Playing around with default brushes in search of sketch brush

11:59 pm EST (Jan 8th .. as it's about to turn into the 9th haha.)

 

Originally, but recently,  I was using a custom brush someone had a video for as their sketching brush. This works for very light thin line sketching but for a more defined sketching brush, I ended up trying out a default brush in Photoshop CS2: Airbrush Hard Round 13 but at 50% flow. As of what I've sketched so far, this might be my new favorite sketching brush!

Rainy Day on Highway digital painting

12:49 am EST

After I got Photoshop CS2, I wanted to draw something to sorta test out CS2 (after having worked with Photoshop Elements 8.0 for so long).
I couldn't decide exactly what I wanted to draw, since I wanted to try something that wasn't a person/human like character.

In the end I decided to finally get to the idea of car lights in the car, on the highway, which came to me as I was in the car on a highway during a rainy night and seeing the oncoming traffic 's lights on the other side of the highway against the rain in the dark. It was beautiful, in my opinion, due to the many colors of car lights (the "white", "yellow", "purplish -florescent" ).

I painted this as one would traditionally with paints.

Rise of the Guardians fan art - Jack Frost

5:25 pm EST

Rise of the Guardians and its characters do not belong to me.

Excluding the foliage and snowflakes (they were custom brushes), everything was painted by myself.

Custom brushes used: (from deviantART)
yumedust 's 23 Brushes for Photoshop for snowflakes
LadyVictoire 's Branches and Foliage Brushes for the foliage.

Rise of the Guardians fan art - Jack Frost (colors part 1)

4:25 pm EST

After coming back from lunch, I started painting the colors. Yes this time I really didn't start with values before the colors. I feel like I still need to fix the eyes, something about them doesn't seem quite right.

Rise of the Guardians fan art - Jack Frost (sketch and references)

1: 55 pm EST

Using these references ( Jack Frost upper body , Jack Frost full body ) as well as the Posemaniac's Hands for Drawing (#13 hand) , here's the sketch for the fan art!

Since I really couldn't get the hair to look right with my lines, I painted in a rough sketch for his hair.


sketch + references

Sketch dump

10:46 pm EST

I spent whole afternoon and most of evening (excluding meals) sketching whatever was going through my mind and/or whatever what brush strokes made me think of drawing.

I played around with different opacity settings and brush sizes and found out the "[ " " ]" s change the brush tip size.

Original Character : SparkShock (colored)

5:59 pm EST



I think I took around 2-4+ on coloring this while watching the movie, Tangled. I'm not completely sure though, since I rarely check the time of when I start, haha.

I've been meaning to provide a better background for my character paintings, so it's not only a gradient background. So for this one, I provided a somewhat eerie mountain/hill top with dead trees (or at least, leaf less) with two random creatures crawling towards my character. I'm not sure what they are, since they were thought up of on the spot. I just I imagined black wispy creatures that have long claws and arms with snake-like bodies ..?

Original Character: SparkShock - values

12:03 am EST

While watching and finishing Sword Art Online anime series, I worked on the values. I think in a way, that helped since I didn't rush through the value shading like I usually tend to do.

I also went back and cleaned up the many many stray sketch lines I had.

Original Character SparkShock - sketch

5:36 pm EST

Here's a rough sketch of one of my original characters from my graphic novel/fan fiction, of which I've called Teens of Valor. I still have the goal of making it more of my own rather than a fan fic, but there's an important part in the story that uses a location that doesn't belong to me that I need to change.

But I disgress, here's SparkShock. I still need to add in the flower designs on her dress though... as well as figuring out a good background for her.

 

Maya - Virtual Gallery

8:25 pm EST

Deviating a bit from my usual 2D works and went to Phase 2 of my senior thesis project, making the pieces for a virtual gallery before I place the textures and move them into Unity.

front view of Gallery

side view (from behind staircase)