Digital Sketch: Woman Portrait 3

The third sketch in the Woman Portrait series. I spent about 5 to 6 hours on this one. The pose of the face was a bit more challenging to draw than the other ones, but it came out ok at the end. I chose a zebra background for this one. I included a tattoo with the same pattern in her stomach but with the stripes going in the opposite direction. I think this gives it a nice touch. This one was done also in one layer, except the background, and using one brush. No layer effects where used here, its all sketching.

Digital Sketch: Woman Portrait 2

Another sketch in the Woman Portrait series. This one took around 6 hours to make. No differences in the making process with respect the previous ones. I try to use one brush for the whole thing, and maybe towards the end I introduce another one or two to make some textures. But the whole image is done pretty much with one brush. I want to keep it simply and do as many as I can to practice. The background again is not my own. I did wanted to have a cow skin background, so I searched for one, and after some altering, this is what came out.

Fan Art Challenge: The Crow Update

Here is an update of the Concept image The Crow. There is a week left to present the images and I am nearly finished. This is where I am at the moment. For the past days I have concentrated on filling the room with details, like the police band or the cat. You can see the first image I posted here.


You can find a better quality image at the thread itself at the 3DTotal pages where I am publishing my progress, and if you feel like it, please go on and comment, either there or here.

Digital Sketch: Woman Portrait 1

One more sketch. This one took around 7 hours to make. To be honest, it is not what I had in mind when I started. It was going to be another portrait for the Warrior Portrait series, but somewhere along the way it turned into this. As the other sketches, I started by measuring the different body elements against some reference photos before I started working on the face and filling the image with grey scale. I used a few layers, one for the body and a couple of others for the different clothes. Last, I used a few layers set to Overlay for all the lace parts on her clothes. As a finishing touches, one layer was used for the strongest highlights (set to Soft Light and using the soft round brush). The background is not my own. I just saw it when searching for reference material and thought it would look good. I adjusted the patterns to follow more or less the figure. I like the fact that she is a bit lost in the background. I think I am going to use that pattern for my next figure :)

Digital Sketch: Warrior Portrait 2

Here is a second sketch in this series of Portraits. This one took a bit longer, maybe between 4 and 5 hours. The technique was the same I used for the previous one (Digital Sketch: Warrior Portrait 1). I started in black and white and at the end added all the adjustments for the colour. I used the same background as I want all of the portraits I am going to be making to look the same. 

Digital Sketch: Warrior Portrait 1

Here is another sketch. This one has been done in less than 3 hours. I simply wanted to make a quick portrait of a woman. The decoration around her came later.

This one again I started in black and white. Nearly the whole thing has been done in one single layer (except the staff, face paint and hightlights). To finish the image, I used a Levels and Curves adjustment (very subtle changes to the image really), and last a a Photo Filter layer set to underwater (I know the image is not underwater, but it gives it a nice blue shade).

Comments are welcomed.

Digital Sketch: Gateway

After seeing and reading how people manage to make a digital concept in a few hours, or a day or two, I have decided to give this kind of exercise a go and set myself a given amount of time to start and finish something. So whenever I have the time, I will make one of these and see what comes out. I will be putting here these so called sketches. 


This one you see on this post has taken me about 4 hours. It started as a landscape concept, but I ended up cutting it as you see it now. I started by making a whole bunch of shapes with the lasso tool. Then I just filled them in with a brush at different opacities and values of black. I did not have anything particular in mind when I started. At some point I saw what looked like a gate between two of the tree shapes. That's when I decided to be less ambitious with my original landscape idea and simply cut that part out from the full image and work on it. 


Once I had the shapes and the image cropped, I started defining the shapes.  To start with, I worked in black and white, for me is easier in order to stablish the tonal range of the image. Then I used quite a few layers set in Color mode to start testing colour schemes in the image. I also used several Hue/Saturation adjustment layers in between the Color mode layers to mainly played with the hues until I found a colour scheme I liked. For this first image I used the opportunity to play a bit with the brushes I have in my folders, hence all the shapes you can see across the image. To end, I used several photos to give the trees and ground some texture. Normally I don't leave the photos as they are, I set them in Overlay/Soft Light  mode (depends), click on the Lock Transparent Pixels icon for that layer, and paint over it with a textured brush. That way you don't just have the image sitting just there, but your version of the image, which I find fits better. Last, I did the light coming from the gate. To made it,  I simple drew an ellipse in a separate layer set above everything else, motion blur it, and set the layer to Soft Light to finish.

Any questions or comments are always welcomed.

Fan Art Challenge: The Crow

I am taking part in another one of 3DTotal Challenges. The Challenge this time is called Fan Art. I have decided to go for the main character in the film The Crow. The competition finishes by the end of April. This is where I am at the moment with my concept. You can find a better quality image at the thread itself at the 3DTotal pages where I am publishing my progress, and if you feel like it, please go on and comment, either there or here.

You can also visit my personal web pages where more information and steps taken to produce this concept image are available.

Thanks!

Welcome to my Blog

Welcome to this blog. I will be using these pages to display some of my digital art as well as comment on anything I find online related to digital art. 

You can also visit my personal web pages where more information and more work is available.