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🎨 Warriors of Virtue Episode 1 Cover Art 🎨 Part 3 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎨✍🏻🤔ART TIP: How to approach digital painting? Then vs. Now, what do I do differently? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the beginning used digital tools to flood fill my hand drawn animation line drawings and maybe add a shadow layer before I tried digital painting. ❌ In my initial painting efforts, a part of my brain tried to repeat the process; fill the color underneath or above the drawing layer using the regular blush and smudging the shape into submission. ✅ Today, I forget that I’m using a digital medium and approach painting as if I was working on a canvas. I begin by setting up the background color and adding texture to it to create depth (I will show you this in a future video). Drew Struzan (@drewstruzanart) adds a lot of splatter, because the texture makes his drawings look like he spent hours working on them instead of mere minutes. (If you can, watch him paint the Hellboy Poster.😍) Then, I layer my sketch on top of the background painting in the opacity only high enough to allow me to see the line. I also have an invisible sketch layer with 100% opacity above that layer. This layer will allow me to go back to my original drawing when I need to. I paint between these two layers using ~ a 75% fill an 75% opacity brush with pen sensitivity turned on. I also make sure I choose one of the textured brushed — it’s all about the texture... As I paint, I adjust the fill and opacity the way I would if I was working with real paint. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🤔Do you have a favourite painting brush? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I purchased a bunch of brushes, but I mostly use one of the square textured ones that came with Photoshop, or I create my own. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . #digitalpainting #timelapseart #paintingprogress #arttips #warriorsofvirtue #mfa_wofv⚔️ #fantasyillustration #epicfantasyart #bookcoverart #fantasybookcover #wizardart #paintingmagic #thenandnowart https://www.instagram.com/p/BupT0qxl4d0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18mp2jl64hntg

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