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Lord-FSan β Darth Vader :speedpainting:
Published: 2011-08-06 11:44:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 2112; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 0
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Once again, just passing by with a quickie
Most of you following me know that I'm a big Star Wars fan. But the funny thing is, I had never ever drawn a Darth Vader, until tonight. I know it may sound weird, but that's just how it is. Vader is such an icon that I always was afraid to mess up, and there is nothing worse than a messed up Vader... Well there is, but you know what I mean xD
Anyways, today I made two sketches, one of Obi-Wan Kenobi, and one of Vader. I couldn't decide which one I wanted to color after that, but a few people around me insisted that I do the Vader one. So I did
Here I used the same technique as for the speedpainting of R2-D2 I made yesterday, and I think it worked even better here than it did on R2. Maybe because it is much darker..
Anyways, I hope you guys will like my first Vader ever
Adobe Photoshop CS2, Bamboo Fun tablet, a bit over an hour and a half, a good 45 minutes of that for the sketch alone..
Various references from the internet.
As always, comments/favs/watches are highly appreciated
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Yay he looks mighty!! Great pose! And the reflection of the lightsaber on the clothes is cool too! : D
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Don't let fear get you Lord-FSan! We all know that fear leads to the dark side!
Nonetheless, for doing Darth Vader for the first time as a speedpainting you have made a masterpiece of fandom! The only character more nostalgic would be Lord Sidious, but I easily digress!
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That's really awesome for the time frame of sketching and then coloring. Nice pose too! And as I mentioned earlier, lol "for shame fellow star wars nerd"
One point of advice, and I noticed it on the R2 speedy as well, don't be afraid of abusing white... like with a hard brush. You can set the layer to overlay... or better yet, with the color you are highlighting with, like red, make a new layer and set it to color dodge (or burn) the effect will be really dramatic and won't take any extra time really. Especially on a black subject you just set the highlight layer underneath the black to preserve the black shading and all that jazz.
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Indeed that's a good point to remember for next time.
On this one, as well as on the R2, I made the highlights with my brush set as overlay rather than normal, just to test it out and see how it goes.
I should try to set the brush as dodge/burn next time
Thanks for the tips ;D
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Dodge and Burn is all I have been using lately... however, it's sometimes not the best, even at low or high opacitys. Sometimes you have to shade in -normal- with certain colors... I don't know if that makes sense. But even if you shade with the normal setting, and then switching the layer to another layer effect, it does wonders as well. 
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Lol yeah, I play with layer settings all the time, but lately I'm a mood to try the brush settings to see which is better in the end for me.
As you know, I'm not a fan of the dodge and burn tool, but I do recognize its advantages at times lol
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