Thursday, 8 September 2011
A post with some tutorials for fun
So in trying to help myself with painting I found this digital painting tutorials by one of the artists who worked on Duke Nukem Forever game. I'm using it so I thought it might kind of helpful. I don't think I'll be painting like this but it seems worth showing it. Aim for the moon, hit the stars and all that.
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Exellenté Mike.
ReplyDeleteI'm really liking the arty farty-ness of it, we should definitely use it for the bgs.
Yep, farty arty ftw.
ReplyDeletei never understood why this is... but when i see painting videos like this, they always start by having black and white shading over the whole thing and then add colour.. but why?? why put so much detail in making the whole thing grey if they want it to be in colour after....
ReplyDeleteI believe it's something to do with the eye focusing on blocked shapes/composition when in grey scale so that they don't need to worry about colour theory. Also by putting the colour in an overlay blend mode, it probably makes it a bit quicker to shade because you don't need to worry about the different shades or a colour when working on the shading as it's already been done. So I guess it makes sense?
ReplyDeletei guess thats true.. i dont think i could work like that though :/
ReplyDeleteEvery little helps! I'm still trying to work out my own workflow so ...yeh XD So lucky that you've worked out your own style already!
ReplyDeleteIt varies from person to person, some people like starting with a grey scale version. Pretty much it's done for the reasons Jade said, it's also so you can get the values sorted out. I use to use the technique quite a lot with ink paintings and then doing watercolours on top and for me it worked really well as I had a lot of trouble working straight into colour as they would often end up all being the same tone. It's also just a speed thing, it's easier to paint in b/w first then just paint over it in colour. I'm taking a quess here but I also imagine its simply a pratical thing for those who work in the industry. They must do so many paintings, its easier to start them all off in b/w and only develop the ones into colour that they/ their boss/ their client likes.
ReplyDeleteWhat Mike says practically XD I should probably start doing that really cos I can never choose colours anyway.
ReplyDeletemakes sense. thanks mike!
ReplyDeletei put down any old colour and then edit it for hours later XD