Mountain

wolf · newbie! Joined: Apr 08, 2003 Posts: 42 Location: Singapore

A scenery scene done in Photoshop. This pic is originally from a calender. Did this pic to practise painting scenery.

AlDim · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:31 am Post subject:

I've got just one question... how do you do this in Photoshop? Smile

atikiN · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:41 am Post subject:

That looks amazing.

wolf · newbie! Joined: Apr 08, 2003 Posts: 42 Location: Singapore

How i did it...

First, I gave a basic outline and middle tone of various elements for the whole picture(then I will know where my sky and mountains are and to roughly know the colour I can use later . Then, I slowing add in details, working from back to front.

Details of clouds and smoke are added in quite late in the stage of my work since the highlights,shadows and colour of my mountains and sky are more important.

I used a Lot of 10 and 20% opacity brushes, quite a lot of smudging and some other brushes.

Hope that answer some of your questions, AIDim

atikiN · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:12 am Post subject:

How long did you spend on this?

AlDim · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:22 am Post subject:

Thanks for the info.
I never get to drawing scenery and advanced coloring in Photoshop. I guess that's because doing it with a lousy mouse is pretty much impossible Smile

Anyway, that's a great drawing, it just looks like the cliff is less detailed than the rest.

Yebyosh · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:42 am Post subject:

Wow, how much did they pay you to do that? Razz

Very good piece of CG. Do you do this for character art as well?

wolf · newbie! Joined: Apr 08, 2003 Posts: 42 Location: Singapore

Haha... that's what kind of result you get with a lousy moniter. Before what you see now, it's worse. On my moniter, the whole picture look good. However, once I browse with my company's moniter, it's was horrible. A lot of brush marks could be seen, the cliff turned out really ugly.

The cliff do seem like it lost detail since I didn't want to spend ages on getting cracks for the cliff.

Spent about 3 nights to finish this work...

I do the same for character art. Depends on what style I'm doing.

Actually, it's not really necessary to use wacom for doing painting in computer. I did see some CG works done by this artist using only mouse. Man, it was amazing. It's some realistic looking. Too bad I didn't take note of the URL.

AlDim · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:15 am Post subject:

hyperlink · newbie! Joined: Jun 22, 2004 Posts: 4

I know this is an old thread and I apologize for digging it up.. but omigawd.. that picture is absolutely fantastic.
Did you use a mouse for this?
Anyhow, great work there.. I hope to see more of your works
Smile

TerranLive · newbie! Joined: Jun 21, 2004 Posts: 43

I been suffering with a mouse for yearsssss...and the pain keep on going and going

but rest assure...soon I will "finally" get myself a pen tablet
NO, not the pen tablet pc...I still have a long way till I get there
haha but it won't be a Wacom, can't afford them, Sad

I really like that mountain, it's great...what magic a pen can do huh, haha
(I should stop using "my lousy mouse" excuse for not working on new projects, haha)

but still that mountain is great...I wish people pay me to do drawing too, been doing them for a while and yet not a single penny... Sad

bakanekonei · Conscript Joined: Jan 30, 2004 Posts: 196 Location: USA

i think the clouds down on the bottom right are by far the best part of the picture.

TerranLive · newbie! Joined: Jun 21, 2004 Posts: 43

I finally got it guys, my tablet...and it's a wacom too, yes yes yes...for 99 bucks, well total was 105.99

Marso · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject:

wow thats cool.

butte · newbie! Joined: Apr 07, 2005 Posts: 10

Really nice. Did u use tablet?