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weeklypush2013-01-27 11:38 pm
minkylowlife) wrote in weeklypush2013-01-27 11:38 pm
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WEEK 001
Hi guys, my name is Lisa and I found here because I play at thegames with Britt. I decided to do a character portrait for this week's challenge because I like drawing Howard in chairs and on couches. I don't know why.
Howard's a fifteen year-old refugee from a terrible YA book series about mutants. I play him at The Games and atinto_spring.
I did this on my Bamboo tablet with Corel Painter for the linework and Photoshop CS5 for the colors. If anyone knows any good Corel or Photoshop tutorials for colors, I have no idea where to start and the way I do them now isn't pleasing me. Corel's color tutorials are beyond heinous.
I am open to constructive crit, especially on my digital technology skills! I can generally see the problem areas in my anatomy/furniture rendering skills.
thegames with Britt. I decided to do a character portrait for this week's challenge because I like drawing Howard in chairs and on couches. I don't know why.Howard's a fifteen year-old refugee from a terrible YA book series about mutants. I play him at The Games and at
into_spring.I did this on my Bamboo tablet with Corel Painter for the linework and Photoshop CS5 for the colors. If anyone knows any good Corel or Photoshop tutorials for colors, I have no idea where to start and the way I do them now isn't pleasing me. Corel's color tutorials are beyond heinous.
I am open to constructive crit, especially on my digital technology skills! I can generally see the problem areas in my anatomy/furniture rendering skills.
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Can you tell me how you're colouring right now so I can give you some advice? It looks like you are usuing a flat colour and then a transparent white on top, maybe?
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Right now for each section I'm laying down a flat color, then putting a layer with that color multiplied over it. Then I make a black layer mask and erase chunks of it to get shadows, then go over it with a blur tool. Then I go back to the flat layer and dodge tool it. At the end I put a flat soft layer over the whole image and added some whites on a layer set to lighten.
Which is probably stupidly overcomplicated.
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Using multiply as a shadow is a good idea, but generally you want the multiply layer to be a different colour from the flat colour, and the same colour for all the shadows. (I tend to set it on a light grey purple, though i do skin tones with a different colour because skin is slightly transparent so takes light differently but that is something for another time c:).
You don't need to copy the previous layer, just make a new blank one, set to multiply, and draw away. If you want to keep the selection of the previous colour layer, you can select the whole layer by ctrl+clicking on the box that shows what's in the layer on the layer menu on the right side.
Instead of using the blur tool, try using a soft brush! I find it helps a lot.
The dodge tool step isn't really necessary - try instead of doing that (and the white layer) putting a layer on top set to 'soft light' and choosing a lighter colour (i tend to go with a warm yellow). That way you won't get the grey tones in the highlights!
Hope this made any sense at all c:
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This did make a lot of sense, and hopefully it'll show in next week's challenge. I'll definitely try these techniques. Thanks so much!