I left myself a note about a week ago, and I kind of forgot about it. (See, I tend to remind myself to do things by writing myself emails occasionally. Usually late at night before I sleep) It’s been sitting in my inbox and I’ve just ignored it. I thought I had already did everything I needed to do, or in this case, write everything I needed to write about. However, I went to delete the message today and I noticed there actually was something I hadn’t talked about yet.
When I started this picture, I thought it was going to end up pretty dark and maybe a little deranged. But now it seems I went fully dark and deranged. This sort of reminds me of when I would visit my local movie rental place when I was a kid, and a good portion of the scary movies had really messed up artwork on the cover of the VHS tapes.
So far today I’ve spent about an hour working on the picture I started yesterday. I feel that it might not look a whole lot different from what I posted yesterday, as I was mostly just adding some yellow (as you can see clearly in the top left portion of the image) to highlight some areas. I also added some (and much better defined) faces!
I’m having a lot of fun with these brushes that I’ve been using over the past few days. For today’s work, which I’ve only just begun working on, I mostly painted with a rather large Photoshop paint brush. I’ll eventually use a much smaller one to work on a lot of tiny details. So far, I’m super happy with how it’s turning out. What do you think so far?
Most of the artwork I’ve uploaded and shared via my website has been roughly 2000 pixels by 2000 pixels, which probably wasn’t the best idea in the world. The larger the image, the longer it takes to load. So, I’ll keep my original versions on file, but from now on I think I’m going to continue to upload smaller variants of each piece of artwork I create. Lesson learned, I guess.
Sometimes you learn a lot more when you limit yourself with some rules. Today I decided I would draw the first thing that came to mind, while restricting my Photoshop tools to just one really large brush (But allowing myself to adjust pen pressure, as usual). It was a brush that I’ve never tried before, actually. It was a nice change of pace to try something new.
After painting another No Man’s Sky ship (I told you I was going to keep this up for awhile!) I decided that it looked pretty bland, so I messed around with it using some filters and the Photoshop tool that I use most often, the Mixer Brush. I feel that it turned out pretty awesome. Of course, you can’t really see the detail proper until you see it at it’s original size. Just click the image above and you’ll see that there’s quite a bit of varied detail and color.
