'Painting' in Photoshop
 

This is something new I'm trying. I sketched an ODST dude from Halo so my ghey sketchbook for my ghey art class has some content, and decided to take a pic of it and color it in photoshop. Let me know what you think. It's pretty fun, since I suck at actual painting.

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wow i straight suck at drawing anything but you got skill man good shit

Looks good, only thing id say is work on the circles that are like lights or whatever on left side of the helmet.

It's not done yet, I'm doing all of the basic shading and then going back and erasing what needs to be, and doing details.
This is where I am right now

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Kevin GOT talent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HALO!

Little more progress

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Good work Kevin. It's lookin' pretty nice so far.

Thanks evan. Pretty much done with shading the guy. Now to do background, then coloring.
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Coloring it is going to be a bitch since I'm colorblind..lol. I'll probably have a B&W version then colored.

wish i could draw like that, nice job!!!!

Some color
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Nice work Pee. I'm assuming you're using a tablet?

Pee,

ive been posting on another forum called www.retouchpro.com

those guys there are pretty awesome, and they seem to spend a LOT of time painting in photoshop.

it is looking pretty good, but if you have any problems and need some guidance check them out.

Thanks man, and nope..did the sketch with a mechanical pencil, took a photo with my camera. Then did the whole thing with a mouse in photoshop, used a drop shadow brush, variable opacities and flow amounts. 21 layers.
I'll have to check this out, after doing this one I think it's a pretty badass way to shade/color drawings.

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looks sick. I was just gunna say to fix the USNC letters but you did already.

Yeah lol..that was bothering me, I can write letters for shit.

I still want to do something with face mask, it just doesn't pop enough.

All done, B&W version too

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jesus christ dude, do yourself a MASSIVE favor and meet your new best friend

http://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Small-P...2632870&sr=8-1

it's cheap and it KICKS ASS, it makes photoshop SOOOO much easier especially if you have good eye-pencil coordination which you clearly do.

i wouldnt imagine working photoshop without one.

I think you have amazing skills that make me jealous! I am great at stick figures and that is really where my skills stop, lol.

Amazing skills is an understatement. I wish I could draw that well with photoshop. That's incredible!

I've tried using tablets like that before, but I still prefer a mouse to one...just can't stand it. But Kevin, these are fantastic. Have you thought about printing and selling this kind of stuff?

I wish I had some form of artistic talent........ too bad

Kevin, how does your color blindness affect your art? What colors do you have problems with, all of the sigs and stuff you have posted up looks great, was just wondering?

A lot of shades...like, I can't tell the difference between a bright green or yellow, some orange to green, dark green/brown, purple/blue, etc. Like I don't know if the sky in the picture is yellow or green. lol

Damn Kevin that's impressive.

Thats pretty badass you did that with a mouse. I really need to get back into drawing and trying out painting in photoshop. I was originally an animation major.

its multicolored... grey at the highest point then yellow fading into orange closer to the ground.

Yeah, I meant the middle of the sky where it's yellow, I couldn't tell if it was yellow or green ya heeaaar

Here's the next one...M1A2 Abrams. Almost done with the sketch, got to do the tracks, wheels, background and fore ground.

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This one is much more detailed than the last..haha

Everything on the Abram looks good except the barrel. I would erase that and try again. It looks short and is definitely out of line and bent at the big section in the barrel. But like I said, looks amazing other than that...