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Published: 2018-01-08 08:39:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 26941; Favourites: 807; Downloads: 212
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30min. spitpaint, Photoshop CC2017. This one was down to the wire heheh...kept fiddling with the background until the last seconds then just gave in and saved it as red; I was playing with different hues, gradients, smoke-effects, but nothing felt quite 'right' so I brought it back to the original, simpler version.It might look like a lot but the breakdown is pretty simple. There's a layer of normal paint to build up the base form and some of the smoke, another layer to play with smokey effects, a layer over that where I started painting in the general areas where I wanted the heat and fire to start popping through, over those a couple layers of overlay and soft light to build up the hues on top of the dark forms, and a layer over that where I play with more smoke forms, covering/uncovering against the lit areas beneath. Β Each layer by itself looks bad lol, but when you mix it together each builds upon the work in the others and the funk faking is complete
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Love the design, reminds me of the biblical descriptions of angels
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Thank you very much
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did you use different brush cobaltplasma ,, this one is really neat
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I use a mix of brushes when painting, when doing smudge stuff though it's almost always the Oil Pastel Large 121 although recently I've been dabbling with this other brush (listed in Chinese) for some other effects. Glad you enjoy it
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It becomes 'easier' the more you do it I guess
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Yeah, I'm fairly new to digital art, a couple years or so. I'm still figuring out some of the magic tricks (art is an illusion, after all).Β
I appreciate your process explanation and your insight should help some. I don't mind spending time on a painting except that my process makes it harder to keep up with my ideas. More expedient methods would certainly be fruitful.Β
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I feel exactly the same way, which is why I started doing spitpaints and speedpaints, as a means to help me develop faster, more efficient ways for me to get my ideas out. I find that I don't like to spend *too much* time on a drawing or painting, and I'll start to wander and want to tackle other illustrations hehe... so I do, and then I'll come back to certain pieces later and refine them more when I feel up to it.
When I started digital... man, I was *horrible* lol... but I enjoyed it as a medium, the infinite possibilities of it, and worked to find methods that could keep up with my ideas. I know you'll keep at it
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Yep, that's what I do too, I'm accruing a backlog of unfinished pieces.Β
The infinite possibilities are great, but I also miss producing something physical and producing it physically, if you know what I mean.Β But the editing options offer great freedom.Β
Despite my relative lack of digital experience, I have a slow computer which means longer less efficient speedpaints anyways.Β
But, my question is, is there a difference between speedpaintsΒ and spitpaints?
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Every once in a while I go back and do some pencil drawings, I never post them because my scanner broke and they're mainly for me (and to show off to my wife haha, she still likes my traditional work best) but it feels good to go back to the medium from time to time.
Digital is limitless, so one of the 'skills' you have to develop is knowing when to just kinda leave something. It's kind of akin to oil painting in that you could just fiddle with it forever, only more instantaneous and we can instance as many variations of a piece as we have storage for
The difference between speedpaints and spitpaints is pretty small, but spitpaints disallow any use of photography, photo-textures, or photo-brushes. Everything has to be generated by painting and whatever tools you can whip up in Photoshop. Speedpainting is fast and loose, you can photobash, use photo brushes, anything to generate the idea quickly. Spitpaints just remove one element.
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so you're playing with layer for this art, i should say this is impressive! i really like it!
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Haha thanks
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this looks so cool and the mood is fantastic <3 love it
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Thank you very much ^_^
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