New year - Visual arts and Animation - 5th January - Lizard people

A new year has started, but that still means more work to do;

From the title you can imagine that we are working on Lizard people (well not ours) we're working of from the tutorials of fzdschool and using his lizard guy painting tutorial as a basis for learning how to develop our own skills in defining shape, darks and lights within a painting.

This being the base image we're working with (the black and white) from here we have to paint the base colour layer to separate the image from the canvas.

okay i think this looks nice, i tried not to be too fussy with how close to the linework is, but still i wanted it to show most of the form that the initial drawing had.

making this base colour layer makes it so we can make use of white when colouring without it dissapearing into the background, as well as providing a point of references where light and dark elements in the model can be shown.

Some more progress, and a few tweaks here and there (layer names and the drop shadow and floor colour to help me place the model in a 3D space) To help me go through this i'm trying to mimic how the video proceeds through things as it helps me to incrementally move forward. (since i have little practice in digital painting....or any painting for that matter).

Before getting too much further we had to try applying a texture to the model, which involved looking for a suitable lizard texture, all credit goes to here for the one i used, and then use the magnetic lasso to designate the area we want to apply it to then use a special paste to get it to apply to that area. this is actually the second one i did, the first pattern had more noticable lines within it which made it hard to be a general use texture, so this second one i had to look for a more nondescript texture.

To maintain the colour work and detail of the texture itself we opted for the soft light layer setting, while we had to desaturate so to let our colouration of the image bleed through more noticably.

That about wraps up what i was able to get done in the lesson, its pretty clear i lack speed when painting so i need to work on improving my judgement of colours and confidence in my painting so that i can make more headway quicker in the lesson. I'll likely edit this post or add a "part 2" with some additions made in my own time.