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Happy One Year~~ to me!
It's been a full year since I've joined this site so this wall is dedicated to this website and all of its members... so to celebrate, here's a new wall! (and yay for new avatars hehe). Since I've joined I've expanded my understanding of Photoshop SO much. When I first joined, I only knew how to make collages out of scans. Thanks to this site, I discovered the world of vectoring and now painting!
Anyway, this is my first time painting so of course I have a lot to learn and improve on... But wow was it fun and challenging! I really do love painting... and it's a toss up on which one is harder, full painting or full vectoring...
Below are the details of the wall as well as a mini-tutorial on how I made the clouds. It was a learning experience for me because I couldn't find any cloud tutorials to my liking... The tutorial isn't very detailed but it shows how painting results don't show until the very end! So if you want to try it for the first time, have faith! The end result is rewarding ^^
Title: "Is wishing all I have to do?" is a direct quote from one of the alternate-world scenes in Clannad. I felt it best described the feeling these two had when living in this world. They wish for warmth, happiness, friendship... and whatever else you might imagine is necessary for a happy world. It also has a sullen sense to it which is the emotion I really wanted for this wall. After all, they are alone in this world!
References: Original Scan
Hardest Part: Painting. Haha... I have such a deep respect for those who can paint well. With painting... all the lines, shapes, coloring, shading... it's all you. If you have a shaky hand, then the result turns out terrible. I guess I've just relied too much on those smooth fun vector lines that make nice curves into actual nice curves. Hehehe...
AND! The clouds... Oh. My. Goodness. Why must clouds be so....
Easiest Part: The glowing balls! And the robot - for some reason, he was also very easy to paint. Maybe it's because he's so cute (Yes, I secretly want a miniature version of him on my desk...)
Music: Chopin's 12 Etudes, Op. 25 No. 11 in A Minor... on repeat... for a very very long time.
The main element I wanted in this wall was emotion and bareness... In Clannad, the scenes with these two always moved me because their world was so barren and lonely... Although the original scan has many bright colors in it, I wanted to wash it out a bit to give it a very sullen emotional vibe. The thing these two want is warmth... which their world does not have. But of course, I couldn't wash it out too much or else it would just be too sad looking haha.
Anyway, painting was... an interesting experience.
I started with a 7000x3750... resolution (which almost killed my computer every time I tried to save for web...). I mostly used the same soft round brush (70% opacity, 35% flow) and painted away, layer by layer. I don't even know how many layers I had... it went into the 3 digits and I stopped noting what the total was. The scan's perspective was a little odd to me so I decided to change it a bit. I wanted a more panoramic wide screen look so I evened out the tilting clouds and made the grass more symmetric and even.
I started with the sky which was relatively easy. Then I worked on the clouds until they were fully detailed and colored (A more detailed explanation in my link to mini-tutorial). BTW, for those of you who want to paint clouds but are intimidated by them (I know I was for the longest time... especially with these clouds. THEY'RE MONSTROUS), just keep trying! They don't start looking like clouds until the last 10% or so of the final product.
After that, I moved onto the girl (her dress was fun to paint!). I used vector masks for selection paths and basically just painted within those selections. This helped create more defined shapes and lines. Afterwards, I created the robot - which I must say was extremely fun to do. For the robot, no textures were used - it was all brushing with the same custom brush. That's why the robot's texture is so different from the rest of the wall. If you've seen Clannad, you'll understand why I wanted to stay true to his type of texture.
Last was...... the grass. Ai... The creation of the grass started with my own strokes... then I decided to add some more grass using Nysha's smudge technique. Lastly, I worked with motion blurs to make the grass sort of breeze away in certain angles.
I finished up the entire wall by merging the piece and adding glows, mixing hues, adjusting color levels, etc... And tada! The final product!
Here are some other version of this wall for those who are interested:
And I just wanted to shout out to all those people on AP who like to use paint/grunge/abstract/text art/extractions/etc. Recently, vectoring has been the common style for most walls... People tend to overlook so many other styles out there... But all of these walls take a lot of time, care, and attention. So for those who continue to explore these other mediums of art, keep up the good work~! Fighting! ^^
It's been a full year since I've joined this site so this wall is dedicated to this website and all of its members... so to celebrate, here's a new wall! (and yay for new avatars hehe). Since I've joined I've expanded my understanding of Photoshop SO much. When I first joined, I only knew how to make collages out of scans. Thanks to this site, I discovered the world of vectoring and now painting!
Anyway, this is my first time painting so of course I have a lot to learn and improve on... But wow was it fun and challenging! I really do love painting... and it's a toss up on which one is harder, full painting or full vectoring...
Below are the details of the wall as well as a mini-tutorial on how I made the clouds. It was a learning experience for me because I couldn't find any cloud tutorials to my liking... The tutorial isn't very detailed but it shows how painting results don't show until the very end! So if you want to try it for the first time, have faith! The end result is rewarding ^^
TECHNICAL INFO
Title: "Is wishing all I have to do?" is a direct quote from one of the alternate-world scenes in Clannad. I felt it best described the feeling these two had when living in this world. They wish for warmth, happiness, friendship... and whatever else you might imagine is necessary for a happy world. It also has a sullen sense to it which is the emotion I really wanted for this wall. After all, they are alone in this world!
References: Original Scan
Hardest Part: Painting. Haha... I have such a deep respect for those who can paint well. With painting... all the lines, shapes, coloring, shading... it's all you. If you have a shaky hand, then the result turns out terrible. I guess I've just relied too much on those smooth fun vector lines that make nice curves into actual nice curves. Hehehe...
AND! The clouds... Oh. My. Goodness. Why must clouds be so....
Easiest Part: The glowing balls! And the robot - for some reason, he was also very easy to paint. Maybe it's because he's so cute (Yes, I secretly want a miniature version of him on my desk...)
Music: Chopin's 12 Etudes, Op. 25 No. 11 in A Minor... on repeat... for a very very long time.
THE PROCESS
The main element I wanted in this wall was emotion and bareness... In Clannad, the scenes with these two always moved me because their world was so barren and lonely... Although the original scan has many bright colors in it, I wanted to wash it out a bit to give it a very sullen emotional vibe. The thing these two want is warmth... which their world does not have. But of course, I couldn't wash it out too much or else it would just be too sad looking haha.
Anyway, painting was... an interesting experience.
I started with a 7000x3750... resolution (which almost killed my computer every time I tried to save for web...). I mostly used the same soft round brush (70% opacity, 35% flow) and painted away, layer by layer. I don't even know how many layers I had... it went into the 3 digits and I stopped noting what the total was. The scan's perspective was a little odd to me so I decided to change it a bit. I wanted a more panoramic wide screen look so I evened out the tilting clouds and made the grass more symmetric and even.
I started with the sky which was relatively easy. Then I worked on the clouds until they were fully detailed and colored (A more detailed explanation in my link to mini-tutorial). BTW, for those of you who want to paint clouds but are intimidated by them (I know I was for the longest time... especially with these clouds. THEY'RE MONSTROUS), just keep trying! They don't start looking like clouds until the last 10% or so of the final product.
After that, I moved onto the girl (her dress was fun to paint!). I used vector masks for selection paths and basically just painted within those selections. This helped create more defined shapes and lines. Afterwards, I created the robot - which I must say was extremely fun to do. For the robot, no textures were used - it was all brushing with the same custom brush. That's why the robot's texture is so different from the rest of the wall. If you've seen Clannad, you'll understand why I wanted to stay true to his type of texture.
Last was...... the grass. Ai... The creation of the grass started with my own strokes... then I decided to add some more grass using Nysha's smudge technique. Lastly, I worked with motion blurs to make the grass sort of breeze away in certain angles.
I finished up the entire wall by merging the piece and adding glows, mixing hues, adjusting color levels, etc... And tada! The final product!
CLOUD WALKTHROUGH AND TUTORIAL
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Here are some other version of this wall for those who are interested:
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And I just wanted to shout out to all those people on AP who like to use paint/grunge/abstract/text art/extractions/etc. Recently, vectoring has been the common style for most walls... People tend to overlook so many other styles out there... But all of these walls take a lot of time, care, and attention. So for those who continue to explore these other mediums of art, keep up the good work~! Fighting! ^^
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