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Luxray-Insanity In reply to VHydra [2013-07-16 18:11:50 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thank ya so much! Yeah, digital art is extremely hard... I'm still not great at it.

In Artweaver 1.0, I used some default brushes, the "oil pastel" ones to do most of the shading. I start out by shading the entire picture in grayscale and then tint the pic a color, in this case, gold. I add a new layer for textures (if you look closely you can see some paint splatters on his scales). I use a custom brush I made especially for textures. The brush is a small paint splatter that was "cut-out" of a stock photo and turned into a brush. I set the "textures" layer to "multiply" and spread some paint splatters where they're needed, opacity shouldn't be too high. After that's done, I create a new layer at around 50% opacity or more depending on what I'm coloring. Any part of the pic that I don't want gold I go over in a different color in this layer. His spines I went over in red, obviously. I apply the final touch-ups and it's finished!

Sorry if that doesn't explain things too well- my technique isn't fantastic either. I think it's important to add texture to your pics (bumps on skin, scratches on scales and horns, spots on muzzles, etc.) to make the pic look more lifelike. If you don't have enough texture, your pic will probably turn out looking like the subject is wrapped in plastic, like this ->fav.me/d4tl6t3

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VHydra In reply to Luxray-Insanity [2013-07-17 11:45:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the explanation! Mostly I work traditional, and scan in a drawing I made. Only problem is, my computerdrawingthing, paint tool SAI does not have, for as far as I know, A multyply brush. I know what you mean, because it's in Photoshop aswell, but I cannot work with photoshop because it's on an other computer... If i work with SAI I mostly have to  copy the part i want to 'multiply' and then paste it, but the only problem then is: I got lots and lots and lots of layers, filled with the copies... It always takes a while to then put them together in one layer... Oil pastel is there in paint tool SAI but I mostly don't use it because it is hard to work with when you got colours already and it looks alot like Watercolour...

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Luxray-Insanity In reply to VHydra [2013-07-17 14:54:12 +0000 UTC]

ArtWeaver is free and pretty easy to use. Not as "fantastic" as PhotoShop but it's a great program to grow on. I just got PhotoShop and I'm actually a little reluctant to switch because I'm so used to ArtWeaver.
Can't you combine layers? You should combine similar layers after you're done with them to keep the file size and the layers list small.

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Luxray-Insanity In reply to NINJAWERETIGER [2013-03-03 00:36:10 +0000 UTC]

Merci!

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