Okay, so I got photoshop, and after seeing what Dm7 and others did in it I decided to try to experiment with it. Now I don’t have a digital pad thingy because things that cost money suck, so for now everything that I draw will have to be moused .
Drew hands, first one I drew was a hand that had just relaxed from a fist, I wanted it to be a dying hand, in the middle of doing something passionate. But aftere I drew it it turned out to look more powerful like it was about to make a fist, so I turned the tips of the fingers greyish like turning into stone and the blackdrop to be and icy feel to more symbolize death. Doesn’t look as fisty as I’d like but w/e. Then I drew a fist so you’d have something to compare it to, but I dont think it looks as good as the “after-fist”. Plus the fist looks more like a “black power” thing, heh.
Anyways it looks pretty crappy what with the mouse and I just wanted to get a feel for the basic tools. I made a looking version of the red/orange/yellow for the dying hand, but it doesn’t match well with the rest of the picture.
EDIT: Hmm, Fist has a lot more shadingish stuff but I still like first.
Fist:
Few more comments, a. you can’t really see the icy backdrop bc it matches a lot with the forum. Also I’m used to shading in pen so I tryed to keep that just scribbly feel to most of the shading. I know with photoshop you can do all cool shading stuff but I guess I’ll try that next.
That’s the first thought that came to mind when I saw it. I guess it’s the “sketchy” lines that make up the defining outline of the hand, and the way the colors are limited to a few tones, and clearly aren’t trying to indicate realistic shading.
Thanks everyone!
I did another version of Dying Fist with quick photoshop shading. I think it’d be better without the lines so I’d have one more realistic version and one sketcy “Waking Life” one, but that’ll take a bit more time that I don’t have this week. Just signed up for a DeviantArt account, Eyern (Iron).
Heres link to all three of them there: https://eyern.deviantart.com/scraps/
I’m at a rough point right now, I revised it so their’s no lines anymore, scribble lines at least, and I made the whole red/orange/yellow thing look a lot better, IMO anyway, but now I’ve just got the outline of a hand with shading, I need texture. I’ll experiment a little.
Added old sketch to sketches (See art extrava…gan…sa? in Lucid Lounge) Still working on hand, thinking about having 2 final versions, one with lines that arn’t as scratchy and make more sense and on with just detailed texture…
wow that is awesome neo. I think i like the first dying hand better though. I just loved the waking life feel to it. I don’t understand howww in the world you guys use photoshop so well! I have it but can’t do anything but resize pictures with it haha. i wish someone could teach me.
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You’ll master Photoshop in no time!
