Assassin – Gogor – Part 2

October 16, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tutorials by Vyoma | 2 comments

  • Software: GIMP / Photoshop (or even any other sketching tools)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Gogor – Giant Assassin

I left of at the cleaned up lineart in the last part. This installment would contain a little details on the color palette.

Assassin - Gogor - Part 2 - Flats with Lineart

Color Palette

Assassin - Gogor - Part 2 - Color Study

I take a bit of extra care while choosing the color palette for his skin – since he is having a darker skin tone. Numerous photographs and character painting done by other professional artists serve as an excellent guide.

Flats and Painting

Assassin - Gogor - Part 2 - Flats

Once the colors are chosen, it is almost a mechanical task to create the flats layer. You can use any tools to create this layer, but make sure that you have the anti-aliasing switched off.

Assassin - Gogor - Part 2 - Painting

Then, I start using the midtones to render the form of the character. The lineart did not contain enough detail, and to make it interesting, I fleshed out his muscles as details.

The next task would be to hit the forms with lighter tones, and make the character pop from a generic background using the darker shadow areas.

Stay tuned to see how it turns out.

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  1. Jani’s avatar

    Jani on November 7, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    Great tutorial, just found your blog, really nice and helps me a lot learning to use Inkscape and GIMP, keep up the good work! :)

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