Randall Whiteis Study

I saw in Jacob's blog a study that he had done from an artist named Randall Whiteis see his site here: http://www.randallwhiteis.com/
He uses crisp vector lines with smooth airbrushy shading. I did a study of one of his pieces here. The original is on bottom. It starts with lines in Illustrator. I kept all of the shading separate from a local color layer. I left more of the original dark vectors in the head than he did. I also changed head and other areas a little.

Clay models as a starting point

After looking at Ryan's post with the clay model that he made to work out some perspective issues in his rendering I got an idea. Why not just work from or on top of the photo of the clay model. Here you can see my partial results. I think it could be a pretty good process.

Test of Lightwindow

This is a test of the lightwindow script.

Application of Watercolor Technique 1

Here is my test of my two brushes for watercolor and ink. Again this is entirely Photoshop about 2hrs. Too bad I worked from kind of a goofy picture.

New Watercolor

Here I have another study the top portion is my copy of the bottom. I created two new brushes to do this. The first is the fuzzy brush for the wet on wet look, and the second is a lumpy spot for the line work. I used the photocopy filter to get the edge reticulation (darkening). This was done entirely in Photoshop with a wacom tablet.

Watercolor Tests

Here are 3 versions of the same image. The first one with the paper texture I did using entirely Photoshop. The second one is done entirely in Painter. The last one with two garlics is the original.



I got more of what I wanted out of Photoshop with the watercolor than I did from Painter. I took a big speckley brush and opened up the spacing and jittered the angle. I masked those marks with a bristley brush set to wet edges and used that same wet edges in overlay to get the way that watercolor marks look darker at their edges. I think Painter does a much better job at the loose ink brushwork. I wasn't doing a good job of matching the saturation in the photoshop version.

Fantasy Painting in Photoshop Test

I wanted to try and do some fantasy type painting just to try it out. This is all working directly in Photoshop. It is funny how changing a few layers can change the whole image.