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JenniferEasley — Painting Tutorial
Published: 2012-12-12 03:48:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 2758; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 43
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Super large file, you'll need to full view!How i paint in Photoshop at the moment, to achieve a more traditional, painterly effect. Any questions just ask!
Thanks to =MonkeyOClock for the character, Joren!
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Very useful and interesting read! Always love seeing some of the process that goes into making the finished product, and your explanations give enough details without being overwhelming. Thanks for taking the time to put this together for us non-photoshop-savvy folks to read
One thing I'm curious about, do you ever manually fiddle with the layers and contrast, or do you use Auto-Contrast to give yourself an idea of how to push the values? I just ask because I often find auto levels/contrast too extreme, so end up hitting Undo and manually adjusting them instead. Wondering what your experience is like.
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Oh, yeah, i quite often find that they are too extreme. Most of the adjustments i do for contrast would be done by manually adjusting the Levels. I also mess with the Colour Balance tool which can introduce new colours as well as pushing contrast (for example if you put more blue in the shadows and yellow in the highlights).
You can also paste a "copy merged" layer above the rest of your layers ("copy merged" merges all your layers in to one new layer, go figure) and then set it to overlay and lower the opacity to your liking, This tends to make things pop a lot more in terms of colours and contrast. I really love the overlay layer mode in general!
In general i try lots and lots of things on new layers and if i don't like it, it's gone. That's the blessing of digital
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Thanks for the long answer! Very helpful indeed
Yeah, I like how easy it is to throw away mistakes with digital art, but I try not to rely on it too heavily... otherwise I start looking for the 'undo' button on my traditional art 
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EEE!~
So to illustrate how helpful I found this, I tried this technique out with my newest piece of Joren. (Which I did after smacking 6 owed pieces off of my art list, and onto my DONE list in the last few days. ;D Soproud of myself. )
But I found this INCREDIBLY helpful. There were a few things I never even thought off, like that tidbit on 'Letting some of the base skin color show through in the hair to give it a nice variety.' I hadn't even considered that before, and once I did it, I felt the overall tones and feeling of the painting just changed. owo Anyhoo, enough ramblin'. <3 (which you'll find the longer we talk, the more I ramble. 
But here's the piece I used this with: [link]
And good god thank you again. ;-;
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It turned out great! 
Can't wait to see more of your stuff now
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Oh definitely! It's so much pressure sometimes to just always do owed work, and class work, and never get a moment to relax with some personal downtime. Hehe I hope that once I'm done with the next few things I need to complete for owed work, I can settle down with some personal time, and refine my style. owo
Oh god thank you. ;w; <3 That means so much!
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