Another attempt at digital illustration in Photoshop... this one took forever to complete. Lots of smudging individual color layers around the canvas. At the moment I am still experimenting with different techniques - hopefully a style will emerge that I can one day call my own. The hands and forearms got too complicated and looked messy. So I cheated and covered it up with a gradient on the body out of pure frustration and ended up liking the effect. Adds a bit of contrast - a lot of times these "accidents" have pleasing results. (Click image to enlarge)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Saint Fella
Another attempt at digital illustration in Photoshop... this one took forever to complete. Lots of smudging individual color layers around the canvas. At the moment I am still experimenting with different techniques - hopefully a style will emerge that I can one day call my own. The hands and forearms got too complicated and looked messy. So I cheated and covered it up with a gradient on the body out of pure frustration and ended up liking the effect. Adds a bit of contrast - a lot of times these "accidents" have pleasing results. (Click image to enlarge)
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Hey Rudy!
Great looking image...perhaps the guy's knitted brow is a reflection of your own frustration with digital colouring :)
You've got a terrific handle on shading with traditional tools but something seems lost when translated to digital (hence your frustration, I think). If I may make a suggestion...check out the blog of Chris Wahl. Here's a link to a tutorial on digital colouring http://chriswahlart.blogspot.com/2006/04/paperboy-step-by-step.html
He's able to computer colour while keeping his gorgeous pencil shading. I'd also reccommend checking out the rest of his blog. He's a terrific caricaturist.
best,
j.
Thanks for the link Bone! Great tutorial... brilliant blog - the timelapse videos of his methods are also handy.
- R
Absolutely wonderful!
impressive work, thanks
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