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Published: 2012-05-01 20:34:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 13544; Favourites: 254; Downloads: 564
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and here's a bit of process for those of you who dig seeing that kinda' stuff.... it's very similar to the other ones I've posted... I guess the biggest difference with this one is that I deliberately used pencil and ink in the initial drawing to use them as contrasting 'values'.First step: this started out as a doodle in my sketchbook... in hindsight, I should have used a much softer pencil (instead of a very thin mechanical pencil) to get the values going... I wanted it to look more sketchy, and instead, I used the pencil like an ink-tool.... I should have scribbled it more and smudged it... next time!
Second step: I throw in my value range in Photoshop (mainly because it's faster and there are no brushes to clean when you finish), although you could do this 'old school' and use whatever other tool to get your 'value range' down: pencil shading, ink wash, or an under-painting with whatever medium you like.
Third step: is basically my 'glazing'... you add in the tints you want and then start 'painting' in the opaque values to start moving towards the lighter values and highlights .... the wall and the fence where something I added at the very end as I was playing with the image and it's 'context'.
overall the whole thing took about two hours more or less.... it's not really a 'finished piece', but more of a..umhhhh.... finished-sketch?
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thank you for documenting your processes. It helps us understand how you go through this then just being overwhelmed by the end results
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Very nice work man. Each stage works as its own beautiful piece of art.
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Thank you very much Dude!
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hehehe, thank you very much!
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Hahahah, if that's his name, then I'm pretty much sure that is the best thing ever created. COOOOOLBERT!!!!!
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Thanks for posting the process. Curious...do you use any kind of blending modes with your layers within photoshop like Overlay or Multiply? Do you use a lot of layers? Or do you like to keep things a little more basic...and maybe just change brush settings and such. I'm asking because I personally have a hard time understanding how to use overlay layers when moving on to color after I've put my values in on a finished penciled piece that I've scanned in. When I use an overlay layer, I can't use the eyedropper tool to take the color I've already put down and blend away continuously. It changes to a different color.
I know everyone has a different approach, so I was just curious as to what works best for you. Thanks.
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you gotta make sure that you do some 'pre-planing'in order to get the most out of you use of layers.... for example, if you do a full value piece (moslty greys with lighter values rendered in for hi-lites etc), then overlay works fairly well, but not for all the colors, so some colors will work well with overlay, but not all... reds work better with the Darken/Multiply area of layers... but then it means that you have to go back in and render your mid values and hi-lites again... it's trial and error... the 'safest' one is to render your values only up to the 'middle', don't do any mid tones or hilites yet, then place your flats on top of your values, and set to multiply, then make a new layer on top of that and start rendering your mid to hi values..... there's a million ways of doing the same thing in Photoshop, so it's just a matter of experimenting with what works best for you... good ol' trial and error!
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Thank you. I appreciate the response.
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