New Digital Painting

When its cold outside and numb fingers overrides the urge to venture outdoors to do a bit of photography, I stay indoors and do a bit of digital painting.

Here is my latest painting:

The original done in black and white

and some colour added using a few hue and 

saturation adjustment layers.

A massive improvement from my last digital painting of an eye I attempted last year.

Weekend Creations

Orb - A Quick Shading Execise

Black and White Digital Painting of an Apple

Black and White Digital Painting of a Pear

Whose Eye?

My first digital painting using only free hand and a photo for reference. I'm happy with the five hour process but the shadows need more work and the pupil is over saturated. Next I will try a left  eye.

Horse Portrait in Watercolour

Yesterday I had a shoot booked with a model but the weather was so bad we had to postpone. Stuck indoors I had a chance to catch up on some digital painting techniques.

Here I used a quick and easy method to create a great looking watercolour of a horse.

This process took more time involving many layers and many different brush shapes while using the
art history brush.

Some fantasy added!

A Quick Design

Needs editing!

Next effort but not finished. Prefer the previous design - simpler.

Paint and Can

Paint cans in full digital watercolour - one of my favorite manipulation techniques.

The same image as above but one can is revealed normally using a mask.

Paint cans all retro with a slight watercolour filter.

And an image I am not entirely happy with. Tried to give it a retro look with a gradient map.

Let me know what you think!

Improved Koh Chang Cat Watercolour

This is an improvement to when I first did the watercolour effect on the same photograph.

Self Manipulated Self Portrait

This time using the art history brush and wet media brushes to paint on a blurred history snapshot, I created this arty self portrait of myself.

More Watercolour

City Hall in Watercolour

The photoshop watercolour effect is just awesome and I can't get enough of it.

N.B. The enlarged view is not the original file size and will look pixelated.

Kew Duck and Priory Cow in Watercolour

After my last post I did more research on the watercolour effect in Photoshop. Using brush dynamics and two watercolour brushes while changing the opacity of the brushes when painting on a mask, makes the effect stand out quite nicely.

Koh Chang Cat in Watercolour

Just for Fun

Madiba

Its been a while since I created something in Photoshop. Having an idea in my head for weeks I created this:

Wizardry

Not what I had in mind but after trial and error I'm reasonably happy with the effect.


Trying something new with the pen tool in photoshop.