The way I render images I produce is a collage based technique similar to what’s known in the film industry as Matte Painting. I layer up photographs, textures and colours to produce a rendered image. I want to experiment with some other forms of rendering particularly for producing concept images. I purchased an ImagineFX: Fantasy & Sci-fi Digital Art magazine and noticed that the majority of the concept art pieces were produced by painting with Photoshop. Digital painting uses similar painting techniques to normal painting but with the added convenience of full digital editing capabilities.
The following video is one of the videos I found that shows you how to digitally paint in Photoshop. The notes from the video are listed bellow.
Drawing from your mind concept art tutorial environment magma river
- Landscape orientated images look more cinematic
- Have an idea of the look before you start but don’t rigidly stick to it
- Don't need to focus to heavily on perspective when drawing organic shapes
- Simple layouts are best when incorporating a Foreground, Midground and Background
- Determine the chromatic value range before you start
- Keep colour values simple- 3-5max with a dominant colour- using an overlay layer filter
- Use contrasting colours to create atmosphere and more striking form
- Values become more washed out as the move towards the background
Here are some more digital painting videos that use nature as their main theme. The second video creates a particularly stunning image of a forest. When I return to university next week I want to try reproducing some digitally painted concept drawings using a graphics tablet in photoshop.
Speed painting - Soul of the forest.
Green forest speed painting
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