Bamboo frog Digital Painting

1. BAMBOO FROG
Digital Art, Illustration, Painting, drawing
Digital Painting in 49 hs.
SOFTWARE: Photoshop CS6 + wacom bamboo create pen and touch
Inspiration: WACOM FANS

2. DRAW
#1 Drawing on paper frog
#2 Define lines and where are the shadows
#3 Create shadows with pencil and blend with your finger

3. DIGITAL PAINTING PHOTOSHOP
PANTONE
#4 Create the pantone paint, use a picture as a reference
> FILTER / Pixelate / MOSAIC (CUBE SIZE 52)
> USE THE DROPPER TOOL to select
> Paint colors on a new layer

4. #5 Create a brush
> New document of 500 x 500 px
> Design your brush
> Convert brush

5. #6 PAINTING
> New Layer
Paint the drawing with our pantone

6. #7 Paint the brightness
> New Layer
> white brush, opacity 15%

7. #8 Paint the shadows
> New Layer
> black brush, opacity 25%
#9 Mix colors to improve the quality
> Mixer Brush tool
HUMIDITY 50%
LOAD 60%
MIX 100%
FLOW 100%

8. #10 Creating the background
> New Layer
> Using a cloud brush, your choice
> use pantone colors that make contrast with the main drawing
#11 Equalize colors frog with background

9. #12 Create shadows of the frog on the pencil
> New Layer (under the frog)
> Black brush, opacity 44%

10. 3D EFFECT
#13
> Copy half, the background
#14
> Gaussian Blur 9,0 px

11. #15 Create line where simulated image delete
> New Layer
> draw lines
#16 create PATTERN
> New Document
500px x 500px
300dpi
> paint squares ( PATTERN.jpg)
> define PATTERN

12. #17 Applying, line effect (#15)
> Superposition of PATTERN
Fusion Normal
Opacity 100%
Scale 100%
TEXTURES
#18 Create textures in the frog
> New Layer
> Use brush to your choice
afterwards, try opacities and effects in the layer (textures)

14. Iván Pawluk
Digital Artist / Photography / Design
Rosario / Argentina
ivanpawluk@hotmail.com
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