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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Doodle: City sleeps

city sleeps by =Waterdroplet-s on deviant ART

My latest concept art attempt turned into painting.

Wanted to make it interesting to look at. Use a lot of black but not too dark or quiet. :p

Corel Painter X
Photoshop CS2

4 (probably 3) nights

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Doodle (still in progress)

Now that I started having an idea of what to do, I will start working on the next illustration.

I decided to try out Sci-Fi like city in color.

It still needs fixing and lots of painting involved, but this is the basic one I'll be working on:

I think I will change a lot with this one since the angle and shapes are all wrong since I didn't follow basic rules of perspective drawing. However, I am following 1/3 rule for composition and trying to draw things diagonally as I read in a tutorial and other people's works. Once I get used to this type of painting, I will start drawing in details in future illustrations. This one will be in color-perhaps in sunset or night time since I don't think I had much of those before.

Corel Painter X

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Concept Art Practices

These

concept art practice 5 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviant ART
3 hours
Painter X (charcoal, digital water color)

Dragon and a boy eating roasted sweet potatoes (yeah- random):

2 hours
Painter X (Charcoal, air brush)

1.5 hours
Photoshop CS3
Painter X (airbrush)

The one above was created after I created this in Photoshop CS3:

Basically, drew a simple outline of tree-like stuff, used a composition method of drawing circle like objects to guide the viewer's eyes to a certain area of the illustration. Then, I painted on top in Painter X

Now that I had several practices, I will try to draw more dynamic illustrations. So... might take a few days on that once I get the idea.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Illustration: Battle

Battle by =Waterdroplet-s on deviant ART

Concept Art+digital painting practice+procrastination.

I first tried to make the image dimension equal to golden ratio but decided to use one third rule. I made the sky as white since it was interesting to have a high contrast image.

SAI
Photoshop CS3

~1.5 wks though I didn't work on this most of the time.

Progress in a nutshell(stuff in the end's missing)*crazier than usual:

It started with a basic background... tower with a person sitting on a rock?

Since it was sort of boring, I changed the shape.

Still boring... expanded horizontally + more people

The angle was boring so I did transform a bit on each

Added a person, deleted a person

Getting slightly finer details...

started shading... arm is funny... fix that and change the person pointing finger to archer

More shading... and erase that person being chased by a dragon since no one looks desperate

This guy needs an armor

More details+ shading

Ugh... only guys are boring

Lady added but she's too naked

She's wearing something now but bald...

Adding hair gives more movement

Highlight gave more interesting image+ starts coloring in whatever color I can find ( it doesn't matter what since I will change it anyway)

Changed the staff size

added hair color to the guy

More coloring...

and added details +colors-sky+more vertical space since she's too crammed+magic like effects -> ta- dah!

I used out of the norm steps for this digital painting since I was just allowing my imagination to do the work. So... no composition, not much planning, and in the end- interesting experience.

I will work properly from now...

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Found the Concept Art Tutorial concerning composition at last!!

Environment Concept Art: Composition by Philip Straub

I will try to study this and use it on my future illustrations! Yay!