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Assassin – Kitar – Part 2

August 30, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting, Tutorials | 1 comment

Assassin - Kitar - Part 2

  • Software: GIMP (or Adobe Photoshop)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Kitar – Potion Assassin

As seen in the last part, for this concept I have been tweaking it continually. The process I follow to enhance/modify a particular sketch is something along these lines.

I merge all the sketch layers except background when I am satisfied with that stage. The older layers I make almost transparent before merging. Once merged, I reduce the opacity of that layer, and create a new layer over it. On this new layer, using the layer underneath as a guide I tweak the different parts.

Line Art

After repeating these steps several times, and I am satisfied with the result, I combine all the sketch layers one final time and start with a fresh layer for line art.

Assassin - Kitar - 5 - Line Art
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Assassin – Kitar – Part 1

August 24, 2008 in Artwork, Digital Painting, Tutorials | 1 comment

  • Software: Gimp (or Photoshop)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Kitar – Potion Assassin

After painting Anwun I felt like attempting another character design. So, here I made up another character.

Kitar, is an assassin from the same Order as Anwun. Assassin she might be, but her techniques are quite different. Her arsenal includes potions and powders and extracts of exotic herbs – for most part they aid her mates in the order, but she has used the same effectively in completing certain high profile missions.

With the basic idea sorted out, I went about doing some thumbnailing and selected one particular pose.

Assassin - Kitar - 1 - Thumbnail Concept

These are very small images, not more than 500 or 600 pixels high. At this point, more than detail, I am concerned with the overall structure of the pose of the character.
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Painting A Potion Bottle

August 14, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tutorials | 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 | 3 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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