Steps: Colouring with underpainting
Added 2017-02-26 19:02:17 +0000 UTCWhee! Spent a glorious day painting, with very few sniffles and with the music turned up full volume to drown out the Carnival outside. (If you want to know what Carnival looks like in my part of the world, google "prunksitzung" but son't say I didn't warn you). Definitely an experience I try hard to avoid each year.
Here's a little step by step of a new colouring approach that I've wanted to try for a while. I really like the outcome and am likely to do more of that. It's a great way to stay in control of values throughout a piece.
Comments
I always love seeing your tutorials/step-by-steps. It helps me to get an idea of what to do when I draw or paint. I have a piece that I want to paint...but I am delaying because I'm terrified to ruin it! Not sure this particular step-by-step helps me, but as always, you encourage me just with the post :-)
Sommer Sorenson
2017-02-28 16:41:53 +0000 UTCIt's not quite like that - the underpainting unifies the rest and ties it together. Some detailing and shadows need to go on top later, after the colours (those are the finishing touches in the last image). The colour layer always softens up the shadows you've already put down, but that enables you to add crispness where needed and leave the rest fuzzy. The main advantage here was (1) the unifying colour to keep everything nicely coherent, and (2) it avoids putting colour next to colour. For example, if I'd painted the leather parts and the chainmail without a layer underneath, there'd have been edges where the two elements met, and they always clash, and result in a clogged look. It's probably subtle, but it often bothers me, and I avoided that here.
Jenny Dolfen
2017-02-26 23:50:31 +0000 UTCI'm so used to adding shadows *after* the base colours! Do you find this way around the shadows blend more with the colours that are over the top? And is it easier then to have the shadows all on mostly one colour to unify the piece? Because I can never seem to nail the right colour for my shadows and the whole piece ends up looking flat.
Evelyn Maire
2017-02-26 21:44:29 +0000 UTCMy husband actually comes from a hardcore Carnival family (both parents members of the Eschweiler Scharwach, a cousin who was a prince) and he is totally and utterly anti-Carnival. XD We've managed to raise our kids the same way. They're mostly in it for the cosplay.
Jenny Dolfen
2017-02-26 20:29:03 +0000 UTCI'm so glad I'm not living in or near any of these cities. German Carnival (which mostly means forced happiness and humor and far too many drunk people) - ahhh, no thanks. :p ... What about the rest of your family? Do they love it or do they hate it as well?
Anjuschka
2017-02-26 20:21:20 +0000 UTC
