Bison Digital Painting Artwork
Hi everyone, today I would like to share with you a recent digital painting of a bison and the steps that went into creating it!
Step 1
I first created a colourful background. I was after quite warm colours for the sky, the ones you would see in a sunset and some various shades of green for the grass. I then created a rough outline for the bison.
Step 2
This next step involved painting the bison. I first used quite large brush strokes to place the basic colours and moved on to smaller brushes the more detailed it got. I did not want to much detail as I liked the impressionistic style.
Step 3
To make the final piece more interesting it involved capturing the lighting and contrast in shades. To do this I used a multiply layer to darken the colours away from the light (mostly under the bison) and an overlay layer to brighten areas such as the top and sides of the bison where the light would touch. This step makes all the difference as lighting is very important.
This is the finished result once all the steps have been followed!
Completed with a Wacom graphics tablet
Reference Image
What kind of Wacom tablet do you have ? I have the basic small one but I can't get used to watching the laptop screen instead of watching what I'm drawing , like I do when I draw on paper.
The Wacom Intuos which is the small one aswell. I know what you mean it can be quite tricky to make the connection. I remember struggling at first but got used to it and don't think about it now. Some people like to draw first and then scan it to paint digitally.
So maybe with time I get used to it. I saw that the bigger ones Cintiq , it's like drawing on a screen. But they are expensive.
Yeah the Cintiq ones look great but are expensive. Yes I think with time your brain does adapt making it more intuitive and not having to look at the tablet all the time.
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