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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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Tutorials, Tags and more

July 21, 2008 in KalaaLog, Tutorials by Vyoma | No comments

I have been on some reorganizing tasks here at KalaaLog.com. Most of it revolves around the tutorials posted here.

Top tutorials

Checking the site statistics, it looks like there are two tutorials that have a lot of visits, mostly due to other sites linking to the tutorials. The top tutorial posts have been in both the vector as well as digital painting topics.

  1. Illustrate Hibiscus Flower
  2. Painting A Peacock

Most notable site is the Inkscape Tutorials blog, that regularly links to vector or illustration related tutorials here. Thanks Ryan, for the link love. I urge those interested in Inkscape to have a look at that blog – it regularly posts links to great Inkscape related tutorials.

Tutorial Index

The tutorial index page (the link the navigation bar above), has been updated to link to all the different tutorials posted here. I have tried to organize it under broad categories like illustration, painting and general sketching tutorials. From the last update, 40 new links have been added to the lists.

Tags

As can be seen on the tutorials page, the number of tutorials has grown quite large. It might soon be harder to search for a specific set of tutorials. This is the reason, and also due to reader request, I went through each and every tutorial posted here and tagged them as either ‘vector’ or ‘painting’, and also as either ‘beginner’, ‘intermediate’, or ‘advanced’. You can browse the tutorials using the tag cloud (on the right hand sidebar), or by directly putting in /tag at the end of http://kalaalog.com URL. If you are adventurous, then you can use plus (+) and comma (-) to apply AND or OR respectively.

Here are some examples:

The tags, categories and the search should make it easier to zero in on a particular tutorial. But I am still trying to find some easier way to explore the tutorials. It may involve making use of external tagging/bookmarking services like del.icio.us or ma.gnolia.com so that readers can themselves tag it as they see fit.

Any suggestions are welcome – use the comment area below!

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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