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For those who asked- some WIPs from the last 2 Pieces. My goal with these was to better control my composition by having most of the painting done in 3-4 layers: Effects, shadows, highlights, and midtones. I drew on top of these layers to find my shapes, then adjusted accordingly
Why Mike Mignola is so great!
This was short demo based on Mike Mignolas drawing of hellboy, showing how form is best described with only two value. Adding midtones made this painting :D
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Song: Bragging by SayMaxWell.
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So this is my crazy ass body practice inspired by @suyohara where I tried to learn from his works. This was incredibly fun to do all the steps, Midtone's, deepest tone, and then a crazy background. Would love to here everyone's thoughts.
@axolotlknight Flats -> first render using layers of opaque color (darks and lights over midtones) -> refine and add deeper tones with a blue tint - realize my tones still aren't contrasted enough so apply a curves layer to amp it up. Which I think I did more of later as well.
Some people, said they liked the colors on my last pic so I made this to demonstrate my coloring process. First, I select a palette and loosely block in colors. Then, I use Clip Studio Paint's colorize tool to generate some pleasing midtones. Lastly, I paint over it manually.
very blown out. However in the actual piece it's mainly midtones so that my rider and the background can still be important in the visual hierarchy of the image! THIS WAS HARD. It's hard not to paint an explosion like an explosion but still make it look like one.
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Softened out the chunky shading and refined a couple edges and saturated the midtone juuuust a smidgen. I miss the chunky painterly look so i might do some more thoughtful marks tomorrow!
Changed the outline to a dark purple and adjusted color balance a little
I don't like pure black outlines
I like to make highlights a little more yellow, midtones a little more red, shadows a little more blue, but play and see what works
Basically
Lineart on multiply, lasso tool flats on midtone beneath.
Lock flats layer, use lasso tool to block out planes. Set gradient tool to 30%, "paint" light.
Doesn't have to be exact, but close enough. This requires colours/colour scheme to be picked beforehand.
@quekern @heyelking @Crithaus If it really bothers you that much here is an entire pallet from every highlight, midtone, shadow, and even her lips. It took me 30 minutes. Didn't need fancy software (it is Paint 3D). You can even click the colors and get the RGB codes. It is not that hard and you can save it.
@cwunchbar Peep the parts where the lights hits directly, then the midtones in between, then the shadows away from the light which are the darkest. The midtones is the actual natural color, unaffected. Same applies in the picture
OKAY HERE’S WHERE IT STARTS TO GET WEIRD
Next I select the OPPOSITE of the shadow layer and fill in the whole area with a bright-ass highlight color on HARD LIGHT. Then I heavily erase with a gradient brush until I get a midtone color that feels “right”
~2 hour study, left as-painted and right with the midtones tweaked 🌸 (model dominik sadoch)
this comic is nice cause the style makes color picking for midtones/shadows/highlights pretty easy, and it has different types of lighting too
WIP
Finally working on shadows and midtones! If nothing happens, will finish it in 2-4 days! Yay! ^_^