Averil ✒️ DoomBloomArtApr 1

I thought I‘d share a bit of my process, Inspired by @molentum‘s fantastic blog post yesterday about lighting before local color. Here‘s a piece I did last year with the same idea. It goes clean sketch/lines » shadows (NOT values) » gradient map » local color multiply » overpaint

And the thought is to establish the warmer vs cooler tints as the foundation before getting to the final values (although I did a very rough local color layer to „preview“ the final result at this stage)

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@doombloomart whenever i see processes like this my brain just stops working 😂
ive been recommended gradient maps and greyscale to colour workflows so many times before but i always just come back to my "single layer painting on top of sketch" process (or even without sketch if im feeling spicy)..
it just aint meant for me 🙊
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@artbyeliza And that's completely fair! I think at some point, layer management is a detriment too.

I tend to think of layers as tools to emulate traditional art techniques: if watercolor is translucent and you have ink underneath, it makes sense to have a digital ink layer on top (or to multiply the watercolor layer on top, same result if the ink is black). Oil painting? Might as well work on one layer, keep maybe a handful for convenience but otherwise nah

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Show threadEliza has movedApr 1
@doombloomart i really really want to try oil painting or acrylics that dont dry up quickly 😩
i just never get to it... (+ its hard!!!)
so painting digitally it is for me 
Show threadAveril ✒️ DoomBloomArtApr 1
@artbyeliza I never get to oil painting either because it just feels so messy compared to water based mediums, but I really want to as well when I have more spoons again
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@doombloomart cursed with a lack of spoons 😔 🤝