Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Angry Birds Digital Painting Tutorial


Okay this is my second lengthy tutorial you can check out my first tut here. I will show you my step by step process on how I did my angrybirds digital painting. This was exhibited last year on a group show. Well I thought why not create a tutorial about it. :)





1 TOOLS OF THE TRADE
So first things first below is a photo of my workstation (when it was clean!)
for digital art of course you need to a laptop/DESktop :)
I use a 13"macbook pro,
wacom intuos 4 (small) and
adobe photoshop CS5 / corel painter (this actually goes to preference)
lots of patience
good music background to get in the mood :)



2 SKETCHING
either i sketch on paper or sketch directly on the computer
for this one I directly sketched it in photoshop




3 UNDERPAINTING
I start with the value first, creating shadows where the light would fall and such. Removing color from this step helps a lot since it helps me focus on the shadows.
NOTE: For quick sketches/illustrations sometimes I remove this step or interchange step 3 & 4. (Maybe I will post a tut with the interchanged process next time.)




4 COLOR
When i'm happy with the value, then and only then will I add the colors.



5 DETAILS
Remember the saying "start with a broom & end with a needle" well this is true, I add the details last since they are the most taxing, but my main reason is the details get erased when I add them on first. Adding details depends on how realistic you want it to be.





So there you have it! Stitched them together :)





I hope you learned something from this tut. Drop a comment or share this if you do! :)

Cheers!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Old & new

Created these fun illustrated calling cards. It was a challenge getting my officemates character & quirks some more prominent than others. This is not the full set yet. (Whaaaa I still need to finish the rest.)








Thursday, November 1, 2012

Mon the Monkey

Mon the Monkey is smart and has a big heart.
He is amazed with mazes and likes making faces.
He wears glasses and loves math problems.
But his favorite part is eating bananas! 

Okay the last part doesn't rhyme but I want to insert bananas in there!
Anyway I did this character for an educational game, created 2 other monkey versions of this one.



And here is the digital version of Mon, did a few tweaks on the final study.