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Hax09 โ Iron Man and WarMachine TUTORIAL By Hax09
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Published: 2012-01-03 16:53:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 24779; Favourites: 444; Downloads: 931
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A tutorial based on my latest digital painting of Iron Man and WarMachine. It's my first time writing a tutorial so please go easy on me. Let me know what you think. If you have any advice on how to improve it let me know and I'll try and do that next time.If you have any questions feel free to ask me and I'll try and reply back.
ENJOY !
W.I.P (Work in Progress): [link]
FINAL: [link]
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No problem. Glad you found it useful
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the gates to realistic armor, have been opened.
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Thanks Loki!
Glad you like it. Hope it helps !
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what else to say than: awesomeness.
no really, the tutorial is great and the end result is just epic. i love the pose of both and the perspective and the shading and coloring
since when do you draw?
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Thanks Rookie141
I started drawing back in 2009. It was very rubbish at first and for about 4-5 months I just stopped using my tablet because of how ashamed I felt of my paintings. But then I just
started looking at online tutorials and looked at loads of them and picked out techniques from each that worked and in the end I was left with my own style of painting that I was comfortable with.
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you... draw since 09? ._. started with tablet or started at all??
i still could hit myself for stopping drawing for nearly my whole elementary school time - i could be better now if i hadn't stop
but will/would/could/do you show links to those tutorials on your page? i guess it could be also helpful for some other people
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I have been drawing on lined paper since the age of 3-4 
But on a tablet I started in 09. I was very rubbish. I remember thinking that there's no way I'll ever get good at this. But in the end I just got down to it and figured that thinking negatively wont help me.
I can't really pinpoint any links but I think www.imaginefx.com is a good place to start. That really helped me.
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oh okay ^^
and thanks for the link
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I have two questions if you dont mind. I wanted to know how many layers did this take or something like this on average would be and what is the opacity and flow you start off with the flat grayscale?
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Hey KatBanditSmokey!
Altogether it probably took me about 5-6 layers.
1. Background Colour (Usually a mid tone grey to begin with)
2. Sketch Layer
3. Flat shading
4. Detailed shading
5. Flat colouring
6. Detailed Colouring
* Note that the Detailed shading, Flat Shading and Sketch Layer all merge into one when you start Flat Colouring.
The only time the flow setting changes is when you zoom in to paint in the details. Other than that the Opacity and Flow settings remain at 100%.
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thank you very much I have gotten better and this is the first time I am seeing this massage. I haven't been on this site in forever. but thank you so much. I really do appreciate this advice.
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No problem. I'm never on these days either.
Hope it helps.
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Thanks joseotaku !
Glad you liked it. Happy painting !
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You're welcome and thank you. Sorry for the extremely late reply.ย
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looks like a photographic copy, wow you're really good
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Thanks DOODZKI22 !
Yeah the photo-realism style is what I try to go for with all my paintings.
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Sweet Jesus! Im completely noob when it comes to Photoshop but I so wanna try this!
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I say go for it !
I was once a noob too.
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Your work is absolutely amazing! 
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Thanks KStewart95 !
I'm glad it has inspired you. I hope you can create some amazing deviations of your own from this tutorial. Let me know how you got on with it.
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im blown away by your ability ....the lighting glare on his armor ...everything...
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Thanks VengfulDead
Glad you like it ! I enjoyed working on this painting and the tutorial too. Felt really great to see the progress in pictures
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.. the fuck? I thought this was a photo. i_______i waahh.
I have more questions about how you went about getting that realistic, grungy metal texture going on in the painting? I mean. My mind. It's still blown. I mean, I understand the level of lighting and texture you must have knowledge of is immense, but I.. I always struggle getting my tools to work with me the way I want, you seem to have just backhanded them into working for you beautifully. Awesome work man.
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Thanks Nyurt !
Yeah I've been having to post W.I.P and tutorials for my past few deviations mainly for the reason that most people think it's a photo ! I guess it's a compliment
Let me know if you have any questions (You said you did but forgot to ask the question
I think the more you paint the more you get used to the brush. It may sound corny but you end up making the brush settings work for you. I think I may have mentioned this as a tip where you don't have to keep switching the darkness back and forth if you get the hang of the pen pressure setting (hard strokes for dark and lighter strokes for light)
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No problem ! Glad it has helped !
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Q Hax: On 02 The Flat Shading - at what percentage are the opacity and the flow 100 to 100, 100 to 50, 75 to 50?? Cause that step is causing me quite trouble.
P.S. The grey back ground- at grey scale is it good to be near 50% or lower. You said the flat shading you're doing is in mid gray scale (and i'm thinking that's about around 55-75 % max) and i put my on around 40 and it's STILL dark for me!
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Ohhh and what brush are you using for the detailing is it the hard round or the airbrush open opacity flow?
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The Opacity and Flow setting are both 100% You don't need to change them till you've got to the detailing part.
I kind of realised a mistake I made when I said to paint in the sketch layer. I meant to say paint below the sketch layer. Basically for 02 Flat Shading your layer order should be (from top to bottom):
Sketch /
Flat shading /
Background
In Sketch you should have your sketch layer which I'm guessing you wouldn't touch since you're past that step now so lock it.
The Flat shading layer is where you would block in the grayscale values. As a personal preference I start off with a mid level grey (not necessary that you do too) most of the time but that isn't the same for all paintings since some are darker or lighter than others. By mid level gray I mean something like 50-60 on the grayscale slider.
The background layer should be a gray background. Usually something in the region of 30-45 in the grayscale slider. Again I would lock this and wouldn't touch this....
Hope that helped. The brush for detailing is the same brush throughout. Only the flow setting changes to something like 10-20 %
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Ahhhh Cheers man!! Thanks!!
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No problem
Let me know if you get stuck again
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Thank you so much for taking the time to create and share this. I'm always on the lookout for new techniques and yours is very inspirational.
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No problem bdunn1342
I'm glad you found it useful. I thought I'd make mine more detailed as most tutorials here only briefly explain the process. I know I'd want to know it in as much detail as possible if I was trying to learn something new.
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Extra information is always better, at least for me. Thanks again!
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Starting tomorrow i'm going do try do a old piece of mine [link] One Colored version and another only in Grayscale and this tut is going to help me a lot (i've read it twice now) I've got a good feeling about this!!
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Go for it Shiv !
That's a very good piece you have there. A good starting point as well for a sketch. I can't wait to see the final thing. Hope you do well with it. Post me some updates when you can
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Ok but it SURE will take a long time to do(at least for me)
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Go for it mate ! Ain't nothing to it !
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Hello again, I wanted to thank you once more for your tutorial, as a result in a couple of hours of having ago at some of your methods Ive gone from
this[link]
to this[link]
The improvement is shocking and really, this tutorial helped so much.
So thanks again, and who knows, maybe one day I could even reach your level
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Hello Zendar13 !
Thanks for posting this comment ! I am amazed at how quick you've picked up on my style of drawing. Well done. The improvement is amazing to look at too ! I feel glad that the tutorial has served it's purpose then. I hope you can go on to create some more brilliant deviations in the future ! Glad to be of help to you
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