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Svarling · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2002 3:40 pm

For those who are interested:

I have saved a progress history from my troll-picture and it can be downloaded here:

http://www.svarling.com/troll_history.zip

Maybe someone can find it helpful in any way

gArGOyLe^ · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2002 4:56 pm

thanks.. that reaaaaaally was helpful

did you add all the fishscales one by one?

SporQ · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2002 10:46 pm

good stuff. i think more peeps should do these.

tantulum · junior member Member # Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Posts: 1

absolutely great work and thanks for this great starting help Svarling .
just one newby question : what do you use for drawing in PS ? is it brush ?
do you have size and opacity on the pen ..or do you always have same size brush , as it looks like same size, just many strokes to get think lines ?
are these different greys or just different opacities ?

thanks again for your help and sorry for asking so many questions, but this really would help me out :-)

T

Hands · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2002 12:21 am

how did you go about coloring your work? Do you start with the grey and then go in and use the grey as a guide or do you like start from scratch with coloring?

Svarling · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2002 12:32 am

As you can see in the images i start out from a gray background and draw the image in B/W. Colors are added as a last step, using the standard brush tool but with the mode "color" in Photoshop.

Svarling · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2002 1:20 am

quote:
Originally posted by tantulum:
absolutely great work and thanks for this great starting help Svarling .
just one newby question : what do you use for drawing in PS ? is it brush ?
do you have size and opacity on the pen ..or do you always have same size brush , as it looks like same size, just many strokes to get think lines ?
are these different greys or just different opacities ?

thanks again for your help and sorry for asking so many questions, but this really would help me out :-)

T

Hello, glad you liked it!

For this pic i only used the dodge/burn tool in photoshop and the smudge tool. Dodge/burn is a very fast method with smooth results. Though in the end it looks more than an airbrushimage than a painting.

I start with a bigger brush to get a
rough feeling how the light and shadows appear. Then i get into details by using the
next smallest brush or the smallest. It's often the very small highlights that gives the image sharpness. About 40-50% opactity
works fine for me.

The smudgetool was used for the hair. For that i used about 95% opacity and a very small brush. The dodgetool could also be used here to make the hair more shiny.

More questions? Bring em on!

Good luck!