Digital Art

I’ve been drawing almost as long as I can remember. Seeing all the cool things people had drawn online, I’d always wanted to make digital art, but never had the tools to try. So as I learn this new skill, I’ll try to document my progress for you guys here. 🙂

This is the first painting that I made in photoshop and liked enough to save. Before this, I couldn’t figure out to make the round brush in photoshop look nice, the hard edge made it look so artificial. So for this one I found the “blender brush” and just painted straight with that.

This is a screenshot from the movie titanic (which I have never watched) I chose to paint it because liked the movement. For this paining I drew one human face and one frog face. So your welcome Mr. DiCaprio 🙂

I designed jerseys for my ultimate frisbee team!!! I used photoshop. :/ if I ever do this again I’ll use illustrator, so that the jersey company wont get mad because its pixelated and not a vector design…

Here are 2 nature-y paintings I made. I really like lily pond. But the line art on the cabin is a bit heavy handed.

In this file, is probably my biggest failure and my biggest success. Top right, was my first attempt to draw 67 (Sae Byeok) from squid game. I was frustrated, so left it for a while. A few hours later, I came back and painted the bottom left, and it is my best digital portrait I’ve done so far.

Here are some more portraits I did. I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of this. Before I was really struggling with when/where to use opacity and softness on the brush. I have kind of a basic process now: 1. first sketch layer 2. second sketch layer/lineart 2. underneath sketch, base colors 3. paint over the lineart. It’ll probably change when I get better with multiply layers/clipping masks and all that.

Here’s something I don’t often do: a fully rendered figure drawing. This sort of thing (like backgrounds) is actually way easier to do in photoshop as compared to watercolors. Being able to make big strokes in exactly the color I want (no building up color) makes this so much faster.