paolo.limoncelli Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Hi! I'd like to share the last painting I made. I sketched the scene and the "cat" directly on AffinityPhoto using my pencils (that can be downloaded here) This is the value painting step, I used some Gouaches from the available set and new ones I created for this specific work. And at the end colours! I was looking for a movie-like toning. For this step I used only Recolour and Curve Adjustment layers clipped by painting layers (Foreground/Lion/Fog/Background/Sky) and applyed a bit of sharpening to enhance strokes. Hiswe, superhaschi, predick and 27 others 30 Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Wow! Such subtle tones, with a stormy undertone. Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosa cobos Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 That wonderful LIon Kkng.....it is beautiful and with such a personality and power: Thanks for sharing it! Rosq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamboo8R Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 GREAT!! Thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 26, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 26, 2015 JUST AWESOME! Really really brilliant, Paolo! :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwilliam Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Wow!, wonderfully textural sky and with harmonious tones throughout; going all the way white with the light of the sun and positioning the left of the Lion close to centre beautifully balances the composition. Although I personally tend to prefer monotone over colour, your economic colour manipulation merges marvellously with this majestic cat. Very well done, as always! tjg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Wow, I love how you did the sky … :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted August 26, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 26, 2015 The sky really makes this come to life and the lion has such a powerful stance. I'm quite impressed :) Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avo Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Looks really cool! Quote Follow me on Dribbble https://dribbble.com/g-avoyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted August 26, 2015 Author Share Posted August 26, 2015 Thank you all! Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakk Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Well everything is already said. I can just add that I agree ;) Very nice Paolo paolo.limoncelli 1 Quote OS X 10.12 - AP 1.6.6 - AD 1.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madame Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 What yakk said! Marvelous! Quote - Affinity Photo 2.3.0 - Affinity Designer 2.3.0 -Affinity Publisher 2.3.0 MacBook Pro 16 GB MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodobe Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Very nice work! Thank you for sharing :) Quote Illustration & Grafik bodobe.de Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I for one would like to see more of that black and white to colour process a bit. That's quite the jump, and great result! Awesome work and pencils freebies Paolo! Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted August 29, 2015 Author Share Posted August 29, 2015 Sure man! I use to paint main shapes (eg. head) in a pixel layer, and than shading/texture/volume in a clipped one. Once you've chosen your palette (I use a gamut mask to do it) the colouring process is pretty fast: 1) A recolour layer is used to give main hue 2) And curves to shift shadows and tune it better This is done for each shape: body, mane, foreground, background, sky... At the end you can decide to use a global curve too. This process is non destructive and you can keep painting and adding details using a gray ramp. A_B_C, Alfred and ronnyb 3 Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Brilliant … :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Cool and thanksPaolo! I'm going to give this method a shot on something soon... Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyCooper Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 You've got a lot of natural strokes on show here! Great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiswe Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Thanks a lot for sharing your process :) I'll surely try it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freid Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 THAT's a cat ! A beautiful one even :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Rediscovered this thread over the weekend and had some fun doing some experimental doodling. First I painted everything in greyscale using the Photo's "greys" colour palette. I made sure everything was on it's on layer to be able to experiment with different colours. Then added recolour layers to each and had fun playing around. On top of everything I added a white balance layer to globally adjust the tone to add some nice warmth overall. Pretty excited about the potential in this non-destructive workflow to do something a little more "advanced" than this doodle. I like the idea of painting in grey tones concentrating on the form of something and not really worrying about colour as I go, then being able to play with colour and other things such as lighting/texture etc... hmmm, must get busy with a real project next. :) Most of this can be done in Designer as well, the adding global noise as a layer and lighting/texturing is only available in Photo though but recolour and white balance is possible. Cheers. paolo.limoncelli and Alfred 2 Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Question for you Paolo. Say I'm painting on a greyscale layer that is underneath a recolour layer and the recolour layer is visible, so it appears that I am painting in colour...when in fact I am painting on the grey layer. If I use the eyedropper shortcut to pickup a different shade of grey, even though I am really on the grey layer, it seems to want to sample the colour on screen (which happens to be the visible recolour layer) and not the layer I am on... any way around this other than just hiding the recolour layer while I'm painting? A few times now I've started painting thinking that I'm painting in greys... but I have actually sampled the screen colour and of course that screws up the whole reason for painting in greys... :huh: Hopefully this makes sense... :mellow: Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 I tend to complete the value painting process, then I start "grading" using curves. If I need to touch the underpainting I tend to use the Grayscale palette instead of picking with ALT. In alternative I turn off the adjustment. If I'm satisfied I bake the adjustment and keep on refining the old way (pick and paint). But... The possibility to pick from real data and not corrected one could be a very interesting feature... :) Don't you think? Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eejits Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Wowsers! Utterly stunning work. Love, love, love it! George paolo.limoncelli 1 Quote eejits: curious creatures with curious ideas - www.eejits-online.co.uk SUPPORT eejits on PATREON. Early access to comics and more! www.patreon.com/eejits Get eejits COMiCS and occasional NEWS direct to your inbox https://eejits.substack.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 I tend to complete the value painting process, then I start "grading" using curves. If I need to touch the underpainting I tend to use the Grayscale palette instead of picking with ALT. In alternative I turn off the adjustment. If I'm satisfied I bake the adjustment and keep on refining the old way (pick and paint). But... The possibility to pick from real data and not corrected one could be a very interesting feature... :) Don't you think? Thanks Paolo for your insightful workflow description. I need to lock some of the adjustment/recolour layers as well as I sometimes accidentally start painting on those too... Yes I think a "sample from active layer only" option for the eye dropper or the "alt" picker would be cool. Maybe as a global pref or a tick box on the layers panel? paolo.limoncelli 1 Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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