Lesson 1 - Basic Tools - Revisited

Revisiting :D

So I decided to revisit this digital painting class,

 to refresh the various techniques and practises and see how I have improved.

Feel free to comment your thoughts :)

lesson 1 - basic tools

Sketching in photoshop

Rough Rhino Rock

did a value sketch on this one, blocking in shapes and added a bit of rock texture and random birds.

thought the focal point was a little to much to the left, so I added a tree in the middle :P

the foreground elements were added for depth and line contrast.

I also wanted to keep it to just the one brush, this is a square brush in use.

Hunter

A more realistic approach, wanted to capture human likeness and proportions, instead of leaning towards cartoony stuff all of the time :P

Played around with the brush roughness, which gives a lot to the gritty, dark mysterious character.

Wandering Warrior

wanted to add this one to the bunch, again sticking to the one square brush.
keeping it rough around the edges :)

Riot Rat Rumble!

Tried to stay extremely loose and sketchy here... quick, rough and fun, minimal value.

Trekk Master

loose fast rough... square brush'n, more contrast and darker heavier lines.

Mr. Strongo and Ninja Leaper (oh the randomness)

Monster Quickies ... :)

different approaches.

For sketching digitally I have different approaches such as scribbling to quickly catch an idea (ninja leaper / Riot Rat), and blocking in a silhouette and putting in lighter values (Mr.Strongo / Hunter / Wandering Warrior)

I like to keep the "hand-drawn" look (pencil&paper 'ish) roughness...

Stay tuned for more :)