Photoshop
"Conspiracy Theory" progresssion of a digital painting
January/29/2010 07:27 AM Filed in: Digital Painting
When I first got a Cintiq in 2006, I wanted to see what I could do with it. My process usually involved drawing on paper or art board. If the art involved inking, that would usually happen outside of the computer as well. But, I’ve taken to finishing work on my computer. The first thing I wanted to try was to take an older sketch of mine and see how far I could push it using the Cintiq. A Wacom Cintiq is basically a monitor that you can draw on. The Cintiq is pressure sensitive and durable. I’ve had mine now for 4 years now and have never had a problem with it.
Here’s the sketch I wanted to try. I drew these characters with no reference. One of my favorite sketching habits is to clear my mind and just draw. I try and let it flow and one day this is what I sketched on paper. I took this sketch and scanned it on to my computer.
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Here I was having fun with drawing some tone on the characters. I toyed with the idea of stuffing the big guy with money.
Once I got what liked, I began inking on the computer. I’ve tried this countless times with a Wacom Drawing Tablet but it felt so right drawing on a monitor. I fell in love with how natural it felt. I kept pushing the art and adjusting things as I went. I decided to make them part of a club or secret society. I gave them skull pendants and that lead to the skulls and dirt. I put a mouse and a snake in the art as well.
I was having so much fun I wanted to keep going with it. I starting working on a frame for the portrait. They look to be posing for a portrait so I worked on that before I gave them color.
Then I laid in layers of color over my tone. Made shadows, wallpaper and pushed highlights. I gave the mouse a bone. lol I was able to have the tone be on a separate layer than the inks. The color too, but at certain points I would flatten some layers to make it more manageable to work with. Like when in needed to blend my tone with my color layers. Below is the end result.
I see some things that bug me about it still, but I think it turned okay. It was very fun to work on and I learned a few things and thats a big part of art. I made this art in 2006. The finished digital work is 16 x 20 inches at 300dpi. I mostly worked in Corel Painter, but I also used Adobe Photoshop.
Here’s the sketch I wanted to try. I drew these characters with no reference. One of my favorite sketching habits is to clear my mind and just draw. I try and let it flow and one day this is what I sketched on paper. I took this sketch and scanned it on to my computer.
.
Here I was having fun with drawing some tone on the characters. I toyed with the idea of stuffing the big guy with money.
Once I got what liked, I began inking on the computer. I’ve tried this countless times with a Wacom Drawing Tablet but it felt so right drawing on a monitor. I fell in love with how natural it felt. I kept pushing the art and adjusting things as I went. I decided to make them part of a club or secret society. I gave them skull pendants and that lead to the skulls and dirt. I put a mouse and a snake in the art as well.
I was having so much fun I wanted to keep going with it. I starting working on a frame for the portrait. They look to be posing for a portrait so I worked on that before I gave them color.
Then I laid in layers of color over my tone. Made shadows, wallpaper and pushed highlights. I gave the mouse a bone. lol I was able to have the tone be on a separate layer than the inks. The color too, but at certain points I would flatten some layers to make it more manageable to work with. Like when in needed to blend my tone with my color layers. Below is the end result.
I see some things that bug me about it still, but I think it turned okay. It was very fun to work on and I learned a few things and thats a big part of art. I made this art in 2006. The finished digital work is 16 x 20 inches at 300dpi. I mostly worked in Corel Painter, but I also used Adobe Photoshop.