If you haven't yet read part one of this digital painting walk-along, you are apt to be a little lost walking into this article. In that post, I covered the beginning half of my five-day production of "Halo". Now I'll be wrapping up this walk-along and giving some final notes on the project as a whole.
Digital Painting Tutorials
The Making of "Halo" Part One
Submitted by Sam Gruber on 9:54 pm on 15 Jan 2010Welcome to part one of my walk-along tutorial of my most recent digital painting, "Halo". By reading this post and its continuation, you should gain an insight into what is involved in my process for digital painting, and hopefully this will help you to improve your own digital painting skills.
The Making of "Halo" Walk-Along
Submitted by Sam Gruber on 5:36 pm on 14 Jan 2010To make up for failing to maintain the Tuesday update cycle that I just pledged to follow last week, I will be publishing a longer-form post: a walk-along of my latest digital painting.
This painting, "Halo", was completed from a photo reference and took me 5 days, at an hour and a half per day, including the time I spent on taking notes for this walk-along. It was completed using a Wacom Graphire3 in Photoshop CS3. The final version, replicated at the top of this post, is 2400 by 1800 pixels and the PSD weighs in at an eighth of a gigabyte.