Digital Watercolor cont...
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Another image of the recent WIP utilizing the tricks and tips suggested for my last posting...c&c please!
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that is really cool. i love the watercolor effect. very pretty. did you paint it or use a program to create the effect?
i would say maybe bring up a cooler blue in the shadows, considering it looks to be a clear/blue day and based on the shadows it is either earlier or later than noon. also a bit more value separation between the foreground and subject might frame it a little more distinctly.
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Tom - the way your digital pigment concentrates & pools looks fantastic! A very inspirational way to start the new year!
I can see what Gaganraj means about the foreground & subject being perhaps too uniform. It might be interesting to work in some 'whitespace' into the lower foreground.
To my eyes the weakest part is the edges of the digital painting. The scale of your broken edge doesn't really suit your successful watercolour wash style of the paintings. The wash look suggests a fluid looseness whereas that edge suggests a tight drybrush technique at odds with the rest of the painting - plus its too consistent. I don't know the answer but I imagine looking at some traditional watercolours could be helpful to see how the painting 'stops'.
Regards, Ross
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Tom,
Outstanding work! Nice to see you take the suggestions from the other thread and incorporate them into this work - it really makes a difference. The suggestions here (especially the edge) sound good as well. The only thing that stands out to me is the glazing on the building to the left. Maybe a little more vertical linework in the linear glazing would hint at more detail.
The color tone and balance you have achieved are just wonderful!
Bytor
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Thanks, Guys, the good help just keeps coming...and I love it!
gaganraj, good call...I think I may have used the inverse of what you had in mind, but still mo'betta (I think :`) thanks. (I see the process let some of my screaming colors out of their cage...I'll have to keep a constant vigil, I guess, 'cause I refuse to kill them outright 8-}
I used several layers of SU base image each hit with a different watercolor filter (or combination), then combined them using different blend settings and transparencies...erasing out here and there as I pleased. I'm using more and more stroking of the brush now, but doubt I'll ever have the right to call it painting.
Ross, thanks: for the concentrates I use a "dot" image I created from a paper texture applied to a blank white sheet...burned-in over the top of everything else the dots pick up whatever color is under them. The pools are your beyondedger4 tech: so yes, beautiful...because of you.
And yes, the edge is ucky!...I'm going back to my "peel the tape off the edge once it's dry" edge until I find a better looking solution.
Bytor, I think(?) I have finally graduated to a level where the teachings of the masters are starting to make some sense...now the real fun (and torment) begins. Personally, I hope those windows just go away (partially why I didn't make nice with them)...that bldg is the new part of the project (KBI lab bldg on their main campus), which is also only to that first quick sketch stage. This architect will design and sketch over jpegs exported out of viewer several times as I build the model up and we have it right (he has a good eye and usually pleases me just fine which makes the modeling a joy).
I've attached several images as I am playing around with the interaction between the color sketch and the drawing edges/linework. C&C will hopfully continue, thanks...I'm loving dealing with what feels like a breakthrough to me.
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Very nice images, hope you dont mind but where did you get those trees from ?
Cheers
Darren
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Darren, Tom is THE tree maker of this kind! Everybody else gets their trees like those from him!
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Darren, thank you...and as Gai (your check's in the mail, BTW :`) said, I think I've posted here all the trees in this image: search me and tree or trees. If there's one you can't find I'd be happy to share, just let me know.
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