trying something new

Hey guys,

I tried something new with this painting. I recently learned a cool watercoloring-technique where you map certain colors to certain values. Yellow is light gray, red is medium grey, blue is dark grey. Then I started painting using those colors in the beginning and translating the values I saw in the source into the colors mapped for that value. Of course I had to simplify the values I saw first.

After a while I realized that using blue wouldn't cut it for the darkest darks and yellow wouldn't suffice to be the lightest lights. At least not for what I intended, which was a full range of values. So I used black and white too.

Also with this I used a custom made brush especially for cross-hatching. And I worked loosely and fast, overpainting all the time.

Now that I look at it, I see a lot of "mistakes", but it was fun and I like the vibrancy of the colors.

If you are interested in the water-coloring-technique, check out this guy's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueAOPEUk8mw

Cheers and have a great week :)

Edit: I should mention that this was done in CMYK - mode because I was annoyed by a lot of colors, looking like they where glowing from the inside. Sometimes, this may be desired, but I find that more often than not it makes paintings like a bit fake. Try it if you haven't, do a painting in CMYK and tell me how you like it.

In Photoshop go to: Image > Mode > CMYK Color, to change the setting.

Have fun!