Process Gif 3

As progress continues on my environment, based on the San Juan Bautista Mission down in California, I am at the point where I need to start thinking about the exterior. With this in mind I decided to do another look and feel speed painting for the area outside of the Mission. 

With this painting I started with a quick sketch before blocking in some value. with the value blocked in I decided to try a new process. 

I copied and pasted 3 layers of the painting and color corrected them to be Red Blue and Green. then using a layer mask I blended the layers together. 

Once that was finished I went through some of the Photoshop filters( mainly Cutout and Palette Knife) to simplify the color and remove some of the sketchy marks. 

Finally I added a layer on top and painted over any rough areas and added a few corrections to the color.

I found this method helpful for creating quick color scripts and speedpaintings. It is a great way to quickly take a sketch through to value and color, but this process requires more work to create what I would consider a "finished" painting.

Process Gif 2

I am modeling an environment based on the San Juan Bautista Mission down in California and I decided to do a quick look and feel painting. I started by quickly blocking out the environment in maya and adding some spot lights. I then blocked in some rough color, went through my reference folder, and did some Photo bashing to get texture reference. lastly I added a layer on top and did a final paint over simplifying the texture and color and cleaning things up a bit.

Process Gif 1

I am trying to get better at document my process as I experiment with different tools and ways of working in Photoshop.  to help with this I have decided to start doing gifs that step through the painting from start to finish. I have only created a few gifs so far but I am already learning a lot about my process and ways to streamline my workflow.

In this painting I started with a quick sketch and then blocked in the foreground, middle ground, and background on separate layers. once I had the separate layers blocked out I went back and forth between them adding texture and detail.

2-3 hour Environment Painting

I had Monday off so I painted an environment. I need to practice painting foliage more.

Portrait worm up.

I have been trying to be more consistent and do daily worm ups. This is one from the other day