With this piece I use a different approach to normal, it is a really great way to work if you have not been painting long, or if you are not very comfortable with colours yet. The idea is to get your sketch going, and then to paint the whole thing, pretty much completed in black and white / monotone, and to add colour at the end using either a colour or overlay layer (I use overlay in this one).
This is also a really great method to use when doing concept art, it is a super fast way to do things, and when you need to bang out ideas at the speed of light, this beats spending ages mixing colours.
- Sketch
- Multiply layer under to set initial tone
- Overlay over to start to indicate where to light the image
- Normal layer on top of all, as you could see my first sketch was SO ROUGH :), so there was no point trying to make sense of it by painting under this, although I could make out where the basic anatomy was from the sketch, and had a reference pic by the side of samurai armour ready for this. Painted in only monotone here
- ... Painted some more
- Used an overlay layer on top to start adding some colour into the piece
- Another overlay layer used here to add colour / blood effects
- Finally some further overlay laters to boost the overall colours, a normal layer to tighten up some 'needed to be fixed' areas, and a brightness increase + unsharp mask ready for output.
So there you go, a sketch up of a samurai zombie, the method is great for speedy concept art like I said before, though if allowed more time, jump in there with a normal layer at the end and paint on top of the piece you already have produced to make it in to a better polished piece.
- Greg
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