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Hey jo people,
here are my submissions for the assignment, I spend about two evenings on one piece, my most obvious weak points I think are the hands and feet.
Something that I really need to work on is keeping a consistent edge quality when working with a textured brush, as I find myself losing control more often than not and getting a muddied result in the end.
I hope you like my pieces and feedback of any sort is greatly appreciated.
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It's time to start painting. We explore a simplified digital workflow to get you comfortable with the medium. We start by creating a solid drawing foundation using references. You'll learn to use digital advantages like the Lasso Tool and Free Transform to adjust proportions quickly.
Once the drawing is set, we move to the painting phase. I'll walk you through toning the canvas, blocking in shadow shapes, and separating the figure from the background. You will learn my specific blending technique using the Eyedropper tool and brush pressure to create smooth transitions. We also cover edge control and how to simplify details to create a strong focal point. This lesson includes a full demonstration of a grayscale figure painting.
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Getting Started with Digital Painting
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Now that you've seen me do it, it's your turn to practice working from a reference to understand how shapes and values work in real life!
Start with a clean drawing, do a value block-in, and then build up your painting working from general to specific details.
You're more than welcome to find your own reference, but I've also provided three references that can be found in the downloads tab for this lesson. There is an easy reference, an intermediate reference for those who'd like to try clothing a figure and painting fabric, and a hard reference with lots of costume details and fun material challenges.
Hey. I dont know how to adjust my wacom tablet to pressure and all that. Is there a package you download somewhere? I just got the tablet and the pen. Cant press down on the tablet, and the brush size is the same, if you understand. So I have a handycap here:) I think there might be hope:)
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Hey Joseph, I gave it a shot to see what I could figure out. I think if you reduce the overall size of the eyes a bit and reduce the value of the whites it will help.
Hey all. Here is a second attempt. I'm still developing my illustration skills in tandem to this painting course, so the hand and feet were left as block shapes, and the face is a little bit basic. I had a lot of fun with the Bristle Brush on the dress. Such a great way to add texture, direction and life to an object.
All notes welcome :)
I know everyone says use hard brushes and blend manually, but I struggled so hard and finally gave in to the blend tool. I also spent days with analysis paralysis on what brushes to use and just went with the good old hard round 😅 Played with throwing a colorized layer on it at the end and I’m pretty happy with the results.
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Wow. The rendering and color looks amazing.
You don’t have to copy the reference so closely. The next step might be to try some designing of the shapes to make it more your own voice.
Great to get started on some digital painting. I could have spent a bit more time getting the gesture of the pose and facial features more accurate, but I think I was just keen to get into using the new tools. I'm pretty happy with the tone work.
I built a texture brush but lost it when PS crashed so just went with smooth brushes afterwards. Looking forward working some textures into future works.
All feedback welcome
This definitely took me a while to finish! I really enjoyed the process of this assignment. This is my second time starting my painting with grayscale. My brain understands this a bit better to start off with a painting. I still have a lot to work on, drawing hands and feet and faces are not my strong suit. But this was a really great practice for me. I definitely picked a difficult one for this assignment, but I do enjoy a challenge to improve on my skills.
Here's my attempt at this exercise; I really enjoyed it.
Although I feel my form and proportions aren't quite right, I hope someone can give me some advice :)
this was my go at it, im pretty happy with it but I feel like I could have done better
Here is my firts submission for grey scale (i think) had some difficulties during blendin with my galaxy tab and studio paint
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This looks really great! The figure is just too close to the value of the background. You can push the lighter values on the figure way lighter and I think that would work well for this painting.
Hope this helps. Keep it up!
I'm not yet good enough at figure drawing so instead of a person I drew a biten apple which is much easier.
I managed to make a brush in procreate that's similar to the custom one used in the demo (wish it was either provided like the other brushes or not used to make it easier to follow along and learn). I thought it was significantly harder to blend smooth gradients with the other brushes but this one worked well for it. I'm glad digital art isn't as hard as I was afraid it would be. Lol I've been missing out this whole time limiting myself to pencil and paper. Being able to do things like cut and move whole parts of a drawing that are in the wrong place is amazing.
Hello everyone, starting over this course ( trying to get better with the painting part of digital painting )
This attempt was pretty rough as I tend to draw in a more lineart oriented way. ( And I avoid realist redering in my drawings ) But it feels good to practice a new skill/ way of thinking !
Will do more in the future !
Did these over the course of a few weeks. I'm not very experienced with painting so still trying to get more comfortable with shapes and forms, I think I've been over working to compensate since digital can't stop me the way paper can... so through the course I want to work on building confidence and letting myself get a bit looser/more painterly in addition to being able to take more creative liberties.
Being limited to grayscale and still doing clothes taught be a lot about relating local color to value. I did struggle to differentiate overlapping areas that were both in light/shadow without lines, like the hand over the woman's chest-- does anyone here have any tips?
Este ejercicio me tomó al rededor de diez horas. Realicé la ilustración con Affinity by Canva porque es gratis. Mucho del tiempo que tardé en terminarla se debió a que no conozco muy bien las herramientas de estos programas digitales. Intenté realizar un renderizado medianamente detallado. ¿Alguna recomendación para encontrar rápidamente las herramientas de Photoshop que el instructor muestra en los videos, pero en otros programas? Agradezco de antemano cada comentario y espero que le guste a la comunidad el resultado en el que invertí mucho corazón.
