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Quick drawing of an idea for the weekly Trinquette challenge, this week´s topic is Cowgirls, so you got the idea:) Photoshop, Cintiq, 1 hour.
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Quick b+w study of Dena Massque.Took the slight caricature style of Serge Birault for this one as inspiration instead of just copying the original proportions :) Photoshop CS6, Cintiq, 1,5 hours.
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General coloring of the cloth and placeholder for the background. Not sure where to go with the colors in a whole, nothing is fix yet.
Model: Dede Midian
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In this version of Morgana, I added coloring to the face, eyes and began outlining and filling the hand. I tried to work reduced, smooth and with a hint of outlines, new technique for me, but so far I like it.
Less is more.
A tip for painting hair:
- Use a 50% gray and a big round brush to roughly block in values.
- on top of the sketch layer, use an outliner (2-10 pixels) to define strains in black, fill inbetween with a bigger round brush.
- define highlights by wourking out chunks, not the complete hair.
- Think of painting hair as if you would shape clay, less is more, think 3-dimenional.
- Another overlay-layer on top for some blue color, adds depth to black hair, always.
- Details on top of the overlay-layer with a 2 pixel sized roundbruch can hale to add some highlights and some natural variety, such as unregular looking strains and single hair strains.
Thats it, have fun drawing!
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A drawing of Morgana, based on a photographic reference.
This version is colored through a simple technique using overlay. Many artists have issues getting this method to work for coloring their paintings, I suspect because it is done wrong.- I do paint a flesh tone with a hard edged roundbrush on a new layer with 80% visibilty -set to “overlay”, overlapping edges can be removed with the smudge tool.
- If the flesh tone and visibility is at first darker than the image above shows, don´t worry, just copy that layer 2-3 times and see the flesh tone come to life. You can also change coloring of each copied overlay layer to achieve more variety in the flesh tonality.
- Now the tricky part: It is not possible to maintain the look when reducing these color layers, therefore you have to select the colored area with the magic wand, hold CTRL+SHIFT+C and CTRL+SHIFT+P to copy through all layers to achieve the look, then you can delete the coloring layers and work on top of the new copied version.
Simple as that! The values from the grayscale sketch come through and give a good palette to work from.
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A drawing of Morgana, based on a photographic reference. In this rough sketch I went for values and used lines just to depict the correct proportions, opposed to the free-from-imagination-drawings, this is useful to do a stylized painting so that I know what to change later on.
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