I moved on from sketching to a full digital painting. This has also been an opportunity for me to design another one of my digital comic characters: Yanadia. She doesn’t feature in the current project but will appear in a future instalment.
Here are the female faces from the last 2 nights. I’ve been experimenting with different face shapes. I like the chin on the last one.
More female faces tonight. The thing with people’s faces is this: you make one wrong move and it looks nothing like them!
Trying to get better at female faces. I’m going to do as many as I can over the next few weeks.
I’m switching over to character design practice for a while now (starting off with female faces). In this one I wanted to learn how be a bit more dramatic with lighting, hence the shaft of light on her face. Line sketch: Blocking in colours: Changed my mind about the colours: Adding in more detail and changing the hairstyle: Adding in…
I’m still on the mission to improve my art but have been trying to focus on subjects that are related to the project (dark temples, steampunk pistols and the like). Tasks completed over the last 4 weeks: Dark Temple Concept Art (5 hrs) Steampunk Pistol (flintlock pistol) (5 hrs) Tasks to be completed over the next 4 weeks: Queen Yanadia…
OK so now I’ve got a flintlock pistol under my belt (not literally but you know what I mean). Hopefully that’ll help me do steampunk weaponry for my digital comic project. In case you’re interested, I used this image as a reference: http://gunsofold.com/images/washington_flintlock.jpg
In order to learn how to paint steampunk pistols, I thought I’d start with having a go at a flintlock pistol. Blocking in the wood base colour: Adding a bit of varnish: Blocking in the steel and the brass colours: Adding in the dark steel accents:
Tonight I’ve finished off this study by doing the water. Again the Shaddy Safadi tutorials gave me a real boost here. On a separate layer with just the water area selected, I brushed in the water highlights: Then I created a water accents layer and brushed in the accents (darker areas): Using Gimp’s Bristles 01 brush for painting in and…
I wasn’t happy with the basalt rock so I watched a few tutorials by Shaddy Safadi (this guy is awesome) and then went back to the blocking in stage and started again from there. Initial block-in: 2. Blocking in the accents: 3. Using Lock Alpha Channel with a textured brush (Acrylic 2) to give the accents some texture: 4. Blocking…
