A Beautiful World Pt. II
My frenzied lusting for the Wii was translated into a hard work ethic. Go figure. Here is the process for the thing I started what....6 hours ago? (by the way, that's fast for me)
- Had the inks all scanned and cropped nice, I already talked about all of this stuff.
- Filled in some very simple colors. Wanted to go with kind of a desert feel here.
- Using the shading template I came up with earlier, I just basically selected the shadow, added a new layer, and filled with a darker color. I was actually really surprised by how easy this idea panned out being.
- Added subtle highlights by basically hatching with my wacom. I didn't think this would look good, but somehow it did. There are no large areas of lighter color except on the fold over of the scarf. Everything else is hatching. I'll post a close up at the end of this.
- About 30 layers of gradients later we get this. Usually I just use brown and multiply it for gradient. Here I used blues, greens, browns, greys, reds. I think it came out with a more natural feel to it. I also went in and erased areas of gradient where I wanted there to be more highlight in the same hatching deal.
- Some layer effects with ink I already had on the image...
- and a little more messing around with saturation and hue and I am done. After writing this thing there are some things I want to tweak a little, but this is basically it. This whole ink shading this is super effective and super fast...I think im in love.
- A close up, all the darker tones being layered and scanned ink, all of the lighter tones being hatching with the wacom. Easy as pie.
So basically I only want to do one more image before I send a portfolio over to The Art Dept. After talking to Stephanie, she mentioned that there was something about the postcards I did for TFA that she really liked. There is something there I like too, I just unfortunately did not get a lot of time to work on those....so I am working on something to try and pull out aspects of those designs while still being able to play with ink and photoshop a lot.
- Had the inks all scanned and cropped nice, I already talked about all of this stuff.
- Filled in some very simple colors. Wanted to go with kind of a desert feel here.
- Using the shading template I came up with earlier, I just basically selected the shadow, added a new layer, and filled with a darker color. I was actually really surprised by how easy this idea panned out being.
- Added subtle highlights by basically hatching with my wacom. I didn't think this would look good, but somehow it did. There are no large areas of lighter color except on the fold over of the scarf. Everything else is hatching. I'll post a close up at the end of this.
- About 30 layers of gradients later we get this. Usually I just use brown and multiply it for gradient. Here I used blues, greens, browns, greys, reds. I think it came out with a more natural feel to it. I also went in and erased areas of gradient where I wanted there to be more highlight in the same hatching deal.
- Some layer effects with ink I already had on the image...
- and a little more messing around with saturation and hue and I am done. After writing this thing there are some things I want to tweak a little, but this is basically it. This whole ink shading this is super effective and super fast...I think im in love.
- A close up, all the darker tones being layered and scanned ink, all of the lighter tones being hatching with the wacom. Easy as pie.
So basically I only want to do one more image before I send a portfolio over to The Art Dept. After talking to Stephanie, she mentioned that there was something about the postcards I did for TFA that she really liked. There is something there I like too, I just unfortunately did not get a lot of time to work on those....so I am working on something to try and pull out aspects of those designs while still being able to play with ink and photoshop a lot.
posted by matthew at 4:04 PM
6 Comments:
i think the darks and the highlights on the shirt and scarf came out good. great job man everything turned out awesome and im glad you are happy with it.
-Adam
The eyes are too similar in value, which causes that flat-photographic sort've thing to seep in a little... I would not only add values to the whites of the eyes, but make sure you don't add the same value for each. You've probably already done this by now, though.
John
I like your blog a lot. Nice work coloring digitally, it doesnt have that scary "Photoshop" look. I enjoy seeing your step-by-step process, as well.
Dig this piece...very organic.
You have a fresh style.
If you ever looking for places to show in St. Louis hit me up.
Great technique idea! I will definetely have to try that.
glorious work, awe-inspiring!
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