Sunday, September 24, 2006
Wonder Woman Step by Step Part 3
You guys thought I was NEVER going to finish this, didn't you?! Yeah, well it came close. This little thing called life and work stepped in for a bit.
But now I'm back and better than ever! Ok, well the back part is true.
Here's Diana as she stands now:
I made her rope glow by selecting the inside yellow color and the darker orange lineart and then I feathered the selection by 12 pixels. I then created a new layer on top of the lineart and filled the selection with an even lighter yellow-white color. The feathering of the selection gives the selection soft edges when you fill it making an easy glow effect. I then turned the opacity down to 75% on the layer so that you can still faintly make out the line art and inside color of the rope. This is also a good cheat to make the rope appear to give off it's own light source that bleeds over onto her hands and body.
I also did her gold arm bracelets, crown, waist and chest plates using a similar effect. I created a new layer on top of all of the lineart. Then I picked my gradient tool. I set the gradient to radial, and the color to fade from my foreground color (white this time) to transparent. Making the gradient go from your foreground color to transparent makes it so you can do "spot" gradients without covering your entire canvas in color. Ok, so I used the gradient tool and just picked areas on her gold accents where I thought light might be reflecting off of them and did a small radial gradient on these areas. I then chose to fade the gradients by choosing Edit, then Fade Gradient in the toolbar to fade them to about 60% or so, depending on the strength of the gradient that I made. I then took the eraser tool, set the opacity and flow of that tool down to 25%, I set the tool to airbrush and brought the hardness of the brush down to zero. I erased around the edges of the gradient so they didn't look so circular and looked more like light and less like I did a gradient on them.
I'm sure you're all scratching your heads going "What the hell did she just say?", so ask me to clarify if all that didn't make a bit of sense.
I also did a little bit more coloring to her boots, but I'm still not liking how they are turning out, so I'll probably changes those again. Freaking shiny vinyl boots!!! I also added some color and shine to her lips. Sexy!
Next it's on to my LEAST favorite part of coloring! SKIN! I HATE coloring skin. My weakness at coloring, other than the obvious crap is that I'm horrible with light sources and shadows. Especially on faces and skin. I'm working on that, but I still end up crying and making Ben tell me what I'm doing wrong on things.
I've also started using the radtastic program Painter, which is like using real paints, but totally digital! It's REALLY scary but freakishly cool. The Swashbuckler and Cerberus illustrations in my portfolio were both done in Painter and I think they turned out less crappy than I thought they were going to.
Wonder Woman is going to be done in Photoshop, just because I need to get her done, and ladies look better when they appear to be "soft" and don't have smeary paint lines on them... at least I think that's what this illustration calls for.
So there's step 3 of Wonder Woman. On to the skin!
But now I'm back and better than ever! Ok, well the back part is true.
Here's Diana as she stands now:
I made her rope glow by selecting the inside yellow color and the darker orange lineart and then I feathered the selection by 12 pixels. I then created a new layer on top of the lineart and filled the selection with an even lighter yellow-white color. The feathering of the selection gives the selection soft edges when you fill it making an easy glow effect. I then turned the opacity down to 75% on the layer so that you can still faintly make out the line art and inside color of the rope. This is also a good cheat to make the rope appear to give off it's own light source that bleeds over onto her hands and body.I also did her gold arm bracelets, crown, waist and chest plates using a similar effect. I created a new layer on top of all of the lineart. Then I picked my gradient tool. I set the gradient to radial, and the color to fade from my foreground color (white this time) to transparent. Making the gradient go from your foreground color to transparent makes it so you can do "spot" gradients without covering your entire canvas in color. Ok, so I used the gradient tool and just picked areas on her gold accents where I thought light might be reflecting off of them and did a small radial gradient on these areas. I then chose to fade the gradients by choosing Edit, then Fade Gradient in the toolbar to fade them to about 60% or so, depending on the strength of the gradient that I made. I then took the eraser tool, set the opacity and flow of that tool down to 25%, I set the tool to airbrush and brought the hardness of the brush down to zero. I erased around the edges of the gradient so they didn't look so circular and looked more like light and less like I did a gradient on them.
I'm sure you're all scratching your heads going "What the hell did she just say?", so ask me to clarify if all that didn't make a bit of sense.
I also did a little bit more coloring to her boots, but I'm still not liking how they are turning out, so I'll probably changes those again. Freaking shiny vinyl boots!!! I also added some color and shine to her lips. Sexy!
Next it's on to my LEAST favorite part of coloring! SKIN! I HATE coloring skin. My weakness at coloring, other than the obvious crap is that I'm horrible with light sources and shadows. Especially on faces and skin. I'm working on that, but I still end up crying and making Ben tell me what I'm doing wrong on things.
I've also started using the radtastic program Painter, which is like using real paints, but totally digital! It's REALLY scary but freakishly cool. The Swashbuckler and Cerberus illustrations in my portfolio were both done in Painter and I think they turned out less crappy than I thought they were going to.
Wonder Woman is going to be done in Photoshop, just because I need to get her done, and ladies look better when they appear to be "soft" and don't have smeary paint lines on them... at least I think that's what this illustration calls for.
So there's step 3 of Wonder Woman. On to the skin!
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OMG huney she is GORGEOUS!! You are absolutely amazing. I mean, of course I was in love with the drawing but damn if you didn't just bring her to life. Y'all rock so hard. *hugs*
-Ronée
-Ronée
# posted by 
: September 24, 2006 7:19 PM
: September 24, 2006 7:19 PM
Thanks Chris, I'll consult you on all of my feathering chores from now on. ;)
Thanks, T! I hope to have it finished this weekend!
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Thanks, T! I hope to have it finished this weekend!
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