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jr · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 1:28 pm

i was looking at some of craig's photoshop paintings,

and i was stumped , how did he do those little lines in the back? see the lines in the light, next to the tank? i know one way of doing it, but there's gotta be an easier way than just scribbling in the lower layers. any ideas?

[ July 28, 2001: Message edited by: jr ]

S4Sb · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 1:38 pm

drawing them in low opacity?

cybertoker2001 · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 1:40 pm

I love Craigs works, some of them (Like this one) are a little too sloppy for my taste.
But that's just me.

As far as the lines go.
I'm thinkin' line tool or a hard paint brush.

Take it easy,
CT2001

S4Sb · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 1:50 pm

Normal paintbrush ... he rarely uses anything else. AFAIK (2cool4grammar)

Jim S · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 3:09 pm

I'm pretty sure he's done it with a custom brush in Photoshop.

/Jim

Zwaeback · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 9:12 pm

I'm going with either low opacity paintbrush or eraser....possibly 75% hard/edge.
phil

Sumaleth · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 9:37 pm

If you look at more of his sketch images you can see more clearly the shapes of custom brushes he uses. He has a few that are made from lots of squiggly lines that produce that effect you're seeing next to the tank.

Plus Paintbrush and low opacity.

Row.

Isric · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 9:54 pm

dudes, it's an image he uses in the background of a lot of his pictures. That's my guess. I've seen him use textured backgrounds to paint over, and it works very well, either oil paints or photo's. There's my 2 cents

worthless_meat_sack · member Member # Joined: 29 May 2000 Posts: 141

You are all right! I have a few custom brushes that I like, or reach for out of habit (bad). Some tell me they see that thing too much. It is a brush made from a gray scale of a high contrast painting of a tree against a white sky.

I have just started doing what Isric said in the last year or so, mainly with the sketches I do for here.

But the fun thing is all these things are finding their way into commercial work, or the sketchiness is now done well enough to be and asset as opposed to "is this done?"

Ben Barker · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2001 1:25 pm

I like the ones with lots of scribbles, since each scribble seems to have purpose. I've always thought sketches show more drawing talent that renderings. Like in Bridgeman's books. His scribble style is really impressive.

jr · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2001 11:20 pm

thanks craig. it never ceases to amaze me, the things you can do with photoshop.