Aw I'm sorry, that's my fault for not keeping more between steps of my work! It probably wouldn't feel as daunting if there wasn't such a gap in the painting process. My apologies, and don't lose hope, painting is fun!!
Noo it's okay
I'm still glad that you showed that much of your process, it's incredibly helpful and so I'm very thankful you shared it. Recently I started doing more digital >painting< exercises and even though it's not much at least I'm enjoying the process
Hey, that's awesome! Congrats on starting that ! If I can recommend something, check out Tyler Edlin's youtube channel, there's lots of great videos about digital painting, and they're barely longer than 20mn and explain their concepts well. It helped me a LOT about painting!
Will definitely be using as a good reference! I've been struggling to find a solid way to paint. (Been flip-flopping through several techniques and artists..)
For the initial sketch, what brush do you use? I typically struggle with adding all the detail in the sketch making the painting harder.
Thank you !! Means a ton! And honestly same, I've been experimenting a lot these past years..
For the sketch, I use a"cream pencil" with a watercolor effect applied to it. And if you struggle with too many details, try using a much bigger brush size than you're used to, and do details later!!
Oh one more question! Sorry. How do you paint faces so well? I feel like I can get the body down pretty well, but I struggle a lot of with the small intricacies of snouts and such. I tend to make those areas really detailed design wise.
oof a big question to answer! it's honestly a lot of studying and getting used to it, having good refs (3D models help a lot too, to get them in the right angle! I found a crocodile head model online and just spun it around); and simplifying the main volumes. but it's tough and I'm still learning!!
The main way I use them is to make sure I get the volumes right in the angle I'm drawing in when it's a bit too hard to find the perfect reference for something!
Sorry I only had my layers to create this process video, so I didn't keep more steps of the painting process. It's honestly a lot of blending starting with big soft brushes to smaller, more textured ones, and using my references as accurately as possible !
I'm interested on the painting part
When you started do to the painting, did you keep the previous layers intact and made a new one on top to mimic them or you merged them all together to paint over them?
I wonder how much time was spend on that part of the process!
In this case, the base colors were one layer; and so were the shading process (multiply shadows + light effects). I put them all into a folder, create a new layer above them all, and I paint on this layer. When I'm not sure of what I'm doing, I make another layer to paint so I can delete it needed!
And for time, I didn't really keep track but I think it's probably about ~20-25h of work in total. I redid the scales many times so that boosted the amount of hours spent on it 💦
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Still thank you very much for sharing your process!
I'm still glad that you showed that much of your process, it's incredibly helpful and so I'm very thankful you shared it. Recently I started doing more digital >painting< exercises and even though it's not much at least I'm enjoying the process
THANK U SO MUCH
For the initial sketch, what brush do you use? I typically struggle with adding all the detail in the sketch making the painting harder.
For the sketch, I use a"cream pencil" with a watercolor effect applied to it. And if you struggle with too many details, try using a much bigger brush size than you're used to, and do details later!!
When you started do to the painting, did you keep the previous layers intact and made a new one on top to mimic them or you merged them all together to paint over them?
I wonder how much time was spend on that part of the process!