Art Community Sketches, Doodles, and speedpainting from idrawgirls community.: Soldier

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Soldier

Vofff inspired me with that war painting. So here is my contribution. Hope ya like.

6 comments:

Octavian Bene said...: Very nice speed paint, Graham. Good expression on the soldier face and nice texture brush strokes.; December 23, 2009 at 3:16 AM
Graham Knowles said...: Thank you Octavian. I started out trying to draw the full body, but the face started to look better so I just focused on that. Thanks again for the creative comment. Much appreciated.; December 23, 2009 at 6:03 AM
Octavian Bene said...: Here is my answer for your questions, Graham. So, my blending and coloring method with smooth transition is simple, but painfully slow. :)

After the sketch is done, I create new layers in Normal mode. One for skin, one for clothes or objects, one for hair, and background.

For the skin I set a basic general color, 100% opacity. Same for the hair. If the hair is black, for example, I set the general color black. And I fill

the entire surface of skin with this basic color. It helpful if you have some color pallete.

After that I`ll never use 100% opacity for brushes. For an unfinished look I use 10-50 % opacity and 20-70 % flow. I constantly use the eyedroper tool by pressing Alt key and choosing a value or color.

For achieving a smooth transition of values, the trick is to reduce brush opacity and flow, and select a close value with eyedroper. For exercising this, choose a random colour, select a brush with 100% opacity and 100% flow, and then reduce these settings, making them smaller and smaller - and play in
this way by creating close values. The smaller the opacity of the brush color, the smoother and more transparent the trace of your brush is.

I also use a lot colour picker to choose colours, but the idea is to change constantly the opacity and the flow of your brush to achieve a transparent brush trace.; December 23, 2009 at 7:32 AM
Graham Knowles said...: Thank you Octavian. That was extremely helpful. Now I know exactly why I have not been achieving the look I want. I am going to put your tips to use and let you know how it goes. Thanks again.; December 23, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Octavian Bene said...: I`m glad it was helpful, Graham. Everything you need is keep practicing and a little study of brush settings (opacity, flow, shape dynamic, scattering, spacing, etc). Merry Christmas.; December 24, 2009 at 5:44 AM
Graham Knowles said...: Merry Christmas to you too. All the best.; December 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM