I absolutely adore your final piece. There's a lot of character and skill on display there.
Would you mind if I ask a few really dumb questions?
I notice you use mostly a chalk brush for big strokes - do you use the same for smaller details, like the cat's fur, or is it just a regular round one? Do you stay at generally the same opacity (and what is it?), except obviously when you're doing things like the background fog or whatever, it seems like you stay mostly the same. Also, what size canvas do you use? I always end up going either too small or too large, and end up not being able to get a brush small enough or having to have a 8k pixel brush in order to do fine detail. Also, what type of brush? Is it ink, paint, pencil, etc?
The last time I tried a digital painting rather than my usual more cell-shaded style, I ended up with something like this which is super rough looking and makes me cringe in hindsight (why did I keep the background guy instead of just scrapping him?), so you can understand why I feel I need to understand the basic of the basics.
Diredoe in the post "Video: Not the usual fundamentals-fare, but here's a digital painting process video"
2015-04-14 03:02
I absolutely adore your final piece. There's a lot of character and skill on display there.
Would you mind if I ask a few really dumb questions?
I notice you use mostly a chalk brush for big strokes - do you use the same for smaller details, like the cat's fur, or is it just a regular round one? Do you stay at generally the same opacity (and what is it?), except obviously when you're doing things like the background fog or whatever, it seems like you stay mostly the same. Also, what size canvas do you use? I always end up going either too small or too large, and end up not being able to get a brush small enough or having to have a 8k pixel brush in order to do fine detail. Also, what type of brush? Is it ink, paint, pencil, etc?
The last time I tried a digital painting rather than my usual more cell-shaded style, I ended up with something like this which is super rough looking and makes me cringe in hindsight (why did I keep the background guy instead of just scrapping him?), so you can understand why I feel I need to understand the basic of the basics.