more thorough tutorial to illustrate my point.
That just took a big headache out of my workflow. Thanks! Also, you were plenty descriptive. Keep up the good work!
Very, very rough color and value test. I’ll have to redraw the boat and guy getting flipped out of it. Then I’ll combine everything and start painting on top of it.
Update with some work on the foreground. I keep fighting with the turtle’s head anatomy, so any commits with regards to that are appreciated.
Alright, I think I’m done with the grumpy turtle. Please let me know if you all spot anything wonky and I’ll get it fixed up.
I ended up with way more detail than I initially wanted, so I decided to make it an exercise in balancing all that detail, kind of telling a story, and maintaining the focal point.
Here’s the full wip progression.
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