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drak — 'Object Lesson' Walk Through
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Published: 2009-10-27 16:44:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 19582; Favourites: 670; Downloads: 596
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Some of you expressed interest in seeing how I make my stuff nowa'days and I happened to have a bunch of screens from the WIP, so I made a walk through? I've been called weird as to how I go about coloring, but hey, it works for me and I find it really easy to use textures with
This one was done 9x11 inches at 300dpi in Adobe PS CS2.This is not a full-blown tutorial, I don't think I could make one of those without writing a book. But- you can get the general idea of what I do to construct an image from this.
Anyway, hope some sort of amusement comes from this. If there are any questions feel free to ask!
LINKS:
Here's my other 2 tutorials that sort of hold bearing to this (old warning):
Coloring- [link]
Isolating Lines: [link]
My favorite stock texture site: [link] (CGtextures ofc!)
And here's one of my favourite photoshop brush sets courtesy of ~EraserX : [link]
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Just a quick question. When you paint in all the details and stuff, do u paint above or below the lineart, or what layer properties do u use?
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Above, and usually the layer is on normal unless I'm trying for some kind of special effect.
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I always wondered how you achieved such great detail and stunning shadow/highlight effects. This is wonderful, thank you for giving the opportunity to see how you work!
By the way, about how long does a typical image take you to complete?
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This looks like an interesting process, and the end result is awesome. I never make thumbnails at the start and really should start doing that. I also need to try the dodge and burn at the end, and I probably need to add textures too... Thanks for making this.
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Thank you for posting this! It's very interesting!
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Totally amazing o.o When i looked at your first pic(newest) i was sitting with my mouth open XD
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Shit your too good, I can't even manage to try myself .___.
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Thank you very much for the walkthrough
This also is one of the best walkthroughs I've seen, especially with the addition of the thumbnail ref used throughout the entire process.
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hmm, looks like is better to coloring the background and then the character.
I must try this out
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Indeed, I find it much easier to properly place the lighting on the character if I draw the background and it's light sources first.
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Just is sometime hard to start first the background for I want more draw the character XD
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This is so insightful and helpful to me. Thank you for posting this walk-through!
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It definitely does help to know that you didn't create the texture on your own for the scales, haha, it eases the pressure a little haha.
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Ooh, I have a question! How do you define and work with layer masks? I've never seen a tut on that, and I am dying to find out. (And I prefer talking to people to Google, lol.)
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A layer mask is you telling the layer "please only paint on this part of the image"
The ones I use are mostly clipping masks, you can do that by making a layer with something on it (like your base color), and then make a new layer on top of it and right click>create clipping mask to tell it "please only paint over whats on the layer below you".
And then you can also set the layers to different modes to get different effects etc.
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Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much for posting it! It's really cool to see your process.
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I kept asking myself how did you do it. XD
Thank you!
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I think this might going to help me improve my art
I like trying new techniques!
Thank you for sharing
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Thank you for sharing this. These are excellent and inspirational techniques!
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rather inspriring! id still like to know how you do those beautiful sparks? I still havnt found a nice way of doing them.
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The ones in this particular picture were done with a brush from the pack linked, though there are an infinite amount of brushes out there that are great for doing them. Or there's the ol fashioned way of painting them by hand of course
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Awesome! The end result looks so cool! And its fun to see all the steps.
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Amazing! I am totally taking this into account! Impressive!
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Your work never ceases to amaze me...
This is incredibly helpful. Thanks for spending the time to make this.
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Very very epic. Thank you so much for giving us a walkthrough!
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Thanks a lot for posting this! 
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It all comes seemingly out of nowhere! I wouldn't mind seeing a book with all the behind-the-scenes stuff.
But I really appreciate this walkthrough. THanks a ton for spending time on it.
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Ha neato I just understand it from previous chat I just fill in the blanks in my head haha.
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Seriously cool. Thanks for the tips on how you texture and color. great work!
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