I Smell Chocolate [Process]
dunkel as Artz
Mar|21|2009
I read Aquasixio’s Tutorial yesterday, and wanted to try out some of the stuff he said. Namely, the stippling and the cross-hatching (you’ll see that I end up ditching the cross-hatching).
Also, I haven’t drawn on PSP for a long while, and I’ve completely ditched its tools (no ‘upping the contrast’, no eyedropper tool, nothing. everything was done by eye, and if the colours were wrong, I’d paint over it). Here, I allowed myself to use them again.
Tools used: PSP9, tablet, ~2hrs
The original idea I had in mind was a girl looking
into a box, or at a small animal, something glowing
in her hands.
As I coloured in the background using the cross-
hatching technique, I realized I sucked at it, and
the lines I made instead looked like grass. My
stippling attempt made the background look more
like a pond. So I went with it.
I wanted to draw a glow-y fish swirling under the
water, and then thought about doing a fish
glowing because it jumped out of the water and
was illuminated by the moon. But both those ideas
were very tried and old, so I drew an Elasmosaurus…
Then upped the contrast, as the teal I chose for
my dinosaur was causing a funky colour-clash
effect. I added the purple flying dots to remind
me where the light will sort of come from.
I shaded in the dinosaur, but he was looking
quite beat up,
So I cleaned him up a bit, and added highlights
(his head got lost in the grass).
I worked some more on the pond’s edge, so that
the stippling would blend a bit more into the ‘grass’.
I tried to add clouds, but gave up on it since it
made the picture seem too complicated (for a quick
test-out-what-Sixio-said piece).
Added the highlights to the purple flying things,
and to the Elasmosaurus’ nose.
Gave him an eye.
Upped the contrast again, done!