[william willette]

I was just wondering if it was as easy as putting down a blank color, then adding light and shadow. And repeating it throught the painting.

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saying this because its the only way I can make a bad ass pic. Then adding slight tints of color through and through the painting. I mainly use dodge & burn because i fail at slappin down the red green and blue pixles.


any thoughts... : Which do u paint digitaly more with?:
:Dodge & Burn, or Slappin down color:

!!!AWSER-THE-POLL!!! ( please )
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crazy guitar player william

[Impaler]

Using colors is easier once you have a Wacom. It's harder with a mouse, since you have to manually adjust opacity a lot of the time.

99% of the time, dodge/burn drawings have such extreme shadows and highlights that you can tell it's a dodge/burn.
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QED, sort of.

[balistic]

Dodge and burn usually look bad because they generate garish, over-saturated middle tones.

Color interactions are complex things, and take quite a while to understand (not than any artist has ever completely understood light) . . . your best bet is to train yourself by working from life (not photographs). Set up a small still life with some fruit on your computer desk and paint what you see. Try different arrangements and add lighting with flash lights or desk lamps.

Choose your colors from the palette, don't let dodge and burn choose them for you.
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brian.prince|light.comp.paint

[kahboom]

I do a quick sketch using a combination of line art and big blobby shapes, then clean up a bit. I then create a second image where I drop in colors I want to use, snippets of photos and other drawings. I'll use this as a color palette. In consecutive new layers, I then work over the sketch with a hard brush at about 80% opacity, selecting colors first from the palette I've made, and then later from the image I'm working on, by holding down the ALT key while the paintbrush is selected. It's all about slappin' that color. ;p
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Visionbin

[Asurfael]

Well, first there's the sketch of course...

But as for applying colour, I try to do it like I'd do it with real paints. I use several colours for one surface. A red surface isn't red with bright red as highlights and dark red as shadows. Only using a bit darker/lighter version of the same colour doesn't give a natural look. Not to mention dodge and burn, which tend to give easily notieable glossy look (which suits some pictures of course, but most pictures are better off without it).

http://www.epilogue.net/art/tech/socar_color/ Should be helpful. The only way to really learn about colours is to practice a lot, though.
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