Random Roughs: An Octopus In My Bed
This was a character study for something I’d been working on. One of my favorite tools in Painter is the Dry Ink Brush in the calligraphy section. It’s tough to control but I love how it makes me stay loose. I also played around with the digital watercolors on this. Colors seem more intense to me.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Is there really? Lucky (or unlucky as the case may be) you hehe
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Thanks for not giving up on my blog! I don’t know what happened but it looks ok now
September 30th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Are the digital watercolors transparent like real watercolors? Can you go opaque so you could paint the octopus over the background color or do you have to color inside the lines on everything?
Yes, they are. In fact, you don’t have the option to not be opaque with some of these digital tools (unless you flatten that layer and then resurrect it as a non-opaque one, I guess). When working with the digital WCs, they automatically demand their own gel layer.
But I can make any tool I want be opaque. If I change the layer to “gel” or “multiply”, or I can work underneath the layer that is line art and create the same effect. That’s the way I usually work. The line layer sits on top and I work multiple layers of color underneath. I’ll also do light color on layers over the line work if I want to do something where I disturb the line art.
Hope all that makes sense! Thanks for the question, Dough! ~pjb
October 1st, 2008 at 9:12 am
great line work and energy Paula!