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This time I'll try a car.

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lemorris:
so...basically I'm doing contract work with this aerospace outfit.  It's funny...you go fulltime artist then immediately get a contract that makes you gainfully employeed but not as an illustrator but as some kinda weird hybrid techno-art-freak thing.  Anyway...it's good work, but it took me off this for a couple days.  However...I am black.....ummm...back...well both I spose...anyway...



I started to go in and paint some more, just really refining.  My brush settings are low.  50-60% flow, 20% or less opacity.  I sample and blend colors by holding down the alt key which turns my brush into the eyedropper.  By sampling colors from either side of the edge you can create really nice painterly like blends.  It's pretty fun.



Next I started eliminating some pencil lines and building more and more tones.  I keep some lines as it's supposed to look a little rough...natural.  If I drew better it would reflect that but as it is since I'm not using any paths or pens or other algorithmic based tools, my line stays perfectly not perfect and it retains a lot of the character my sloppy a_s pencil had.

Note:  I did make paths for my little glass bits.



finally I ended up here.  I kinda stopped as this is somethin I'm still learnin and really done is done...too done is broke....figuratively and as an artist, literally speaking.  You can work a piece to death....and starve in the process.  It's not perfect but lessons learned and moving on.  Pick up what crayons you can and use them on the next drawing.

In any case, yay.

Thanks for watchin.

tpitman:
I think it was James McNeill Whistler, taking drawing classes while at at West Point, objected when the instructor wanted to make a few "refinements" to his drawing by saying, "Don't, sir, you'll ruin it."
Knowing when to stop is the hardest lesson.

ravenmark:
Nice illustration.  I have always enjoyed messing around with this technique, it gives you a nice traditional look to a piece. The underpainting works equally well in Painter as well as Photoshop. To get some additional tones a trick I use sometimes is to float a layer over everything set to soft light and one above it set to screen for some highlights. Of course it pays to fiddle with the opacity afterwards to dial everything in. I have also seen people do partial shading done in pencil painting below and over the drawing as well as using a pencil drawing as a channel set up as a mask to adjust rendered colors to a darker tone (the latter technique is tricky). Anyways, again nice job and drawing!

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