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Published: 2008-09-13 01:28:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 22666; Favourites: 252; Downloads: 603
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some wips of transmute[link]
Started in greyscale, color added once values were set. The angel idea came to me while I was working on the figure. It took a while to settle on the look of the wings, though. Then one day it just hit me, bones.
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very informative. thank you very much.
been wanting to try digital.
your art is wonderful
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Thanks for this, and for responding to all these other comments. I've recently began digitally painting and I'm still getting the hang of "coloring". I find it so much easier to begin in greyscale and add color later. Just wanted to show my appreciation and thank you for taking time and answering our questions.
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how do you put the colors over the black and white?
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I add a layer in Color mode with 3 or 4 basic colors - background, skin, hair. This gives the effect of a tint. Then I add another layer in Normal mode and basically repaint the image using colors, but keeping the values intact.
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O okay thanks so much for giving me time out of your busy schedule. Its a big help !
Poe
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I like that you decided to omit the other fallen feathers. It gives the picture more a feeling of he's contemplating something. like when you fiddle with something small even though you don't really have any interest in it when you are deep in thought
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This is cool. Do you start in grayscale for every project?
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wow, really awesome...how'd u do the background? purely brushes(textured brush) or with the help of texture
see more at [link]
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very interesting. can I ask why you start drawing from a picture in black and white?
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if the values are correct in a painting, you can do just about anything you want with the color and it will look right. Sometimes it's easier to start in black and white, nail down those values, and then move on to color.
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Just out of curiousity, how do you change the colour from black and white to colour ? with hue/saturation ?
Or other methold ? Aksing only, because I'm a bit puzzled about this
Since I would like to start with black and white base, but so far I wasn't able to figure this out, so I keep drawing the start with colours x)
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I add a new layer on top of the black and white one and set the new layer's mode to Color. I block in a few big areas of flat color, like one for the background, one for the figure, etc. It will look like a tinted image at this point. Then I add another layer on top, set to Normal mode, and start the real color painting - shadows, highlight, details, etc.
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All straight! thank you very much!!
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Your art is AWESOME
But how did you coloring it with colors after the pic is greyscale?
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in photoshop I added a new layer over the greyscale, set it to color, and added one color for skin, one for hair, another for background. Then I put another layer on top and started painting away with all my colors in a normal mode.
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It's interesting to see all the steps taken towards the finished project and how different it looks at different stages.
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So you start drawing realism by a gray scale painting in most of your drawings? And then you paint over them again with colors or you just make a new colors only multiply layer? I'm just wondering.
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If I know exactly what I want to do with the color, I'll start right off with color. If I haven't quite decided on a palette, or if I want to experiment, I'll start in greyscale. Once the greyscale values are set, it's easy to add and alter color. The base colors are added in a color or multiply layer, and then everything's detailed out in normal and overlay layers on top.
realism - ? I don't think there's necessarily a technique to painting realistically... but having the values right definitely helps make an image work...
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Oh wow, that's such a good idea... I bet it's easier to get more depth in color that way. I'll have to give that a shot.
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wow you did it in grayscale. I've always wondered how people put the colors like that...it probably takes a lot of time....
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greyscale -> color takes a little more time, but in some ways it's a little more flexible -
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Very interesting to see it in the process, especially the ones without the wings (not that I don't prefer the wings, it's just interesting) =]
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nice it really nice to see how one of my favorite pictures on the da be drawn
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