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Rain-Gear — The Somber Crusader
Published: 2013-11-10 01:20:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 14463; Favourites: 428; Downloads: 846
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So here is another piece painted whilst live streaming, this time it's *Bernd01 's OC (Oh god more CAC fan art)I'm not sure exactly how much time this took but it definitely took a hefty amount of time because I worked on it in sections throughout the past few days.
I plan to do more CAC pieces like this in the near future.
Hope you guys like it.
Personally I don't like what I did with the rocks/cliffs and parts of the scene lighting.
I uploaded an almost colourless version because I often like my works more without colour :L
You can find it here on imgur .
I also uploaded the .png of just Bernd's OC because, yeah
You can find it here
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Mot sure what you mean exactly but I don't mind OC's
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Do you draw other people's COs in a scene of some sort? If so, is it okay if I requested to get mine done in an amazing picture of yours?
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My favorite part of your work is always the backgrounds and landscapes you come up with, they're all absolutely incredible. I really like this one, but do you have a version of it without the OC in there, just the cavern?
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i dont have the PS file anymore unfortunately but funnily enough i was thinking of painting a version where it is just the cavern.
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There's a free favorite in it for you if you do. That's worth like, all the things.
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I have seen most of your work, which areeach beautifully done.. but this is my absolute favorite! I just love how her eyes glow neon in the dark, and the way you captured her reflection... and the wings are so amazingly detailed!! How long did it take for you to make this wonderful picture?????
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Thanks!
Although I keep looking back on these fan arts going "I REALLY need to make another better version of this!!" XD
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very nice! wings look great and the background is certainly arresting
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Wow. i….dang. i love how the light shines from the opening of the cave and the way you made the water is just awesome! 
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That looks incredible, utterly spectacular work
Sunshine Smiles looks phenomenal and the landscape around him at least as much so, gorgeous work.
And here I am working on a piece of fanart for Bernd myself, and now I am super jealous
May I ask how you created this? hand-drawn? Digitally painted? what software used, if any? etc.
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Thank you very much Akernis!
hehe yay more fan art! Will be looking out for it when you finish!
I'm assuming there is a certain part you are wondering about or are you just asking about everything as a whole ?
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My pleasure
It will take some time I am afraid, I am terribly slow with lineart and school work is taking much attention
Everything as a whole, I was very impressed with both the style and quality, but I can't really figure out how it is made. It looks very much like digital art to me, but I would be interested to know what tools/software were used if that were the case. And any techniques you were willing to share. Seeing as I would love to paint something in a similar vein to this style, once I get sufficiently skilled to do so.
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Ah ok then.
Well to start I work in Photoshop CS5.1 and I started this piece with a sketch as you might have expected. From that sketch I made silhouettes in various shades of grey of just the shapes I wanted to use which is a method I use quite a lot in compositions like this one. Since I like to work in greyscale initially I went through each silhouette layer and started painting the rock surface texture (this is most visible in the closest rick to the right).
For rocks I always tend to use the chalk brushes to begin detailing them and I would usually keep detailing it with the brush but for this picture I tried something new. I took a simple stock of just a rock texture and then overlaid it on each layer lowering it to about 20% opacity. I then painted over it again because the lighting was off on the texture and it felt too un natural, so applying an extra layer of brush strokes to help bring out the texture better really helped.
The sky light is just a simple job by using the lasso tool to get quick sharp shapes that I could fill easily and then using a soft pressure brush to make it look like there is a strong light descending down into the cavern. The reflections were rather easy to do because of the perspective I was using so I could get away with just taking the cliffs and sunshine smiles and just flipping them upside down with a few shade alterations to make it look better as a reflection. As for the distortion that was just a simple job with the smudge tool.
As for the colour I always start my colouring by using a "soft light" layer because it gives a nice base for when I use the "overlay" and "colour" layers later. The brush I always use to start colouring my art is a soft edge brush with pressure opacity. I also make good use of masks if needed to help define the colours first. Once I have gotten a nice colour palette base then I start using the "overlay" and "colour" layers. I use these to basically make the colours a lot more bold so I used it a lot in the water glare/edges and in the cave ambient light, they also helped to further blend the texture into the scene. These "overlay" and "colour" layers are extremely important to make you colours pop better and not appear flat. Also using a wide range of colours is a big part of using colour, for example if the rock is warm brown throw some orange, reds, purples, pinks maybe a few blues sampled from the water in this picture and some minty colours to go with that. Lastly I used a curves layer to help boost my light and dark areas.
I'm not amazing at explaining my methods but I hope this was somewhat useful.
If there was an aspect you think I missed and needs explaining just let me know!
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Thank you, that was exceptionally informative, very detailed and well-phrased
I had really not thought about many of those steps. I will definitely have to do some more experimentation when I have the opportunity.
You described the environment and effects brilliantly, but you did not mention the character himself, if you could describe something about that process as well I would appreciate it
Also, how long does such a piece usually take to do?
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Sorry for the rather late reply but I'll try to cover what i did for Sunshine Smiles.
First off just like the back ground I worked from a sketch and then straight after added a darker grey silhouette for the body shape, the wings, and the mane/tail. From there I create a layer on top of each aspect that will act as my shading layer. For me using a mask here is important to make sure I have minimal need to clean it up later ad=nd so it sticks to just the given area. initially I use a chalk brush with an opacity of around 30% - 40% to mark out exactly where my shaded areas are and to define edges. From there I'd use a soft opacity pressure brush with a grey slightly darker than the grey used for the silhouette. I would gradually keep using a darker and darker grey until I was satisfied that I had portrayed the light properly. I would then go back and add the highlights with a lighter shade of grey and then merge the shading layer and the silhouette into one. This process is repeated again for the wings with a little more emphasis on defining the feather edges. For the mane I once again did it initially on greyscale with a brush that is based off a set I downloaded from a tutorial, I remade them to work better for me but this step is most likely not necessary. This time instead of I use a shade a little darker than the silhouette I use one a little bit above the silhouette colour. I keep brushing it in long strokes to ensure none of the strands cross because it looks unnatural if you don't do it right. Once I have all of my hair strands to save time I use the dodge tool to bring out the lighter shades in the hair. From there instead of using a colour layer to colour the hair I use a gradient map and use about 4 different shades of blue to accurately make it look like real hair. The eyes are the only part that are done in full colour from th
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No worries about the late reply
Okay, thank you very much.
Most of that was a little above my head but I appreciate hearing about the techniques
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(continued) from the start but I plan to do a little step by step soon.
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Good grief!
This is pretty amazing. I actually really like what you did with the cliffs and lighting. You've certainly crammed a lot of awesome into one picture.
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Ah thank you very much!!
Oh you do? Well I guess even if I don't like it there's always someone who can appreciate it
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Spectacular work here. It was definitely worth all the time you spent on it.
I am hoping for a lot more art streams from you.
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Ah thank you 
I will be sure to stream a lot more in the future when working on big paintings!
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Ah, you finished it!!! Looks beauuuuutiful!!! Sorry I couldn't stay in the stream longer!
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Thank you
Oh no it's fine, I understand people are busy so can't stick around for the whole stream.
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Well still looks great! I'll look forward to any future streams you have! x3
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Ho. Ly. Crap! Rain-gear, you've made Bernd look like the ultimate badass!
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Haha *fist pumps air* SUCESS
Thank you Ragnu!
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Stop making this so epic! You make me too jelly of your mad martial-artskillz
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Haha ok then stick ponies it is then
Thank you!
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What is this Magic! It's beautiful! Thank you. I love you and you're beautiful.
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Careful with the compliments I can feel a heart attack coming on *q*
Anyways I'm glad you like it, I had to do something for the OC with the most majestic wings on the internet (totally official)!
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