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1. I draw out a rough draft of my painting, the concept I was hoping for. I played around with many many concepts for the SM painting. This is very very messy, I still have the circles where I mapped the knuckles XD. The scissors were going to be turned into kids', rounded tipped no-accident scissors but I got lazy and forgetful.
2. I cleaned up my sketch, obviously, added vague detail and lowered opacity to 82%.
3. I messily map out my shadow work, this took me several times to get right because of the hands - fortunately I used a minor ref. by looking in the mirror. Red is shadows, blue is highlights and the large areas of white are neutral tones. My shadows change frequently while painting, I'll realize that some thing's not quite right halfway through and change it. Don't be afraid to do this! You'll never get something exactly the way you want it the first time around. Part of being an artist is letting your pieces evolve.
4. I try a new idea, removing most of the fingers and adding cuts around both bases of the forearms. I also had the idea that perhaps the right hand would be cut down the middle, but obviously it didn't pull through in the later versions.
5. Another concept, perhaps adding a person in the background so the arms are not disembodied would be better in the end. I also cleaned away the rest of the fingers.
6. I work more on the face, just focusing more on the hair than anything - though it doesn't appear that way. I couldn't think of a hair style that would be right for the painting, turns out later on the Mohawk seemed distracting. lol
7. I start laying in color. About a 40% gray for my base color and 60% for the shadow (using the pen pressure tool). I'm a bit concerned about the shadowing on the face (you can see I have my maps up at about 15% opacity but I can't help but feel bad about the shadows still). I'm focusing more on the face at this point, drawing in the nose and mouth, I haven't really done much with the hands.
8. I'm starting to feel better about the face, but the arms still look like shit. I use a very dark color, almost black for these shadows. About 80-90%.
9. I take a fast route and add the highlights, I don't spend much time on the lighter to darker path (slowly moving down to darker grays on your pallet until you're to black). Again, the arms are not my key subject here, I'm hurrying the face to see how it will look.
10. I blend my colors together by cheating. I take selected areas that aren't very big with the lasso tools, feather them at about 100 pixels (I'm working with a canvas that's about 6000x8000 pixels roughly) and then Gaussian blur-ing the entire thing until I'm satisfied. I only recently started doing this and it works alright for me with the idea that I'll add more detail/shadow depth as time goes on.
11. I work on the eyes, you can't see much detail right now (perhaps I'll put a closeup up in my scraps later) but I worked hard but fast on them. They look funny, but at this point I didn't care much. I was becoming skeptical that it would even work out.
12. I hide my sketch lines, do the eyes a little more and then work on the lips and minor highlights around the face/hands.
13. BLOOD! This is applied with just a regular pen pressure hard-edged brush. I use black to achieve the look I want. I also put in the scissors using the same brush, they're just a messy rough draft, but at this point - isn't everything? I lighten the eyes and add the cuts with just a small hard-round brush.
14. I smooth the blood using a custom smudge brush, I tinkered for what seemed like hours (but turned out was only ten minutes) to tweak my smudge brush into giving me a desired effect. I rather like how the blood turned out. I also added detail to the scissors by just going back and paying more attention, they have more dynamic shadows and highlights now. I've also lightened the black around the eyes.
15. I finally come to my senses and cover up the face, I don't even bother trying to do the hair (I suck at hair anyway lol) and blot it all out with black. I've added a lot of detail to the hands by now, given them knuckles and nails, moles (which, coincidentally match the moles on my hands, muhuhahahahahaw!) and painted my ring (which my dorkling (*ahem* I mean darling) boy*cough'toy'cough*friend bought for me.
) and put blood on the scissors. I've also added minor highlights to the 'removed' fingers.
16 (Final): I add color (lots of it) on hard light, soft light, color, multiply, color burn and overlay modes, I touched up a bit, and smooth it out (by duplicating the layer, Gaussian blur-ing it at a fairly high level, 'fading the blur by 50% ((by going to Edit>Fade>Opacity 50%)) and then setting the layer opacity to 50%. It works well to take the edge off. Overall, I feel pretty good about this painting, I like the almost 'Resident Evil/Silent Hill' type of look that it has.
FINISHED PAINTING: [link]
CLOSEUPS: [link]
2. I cleaned up my sketch, obviously, added vague detail and lowered opacity to 82%.
3. I messily map out my shadow work, this took me several times to get right because of the hands - fortunately I used a minor ref. by looking in the mirror. Red is shadows, blue is highlights and the large areas of white are neutral tones. My shadows change frequently while painting, I'll realize that some thing's not quite right halfway through and change it. Don't be afraid to do this! You'll never get something exactly the way you want it the first time around. Part of being an artist is letting your pieces evolve.
4. I try a new idea, removing most of the fingers and adding cuts around both bases of the forearms. I also had the idea that perhaps the right hand would be cut down the middle, but obviously it didn't pull through in the later versions.
5. Another concept, perhaps adding a person in the background so the arms are not disembodied would be better in the end. I also cleaned away the rest of the fingers.
6. I work more on the face, just focusing more on the hair than anything - though it doesn't appear that way. I couldn't think of a hair style that would be right for the painting, turns out later on the Mohawk seemed distracting. lol
7. I start laying in color. About a 40% gray for my base color and 60% for the shadow (using the pen pressure tool). I'm a bit concerned about the shadowing on the face (you can see I have my maps up at about 15% opacity but I can't help but feel bad about the shadows still). I'm focusing more on the face at this point, drawing in the nose and mouth, I haven't really done much with the hands.
8. I'm starting to feel better about the face, but the arms still look like shit. I use a very dark color, almost black for these shadows. About 80-90%.
9. I take a fast route and add the highlights, I don't spend much time on the lighter to darker path (slowly moving down to darker grays on your pallet until you're to black). Again, the arms are not my key subject here, I'm hurrying the face to see how it will look.
10. I blend my colors together by cheating. I take selected areas that aren't very big with the lasso tools, feather them at about 100 pixels (I'm working with a canvas that's about 6000x8000 pixels roughly) and then Gaussian blur-ing the entire thing until I'm satisfied. I only recently started doing this and it works alright for me with the idea that I'll add more detail/shadow depth as time goes on.
11. I work on the eyes, you can't see much detail right now (perhaps I'll put a closeup up in my scraps later) but I worked hard but fast on them. They look funny, but at this point I didn't care much. I was becoming skeptical that it would even work out.
12. I hide my sketch lines, do the eyes a little more and then work on the lips and minor highlights around the face/hands.
13. BLOOD! This is applied with just a regular pen pressure hard-edged brush. I use black to achieve the look I want. I also put in the scissors using the same brush, they're just a messy rough draft, but at this point - isn't everything? I lighten the eyes and add the cuts with just a small hard-round brush.
14. I smooth the blood using a custom smudge brush, I tinkered for what seemed like hours (but turned out was only ten minutes) to tweak my smudge brush into giving me a desired effect. I rather like how the blood turned out. I also added detail to the scissors by just going back and paying more attention, they have more dynamic shadows and highlights now. I've also lightened the black around the eyes.
15. I finally come to my senses and cover up the face, I don't even bother trying to do the hair (I suck at hair anyway lol) and blot it all out with black. I've added a lot of detail to the hands by now, given them knuckles and nails, moles (which, coincidentally match the moles on my hands, muhuhahahahahaw!) and painted my ring (which my dorkling (*ahem* I mean darling) boy*cough'toy'cough*friend bought for me.
) and put blood on the scissors. I've also added minor highlights to the 'removed' fingers.16 (Final): I add color (lots of it) on hard light, soft light, color, multiply, color burn and overlay modes, I touched up a bit, and smooth it out (by duplicating the layer, Gaussian blur-ing it at a fairly high level, 'fading the blur by 50% ((by going to Edit>Fade>Opacity 50%)) and then setting the layer opacity to 50%. It works well to take the edge off. Overall, I feel pretty good about this painting, I like the almost 'Resident Evil/Silent Hill' type of look that it has.
FINISHED PAINTING: [link]
CLOSEUPS: [link]
Image size
2055x4730px 2.22 MB
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what program dyou use? xDDD