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Painting Glowing Objects – Effects

December 18, 2008 in Digital Painting, Tutorials by Vyoma | 1 comment

  • Software: GIMP or Photoshop
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Glowing Objects – Effects

Earlier, we saw how to paint glowing objects by taking lightning as an example. That technique can be used for other things like sparkles, energy beams and flames – not just for lightning.

In this article, we will discuss how to further integrate these glowing objects with the rest of the painting. We might put in a lot of detail into painting them, but if we do not consider the effect they have on their surroundings, the glowing object will seem to stand out. It would seem like it was just pasted over after doing the rest of the painting.

Fire Sorceress - With glowing fireball

Here is a quick concept sketch I made of a Fire Sorceress. Notice how I painted the fireball in her hand – I used the same principle as I did with the lightning in the earlier exercise. But it still seems a bit odd, in spite of having the fireball show through her fingers – it is sort of detached.

To fix this, we have to consider how the fireball would effect the rest of the scene. In this case, we need to consider the light hitting the form of her body.
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Mecha Dragon – Comic Style

December 7, 2008 in Artwork, Tutorials by Vyoma | 6 comments

Mecha Dragon - Comic Style

  • Software: GIMP (or Adobe Photoshop)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Mecha Dragon – Comic Style

Dragon Workshop: Chinese Dragon | Medieval Dragon | More…

This would be a walkthrough on doinig a comic style illustration and coloring of one of my favourite subjet, dragon. Mecha Dragon or armored dragon to be specific.

Brainstorming And Sketching

Mecha-Dragon 1

I do some brainstorming, directly into GIMP. I want a A4 size colored illustration at 300 dpi at the end of this. Hence, I create a new canvas (GIMP has a preset), and then scale it down by 25%. Then I start off by drawing compositional lines – a spiral composition with the eye at positioned at one of the one third point.

Mecha-Dragon 2

I actually do a couple of these and choose one of the designs that I liked and start detailing it a bit.

Once I am pretty confident with the sketch, I scale up by 400% to bring it back to A4 at 300dpi, and start with a lineart in a new layer.

Mecha-Dragon 3
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Illustrate A Peacock

November 23, 2008 in Artwork, Tutorials, Vector by Vyoma | 16 comments

Illustrate A Peacock

  • Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator)
  • Level: Advanced
  • Subject: Peacock

Peacock Workshop [Hide/Show]

In this tutorial, we would do a walkthrough of illustrating a vector artwork of a peacock. Much of the techniques mentioned in the other peacock tutorials here would be used.

Drawing

Illustrate A Peacock - 00

I used GIMP to do a rough work, but you can use any other tool that you find comfortable sketching. See Drawing A Standing Peacock for a detailed tutorial.

Illustrate A Peacock - 01

After we get the form of the peacock, a little work on the details is done to get the idea of how much detail we want to put into the vector artwork in the end.

Illustrate A Peacock - 02

Basic Form

At this point in time, I import the PNG file into Inkscape and get the rough outline form of the peacock. If you had done the sketch/lineart on paper, you can scan it in using a scanner and import into Inkscpae.

Illustrate A Peacock - 03

Make further shapes, to block out the different areas and depth using the lineart as a guide. Take extra care to layer them from back to front. A little bit of planning goes a long way when the amount of detailing is going to be quite complex.

Illustrate A Peacock - 04
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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
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