BEST CHEF - INCONSTANT COLORING PROCESS
just further milking this coloring job (again go bug
big-e6 bout the original sketch), and I wanted to do one of those "Drawing Process" things.
fer those curious on what i used to do it:
Corel Painter X: take that photoshop (even though I used it for clean up lol)
Scratchboard Tool [Pens] : To add the base colors in the image. The thick/thin thing with stylus pressure is useful as hell.
Wet Oily Brush [Artists' Oils]: To apply all of the shading and highlights. Shading at 30% opacity and highlights at 5%.
Grainy Water [Blenders]: To do the initial smoothing of the colors. Sometimes I use it again if I went overboard with the Grainy Blender. I normally blend the shaded parts first, then go again with highlights.
Grainy Blender [Blenders]: To add some texture after using the Grainy Water. The hair was the only time I used the Grainy Blender first.
Digital Airbrush [Airbrushes]: To highlight and darken certain parts of the picture on a separate layer set to Overlay. Opacity here was kept around 2-5%
An actual paper texture: Which was added on an overlay layer at less than 50% layer opacity.
Knowledge of Color Temperature: To get the shades/highlights to look the right colors. I learned from "Practical Light & Color" not to shade based on value (Shading yellow with a darker yellow, for example), but on Degress Kelvin or something like that. So for orange the shades would be more Red to Purple (with increased saturation) and highlights would be Yellow to White (because it comes less saturated at the brighter parts).
these were all taken from old saves lol
big-e6 bout the original sketch), and I wanted to do one of those "Drawing Process" things.fer those curious on what i used to do it:
Corel Painter X: take that photoshop (even though I used it for clean up lol)
Scratchboard Tool [Pens] : To add the base colors in the image. The thick/thin thing with stylus pressure is useful as hell.
Wet Oily Brush [Artists' Oils]: To apply all of the shading and highlights. Shading at 30% opacity and highlights at 5%.
Grainy Water [Blenders]: To do the initial smoothing of the colors. Sometimes I use it again if I went overboard with the Grainy Blender. I normally blend the shaded parts first, then go again with highlights.
Grainy Blender [Blenders]: To add some texture after using the Grainy Water. The hair was the only time I used the Grainy Blender first.
Digital Airbrush [Airbrushes]: To highlight and darken certain parts of the picture on a separate layer set to Overlay. Opacity here was kept around 2-5%
An actual paper texture: Which was added on an overlay layer at less than 50% layer opacity.
Knowledge of Color Temperature: To get the shades/highlights to look the right colors. I learned from "Practical Light & Color" not to shade based on value (Shading yellow with a darker yellow, for example), but on Degress Kelvin or something like that. So for orange the shades would be more Red to Purple (with increased saturation) and highlights would be Yellow to White (because it comes less saturated at the brighter parts).
these were all taken from old saves lol
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They Grainy Water gave it a fantastic look, I never could seem to get Corel Painter to color the way I wanted it to, or it always seemed like I would color and somehow go to another color and it decided not to blend or something.=(; But still, I am very impressed by how this came out, good to see the process.
every other person i know who uses painter goes crazy over the "Just Add Water" blender. Not that its a bad tool (ive used it before and its pretty kew), but personally I prefer how Grainy Water interacts with the "paper" and adds some grain when you blend the colors, which helps achieve that "hand-painted" look. I mean sure you could probably just edit the JAW tool to include grain but I find Grainy Water more convient. :V
dun worry tho, cause painter is an absolute bitch to figure out. it took me like almost 2 years just to figure out how to get that "natural" look those painter experts can do (and it turns out it wasnt as hard as I thought). :x maybe sum other folks newer to painter can experiment with this method to get some sort of jump start. :P
dun worry tho, cause painter is an absolute bitch to figure out. it took me like almost 2 years just to figure out how to get that "natural" look those painter experts can do (and it turns out it wasnt as hard as I thought). :x maybe sum other folks newer to painter can experiment with this method to get some sort of jump start. :P
painter essentials 3 is missing a lot of stuff that regular painter has, specifically the blenders, scratchboard (i dont remember seeing it but i mightve skimmed past it), layer properties, etc. I can only recall it having Digital Airbrush and Wet Oily Brush for the method im using. It still pretty damn good for something that normally comes with your tablet, but its missing quite a bit.
if youre ultra cheap like me you could ya know...run a few torrents >>
if youre ultra cheap like me you could ya know...run a few torrents >>
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