My first digipaint

[Atelier]

I finally have an opportunity to use my bamboo tablet, so I'm doing a digipaint of this photo I took in Haiti. I'm only just getting started, but advice along the way would be awesome









Checkpoint 2

[Fork]

If you want advice on DPing you should PM Kodeybell or Gallagher but I'm not sure how active they are anymore so try PMing Syn or Colddegree their both amazing DP artists.


As a pencil and paper artist I would suggest defining your shapes better and using more shades as you go on. and just a tip stay away from premade brushes and textures in you paintings.

[Synsational]

Hey, do this for now until you get used to Digi's.

First set your brush on 25% and the flow of it to 25%, give or take. Next with a regular round (solid) black brush sketch the items you are going to draw. Once this is done, on a clean layer, do a clean trace of the sketch (solid lines, use the pen-tool if needed) and start blocking out colors (adding colors to the mix).

Set the clean traced layer to lower opacities until they disappear completely, they are only there as guide lines so you can fill in the colors. Remember, the most important thing is making sure that a Digi reads and people can tell what it is as at a thumbnail size.

Later on you'll pick up tricks but never learn shortcuts, those are really bad and getting rid of habbits is even worst. Good luck man, keep diging :]

[ColdDegree]

practice black and white first

[+Nyaa]

Hey, do this for now until you get used to Digi's.

First set your brush on 25% and the flow of it to 25%, give or take. Next with a regular round (solid) black brush sketch the items you are going to draw. Once this is done, on a clean layer, do a clean trace of the sketch (solid lines, use the pen-tool if needed) and start blocking out colors (adding colors to the mix).

Sorry, I have a tablet and I would love to take up digipainting as well but I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5A4jIfFEo
^ by the first bit, is that what you mean by the black solid brush with 25% flow? like just drawing that rough silhouette of the buildings and stuff?

[Synsational]

Silhouette painting is mostly blocking out values with different shades so the base can be done with 100% solid black. What I meant by 25%/25% is this


Only until you guys get used to it. You can mess around with both but it's never good to paint in 100% opacity because the paint will never overlay (blend with others). Like Fork suggested, if you guys can get a hold of Kodeybell or Gallagher then you are set. Those two are amazing with digital paintings. Cold and I are more landscape/concept artists than illustrators.

[Atelier]

just to clarify, this is just my base. I'm starting to do details and what not.

[Fork]

just to clarify, this is just my base. I'm starting to do details and what not.

They why post it? Post the finish product if you want CnC I mean right now it's easy to point out flaws and errors since it is the beginning stages. Post the final product next time.

[Kinetics]

Wow i cant wait until i get a tablet, i wanna learn how to dp so bad :O, good luck though atelier

[gr4ph1kP4ND4]

you are starting out complicated man... i've been working with my bamboo/previous tablets for 4 or 5 years now and i couldnt do that... so good luck.

my number one piece of advice for you -- use as many fucking layers as you can. then add ten. and dont forget to name the layers as you go. keeping your work organized will help you in the long run and dont you dare flatten the image until you are ready to be done. and even then dont flatten the image. Don't be afraid to zoom in until you see pixels when working on the fine details like the moss and stuff.

another thing: avoid shading until you're done. shading can always be changed but if you later realize you need to go back in and change the scope of color (as in make all the lights lighter and/or all the darks darker) and you've already got whites and blacks in, you'll be very sorry.

also avoid using black and white. every white in a photo isn't quite white -- it's probably more pinkish than white or maybe it's got a green tint. its the soft colors and tints that make a photo seem more realistic, and gives the impression of a realistic color scheme.

gl man!