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I've had a few questions asking what my process is, so I thought I'd share it. Definitely not saying it's the right way, I'm self-taught, so this is only the way I've figured out how to do things. I'm sure a billion art teachers would have a lot of critique on it - and if they do, I hope they tell me!! I'll take any tips that might knock down the amount of time this takes. A few things I didn't mention explicitly in the piece are:
1. Reference photos help immensely, that way I can see the folds of cloth easily and where light falls
2. I generally use the smudge tool to blend my greys
3. The reason I use the "glazing" technique (where you start in greyscale and add color) is primarily because I used to be petrified of color. This way, I can experiment with it without losing the integrity of the piece if I screw up.
4. Yes, it takes forever. Yes, I get really sick of blending greys. And if I think I'm done blending greys, it probably means I need to go over it another pass or fifty. But it's all worth it for the color layer, I love that.
I hope this helps someone out there! If not, it was at least really fun to put together.
Subject is Dean Winchester, from the show Supernatural.
1. Reference photos help immensely, that way I can see the folds of cloth easily and where light falls
2. I generally use the smudge tool to blend my greys
3. The reason I use the "glazing" technique (where you start in greyscale and add color) is primarily because I used to be petrified of color. This way, I can experiment with it without losing the integrity of the piece if I screw up.
4. Yes, it takes forever. Yes, I get really sick of blending greys. And if I think I'm done blending greys, it probably means I need to go over it another pass or fifty. But it's all worth it for the color layer, I love that.
I hope this helps someone out there! If not, it was at least really fun to put together.
Subject is Dean Winchester, from the show Supernatural.Image size
3300x15000px 3.6 MB
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" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title=" (Smile)"/>Wow, this is an AMAZING tutorial! I never thought of coloring this way! In fact, I may try this myself... :3
Anyway, I think this would be a helpful tutorial and it's very easy to read and understand with the step-by-step process and with the examples next to each one, so thanks a bunch for making this easy to use!
My down-sides to this would be that in the final piece (and I know this is kind of nit-picking) there's a bit of blue in his hair, or a hole in the coloring? My other nit-pick would be that the outline of the whole thing kind of bothers me. An outline I think is fine with the hair and face and such, but with this realistic style I think keeping the outline on the hair isn't exactly what I would have done to keep the style. I'm not sure if it's because of how you did this or because of the process, but I would probably take off the outer line art for the hair at least when you do this.
Anyways, I think this is great! Especially the clothing, it definitely looks great with this process. Just the little fixes on the hair and it's all good!
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" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="357" title="Heart"/> Allyson