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Demon Trio - Screech - Part 3

  • Software: GIMP or Adobe Photoshop
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Demon Trio – Screech

In the last part, I had done some preliminary painting that established the color.

Refine Underpainting

Demon Trio - Screech - 07 - Clean up

I just continue work on it and clean up the different areas.
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Demon Trio - Screech - Part 2

  • Software: GIMP or Adobe Photoshop
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Demon Trio – Screech

In the last part, the concept was created as a line art and some amount of shading. In this part, I explore a bit of the color value. Separating color and value before adding the details helps a lot in terms of composition. This is a technique I have rather used repeatedly after my earlier study – Separate Light and Color.

Flats

I still am working on this in GIMP. I scale up the image before adding any more detail to A4 size at 300 dpi.

Using the path tool, I create the flats.

Demon Trio - Screech - 04 - Flats only
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Demon Trio - Screech - Part 1

  • Software: GIMP or Adobe Photoshop
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Demon Trio – Screech

Earlier, using the thumbnails of the silhouette two characters, Slug and Slice were created. Here is the progress on the third one.

The silhouette is scaled up to 25% of A4 landscape at 300 dpi (the target size) and distorted a bit to get the perspective and rough composition.

Demon Trio - Screech - 0 - Scaled

I detailed the head a bit so that I get a better grasp at the character as I start putting in brush strokes that define the concept.

Demon Trio - Screech - 1 - Concepts
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When I was working on the Demon Trio – Slice project, I had shifted from working in GIMP to Photoshop along the workflow at the time when I wanted to create flat color layer. That was because, I could not find a Polygon Select tool in GIMP. After some poking around at some GIMP forums, mailing lists, and the program itself, I found that we can do a polygon select in GIMP.

Here is a video that walks through the process of using Path tool in GIMP to have a similar approach as you would do with a Polygon select tool in Adobe Photoshop.

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