Digital Painting - latest work...
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OK, ok I'll try and be a bit more helpful
This was all painted with one brush (except for the blue glow at the centre). It's a standard round brush, with a roundness of 60% and an opacity of 50%, with the stroke width and opacity determind by the pen pressure. Keeping the opacity down around the 50% mark means that you can gradually build up colour in smoother transitions. And reducing the roundness of the brush just makes the strokes a bit more natural. Then using the eyedropper to sample the colours in the graduated areas allows you to paint with these intermediate tones as well. The blue glow was created on a new layer: a rectangular selection with heavily feathered edges, filled with blue colour, with the layer mode set to 'screen'.
This scene has two light sources: the centre blue light, and the 'sun'. The sun direction and shadows were provided by the SketchUp output, and I just eyeballed the blue lighting.
This was all done with the most basic Wacom Bamboo tablet.Hope this helps a little?
A.
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great artwork, Andy - please let us see more!:)
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Impressive as usual.
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Amazing model and render
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Thanks All.
Attached one more piece - can't show much more, as I'm working under a load of NDA's at the moment
This one was produced in a similar manner. The front end of the vehicle was taken from an existing 3dwarehouse model, the rest was done from scratch. Half the sky was taken from a photo, extended with hand-painting.
cheers,
A.
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Nice. I wish I could do that. But alas!
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aw man, that's awesome... you totally need to do a time lapse video for us!
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Interesting work, and great illumination.
I have made something like that that i'll show here next week (The Hole, The Hole 2 and The Hole 003)...
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Really nice stuff - your work gets better every time you post...
I was interested by this comment, though:
@unknownuser said:
Keeping the opacity down around the 50% mark means that you can gradually build up colour in smoother transitions.
While this is true, I think it's a good way to hold yourself back in your painting, as well. I used to paint with really transparent brushes a lot, and it makes you work like a (really) old school painter, building up layers of colour in stages. Problem is that it tends to make the work a little bit 'muddier' than it might otherwise be - there are few areas of pure colour (if that makes sense).
I forced myself to stop using tranparent brushes for a while, and sometimes even worked with no opacity control at all on the tablet. My work got a lot worse for a while, and then a lot better than it was before once I'd learnt to paint a bit bolder. If you don't have any pressing client deadlines on a piece, I'd highly recommend trying this out. It'll be frustrating as hell, but it might let you push your painting to another level once you get your head around it.
Hope that helps. Thanks for posting...
AJ
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Hi Alex - really useful info - thankyou.
The 'muddiness' is something I am conscious of. I'll bite the bullet and try your approach on my next piece. Guess this approach really forces you to think about your colour choices too... Once again, thanks for taking the timeA.
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