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Digital Studies

1/24/2021

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Studiiiiiieeeees. I got another boost to do studies by Jan Drenovec, who is an amazing painter and gives great feedback on my work :)
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Winter wonder lands

1/12/2021

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some timed studies, sorry again for the long delay between posts. :*
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Perspective things

11/30/2020

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Digital studies

11/30/2020

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The cool thing about learning the fundamentals, is that you can switch styles.
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Digital Sketch

11/30/2020

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To warm up, for today's work, I decided to do a digital sketch. Just something to have a little fun with, instead of diving straight into paid work. I took a long stroll yesterday, ended up next to a grave-yard. Probably that is why I way inspired to paint one myself.

Have a great week.
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Digital Studies

10/28/2020

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Just some of the studies I did lately.
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Digital Oil Painting

10/22/2020

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A digital study of an oil painting by the amazing "Qiang Huang", to help me get a better grasp of the use of brushes.

And from this I managed to create some photoshop-brushes for you to download.
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Character Design Challange: AZTEC WARRIOR

10/2/2020

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Hey guys,

it has been a longer absence again and I apologize. So hopefully something to make up for it.

I decided to take part in the monthly Character Design Challange (CDC in short) over at Facebook.

The theme this month was: AZTEC WARRIOR. And since I love animals so much, I decided to do a anthropomorphic lizard dude for this.

I followed a very streamlined process this time and waited until the very with painting freely. I think it paid out.

Most importantly thanks to Christian Retzlaff and Jan Drenovec for their feedback.

See the GIF below for the whole process.
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Color Study

9/16/2020

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Trying to get a better grip on simplification and shapes with this.
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A break-through in portraits

8/8/2020

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So since I am working on a character-illustration, I realized my portrait-skills are lacking in certain areas. So it is back to studying:
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After doing the first 2, I decided to change my approach. So instead of copying as close as possible, what the photo has to offer, I settled on 5 colors first. 2 for the shadow-side, 3 for the light-side.

Since I was asked, how I define the colors, here's a little explenation. The darkest color for the light-side is at the same time the most saturated (the midtone), it then gets lighter, more yellow and less saturation towards the highlights and redder/bluer and less saturated towards the darks. So the most saturation occurs in the area, where light and dark meet. This can go meta-physical here, but lets not ... :D

I then mapped out the shapes as close as I could. Especially the shadow-shape is something, that can be treated with a lot of care here. Even done a lot of edge-refinement pays off later.

After the initial lay-in, I continued with overpainting. In this phase I also add dark and light accents here and there. In the end I was surprised how straight-forward and easy this approach is and I am very happy with the result.

I tested this approach on another portrait and recorded the steps (below). Since it produces the same satisfying result, I can safely say, that this process is solid. I love to work like that and for the first time in a long time, studying is fun again.

Hope it helps you to crack colors and gives you some inspiration on how to approach your next project.

Cheers, Flo
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