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Introduction
Well this is the making of my painting “Weird Friendship” and actually I wasn’t planning on doing this “making of” so this isn’t going to be so detailed. But I still hope that you can learn and get some inspiration about this project. I used Photoshop CS5 and a WACOM Classic A6 the original size of the painting is 4581 * 7000 px - 300 dpi
Sketches & References
Well most of my paintings are realistic; I mix my imagination and reality such as this painting. The idea of this one came from “Bremer Stadtmusikanten” and I translated to my idea, so I started by looking for inspiration and references to help me develop my concept. Here is the concept and sketch of the composition.
Step 1 - First of all I set the background at 50% grey, create a new layer above the background and its gona be the layer of sketching. After that I brought the opacity down to 50% and created another layer and start sketching again using a small pressure-sensitive paintbrush for that, then when I finished, I merged the two layers together, this is how I work and I add new layers and merge theme as I go, because u can control your work in easy way. The form and the background I keep them in separate layers.
Step 2 - Now I am going to add another layer and this one will be for the light and shadows. I don’t start with colors because I want to feel the value of my painting first, then I can add colors. For the colors I add another layer but this time it’s going to be under my sketch, the reason why it’s because without losing my sketch lines, well this is how I work but you can also add a layer above your sketch but you have to set up the layer to multiply mode, and also the background must be in white because if you worked the background with other colors you won’t be able to see the colors in their real Frequency. Anyways now I have to start working with colors but first I need to create a color palette for every character that I have (the kid, Dog, Cat and the mouse).
To create this palette, I make a new layer that will remain on top of all my layers from this point on this layer will be used as my “palette layer” and for the brush I start with is a round one, hardness set at 100% and spacing 10%. Now I start my coloring with basic colors while I’m looking at my reference and then choosing colors according to the values, at this point I’m not going to get into details or even zooming in I’m just trying to show the values and working with the lighting and shading just with basic colors.
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