Steppen's 2D botchery

[Steppenwolf]

Couple new spitpaints. Gotta try and be more creative! Feels like i always paint the same shit in different colors

 

 

 

 

 

[FMPONE]

Awesome stuff. I do find myself wanting some more hard edges and hard shapes, though. (especially in mr. mountain)

[blackdog]

Nice work!

Is the first piece retouched afterwards? Because the light sources (and wet reflections) have a photorealistic feeling that clashes a little with the rest of the composition.

In the last one, i'd wash the mountain a little bit more, to give more depth, but liking it a lot - impressive clouds!

[Steppenwolf]

Is the first piece retouched afterwards? Because the light sources (and wet reflections) have a photorealistic feeling that clashes a little with the rest of the composition.

 

Not sure what exactly you mean by retouched. The whole thing is painted, no photos were used. I faked some chromatic abberation tho by moving the blue channel a liitle and used a filter for some film grain.

[blackdog]

I mean by adjusting brightness/contrast/etc on the finished piece.

I know you painted it, but it feels a bit like you integrated a couple of textures there. Which in specific is a good thing, but in the global composition doesn't feel completely finished.

Makes more sense?

[Steppenwolf]

Yea makes sense. I always make some adjustements before i publish the work.

There are no textures in there (as in photo overlays). Texture is created by use of different brushes (some brushes might be textured tho) and blend modes. So i take that as a compliment. That spitpaints most of times don't feel finished is a given because of the 30 minute time contraints.

Of course i could spent some more time afterwards but the 30 minutes fits well in with how how much time i'm willing to spent on painting every day (mostly do 1,2 spitpaints and another half hour just doodling something).

Edited February 26, 2014 by Steppenwolf

[kikette]

Really awesome stuff. It's motivating to try painting too !

[Steppenwolf]

Some stuff from March and last week:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Minos]

Great stuff man!

 

I'd recommend checking out this DVD if you can, I watched a short presentation yesterday and learned quite a bit about how to practically use color and paint with light. Fucking awesome stuff:

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/185/Practical-Light-and-Color#.U0BMwoU_rp4

[Steppenwolf]

Great stuff man!

 

I'd recommend checking out this DVD if you can, I watched a short presentation yesterday and learned quite a bit about how to practically use color and paint with light. Fucking awesome stuff:

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/185/Practical-Light-and-Color#.U0BMwoU_rp4

 

So much stuff to learn! I'm not sure how much i'll push for digital painting any longer. Have a feeling i've hit a wall now that i could only climb if i spent way more time painting and being much more methodical about it. But i simply don't have that time.

 

So i think i will focus more on stuff that is directly job related. The painting helped me to get really comfortable with the wacom and i learned some very useful stuff in PS that helps with texturing (for instance hand painting decent masks now feels easy peasy). My next step should be to get back into digital sculpting again. Haven't used zbrush for 2-3 years and last time never got really comfortable with it because using the pen felt so awkward and not being able to draw for shit wasn't helpful at all trying to sculp. Think that could be much different now if i give it another shot.

[Sentura]

You guys should also check out this, it's a great resource: http://ctrlpaint.com/