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Digital Watercolour Tutorial of an Apple Still Life - Part Two
5. In this illustration you can see the red fine lines I put in to add shape the apple on a watercolour layer.
6. On a watercolour layer with a wet camel (not in the digital watercolor brushes, in the watercolour brushes) set with colour variability to a two tone gradient (of pink and violet) add some glazing to the dark areas of the apples. I did this on two layers to give me more control over the final amount of paint on the layer. I like to reduce the opacity or the dye concentration of these layers to achieve the tones I want. These layers can also be blended with blenders if you drop them or alter them with a manouver from the Effect window ie: reduce the tonal contrast slightly. I think it's because you have to commit the layers before you can do an effect on them.
7. This capture shows the Watercolour Controls, the General brush controls, and the different layers in progress in the painting. I used wet camel and fine tip digital watercolour as well as sharp chalk on different layers to add detailed colour and shading. On each layer some blending tools were used and/ or effects such as reducing the opacity or tonal contast to achieve the final appearance of the apples at this stage. Digital watercolours cannot be blended with the Blender tools unless they are dried first. You can of course use the digital watercolour blending tools on a still wet digital layer. I have a few custom ones I rely on to mix and blend the paint on the paper. 8. This capture shows more layers of digital glazes and chalk detail. The gold around the stem in apple one was done with gold chalk, then very light pink digital watercolour washes using a very small brush to accentuate detail as needed. Further blending was done with a smudge blend custom blender set to very small and soft. If you haven't used the Brush Creator yet this would be an easy one to make. It's just a soft blender stump transposed with a smudge blender. Experiment! It's fun and the only way to learn to get the marks you want on the 'paper.' I was playing around with the digital watercolour brushes last night and trying them out again in the default setting or close to it. I also usually use them on a Gel layer rather than the Default layer. I came up with a soft diffused slightly grainy brush that uses a gradient as the colour. This is set in the Colour Variability Palette- chose Gradient, then in your toolbox put the two colours you want in for your gradient or chose one of the preset gradients. Best to pratice this in a separate document. I ususally keep a small one open for trying out colours and brushes before I use them in my painting. Even if you can undo and erase things why take the chance of putting something in your painting that you know will not remain. If you need to see how it works in conjunction with your painting and you don't like the results you can set your undo preferences to undo the last 32 brush strokes or undo an effect. Trying it out on a new layer is safer as well, because then you can just delete the layer if you don't like it. Don't forget to save your document frequently! I save mine iteratively just in case I want to go back to a certain point and start over. I must say it takes a long time to paint a picture when you are trying to blog about it too! ... More tomorrow! Related postsAdd a comment |
