I’ve been meaning to boost my environment painting skills for a while now, so I thought I’d surf around for some tutorials on the subject.
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Small Canvas Digital Painting – Experiment 1
Steampunk Helmet Digital Painting
This is a steampunk helmet digital painting done in Gimp. It is the Standard Issue Suborean Guard Combat Helmet as worn by Sylen Benevolen and Atonis Trogade from my digital comic project.
I experimented again with a different art process which I will try to describe below.
Steampunk Soldier Digital Painting of Captain Atonis Trogade
This is a steampunk soldier digital painting in Gimp of Atonis Trogade, a Captain of the Suborean Guard and one of the characters from my digital comic project. I’m not sure how steampunky this is though, I’d love to know what you think.
Here was my process.
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Free Desktop Wallpaper of Umia Yulon
I’ve just added a Free Desktop Wallpaper of Umia to my wallpapers section.
The darker muted colours should hopefully be easier on the eye over extended periods of computer use.
Steampunk Girl Digital Painting
This is another character concept from my digital comic project.
Her name is Umia Yulon and she is a steampunk girl from the forest nation of Suborea.
She took me around 6 hours to paint in Gimp plus 1 hour of surfing around for reference images.
Dark Acolyte Digital Painting 2
This is version 2 of my dark acolyte concept.
Glass Marble Digital Painting
I’ve been following some more tutorials from ctrlpaint.com. Matt’s tutorials are in Photoshop, but the principles are universal so I have been able to follow them in Gimp.
This one is about painting a glass marble.
I particularly love the coloured refracted light patch in the middle of the shadow, it really makes it magical.
Dark Acolyte Concept Digital Painting
Here’s a dark acolyte digital painting using Gimp.
I’ve been using some of the techniques I’ve learned from ctrlpaint.com.
These techniques were:
- Painting outside of the lines and then erasing back (http://www.ctrlpaint.com/dp101-4/).
- Using more layers when painting.
- Using the Free Select tool to limit the area affected by the paint brush (check out the M tattoo on his face).
Link Added: Ctrl+Paint
The most efficient method of learning something is to sit at the feet of masters and soak up their instruction. Failing that you could try finding a good educational website.
Ctrlpaint.com is an awesome website and provides just about the best set of free digital painting video tutorials I have found to date.
It is run by a guy called Matt Kohr who is in my opinion a Jedi Master of the Digital Art world.
The short (5 mins approx.) videos are well thought out and clearly presented.
I am currently working my way through the huge list of these tutorials and they are pure gold.
I have added links to ctrlpaint.com to my Cool Links menu on the left and also to my Links page. If you want to super-charge your digital art skills, hop on over and power-up!
A Quick Concept Sketch Of A Dark Acolyte
Here’s a quick concept sketch of one of the Dark Acolytes from my digital comic.
Done in Gimp.
He’s shaven headed except for that pony tail.
He’s wearing a long leather coat.
He’s got a big ‘M’ tattooed onto his face.