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A painting study following some methods learned from Tom Scholes.

A cool way to do environments:
1. In black and white, start doing a painting, pay attention to the values. Try to put down some cool interesting shapes and a variation of light and dark tones.
2. Marquee the whole canvas in photoshop, click control+shift+c to copy the full selection and all the layers.
3. Paste (cntrl+v) the copied image right on top of itself.
4. Turn the layer into a Darken layer OR a Lighten layer. This is where the initial values can yield some awesome results.
5. Transform it by hitting control + T.... Warp it, flip it, distort it. Erase away what doesnt work or paint over it... You should start seeing some interesting shapes.
6. rinse and repeat. Remember to resize the crop of the image.
7. Once you have a good value painting, add color by playing with the color balance and throw in some gradient adjustment layers.

Hope that makes sense. Maybe I will make a tutorial up.

Description
A painting study following some methods learned from Tom Scholes.

A cool way to do environments:
1. In black and white, start doing a painting, pay attention to the values. Try to put down some cool interesting shapes and a variation of light and dark tones.
2. Marquee the whole canvas in photoshop, click control+shift+c to copy the full selection and all the layers.
3. Paste (cntrl+v) the copied image right on top of itself.
4. Turn the layer into a Darken layer OR a Lighten layer. This is where the initial values can yield some awesome results.
5. Transform it by hitting control + T.... Warp it, flip it, distort it. Erase away what doesnt work or paint over it... You should start seeing some interesting shapes.
6. rinse and repeat. Remember to resize the crop of the image.
7. Once you have a good value painting, add color by playing with the color balance and throw in some gradient adjustment layers.

Hope that makes sense. Maybe I will make a tutorial up.