I CAN GIVE YOU GATSBY ...WIP


This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 16 2011, 11:22 PM

be honest,do u trace?

Dreadlock's closer to the mark, actually. Not a big fan of the smudge tool, personally, difficult to control how the colours work, sometimes.

The actual resolution of this painting at the moment is around 8k pixels wide, 10k pixels tall.

I will say, however, the brush involved in the smoothing-out process is not at all your standard "smooth" soft airbrush, but a kind of rotating, splattery custom made brush that's specifically made for skin colour smoothing. The splattery shape adds some mild texturing that lightly implies skin pores and provides some nice colour variation, which helps with making realistic skin tones.

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Oh, and a quick sketch I made today. Under 30 mins, although I forgot the exact number of minutes taken. Probably around 20 or so...



This post has been edited by DragonReine: Oct 17 2011, 12:35 AM

update:


tracing as in putting the picture underneath and painting on top then no..no fun doing so.. it wont turn out like this also anyways

i draw them side by side using photoshop's ruler as guide (if on paper i use the pencil to measure), the original is also transformed into black and white to ease finding the "outline".. as you can see its actually way off from the "model" .. not easy to get it exactly the same even with liquify... .. this is actually my first time painting a male tho ive sketched male before but ive never painted them.. its alot tougher than female as male faces have more details but doing the sketch was easy as there's not as much curvy strokes needed

tho i usually pick the colour right from the image via eyedropper tho.. lazy to actually find and match em. however for this artwork i pick from the swatches.. cuz the reference is weird..

and oh.. this time i tried using sifu dragonreine's tips on painting hair.. kinda happy with how it turns out..

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 17 2011, 02:19 AM

You CAN turn on the grid, you know (Ctril + ' ). Might make things a little easier than just the plain old ruler.

Not a fan of the eyedropper, really. Too many colours in a photo, and sometimes there's noise so there might be weird, random colours in the photo itself.

You can create a simplified colour table/palette of the photo, however. Just load the original photo, going to Image -> Mode -> Indexed Colour. Make the number into something quite small, probably around 5-15, depending on what you want, and Save it as a .ACT file. You can load that .ACT file in your swatches panel by going to "Load Swatches" and going back to where you saved the .ACT file, and select the "Colour Table (.ACT)" option in the filetype so you can select the ACT file. Voila! Instant set of workable colours for you to pick and choose from. Might want to mix up some additional saturated colours for variety, but the indexed palette should have pretty much what you need to get a painting ready.

... if i knew that earlier.. life would have been so much easier .. thanks for the tip
guess ive been doing it the hard way all this time ><

yea.. eyedrop from an image especially this one im working on is a pain especially the noise/effect. infact this one has a slight emboss gosh its makes life even tougher. well i usually just pick out the darkest and the lightest shade smudge them together.. as you can see in the pic, ..kinda works like a real life palette.. but your method will produce a more accurate set of colours... guess i will do that on my next artwork when i have time (holidays are over )

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Added on October 17, 2011, 2:40 amno tablet? use mouse (MX518) (i cropped the NSFW parts away )


to live with thick ass strokes and jagged not smooth tones?? thats why i bought a wacom

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 17 2011, 02:40 AM

Since when?

ahh nevermind, just you quite rarely to post your stuff...since this.



AND

The ironman is because it's the easiest to paint with mouse cause there are only red and yellow and it is symetrical.

The beast is because of some web competition last time.

I'm more into Anime/Manga oriented style actually unless I see something I like to try out.

random doodle paint. thought wan do something like "water cube"....
but fail

thanks for the tips bonchi,my portrait always end up very different from the original picture.
she's wearing a bra right?not so NSFW la,speaking of NSFW,I got mine,nude,old artwork.

@leech yalor,thought ur style is western,dont tell me you changed.

@bochi got a favor need ask you, paint this!

@agito nice attempt on water effect there,though need to work on anatomy a bit more.
anyway,why ask people to do,u try buat dulu la.

anatomy i cincai buat one
i do that in my lunch time

i cant do realism structure >''< |||

.....I don't get it. So far only the only obvious western style I have is Ironman. Drawing monsters are not exclusive to Western.

wa lunch time can full colour one ar?
so plo
if u got heart on art,then u can do anything.

due to your avatar too

i used around 40 minutes i guess.... ><
forget. i do my work is time control one, all short short one unless commission i wan do...then i do for days (hours)....

@agito.. when i got the time then XD.. holidays are over for me and ive got a hard semester ahead of me .. the Gatsby will be my last for these few months XD



perhaps my last artwork till chinese new year

anybody wants to lay a challenge ?