hey scos when you do those paints are you blocking in everything with black then work from soft brushes to hard brushes?
I ask because my speed paints are turning out really bad and I'm tryin' to figure out a better strategy for tackling these things.
My process to speedpainting:
Fill in the background with an appealing gradient as soon as possible, kill all the white.
With a non-round brush (IMPORTANT), I like the sponge-looking one from the brush pack I downloaded, I silhouette in basic forms with a very dark color beneath the gradient, with the gradient set to overlay.
The reason using a non-round brush is important is because with a less tidy brush you get "happy accidents", or unintended details and forms that you might find appealing but didn't consciously make; they just happen. After I knock in my silhouette and scribble out the background, I clean up the contour of my main figure with a hard opaque eraser in key spots to help the form.
Now I study the figure, which hopefully has a fair amount of texture in it, to try to make order from the chaos, and I put light on the details I find using a 30% opacity brush of varying types (I like to experiment). After I do this in enough spots, the general "style" of the character is clear enough that I can tweak the silhouette more and add details all over the figure with soft and hard brushes until I'm satisfied.
hope that helps. My speedpaints are almost more like directed abstract pieces in a way. I have no clue what I'm going to paint when I start, but It's always a pleasant surprise when I'm done
paul im going to blame it on my scanner because the real one looks alot better. Moss those cupcakes are awsome.... in particular, the ahoy cupcake rocks the hardest.
also: what?? samurai zombies? what's the context there?
An evil god from a Japanese pantheon started waging war against all other pantheons of gods, and he also kidnapped the retired Ares's son. Ares would not stand for this and went back to being the god of war again, improving his relationship with his father, half-brother and son in the process.
the art is not spectacular, but the concept is infinitely excellent. i like the nike swooshes on the legs. clever.
Really? The concept seemed kind of tired to me
It's not so much the concept itself as the sheer amalgamation of so many of that concept's elements that is amusing.
He's a sheep, and a hick, and he's got his earphones in to block out the real world, and he's stuffed and therefore not real, and he's got Nike swishes on his legs implying materialism on the one hand and the idea that he himself is a commodity, if you want to get Marxist, on the other, or even that he has sold himself as an advertisement for a corporation and doesn't even know it.
You might of seen this earlier. I'm done. Looks like crap but I'm done.
I'm going to do what every artist should do, run the water faucet till the rusty water turns clear. That meens to do about a hundred or so crappy ass finished drawings before a good one comes out. I'm sure your all aware of that concept already.
And saturated blue? I don't understand why it looks saturated. Saturations means how much grey is in it right?
if you're using PS move the picker around until you get something that's not completely blue (try adding a tiny bit of green). For example when I pick colors I try and add a little of some other color. In real life hardly anything is gonna reflect all the blue and nothing else so pure blue is gonna look odd.
Try mixing in a tiny bit of green or red. That's all I meant. Pure colors don't look natural.
I forget the technical terms.
EDIT: Take Toasts picture that appears in a post above yours. He's using red, green and orange but none of those colors look wierd because he's mixed a little something else into it. (It looks like the red has a little yellow in it). If the green were pure green and the red were pure red it would make our eyes bleed.
I really should pick up a color theory book someday.
And saturated blue? I don't understand why it looks saturated. Saturations means how much grey is in it right?
if you're using PS move the picker around until you get something that's not completely blue (try adding a tiny bit of green). For example when I pick colors I try and add a little of some other color. In real life hardly anything is gonna reflect all the blue and nothing else so pure blue is gonna look odd.
Try mixing in a tiny bit of green or red. That's all I meant. Pure colors don't look natural.
I forget the technical terms.
EDIT: Take Toasts picture that appears in a post above yours. He's using red, green and orange but none of those colors look wierd because he's mixed a little something else into it. (It looks like the red has a little yellow in it). If the green were pure green and the red were pure red it would make our eyes bleed.
I really should pick up a color theory book someday.
OOHH! Right, I remember now. I just learned that a few days ago and forgot about applying it. I did try it out in something else I made. I completly forgot about that color theory thingy. Thanks for the reminder.
Doodles while watching futurama + family guy. (more like listening really(
and something im doing for a "Book Report" for my English class.
Anything incredibly wrong that I should know about?
ps: also my first time seriously inking something, and I know that the line width doesnt make much sense I might go back and fix that before this is due.
RA on
My posts look awkward without a signature so here's one. :arrow:
That makes things that are supposed to be more saturated, too unsaturated...like the blast from the gun, for example.
Pious, I would suggest just looking at things and observing how light works and how shadows and colors work in that situation.
PROTIP: Blurring your vision slightly makes it 100x easier to pick out colors! I only discovered that recently!
But yeah...learning that stuff is really just a three-step process (to me at least) - observing, realizing and absorbing.
1. Observe: Oh, the light that's coming from this direction is being reflected towards THIS direction onto the table. The shadow looks slightly blue on the table, but the table is a warm orangish color!
2. Realize: So that reflected light on the table is going to make this part of the shadow brighter! And if the light is hitting this object from THIS direction, the reflected light is going to appear HERE! ..........and huh, the shadow is the *complimentary* color of the table! They're like opposites on the color wheel!
3. Absorb: [internalizes step 2, to recall later when drawing from tHe MiNd!]
Sometimes the problem I encounter is the "absorbing" part, because I'll forget a specific thing I picked up. That's why lots of observing and "realizing" is necessary, so that eventually, whatever you ended up picking up is just 2nd nature to you.
So its just like shading that ball but with distorted shapes? Then just adding color, but knowing the complementary colors and naming them like seconday and tertiary? If I do use the example above about comlementary color of orange being blue, I use a saturated blue? Like a darkish greenish blue tint? Am I on the right track? Also when shading that ball there is always a reflection of light that is coming off the table or surface its sitting on, but if it was sitting on a surface that isn't very reflective like rubber or dirt, the reflection would be dimmer. Though if it was on glass, metal or plastic it would be brighter?
...Also when shading that ball there is always a reflection of light that is coming off the table or surface its sitting on, but if it was sitting on a surface that isn't very reflective like rubber or dirt, the reflection would be dimmer. Though if it was on glass, metal or plastic it would be brighter?
:^: :^:
I'm not entirely sure what you were talking about in the rest of your post, but this snippet seems to be right on track.
My mom had these books and I, ah, "acquired" them (i.e. sneaking them into my room and having her forget to take them back :P) and they're really good. I suggest you look into purchasing them!
If you're going to add animal traits to a human body, you're going to need to think about structure.
For one, a tail is essentially the continuation of the spine. Therefore, the tail you've drawn would in no way be able to come off the body that way, or bend 2/3 of the way down like that, either.
Also, I'm not exactly agreeing with your seemingly purposeful coloring-out-of-the-lines-to-resemble-fur. Your black lines seem pretty thick and "form fitting", "final", "the edge", and the "hairs" just end up looking like the result of a poor coloring job.
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My process to speedpainting:
Fill in the background with an appealing gradient as soon as possible, kill all the white.
With a non-round brush (IMPORTANT), I like the sponge-looking one from the brush pack I downloaded, I silhouette in basic forms with a very dark color beneath the gradient, with the gradient set to overlay.
The reason using a non-round brush is important is because with a less tidy brush you get "happy accidents", or unintended details and forms that you might find appealing but didn't consciously make; they just happen. After I knock in my silhouette and scribble out the background, I clean up the contour of my main figure with a hard opaque eraser in key spots to help the form.
Now I study the figure, which hopefully has a fair amount of texture in it, to try to make order from the chaos, and I put light on the details I find using a 30% opacity brush of varying types (I like to experiment). After I do this in enough spots, the general "style" of the character is clear enough that I can tweak the silhouette more and add details all over the figure with soft and hard brushes until I'm satisfied.
hope that helps. My speedpaints are almost more like directed abstract pieces in a way. I have no clue what I'm going to paint when I start, but It's always a pleasant surprise when I'm done
the art is not spectacular, but the concept is infinitely excellent. i like the nike swooshes on the legs. clever.
I drew my guy for an Of Dice and Men game.
^
Shitfest-30 min.
EDIT: Now with NIPPLES! and I fixed the abs.
Really? The concept seemed kind of tired to me
Also, he looks like he's suffering from balloon muscle syndrome.
Michael Avon Oeming and his Marvel Comics Ares miniseries would have words with you.
And me too.
Ares sets himself on fire and has Hercules throw him into a crowd of samurai zombies.
Yea, i think its the way i drew the abs, for the most part. i'm messing with it right now to try and find a cure to his mysterious ailment.
Ok,
Traditionally, Ares is a coward. And a pussy.
also: what?? samurai zombies? what's the context there?
An evil god from a Japanese pantheon started waging war against all other pantheons of gods, and he also kidnapped the retired Ares's son. Ares would not stand for this and went back to being the god of war again, improving his relationship with his father, half-brother and son in the process.
Back when i used to play World of warcraft.... being poor whomps
And i drew that for a small sketech of a painting I did of a werewolf
Just wondering cause i'd like to purchase it.
It's not so much the concept itself as the sheer amalgamation of so many of that concept's elements that is amusing.
He's a sheep, and a hick, and he's got his earphones in to block out the real world, and he's stuffed and therefore not real, and he's got Nike swishes on his legs implying materialism on the one hand and the idea that he himself is a commodity, if you want to get Marxist, on the other, or even that he has sold himself as an advertisement for a corporation and doesn't even know it.
You might of seen this earlier. I'm done. Looks like crap but I'm done.
I'm going to do what every artist should do, run the water faucet till the rusty water turns clear. That meens to do about a hundred or so crappy ass finished drawings before a good one comes out. I'm sure your all aware of that concept already.
An example is what I did to Captain Crunch.
So you want me to put a texture layer over it?
not unless you wanna be chastised.
Add a background, and turn the saturation down on some of those colors (especially the blues). Should help a little.
I hear Specter talk about his Omega Beans so much, I just had to draw em...
I'm dying. I don't understand anything about light, shadows,reflections and the like. This really looks like ass.
And saturated blue? I don't understand why it looks saturated. Saturations means how much grey is in it right?
The colors are just very bright/vivid.
You mind taking my image out of your post, its kinda annoying when someone does that right after my post.
So you want me to make my colors darker or something? Or use different colors?
if you're using PS move the picker around until you get something that's not completely blue (try adding a tiny bit of green). For example when I pick colors I try and add a little of some other color. In real life hardly anything is gonna reflect all the blue and nothing else so pure blue is gonna look odd.
Try mixing in a tiny bit of green or red. That's all I meant. Pure colors don't look natural.
I forget the technical terms.
EDIT: Take Toasts picture that appears in a post above yours. He's using red, green and orange but none of those colors look wierd because he's mixed a little something else into it. (It looks like the red has a little yellow in it). If the green were pure green and the red were pure red it would make our eyes bleed.
I really should pick up a color theory book someday.
OOHH! Right, I remember now. I just learned that a few days ago and forgot about applying it. I did try it out in something else I made. I completly forgot about that color theory thingy. Thanks for the reminder.
Doodles while watching futurama + family guy. (more like listening really(
and something im doing for a "Book Report" for my English class.
Anything incredibly wrong that I should know about?
ps: also my first time seriously inking something, and I know that the line width doesnt make much sense I might go back and fix that before this is due.
Pious, I would suggest just looking at things and observing how light works and how shadows and colors work in that situation.
PROTIP: Blurring your vision slightly makes it 100x easier to pick out colors! I only discovered that recently!
But yeah...learning that stuff is really just a three-step process (to me at least) - observing, realizing and absorbing.
1. Observe: Oh, the light that's coming from this direction is being reflected towards THIS direction onto the table. The shadow looks slightly blue on the table, but the table is a warm orangish color!
2. Realize: So that reflected light on the table is going to make this part of the shadow brighter! And if the light is hitting this object from THIS direction, the reflected light is going to appear HERE! ..........and huh, the shadow is the *complimentary* color of the table! They're like opposites on the color wheel!
3. Absorb: [internalizes step 2, to recall later when drawing from tHe MiNd!]
Sometimes the problem I encounter is the "absorbing" part, because I'll forget a specific thing I picked up. That's why lots of observing and "realizing" is necessary, so that eventually, whatever you ended up picking up is just 2nd nature to you.
So its just like shading that ball but with distorted shapes? Then just adding color, but knowing the complementary colors and naming them like seconday and tertiary? If I do use the example above about comlementary color of orange being blue, I use a saturated blue? Like a darkish greenish blue tint? Am I on the right track? Also when shading that ball there is always a reflection of light that is coming off the table or surface its sitting on, but if it was sitting on a surface that isn't very reflective like rubber or dirt, the reflection would be dimmer. Though if it was on glass, metal or plastic it would be brighter?
:^: :^:
I'm not entirely sure what you were talking about in the rest of your post, but this snippet seems to be right on track.
Cool things:
These people are wise:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=42
This book is freakin' awesome (full color) and it looks like you can pick up a copy for less than $5.
http://www.amazon.com/Enliven-Paintings-Light-Elements-Painting/dp/0891345140
Same here, and for $5.95!
http://www.amazon.com/Dramatize-Paintings-Tonal-Elements-Painting/dp/0891344772/ref=sid_dp_dp/104-9968024-6799164
My mom had these books and I, ah, "acquired" them (i.e. sneaking them into my room and having her forget to take them back :P) and they're really good. I suggest you look into purchasing them!
Thanks!
For one, a tail is essentially the continuation of the spine. Therefore, the tail you've drawn would in no way be able to come off the body that way, or bend 2/3 of the way down like that, either.
Also, I'm not exactly agreeing with your seemingly purposeful coloring-out-of-the-lines-to-resemble-fur. Your black lines seem pretty thick and "form fitting", "final", "the edge", and the "hairs" just end up looking like the result of a poor coloring job.
Rushed this 'cause it's needed by tomorrow. Oh well.