More photoshop painting

 The note. Original sketch scanned then painted in photoshop. Used multiply layers underneath the sketch. Also normal layers too. Duplicate the sketch layer and set to multiply, helps you to see your original guide lines. 

Pearl Necklace- fnar fnar. Photoshop painting, with text background. Airbrushed the legs, but blended the body using texture brushes like the "chalk" brush. Tried to get that perfect smooth look, but failed, also not sure i like smooth, i like to see brush work.

Grey Scale study - incomplete.

One of my first attempts using the Wacom Cintiq, simple greyscale study for values and shape. 

Coming Home - Painted from imagination -  study. Had fun messing about with this and playing with different layer effects, colour burn, multiply, screen, etc. Then someone suggested i added rain. Simply apply dots and then put the motion blur filter on and play about with the settings. I love this about digital painting, no rubbing off just play about with different ideas. No running out of paint and canvasses. 

Crap Robot

Crap robot, another attempt to imagine and paint. Photoshop, rough sketch first, need to learn perspective. Oh dear and moving on quickly .. the clouds are not too bad though? huh ? 

TV robot

Tried to paint from imagination, using photoshop CS4 + Wacom cintiq. It turned out pretty  crap. More studying of light and shade required. 

I found a great site with lots of free digital painting tutorials, it can be found here Feng Zhu, pretty amazing stuff from a talented concept artist. 

Bun

Fancied creating a rabbit, originally designed in Illustrator - painted in PS CS4 - an exercise to see if i could produce a creature of my own, given that there are a thousand "bunnehs" out there already. I think I preferred it without lipstick. Is the Wacom Cintiq nice to use? I am wondering about the Cintiq, i've had it for over a year now. I am starting to wish i'd bought an Intous instead because I've tried a Bamboo tablet and I liked sitting back and creating, rather than being on top of my drawing with all that glaring back light. My eyes are minced! I've tried the Intuous 3 very nice, but slippy and apparently the Intuous 4 goes through nibs at a rate of knots. Still undecided. 

Eye

Painted from a photo of my friends beautiful brown eyes. Got bored, never completed, its crap. Used Wacom Cintiq.

Lakones revisited

Lakones Corfu  - PS painting .......... grrrrrrrrrrr. Its very wishy washy, not sure if that's my eyes or the monitor, or just my amateur colour picking. I think i am using the pen settings in a baaaaaad way, too much opacity is leading to washy colours!

Further fiddling on Spader

I returned to Spader and added more details, blending. Not sure if i like perfectly blended paintings, i like to see brush strokes and splodges of colour. Had real difficulties with the mouth area. Ended up giving his moustache a green hue, but now not sure if I was best to leave it as it was. Also refined the mouth, but i still havent got Spaders lips right! No doubt I will come back to it and fiddle some more.