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Macedonian S. - step by stepby ~wendelin

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My way of painting digitally is not much different to traditional painting, I think.

My English is not very famous, so I hope you will understand, what I mean

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1. I took the reference photo, set the resolution to 300 dpi, and created a new layer with a grid.

2. I opened a new file, which would be my drawing, created a layer for the background (a simple color gradient - the background will be finished in the end). A second layer with the same grid as in the original photo.

3. A third layer with the sketch. This layer will be deleted when all's finished (together with the grid).

4. The fourth layer is for my drawing. I chose a dark brown and developed the shape of my character. (I inverted the color of the sketch in order to be able to make it out - hard to see in this submission, though. )

5+6. I add colors with a brush where I set the transparency to a very high level, so the colors would mix together.

7. I use this brush together with the smudge tool to finish the face. The same way I will continue with every part of the picture.

8-10. After finishing the hair I worked on his costume - the horse in front will be the last.

11. The advantage of painting digitally using layers: I paint the background in the end.

~Tiyospaye Oct 8, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

You gotta have Art...and you got it!!

~noir-badger May 12, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

This is a great step by step look at how you paint. I'm a firm believer that tracing the outlines for any image that is going to be a realistic painting or drawing, is not a wrong thing to do. At the end of the day, you can trace the features of someones face, paint everything and STILL get it wrong. By tracing the features, you're giving yourself guidelines to work with. It's the actual painting/shading part that takes skill. If you can't paint it accurately, the proportions will not be correct. That is something that a lot of people don't understand.

Keep up your great work

~wendelin May 13, 2009

Yes, I agree and I don't mind if people do trace (allthough I don't trace). After all it's the fun in the work that should count. Art is no competition. Thanks.

~MidMad Jun 5, 2007 Photographer

Thanks for sharing a bit of your technique with us!! I myself use the same method with grid when I draw mith my tablet and I can say it's still a lot of work, including the textures, brushes, shading, coloring, etc. People who have any objections to your wonderful art should first try it by themselves and then criticize!

Keeo up the good work, your art is great!

~AussieMum Jan 10, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

ah...its so horrible the whole "is it copying? is it art?" debate. someone had the audacity to once tell me that drawing from referance or using the grid system was considered a craft, not an art....but in the same breath they went on about WONDERFUL artists (vallejo for one) that work from scratch bla blah.....then i showed them the Boris Vallejo Fantasy painting book...

anyway..this is the first digital art i have seen using the grid system and i give you a lot of congratualtions for it. your work comes out looking fantastic and its a very simple method. ignore anyone who says you copy rah rah rah. if they cant achieve the same result, most people get narky and nasty. i would call it jealousy, but i think its not quite that.

~wendelin Jan 11, 2007

That's the point! Thank you very much!

~zabriske-point Oct 2, 2005

Nonono, I don't think you make your drawings with tools and programs...
Defnitly is a product of magic!

~eldictator Jun 2, 2005

some of the people on this site need to wake up to the facts ! in fact when i went with college down to london to established illustration agencys, they showed us on some pictures they had produced thathad been traced ,obviously non realistic styles are allways hand drawn

~eldictator Jun 1, 2005

you get alot of stick from people saying you trace,well whether u trace or not it takes skill to paint anything. Due to your age you probably had to learn traditional skills,something the young artists on this site dont use! My tutor at college had a similar realistic style , he used airbrush.Although he could draw he said he often traced because it was ten times quicker for industry .He encouraged us not just to draw from reference but to trace aswell which at first i didnt like ,but realised this is the real world and theres a time limit on briefs. im not saying you trace your work ,but if you did this wouldnt take away from the picture . ijust thought id stick up for u

~wendelin Jun 2, 2005

Thanks! I agree with you and your tutor that tracing is usefull for professional artists, because of time matters. For example, I know from Boris Vallejo, one of my favourite artists, that he uses a kind of "beamer" to trace. Only, he don't have to prove anymore that he can draw. And that's my point: I think, the intention of an artist shouldn't be to prove how skilled he is. His intention should be to create something that other people like, when watching it. If I like a picture, I don't care how it was done, unless I want to create something similar. What concerns my drawings, I tried to show a few times how I'm working. I use a grid to get the proportions right (I'm no professional and it doesn't matter how long I'm working on a picture - I just draw, when I like to), but for some people this is almost tracing. In fact I don't really care, because the sketch is the part that makes less fun. I'm glad when it's finished and I can start the actual painting. To develop a character from a very flat two-dimensional to something illusionary three-dimensional, that's my passion.

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