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This video gives the work process I go through while creating a digital painting. A similar process was followed for the tutorials I posted recently.
The painting is not quite polished – but I tried keeping it short and quick.
You can see a larger image at the deviantART entry.
Peacock Workshop [Hide/Show]
When one speaks of Peacock, it is usually with reference to the male of the two species in Pavo familiy, Pavo cristatus (Indian) and Pavo muticus (Green). They are best known for the male’s extravagant tail feathers. The female of the species are called peahen, which are usually brown or a toned down color. The peacock have their signature tail, to display it, and attract a mate… more at Peacock Workshop
There have been many people coming over to KalaaLog.com searching for articles on drawing/painting a peacock – the only tutorial here until now was on illustrating peacock feather. So, here is a walk-through and screen shots of the peacock painting I did.
Searching for peacock images, and getting a rough idea of its form is quite easy. After that, create a neater sketch in another layer over it and delete (or hide) the concept layer.
Since the subject is having cool colors, a warm colored background would be good composition wise.
Before proceeding with painting the peacock, the branch is painted first. I planned to use less number of layers, and wanted to go with a traditional approach. Hence, start painting from objects in the back. In this case, the branch that the peacock is sitting on.
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Once a concept sketch and line art is done, the next step is to choose colors. I use the earlier sketch, clean up a little bit of the line art, and then apply the flat colors.
Here you can see the color palette I chose for this particular character.
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This is the final part of the Cel Style Shading video tutorials.
See Part 1 for application of flat colors and Part 2 for shadows.
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