Final Comments

Your Final Course Score: A

Effort: Excellent

Technical: Good

Creative: Excellent

me happy :)

+ diploma

from pencil and paper to digital painting this was truly an awesome kickstarter course ! 

for me a true stepping stone, to polish my work :)

Photoshop has officially become a well known playground for me now, as well as getting used to my wacom tablet, in such a way that it now feels kinda natural to sketch with as well :)

I can truly recommend this, it is very thorough and you get a lot of professional tips and tricks to take with you :)

until next time ;)

Lesson 8

Combination

final assignment DONE :)

this was fun

trying out all the tips and tricks.

playing around with different unusual layer blend modes as well.

I could have gone on for ever with this one, but you've got to stop somewhere... besides deadline is on friday, and I have never been this close to a schoolism deadline :) hehe

the initial idea was having a strong contrast in character moods, as well as size relations and apperance.

I wanted a sense of incongruity in the contrast, to spin of some fun ;)

Personally I think I have made quite some progress, considering my experience with digital painting :)

ENJOY

Amphibian BFF (final piece)

Lights /character texture + more clean up

Color/shading + clean up (WIP 02)

Initial Sketch (WIP 01)

Lesson 7

Background, Scene and Mood

This was a difficult task

Creating the character was easy enough, but when it came to adding tons of layers, my old faithful Macbook Pro 17" couldn't keep up :/

so I struggled for a week or two, making my strokes as carefully as possible because of lag.

Now, as deadline is approaching, I decided to spend some money on a new computer, 

a new Macbook Pro with 15" retina display :D and I am loving it !!! :D

finished the rest in two days :) that is fast, considering that I have kids :)

kept it pretty rough, to speed things up. One could always go back and refine things.

Ramboman

so yes, very original... :P not Rambo ... Ramboman!

Ramboman with touch!

 I like the effect here.

Ramboman Jungle Approach - Rough

Ramboman Snow Encounter - Rough

Ramboman Dessert Wander - Rough

These next thumbnails where just to try out a quicker compositional approach

they are a bit more energetic

Ramboman Lost Village Night - Rough Thumb

Ramboman Gladiator - Rough

Ramboman Mountain Climbing - Rough

Lesson 6

Custom Brushes

This was a fun process, but it took some time playing around with custom brushes ! :)

Simple Shape Brushes

Smudge tool "Brushes"

Leaves/Grass/Bushes Stamp Brushes

Cloud Stamp Brushes

Fire Stamp Brushes

Skin/Furr Stamp Brushes

Crowd Stamp Brushes

Stamp Brush Compilation :)

Toucan (rough)

And this is just the beginning... I've got a lot more custom brushes stashed up in the presets :)

Lesson 5

Color Mixing and Painting

really nice method of digital painting.
mixing paint just as you would when you do a traditional painting.
it gives it a more authentic and realistic look.

Streetfighter SpiderMonkey

I still tend to go to far with the clean up (mixing and smoothening).. a couple of times I went a step back, because the roughness looked better :)

Lesson 4

Coloring with 

Cell Shading

Mushroom Rock

Testing cell shading ... I really like the edginess of it :)

Ninja

cell-shading really enhances the cartooniness :) love it ! 

you can also play with the edge, to make it sharp or smoother.

added screen blend mode for extra lighting ;) makes it pop :)

Lesson 3

Layers 

and 

Black & White Coloring Method

This is cool ! this makes it so easy to through in some nice effects ! ;)

Monster Bull Thingy - Colored

So I just went on to add colors and different layer blend modes, if not all of them, to see what goes and what doesn't :) This piece probably became a bit of an overkill :P hehe

Initial Drawing with revisions

Dragon WakeUp Prank - BW

 So, I wanted to create something more funny and thorough as well :)

Dragon WakeUp Prank - Color

Here I added color and played around with the blend modes to get the right effects :)
colored using the lasso tool, and hue/saturation adjustments :)

Lesson 2

Light and Shadow

Form shadow on different objects

experimenting with form shadow and highlight.

object form changes + different light-sources

trying to define an object with form shadow.
playing with different directional light-sources.
adding texture-based light and shadows.

object form changes + cast shadow

again playing with the form of the object based on the form shadow.

playing with cast shadow.

It is amazing how just spending some time making a new and more definable brush, gives the drawing/painting so much more force and dynamics! really like this "homemade" square brush.

Bull Monster Thingy

I decided to make a new creature sketch, just to keep practicing my digital sketching.
(the arrow indicates the light-source).
using the new brush I made :)

Janitor-Intern Guy

experimenting with the Janitor Intern guy from lesson 1.

two different light-sources.

Lesson 1

Basic Tools

First Assignment:

Sketch a character or creature from scratch using Photoshop.

Started with a basic filling of a shillouette in graytone.

after that I sketched up the character based on the shillouette.

from there I added more and more detail, using about 5 layers.

getting comfortable with Photoshop :)
THIS IS FUN ! 

The Janitor Intern

A Dragon's Head

Soldier

Doggy