10/11/10

 

Same piece from yesterday.  I jumped into using Levels to darken the composition to get the values closer to what they should be.

I then started the process of cleaning up the light/shadow edges a bit more and started on rendering the figure a bit more.  That's all I really had time for today, and I realized that I probably won't have time to keep working on this until after APE, but I'll finish it at some point!

10/10/10

 

Since today is 10-10-10 (!!) and is supposed to be scary or something, I've decided to start painting this little horror-inspired sketch that I did in my sketchbook.  Above is the original sketch and scan.  Notice that I have all the perspective wrong and I did the figure much larger on the bottom of the page knowing that I was going to complete this piece digitally.

 

In this next piece I worked out the composition, and fixed the perspective (thanks to lots of help from perspective master Eve).  Using the magic of layers in photoshop, I moved stuff around until I was happy with the placement and the feel of the piece.  I also added a little rat in the bottom, created a shoulder for the beast up front, and used the perspective tool to get the guy drawn right.

Now I turned the drawing into multiply layers and started blocking in general light/shadow patterns.  The main light source is going to be the fire in the barrel the homeless man is warming his hands on, and the other source is going to be the glow from the creature's eye and the reflected light off of the dumpster.


That's all for now, but I'll be working on this on and off, so keep checking back for more!

6/25/10

Moving on to some color, I decided I needed to darken the value of the treeline and the opposing cliffs so that the lighting makes sense.  I now just realized that the waterfall would also be much darker, so that's something else I'll have to work on.  Just gotta keep keeping on...

6/24/10

So I had to work late, then I went out with co-workers to check out "Exit Through the Gift Shop."  Fun times.  Thus, I really only had time to do a quick value study.  I usually don't do these, but I thought the composition was off, and wanted to see if value would fix it.  It didn't, so I changed the location of the rope bridge, and added some trees to help frame the piece.  I think this works a bit better, as even though I intentionally had the bridge leading away from the demon in the original sketch (I wanted to make it look as if the demon had even more of a lead on the hero), it ended up leading your eye out of the composition.

I think this works a lot better now, and will proceed to start painting. 

6/23/10

So here is the sketch of my next digital paint that I plan to work on.  The story behind this is that some sort of demon has stolen away an innocent townsperson, and this intrepid hero on creature-back is now chasing that jerk demon down.