Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Final and Reflection


For my final I decided to take Professor B's advice and and do a sort of walk through of my process.  So I worked all week saving at certain points in my progress to then put together as a step by step piece.  Below I will go over where I was at each number.



1.  This was my original sketch that I scanned on to my computer.
2.  I did the lines in Illustrator using a calligraphy brush I made.  It was a fixed brush 40% wide.  The small lines were .25 and the larger ones were 1 point.
3.  This is just flat color.  I like to start with an even base. 
4.  I start to add value at a low opacity slowly building up value.  I always build up with a normal brush no soft edges between 35 and 45% opacity.
5.  This is where I started adding detail.  Mostly with all of the gold.  I also added 
more contrast a shadows. I get everything smooth with the band aid brush set to pattern.  The pattern in just plain white no texture.  It's a wonderful tool that Jeff showed me.  I do use the smudge tool to set at 40% opacity.
6.  Face detail and stars put in with pattern tool so they are all accurate.  I had to do each star and then rotate it with the free transform tool.
7.  At this point I'm just trying to bring all the parts of the painting up to the same level.  I also decided that she is to pale.  So after this  I experimented with skin tone to try to 
make her tanner but not orange.
8.  Needed a lot more contrast.
  Looked up gold on google images and used it as reference.
9.  I wanted her to look really muscular so I got pictures of muscular legs and tried to make it believable.  I also realized her bullet blockers are silver not gold :).  And to finish it off a lame gradient in the back ground!!!
And here is the finished piece!!





Sunday, July 26, 2009

another tummy


Just wanted some more practice

Friday, July 24, 2009

Master Study Numero 4




I found this guy on deviant his name is Warren Louw and I really like how smooth his skin is.  Mine.... is not quite so smooth.  I think I might do a couple more studies of him on my own to try and make mine as pretty as his.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Shadow Upon Hyrule

Here is the finished piece.  At least for now.  I need to do my last masterstudy. I am really happy with this one.  I did Zant (creepy guy) completely in photoshop and I can't believe how good he turned out. This is a sketch that I've wanted to color for a long time.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Final Piece?

So I have been working really really hard on this.  I've taken everything I've learned and am using it on this one.  My only dilemma is I still have to do a master study for this week.  I really just want to spend all my time on this one to make it as amazing as possible.  It's not done yet, i still have a lot to do.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Joy





Here is my newest.  I took full advantage of how convenient layers can be with this piece... I think I had 13 total :). I also inlayed some textures, and used the blur filter for some of the background. Another thing that I did in this one that I didn't do in the others is I used a wide variety of brushes.  I also had a lot of reference pictures.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out and can't wait to start the next one!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Super Quick Grayscale Study


Here is a quick sketch and greyscale study for my next project it took me about five minutes to do both..  now that it's up it is much lighter than it looked in photoshop.  I need more contrast.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The gaurdians pillar finished


I believe this is the finished version.  Among other things I enlarged the hand, laid a marble texture and put a light layer of a goldish color over the top to tie it all together.

Master study 3



My study is on top the original is on the bottom.  I got the image from a magazine.  I had the two images laid out next to each other for comparison but the file uploaded wrong and I couldn't get it to work.  I used a lot of layers and tried really hard to match the colors by Eye rather than using the eye drop tool to get the exact color.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Aang and the Gang UPDATE!!! Please view




I stuck with avatar for my piece and wanted to create a scene. I chose to have it be at night because I wanted to play with rim lighting. It was sooo much fun. Aang is just to cute.
Anyway... I did all of the lighting on a separate layer and the lines in illustrator with a calligraphic brush. I have never been so happy with my lines before. So I will definitely be playing with that more in the future.


I have added texture to the clothes please tell me what you think!!!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Second Master Study

This is my second master study.  I scanned in the picture and did the lines in illustrator.  Then in photoshop I colored it and overlayed a texture.  There isn't a texture in the original but it needed something.  



The original is below :)