[Enrichment] - Show Your Work
Iruka
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This monthy challenge is an easy one. Break dwn your process, either by recording it in video, taking photos/screencaps as you work. The point of doing this is twofold. There is a lot to learn in watching another artists process, so we can help each other by showing how we get things done. We can also break down our own work and find critical flaws in our approach.
You can also find process videos for other artists and try to emulate certain parts of it. If you'd like to paint some patches of fur, or a trick for rending chrome reflections, this is an appropriate outlet. Just be sure to post the source for your study.
In this thread, you may
Post the process of a fairly recent work
Make a new work and record the process
Share other artists process work, and discuss
Mimic/study another persons style by following a process
This monthly enrichment is meant to inspire conversation, so feel to participate even if you aren't going to post your own process.
Inspiration and Resources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Eo_gnKVPG6c#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r5vC6bdYPVM
http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/2012/08/digital-skin.html
>>Enrichment Directory<<
This monthy challenge is an easy one. Break dwn your process, either by recording it in video, taking photos/screencaps as you work. The point of doing this is twofold. There is a lot to learn in watching another artists process, so we can help each other by showing how we get things done. We can also break down our own work and find critical flaws in our approach.
You can also find process videos for other artists and try to emulate certain parts of it. If you'd like to paint some patches of fur, or a trick for rending chrome reflections, this is an appropriate outlet. Just be sure to post the source for your study.
In this thread, you may
Post the process of a fairly recent work
Make a new work and record the process
Share other artists process work, and discuss
Mimic/study another persons style by following a process
This monthly enrichment is meant to inspire conversation, so feel to participate even if you aren't going to post your own process.
Inspiration and Resources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Eo_gnKVPG6c#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r5vC6bdYPVM
http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/2012/08/digital-skin.html
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Hah thats kind of funny. I work with the guy in the portrait. Our desks are right next to each other in a small office.
Unless it is specifically a "Meals YOU can make in 30 minutes OR LESS!" cookbook there's typically a prep time indicated- unless that's rolled into the difficulty rating?
The black outer - white inner pots/pans read the best imo; they tend to reflect the actual colors of non-stick kitchenware, which bachelor dudes are more likely to own since it is available on the cheap.
If you're going to be using the knife icons to indicate "you should use a Chef's or Santoku for this instead of your Paring knife" then perhaps it would be better to clearly differentiate them rather than using the same brand (victorinox?) for uniform handles. I don't think I could tell the two knife silhouettes above apart at a glance if my knife-knowledge was limited.
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I'll do some revisions and post em later. Thanks for the pots/pans thing too.
And a good freeware tool for editing it while we're asking.
This one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NiMHwFF_ARY
I used Debut Video Capture Software (lt should still be free http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html ) to do the capture itself, then speed it up and added music in After Effects. I think Debut has some editing abilities so you might be able to do everything in the one program, I am just more comfortable in AE.
Hope that helps! I will try to do another one with this challenge in mind.
Pencils and rough inks
screwing around with colour schemes
current progress, still just cleaning up
Don't know if I'm going to make it super clean (which will probably mean redoing the inks) or paint over the top to get a more watercolour effect (which might not work so well).
@akanekun can't wait to see more of your stuff! looking forward to it.
@siegfried looking good, are you using InDesign for the layout?
Love this thread so far, I always get a kick out of seeing the process and would love to see more people chip it!
@tynic maybe just clean the inks on the sitting figures? I really like the energetic quality to the inks right now, redoing the whole thing would probably just stiffen it up.
@Siegfried I feel like its way minimalist, which I guess is probably what you are going for, but it doesn't strike me as having a character of its own yet. I feel like "survival guides" have their own quirky genre of illustration and information, it'd be cool to see that play out just a little in yours.
Anyways, I broke up the last thing I posted by layer, which usually is an effective process walk through:
my PS files used to be some 40 odd layers big. I've gotten alot more streamlined over time.
aaaand I just noticed I've deleted my linework... yea
I've realized that by using photographic sources for palettes that I end up with very washed-out environments, so I expanded on the starting palette. The glacier/mountains are leaning too heavily to the right at this point, so I'm going to re-balance that whole thing back towards the left 3rd. I'm planning very lengthy shadows to simulate near-polar latitude.
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Alright, I've never recorded myself working before so I thought I'd give this a spin. I'm not totally happy with the result, but as a demonstration of my typical process it should do fine. If this wasn't a demo I might have spent more time at the end noodling around with bits that could have been improved, but I didn't want to have an additional 20 minutes of experimental scribbling in there (It's not immediately obvious to me how I might meaningfully improve it, so I would mostly be doing trial and error). I was most pleased with the feel of the face between ~4 and 6 minutes and probably would have tried to recapture that a bit.
Anyway, here's the video. Took about 60 minutes to record.
@Scosglen ever consider sticking a black to white gradient bar in the corner somewhere, So you can eye-drop from it?
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Are you blurring the stock hard round brush, or would you like to replicate the super soft default brush, but cant figure out how?
I used Ray Frenden's brush preset kit for all the linework. SO good.
Blam!
I just want to be able to shift-bracket everything- that is, soften/harden any brush I'm using just by adjusting a slider the way I can with default round brushes.
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As you can see, quite a lot more to do.
Ctrl+Alt+right-click and dragging up and down do this faster than brackets if you can get used to it. I don't use the default brushes much anymore, so I guess I never got hooked on the harden slider. I would personally have a feathered version of your favorite custom brush and just switch back and forth.
And here's the process for my Phoenix piece:
Thanks! I used the sight-size method for that...something I took a class in right before I drew that. It's a slow method, but forces you to focus on proportions, angles, negative spaces, etc. and can help you end up with a pretty accurate initial sketch, as each line/angle you're drawing you're trying to perfect early on.
For this first stage I was positioning the big parts of my drawing, focusing on the most general angles, shapes, and where everything lies relative to everything else. The smaller things that are drawn in are there because they were useful in some way for lining up the bigger elements. There were a million lines stretching around connecting different things that I erased as I went, so you don't see them anymore.
At this point I let myself start putting in smaller things, and showing a little more character in what I already had down. All the same, as there were problems I noticed that with the bigger things, I fixed those as a top priority. Nothing is ever set in stone, and if it needs to change then I change it. Sometimes you don't see problems until you have a little more down.
I'll post more pictures as I keep working on it. The ref is a photo I took when I was 10, and it might be impossible for it to be a worse lighting reference, so this will be tough.
edit:
Before I start worrying about specifics I needed to sort out where in general I was going to be using the tone of the charcoal vs paper vs chalk. Value hierarchy, whatever. Putting this stuff down is a really easy place to lose track of the drawing, so I tried to avoid that while still keeping it loose and open.
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Sketch:
Lines:
Color:
I'm doing a fighting game themed character select screen of my fellow artists on Strip Search. I didn't get to record me painting Katie, and I already had a base sketch of Alex going when I decided to record. So here's a video of me just refining the sketch some more before bed. Drawing time was about 30 minutes. I'll post more as I go along.
Advanced warning: I zoom in and out a lot, and it might be disorienting at speed.
Here's where I'm at now:
an early layout sketch
and Katie's finished portait
Anyway, I finished this (as much as I'm going to) - turns out you should use much nicer paper if you're going to shade pencil to black
and my process is light pencil, dark pencil, ink, erase, ink, pencil, ink, erase, ink, erase