impressive stuff y’all!
Photoshop, wacom, no ref.

Photoshop, wacom, no ref.

Blattwerk thanks!
Terro, this is supposed to be a speedie? doh Looks great!
Samsonreaper, yeah,you are right: usually i´d push the contrast a bit more but right now i´m just playing around with the pros and cons of lowkey-images. I think they are perfect to support certain moods. Ah well, anyway, we´ll see…
On the other hand i think you pushed the values a tad too far on yours. For example i think there´s no need to highlight a red fabric with white. Hm, …depends, it´s all a matter of taste i guess. Because apart from that i think your pic rocks as usual. The story is the icing on the cake 
Goro, für Dich doch gerne
Yours is yummy!

Edit: Ohnoo, 1st post again rolleyes I´m not doing this on purpose…
art>I can really feel the warmth of the light in that digital painting.
Decided to try my hand at practicing geometric shapes plus colour and shadow in Photoshop tonight…did okay on a cube, but for some reason couldn’t get the sphere to work well…something about not researching enough beforehand on specular highlights and the shadows cast by a sphere…and it all led me to be inspired to paint this…
It was random. I messed the specular highlight and shadows of the sphere up, and it look like some kind of window looking into a cave…so I decided to paint a cave at night…
Art: Its very nice how u expand the tonal low key image with some well placed highlights. I am always blown away by your easy looking style … so much life.

Here is a current WIP…I have no idea if I’m doing the initial value study right or wrong though…just…painting it up, removing the original outline entirely or making it less opaque where necessary.
Umm, it’s some cave… 
And thx Anarcob for your Thread, just tried to get into perspective drawing,
and it works really well.

Some eerie house.
Took Anarcobs step by step tutorial as reference.
Man, this works so well, done in about 20-30min.


Vyse-soa, thanx, glad if it can be useful…
Here is a 2h15 speedy,…I wanted to try something realistic more fresh, without SF etc…
It’s an exercise. Ref used this time (but it’s not a paintover)
The main goal was to memories (for future paints) the process of creating realistic mountains…in order to make them without ref.
bye
edit: middle less contrasted

For some reasons I am in love with your brush strokes arnocob. How do you get that washed out colors?
I totally agree… something really cool about the brushstrokes and colors…
Seems like you have a world of small details everywhere.
Would you be interested in doing a video while painting sometimes… just record the painting
Would love to see how you progress 

Thanx!
About the strokes : In PS, I often start with lasso’s selections (and save them in order to re-work on them later) with gradient colors. And I mostly use only basic rounded brush. What I define is just the opacity. So, the “watercolor” effect comes from the superpositions…
This is not a real tuto and this is not perfect (this is why I didn’t post it in the appropriate thread)
but, here is the link:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=31&t=367812&page=10&pp=15
bye