looks like a deer cought in head lights......


maybe he saw that asteroid coming

BLAM

right between the eyes

Dinosaur sees meteor. "Why do these things always happen to *ME*...?"

hehehehe i love that expression XD

looks like a look of terror... i like that look.

yea, i still have quite a bit to go though,
working with this tutorial i really don't think i
was following it properly.

i never follow instructions properly, but i think thats just in my nature... i hate following others' rules, and usually go my own way.

rules are just guidelines, in the end, you're supposed to do things your own natural way.

look at artists such as "wagner"... he steps all over the concept of "anatomy", but his art is great.

not sure who wagner is,
don't really know many artists.

I recommend using a much harder brush. I personally stopped using soft brushes when painting.

I put shape size off. (no pressure anything)

shape jitter to directional

I believe he turns smoothing on (and maybe noise on)

and I usually turn opacity to my pen pressure - and the shape of the brush matters. He uses this rounded square brush. The round brush works okay. Try using the hard square brush with these settings and you get some really weird (but cool) results.

He's also painting all of this one one layer. He's not using a Multiply layer for his shadows, or a Screen layer for highlights, he's just strait up blending. He's also using different hue's for shadows and lights, not just shades.

So for on this you're using whites for lights and a darker shade of purple for your shadows. He also starts out with a very dark base color as his background and then adds mid tones and then his lights. for this, I would determine what color your light source is and then paint your lights in that color. He used a yellow light source and painted his lights yellow on the green (I believe)

Here's another really helpful video http://purplekecleon.deviantart.com.....rial-184642625

thanks, ill use this tomorrow,
but still incredibly helpful,
thanks a bunch.