So after wasting my time on that previous post I think I should do this too while my motivation's still running. In this post I will update you on the artwork above in which I did in a total of more less 5 hours (I mean, I don't know exactly, it could be 6 or 4, because I didn't keep a stopwatch or anything you feel me), and the rough process in how I did it.

Ok, honest here, I forgot to document the whole step-by-step while I did it, but thank God I saved the layers and stuff, so I'd say it's still at least 93% accurate. Please sit back and watch me babble on about how I drew it. Beforehand I want to announce that I suck at explaining stuff and when it comes to drawing I sort of run on autopilot, my brain doesn't have a say in what my hand does (um yeah you get my point). So here you go.

I draw with a Genius i608x pen tablet and the software I use is SAI paint tool (and sometimes Photoshop CS5 but not for this piece). I've been using the same tablet for 4 years and also the same softwares, so, yeah. The brushes I use are god knows what because I change it way too much, even during works sometimes. I add layers as I go.

 1) Rough sketch. By rough I do mean rough, as in the art form of a shorthand. Or a seismograph. At least that's how I do it. Here I use blue and lower the layer transparency so it doesn't make me dizzy.
 2) Tidy up that unholy sketch. I use a different color and mostly tidy up around the area of focus (which is his face in this piece).
 3) Another tidy up. This layer has to be tidy, because it's the lining layer and you'll confuse yourself when you color if it doesn't turn out tidy enough. (I blurred some lines afterwards for the sake of focus).
 4) Flats, as in flat colors. Grab a bucket and fill in everything, blah blah, you know how to do it. (I also added block shading here for the obvious shadows)
 5) Figure out the lighting. Find the lighting source (in this piece, the lava lamp). I filled my layer with a dark blue and set it to Multiply mode, then erased the parts where the light reflects off.
 6) Render, detailing. I added posters and comics and the dino blanket, and adjusted overlays and stuff to bring the colors together.
7) Rendering and finishing touches. I added stickers to his headboard and intense lighting. Mostly I add overlays and go over the parts that I think need more lighting tweaks and such. And then when I finished, I added my watermark, and ta-dah! It's finished.

I'm pretty sure I did an awful job in explaining, but, yeah, there you go. I spent a lot of time for coloring and lighting because this is a coloring practice piece, so you can choose where to focus on. Sometimes I just make doodles and stuff and add plain colors for the background. Here's a peek of the doodley kind:

and one of the 'serious painting's:


I really like this particular piece (the painty example above ^)! It's actually a screencap redraw from my favorite show ever, Voltron Legendary Defender, it's a cartoon about space teens and whatever. I posted it on my tumblr and got so many attention, like so. many. And one of my favorite artists actually liked it!
     /rambles on
OKAY so that's about it. Thx. I'll link you to my tumblr but pls just click the art tag and not scroll outside of that because there are a lot of nonsense and inside jokes. Click here!

Labels: art, school

beningnrn.blogspot.com
Newer entries | Home | Older entries