Madcat painting WIP
Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 10:22PM To start off this section, let's get a look at this new Madcat painting I'm doing from the Battletech universe. I like to start with an initial line drawing. This one didnt take very long, but I sometimes I might need to go through a few before I'm good with the layout. The next phase is to start breaking out some values and colors. This part can take a couple hours sometimes. Below is the current progress. The original for this one is 1800x2200
Rick Knox
Rick Knox
Rick Knox
The final image in the series, I did some background detailing, actually did a couple of iterations, then did a good color pass to get the final details. The color pass is probably the most important part. As seen from the progress I can pretty quickly get an idea of what I want just from the line drawing. By doing some simple coloring I can break out detail areas, color direction and so on. However it isnt until I do the lighting, coloring, overlays, adjustment layers, etc that the scene suddeling comes to life.


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