Concept Art / Sketch Thread...

[Magnel]

Skin tones is one of the main things I have a problem with. I "understand" saturating colors, esp. skin tones trying not to make them flat, (esp. with that tutorial you directed me to, it helped a lot) But, one of the characteristics of the girl was that she is homeless, so I tried to use some browns (which had a lot of gray in them) which whacked up the skin tone, and obviously gave her the 5 a clock shadow as well.

Thanks for pointing out the arms and head, too, I was really rushing through this one, and forgot to flip the canvas, (really helps to point out mistakes when you've looked at your work for a while) So I totally went over that.

Thanks again!

--> Lil' update.

[Talon]

Magnel: Have a look at this two-part tut on skin tones.
Ron Lemen: Skin Tones Part 1 - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
Ron Lemen: Skin Tones Tutorial Part 2/Painting Heads - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks


My first foray into digital painting. A dude on PC linked to this PaintTool SAI program and it's really awesome, I actually feel comfortable sketching and painting with it (Photoshop's pretty horrible, I never could comfortably make the jump from paper > PS).

It's as far from awesome as it is from being finished and it's based off a photograph but I was just trying to get the hang of the tools. So this is as far as I can be bothered to take it.



I'll have some actual original stuff along soon, I hope.

[Z-trooper]

thanks for the tip talon. I've nearly given up on trying to draw/sketch in PS.. dosnt have quite the feel of paper I'll definitly try this one out.

[KING-TAHARKA]

Originally Posted by Z-trooper

thanks for the tip talon. I've nearly given up on trying to draw/sketch in PS.. dosnt have quite the feel of paper I'll definitly try this one out.

if you want a real feel of paper... try this one: ArtRage 2


i always use it for sketching ... and some times painting... but you can not give up on ps this easy.

no matter what you do you will get back to it man... trust me.


you try artrage 2 ... its easy to use...very cheap... and for sketching there is a free edition to download...

have fun.

[Magnel]

Yea I have a trial version of ArtRage that I got with a digital painting magazine, it absolutely rocks. It has a real feeling of canvas, (so does Painter, but this is superb.)

[svelle]

art rage is very nice, got it with my wacom tablet, but it doesn't replace photoshop, to less functions. but you can sketch much better than with ps.

[KING-TAHARKA]

portrait of my pencil...

[aftas]

Magnel, skin tones are real tricky...one thing that could help is to simply put more light in it.
Talon, nice muscles!
i made these this weekend:

from reference:


and from my mind:




in this one, i was trying to achieve some subsurface scattering...i kinda like it, yet the colored pencil feel is terrible....how to achieve a more "painter" look in photoshop still bugs me.


all painted in final size.
crits are most welcome.

[KING-TAHARKA]

a character inspired by my company's office boy (he is from Bangladesh)... why?


well... he designs his own clothings (believe it or not)... and he always looks funny... thats why...


he is a nice man ... kind of crazy... but very nice.

[Wim]

I'm not that good at coloring thats why I post them here, critics and comments are most welcome.cheers

more work at wim on Virb.com