1 (edited by Saniss 2021-11-17 04:50:45)

Topic: Inktober/Artober/whateveryoudigtober

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All three are incredibly good — the first and third are most compelling, for some geographical-feeling reason, and I'm obsessed with the lightning in the second one.

I think the bottom one is my favorite, but all would look right hanging on the wall.

Great stuff.

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Abbie > I love you.

Teague > I love you.

Yeah I might get them printed to see how it looks on good paper.

I'm on the same overall feeling as you, first and third are my favourites, especially because they're representations of my relationship with mountains, and incidentally go well together as an attraction/repulsion diptych, which is a very strong aspect of said relationship.

Second one exists mainly because I couldn't see "spark" as a theme and not go for one of my most beloved aspects of nature - storms. It's not as much an abstract representation of an idea as the other two but I'm glad I did something with lightning. Bonus, the mountains being struck are heavily inspired by actual mountains I love in my home region, and this scene is basically the photograph I would love to make one day.

You have no idea how much I'm grateful for your responses. People generally have seemed to react well to this thing and I still feel like a impostor but at least I'm an impostor who's feeling good, and that's a step forward.

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7 (edited by Saniss 2021-11-18 02:40:47)

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That's incredibly rad, Owen.

I use charcoal and oil brushes in Photoshop, and a variety of cloud brushes. With some finer texture work I can achieve a decent oil painting feel. Then there's a general texture overlay that brings the paper grain and some grading, and a final sharpening effect to give everything a nice crisp look.

Not much more to it really. Photoshop's mixer brush really does well at mimicking real paintbrush behavior, and of course I use a pen tablet.

EDIT: I would add that lightning is more of a pencil type brush, and that several layers with different blending modes are a great help to shape light the way I want (e.g. overlay mode with soft light and dark brush strokes to highlight or tone down areas).

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