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Zatransis — Basic Painting Tutorial
Published: 2009-02-17 04:59:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 57422; Favourites: 1602; Downloads: 2745
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Hey there, everybody!Here is my first attempt at a tutorial for DA. Hooray!
I just wanted to make a generally straight forward tutorial. I don't get into too many details but it shows a high level view of my process. Hopefully it won't be too offensive, hehe.
This is all correct information when using Photoshop 7-CS4 Extended. I work on an Intuous 3.
Let me know what you think and I'll do my best to provide updates and answers.
Only one amendment: I forgot to explain that my method of keeping things separate and organized helps you remain flexible when you want to change things quickly.
That's all.
Thanks everyone!
M!
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Right on! If you are interested in any critique, let me know.
That's great that you got use out of it!
M!
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I'd love some critique, I could never figure out how to get the opacity brush to work till I read it, I finished another picture that usually would have taken me days in a few hours [link] (I also finshed so quickly due to my new tablet but the tutorial helped a lot!)
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The main thing that I would suggest as a crit is to adjust the temperatures of your shadows and highlights. If you kept everything on separate layers then it should be easy. I would pull the shadows towards blue so that they are more red/purple. The highlights I would pull more towards yellow and a touch brighter so they turn the form more.
Also, try making your grays a little more blue as well. Just a little.
Great job though. I'm glad the tutorial could help out. I think color selection is where the most improvement can come from but that takes a lot of practice. Keep it up!
M!
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Thanks! I used layers and I understand the opacity brush a lot better so it'll be better. Quick question, Do you mean blue as in Blue (RGB) or blue as in Cyan (CMYK), or does it not matterwhich I use?
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It doesn't matter. Basically just pull it cooler. If I had the PSD I could show you more exactly but it should be pretty easy to balance it. Lemme know if that works out for you.
M!
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I will! thanks for the advice M!
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MUCHAS, PERO MUCHAS GRAMCIAS HERMANO! DE VERDAD SI ERES UN GRAN ARTISTA DIGITAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You are welcome. Thank you for the fave.
M!
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Ah abou ttime you put this inda thing up fella
When life settles down, I'll get to utilising this for certain samurai demon
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Right on. That would be sweet!
M!
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Wow. I know this sounds dumb, but how do you configure the brushes opacity to change with the pressure?
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That's in the brush settings. Click on "Other Dynamics" and the turn on opacity and select pen pressure. If that description isn't clear enough let me know.
8)
M!
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I really appreciate the tip! Thanks alot.
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Great tut!
Good advice about the layers. Unfortunately I am one who is always forgetting to change the layer before I start painting! oops. LOL.
Thanks for posting.
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Haha... yeah, I run into that every now and again. That really pisses me off, hehe.
Thanks!
M!
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This was extremely helpful for me, especially because I am retarded at photoshop.
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Ok Zat, now that I've read it, I can tell: It suuure does help!! I colour my pics so basically I got stuck on my technique and style, but thanks to this one, I think I have a new path(or many) right in front of me! 
Now I can say it: Thanks M&M's!!
Pd: And by the way, my way to colour pics is just creating a layer above and putting it in "multiply" mode. Now guess how shitty was that!
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I'm really glad it helps out. That's awesome to hear!
Hopefully this will give you more flexibilty than just Multiply.
M!
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Very helpful! I'll defiantly use this the next time I want to experiment. Thanks for this!
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Hehe... Thank you, sir!
M!
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Awesome! Thank you for this.
I never thought of setting the lineart layer as soft-light before; I usually just paint under or over the lines. That's a really sweet technique!
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Great! That's what I like to hear. People taking little elements and finding a use for them. Awesome!
And thanks for the kind words.
M!
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Yeah, seperate tutorials for the base painting (plus how you keep it in the lines, that is if there's a technique beyond just doing your best to paint in the line) the shadows and highlights and finishing touches would be good follow-up. But, it's a good overall work tutorial.
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Thanks! Yeah, I should do a tut on the actual painting part sometime soon.
M!
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Sounds good, you've got some great stuff.
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Hey man this is a great turorial. Very informative and straight to the point. Couldnt ask for a clearer one. Thanks!
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Awesome... Making it clear and concise was the hard part, hehe.
M!
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Really helpful, particularly the backlight. ^^
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definitely picked up some new bullets
what size intuos do you use?
thank you, sir!
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