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Master Study 2
My second master study is a piece by Silvia Ji. I started out in illustrator to get a general line sketch of the proportions. I then moved the piece into photoshop and started blocking in the color. I used a combination of brushes ranging from pastel, charcoal, and watercolor and used several layers to get the skin tones. Then I went back to illustrator and did a line rendering of the hair. I put that layer back into photoshop and then color filled to get the overall base of the hair. To finish up I created two separate background textures, one from a photograph of a water stained wall and the other a smeared watercolor wash I did in photoshop. Those were then overlayed on the piece to get the final look.
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Very nice! Be sure to watch the recordings I did today on using your Illustrator lines to stroke with a brush in Photoshop.
ReplyDeleteWhat's incredible about this piece is that it really looks like a watercolor/gouache painting! you did a good job at simulating the look. Good job. (at first glance...or two...or three, I actually thought it was a traditional piece haha!)
ReplyDeleteThe ONLY thing that really stuck out for me, was how her skin (especially her chin and neck) break away from the authentic/traditional media look. It looks like you might've excluded the water-stained texture from a major portion of her face(which in my opinion was a good idea). The overlaying watercolor texture does a good job at syncing the picture together, but maybe you could add just a nitty gritty texture to anchor her face like her hair and the background are? (Just a simple noise layer like Mr. Babcock taught us.) Hope that this was helpful.
Thanks! I thought about adding a texture over the face, because I think the same thing at times looking at it, that it is not quite grounded with the rest, but I thought I would see what other people thought.
ReplyDeleteTexture can act a lot like a color wash over a whole painting. One texture over everything can really help to unify the whole image. One attitude in digital work is to never leave anything artificially (digitally) smooth.
ReplyDeleteAllison ~ You did a great job on this. I agree with Mike - I think it looks like a watercolor painting too.
ReplyDeleteMr. Babcock ~ that's interesting about never leaving anything artificially smooth. Hmmm.... Can you expand on that? I guess I'm a little confused? So everything on a background should be a scan of texture or something? Sorry not sure what you mean?
I am just expressing a bias against what Photoshop does all too well. It is what marks digital work against traditional for most people. Even a real airbrush painting still has some real crispness to the spray pattern.
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