[JesperGB]

I've done some paper sketches. And I'd like som tips how to convert it into computer-paintings - I find it a bit difficult, but does someone have some tips - here you can see an example of what I've done:




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[Wagner]

what you could try to do is you could make your origonal pencil sketch a new layer, and then put the colors underneath, and then blend the pencil or something... that's what i do, but if your trying to make it realistic there are problems with that way...

[JesperGB]

I want to get it realistic.. And mostly use the drawing is a guideline
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[Wagner]

i'm not too good at painting... but i think that shadows on people have more blue in them and highlights on people have red in them. that might help some if you already haven't done that.

[allpetter]

[JesperGB]

Thanks to the desert example - I think i get the point...

Any good tutorials on photoshop-painting out there?
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[Matthew]

allpetter, haha we meet again.

What allpetter wrote above here is very good and people seem to forgot that it is the surrounding that makes the colors in the skin.
btw allpetter, I see you are getting a lot better with your work and speedys, keep up the good work.

Jesper, I made a quick overpaint for you to show how you can add a little bit more realism, not rocksolid. As said earlier yea shadows more blue in the skin since your surrounding had a lot of blue in it. With a lot of blue in the background orange becomes more visible in the skintone but this has to be added carefully, cause if too much of it it looks cartoony. So here I am bending the rules a bit.
Let me know if you need anymore help.

edit, yes also. spooge taught me one thing once and it was a really good advice. For the eyes when you are doing the sketch you can add only an eye-socket, that way you don't have to bother about the eyes and the complicity of the eyes. so, in the overpaint only eye sockets was added as you can see, and, in some lights eye-sockets is all that you can see aswell. This took me some time to figure out but I think u will get the idea later u too.



ok gotta hit the bed now cause I have been spamming the forum way to much today. Sniff sniff I still have a lot of work to do before I have figured out this php coding thing aswell.
Matthew

[allpetter]

Thanks Matthew!
JesperGB: Glad you could get some value out of my atempt.

It's pretty easy to point out what is wrong in other peoples art!

When painting yourself, you sometimes tend to forgett about the same things you try to explain for others. I bet I miss out on alot of basic thinking while drawing/painting myself (inlcluding the above).

THAT is why one should practice, practice and practice!
Giving feedback and cunstructive critisism to others is in one way or another related to interpret those errors for yourself... imo.

I just started doing this, since I've up til recently fellt abit "illicit" to do so.
Giving c.n.c and propper feedback that is.
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