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Painting A Potion Bottle

August 14, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tutorials by Vyoma | 1 comment

Painting A Potion Bottle

  • Software: GIMP (or Adobe Photoshop)
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Subject: Potion Bottle

A potion bottle may seem like quite a complex thing to paint even for a simple shaped one due to all the reflections and colorful contents. But a pretty straigthforward workflow makes it easier.

Lineart and flats

Painting A Potion Bottle - 0

Make use of extensive guide lines in a separate layer to get the shape of the bottle right. You could even use other tools like Inkscape – for now, I just went free hand.

Painting A Potion Bottle - 1

You may imagine the potion bottle to be quite colorful with bright colors and think of using brighter colors as flats. But choose some dark value color – it is the contrast of the bright colors against the dark ones that makes it look colorful.

Painting back to front

Painting A Potion Bottle - 2

The key to paintinig objects with transparency is to render them from back to front. Here, the far side glass is rendered first, and then the containing liquid and the cork.
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Depth by Color – Landscape Painting

August 10, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting, Tutorials by Vyoma | 2 comments

  • Software: GIMP (or Adobe Photoshop)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Rocky Landscape

This would be a short post detailing on the practical application of the theory of Depth by Color.

Lineart and Flats

Rock Landscape - Line Art

As we did with the vector application of the theory, the lineart and flat color application is same as you would do for any digital painting.

Rock Landscape - Flats

The subject too is quite simple – a landscape scene depicting the rocky structures up to the vanishing point of horizon.

Color Palette

Applying the depth theory to color in digital painting, unlike the vector method, would require us to decide on the colors before applying them. You could use layers and apply the same techniuqe as vector, but painting by hand gives it a nice painterly feel.

Construct the color palette either on a separate layer or a new file.

Rock Landscape - Color Palette Construction

Looking at the above color palette, it might look a bit elaborate. But I tried to show how I arrived at each color. I start with the flat (true) colors – at the left top. After making a quick gradation for the sky (A), I take the flat colors of the rocks and create variations of the color by applying a yellow light of the sun.
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Assassin – Anwun – Part 3

July 20, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting, Tutorials by Vyoma | 2 comments

Assassin - Anwun - Part 3

  • Software: GIMP (or Photoshop)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Anwun (Assassin woman)

This final part of the three part series, we look at the detailing and dark shadow application of the character painting of Anwun.

Details

Still on the Painting layer, and still using magic wand + Flats layer to do a selection, I paint the eyes, lips and details of the hair.

Assassin - Anwun - Part 3 - Eyes and Hair

There are some jagged edges, which I correct – without doing the area selection. After that, I refer to the color palette I had consturcted earlier and start putting in the highlights.

Assassin - Anwun - Part 3 - Highlights

After that, I put a semi-interesting background on a separate layer.
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Assassin – Anwun – Part 2

July 17, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting, Tutorials by Vyoma | 1 comment

Assassin - Anwun - Part 2

  • Software: GIMP (or Photoshop)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Anwun (Assassin woman)

The last part, we had left at the lineart of the character, Anwun. In this part, you will look at the basic coloring. The details would be covered in the next part.

Color Palette

Assassin - Anwun - Part 2 - Color Study

The color palette was decided upon even before any part of this character was painted. I am doing this to have a uniform theme for the series of painting I am going to do. For the next set of characters, I would be extending the same palette.

Flats and Basic Coloring

Assassin - Anwun - Part 2 - Flats

The complementary color for each area is used to fill in and create the flats.

Assassin - Anwun - Part 2 - Skin Shading - 1
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