This weeks project was a digital portrait painting. This has been my first attempt at a digital painting. I was surprised by my outcome, but I still have lots more practicing to do. 2 hours down, 9998 hours to go. Enjoy my step by step process painting of my parents: The beginning of the process involved editing the original photo. Edited the photo size and dropped the saturation all the way down. Since I am just beginning to learn to digital painting, I am just focusing on grayscale. With our reference photo ready to go, drop the opacity and move onto step two: Line art. On a new layer, lightly trace out the focus of the image. Following the line art, we want to start adding in some values. On a new layer, begin by adding in a background. In this painting, I used a large textured brush and swiped it across the entire background. Then I began filling in some of the darker areas in the image. I found that my image did not reach as dark of values as I had liked. Instead of spending extra hours going back in with a darker brush, I duplicated my values layer and added a 'multiply' blending mode onto it. It brought my values where I wanted them. Finally, on another new layer, I added highlights. This can easily be done with a white brush or going back into the values layer with an eraser.
Overall, I am very happy with how my first digital painting turned out but I am incredibly excited to see how my paintings will advance in the future with more and more practise!
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This week I worked on thumbnails for a poster design based on the topic 'family'. Family seemed as a rather challenging topic while looking at it from a designer perspective. All I could think about is "What kind of an advertisement do I create for a family? Children for sale?". Knowing my poster design was going to need typography, I began looking at 'family quotes' for inspiration. I came across these two quotes which started some ideas. The word treasure planted an idea of pirates in my head. Pirates began the idea of a mini series promoting how important every moment, no matter how small it may seem, can become a big moment and remain largely as a memory to a child. My family poster ideas shifted from a designer aspect into an illustration so I began looking at all different illustrations for inspiration. Which lead to the completion of my thumbnails: |
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