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Published: 2011-05-31 05:38:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 8037; Favourites: 211; Downloads: 121
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New profile: ~ElucidatorHere/s the finished thing: [link]
I can't believe I just did that so quickly. I was asked to do a walkthrough, so here it is. I borrowed some ideas from other artists all over the place, and some of them are my own observations. I should have done this as a video!
This was painted in Photoshop CS4, with a Wacom tablet. I highly recommend a graphics tablet if you're interested in digital art.
Anyway, if you enjoyed it, faving and such is always fun, but I would be ecstatic if you just linked me to your work that I've inspired or helped. I may even be able to offer some pointers! But maybe not, I'm not very pro
.© to me. If you redistribute this, please leave the copyrights and whatnot intact, so people can find their way back to me. Thanks.
PS: If you find the spelling errors, you get a cookie. I may fix them later if I really feel the motivation.
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You're very, very welcome. By the way, I moved to a new account several months ago, and I've since done a longer video tutorial. This one has treehouses and golden light too (weird, right?). Anyway, you can see the image here: [link] and the video link is in the description. I've become a much better artist since I made this
If you end up finding my stuff useful, and you start doing your own environment stuff, shoot me a note or a comment on my new profile so I can check it out!
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OK.
Thanks a lot.
The one I've been working on has the treehouse and golden light and it was enough of a challenge
for my limited photoshop skills.
I think my gpu, core and ram are limited too since everything is so slooooooow when I try and do large backgrounds at a decent dpi.
I've still learned a lot.
I will start working on the longer video tutorial now. Thanks - if I ever have anything worth showing (highly doubtful since even though I've owned an intuos 4 for four years I still can't get the hang of painting with it. I still go back to doing things in hardcopy and scanning them it when I really want something done) I will let you know and comment on your new profile.
Thanks again!.
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Sounds great, I wish you all the luck in the world!
And with the tablet, probably others have said this before, but just go for it. You can totally get the hand of it in a month. Just watch some painting videos so you get how the general flow works and then get practicing! Like I said, good luck.
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could you follow this same basic process with a speedpaint of a person?
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It's much easier to use the "chaos to concept" process on more loose subjects like landscapes. You'd need a pretty good understanding of human anatomy and posing to be able to speedpaint people into a scene this way. As far as portraits go, I would recommend doing them entirely in colour, from start to finish. Skin colours are too complex to paint in greyscale and then convert. Does that help?
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yes, thank you ^^.
now i just really need to work on BGs lol
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Practise, practise, practise! Haha. I'll probably be posting a few more walkthroughs and tutorials on my new account in the near future...
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your new account? does that mean you'll be making a new account in the future, or that you already have one?
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I get the feeling you found it already
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meh, i decided to be self-sufficient XD
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Amazing tutorial I will use it and it has inspired me to do some speedpainting 
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Brilliant! Thanks for letting me know. I really appreciate it!
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Love the tutorial- I'm wanting to get some speedpainting done. Is there a triangular brush tip like available in Photoshop's presets anywhere, or do you need to make one yourself or download one from somewhere? (I use CS3.)
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Awesome, it's good to hear from you. I made my own and there are no triangular presets that I know of. I showed you the base stamp in the tutorial so you can easily make a similar one or screenshot and edit the one I provided. Let me know if you end up using the tutorial!
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Used here for the first time. Thanks so much for the tutorial.
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[link] sorry, forgot link. ^^
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Awesome, thanks! Great work! You may want to try making some custom brushes so you don't have to do all those little lines by hand!
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Thank you. I will try that next time.
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Only if you do the tutorial.
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Psh. Naw. You can't stop me.
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Dang, I want to try this... but, no graphics tablet...
Amazing tutorial!
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Awwe, well I've seen people do incredible stuff with mouses, and I did a few back before I got my bamboo. Maybe you could practice picking colours and establishing depth? If you need a tablet to get you started, I recommend the Wacom Bamboo. Cheap and effective.
Thanks for the compliment!
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Wacom Bamboo, eh?
Thanks for the advice!
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Thanks! Sometimes I confuse my watchers or forget who is who, but your avatar is (for some reason) very unique. Keep it!
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Thank you (yours too, btw^^), it was made by [link] and fits me perfectly
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I'm glad. Like I said in the comments, I'd love to see your take on it!
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As soon as I get some free time...
School needs to end
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As soon as exams are over, I'm shutting my brain down for the summer.
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Thanks! Hope it can help you.
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Thanks! I'd love to see what you could come up with based on this (hint hint) 
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lol I might 
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I've worked in GIMP a lot (I seem to remember that that's what you're using, right?) and it has the capabilities to cover the stuff in this tutorial. The biggest differences are the behaviour of the brush tool which will result in a more streaky style probably, and layer styles, which I intentionally veered away from. If there's something program-wise that you're struggling with, I may be able to help.
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yep!
ohh cool! layer styles? from using layers?
ok thanks! then.. how do you set a layer to color? like in the tutorial O.o
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Layer styles allow for fancy glows, textures, strokes, bevelling, etc to be applied to a layer in realtime.
I believe it should be at the top of your layer palette, and by default layers are set to "Normal." So look for a drop-down menu that says "Normal" and also has screen, overlay, soft light, hue, saturation, etc.
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oh cool!
.. um, layer palette?
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Speaking of which, check this link out...
[link]
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Do you paint in multiple layers or is it all done one one?
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multiple layers... I have a feeling I am being very unobservant and missing something obvious
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Observe the link I replied with. I have a feeling that you've been painting on a single layer thus far, no?
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no I have been using lots of layers, 15- 20 per peice, but I have never seen that little dock thingy where you can see all of your layers lain out like that O.o
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Oh, good. You worried me. I can't remember how to get it open, try the Windows dropdown if there is one.
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