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Original image was 13.2x19 @220 dpi, and usually not zoomed in more than 50%. I did not color pick from the original image, but I would sometimes color pick within the rough color I established. It was easier and faster to establish color by eye and was a great confidence booster (I can see!!).
These are by no means perfect and juggling drawing AND color at the same time caused me to lose some accuracy. As long as big shapes are in place and the value was reasonably accurate, things came along nicely.
How did I know I was done? I essentially stopped (read: gave up) when I felt all the basic hues, values and placement were there. Also, I HAD to know what was going on in the copy. There's a reason each of these master paintings work so well from far away, despite detail, or simplicity, or whatever, they WORK, and tapping into that in an economic way was so important. (not that I succeeded so well at the economy bit).
Focusing a lot on occlusion again. To me, it's the thing that establishes the illusion of an object's weight and a reflection of the type of light in the image. Also used a lot of funky texture brushes to imply detail and inject information. Being able to decisively establish shapes on top of random texture was great, it created hierarchy within the composition (provided the edges and values were ok).
Next is some imagination stuff where I will apply as much as I can. To me, this is a big showdown as I will be tackling stuff I've been afraid of (mainly big questions like "what do you really want to do?" and eventually, "WHO ARE YOU?"), but I've prepared as much as someone could, and it'll be a battle, but one I know is in the right direction.
These are by no means perfect and juggling drawing AND color at the same time caused me to lose some accuracy. As long as big shapes are in place and the value was reasonably accurate, things came along nicely.
How did I know I was done? I essentially stopped (read: gave up) when I felt all the basic hues, values and placement were there. Also, I HAD to know what was going on in the copy. There's a reason each of these master paintings work so well from far away, despite detail, or simplicity, or whatever, they WORK, and tapping into that in an economic way was so important. (not that I succeeded so well at the economy bit).
Focusing a lot on occlusion again. To me, it's the thing that establishes the illusion of an object's weight and a reflection of the type of light in the image. Also used a lot of funky texture brushes to imply detail and inject information. Being able to decisively establish shapes on top of random texture was great, it created hierarchy within the composition (provided the edges and values were ok).
Below, you can see I did these in basically two steps, which helped speed things up. I did all the first versions together at the same time, and did not take them to finish one at a time. I didn't give a crap about them at first, I just wanted to show the kind of hue-ether of the picture (like if you're extremely myopic and forgot yer glasses) and work into it from there. I also used clipping masks for neatness. Download the .psd template for this exercise if you like (about 28mb).
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Next is some imagination stuff where I will apply as much as I can. To me, this is a big showdown as I will be tackling stuff I've been afraid of (mainly big questions like "what do you really want to do?" and eventually, "WHO ARE YOU?"), but I've prepared as much as someone could, and it'll be a battle, but one I know is in the right direction.
Again, useful links for you:
Library of Brushes to share: http://www.pandemoniumart.net/brushes/
Amazeballs Brush Presets by Sam Nielson: http://artsammich.blogspot.com/2013/03/photoshop-brushes_11.html
Shaddy's brushes with explanation (for someone starting from scratch): http://www.shaddyconceptart.com/download
Zedig's packs 1 and 2 (not included in 1st link): http://zedig.deviantart.com/art/My-brushes-346476394 and http://zedig.deviantart.com/art/Brushpack-numbah-two-373428542
Library of Brushes to share: http://www.pandemoniumart.net/brushes/
Amazeballs Brush Presets by Sam Nielson: http://artsammich.blogspot.com/2013/03/photoshop-brushes_11.html
Shaddy's brushes with explanation (for someone starting from scratch): http://www.shaddyconceptart.com/download
Zedig's packs 1 and 2 (not included in 1st link): http://zedig.deviantart.com/art/My-brushes-346476394 and http://zedig.deviantart.com/art/Brushpack-numbah-two-373428542
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