Slowvember progress.
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@Braden-Hallett Lol, well what you present here seems very organized and delineated. I guess behind the scenes might be a different story?
Either way, your presentation is therapeutic for my scattered brain. 
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Simple 5 value breakdown and first colour test. I really, REALLY like it.
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@Braden-Hallett I love this color. beautiful early autumn feel.
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@Braden-Hallett I looked at your color study closely on this one. Did you paint with color straight on top of the sketched line work? (I mean this does not look at a color layer, or multiply layer on top of a value sketch).
I struggled to get a way to do color study I liked. Layer properties such as (multiply or color) easily makes the color look muddy. My current method is to use hue/saturation adjustment to give my value sketch a tone, and I paint on top of it with a normal layer. I am curious on what is your process.
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@Braden-Hallett Wow I love this one so much, great illustration for autumn season.
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@xin-li I have a really hard time doing colour studies consistently that I like, too. It's infuriating
What you see here is a sketch layer set to multiply and a value layer underneath. Overtop of that is a colorize layer (I'm using painter, but I THINK that in photoshop it's a color layer.) A colorize layer only alters hue and saturation, but doesn't change the value.
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@MichaelaH I friggin' love autumn
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@xin-li Sometimes I just paint overtop with whatever colour i want, too
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@Braden-Hallett thanks for the explaintion. Hmm. Your colorize layer does not look muddy or overly saturated. I do that as well, I often having a hard time with colorizing, because it feels a bit random. I eventually got something I satisfied, but it feels like a guessing game for me. I think I will just do more of paint overtop with whatever color :-).
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Sketch!
I think I redrew that friggin' mouse rider at least 12 times.
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Hyah!
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Being 100% honest, I like the silhouette of the mouse rider's head/hat area much better that you had in the color value test. Just looking at them side by side the shapes looks a lot stronger at first glance.
Trying to come up with a technical reason for that, maybe the hat is taking my eye too far to the right and out of the image?
Curious how others feel about it or if it was just me.
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@jdubz I absolutely agree! I much prefer the original silhouette.
I spent a good hour drawing and redrawing and redrawing and couldn't get it to look right, so I decided to move forward with an option that worked 'okay'.
I'm gonna try redrawing the mouserider so that it more closely follows the original sihl, though.
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Redid an idea and used the colours I'm planning on using for the slowvember piece as well as the process that I've worked out.
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Beautiful color. also I started to notice your unique way of paint cloud in the background
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@Braden-Hallett How are you so prolific at this? Do you have a job/family responsibilities or is this your full time work? I am amazed at your work ethic and passion (as well as your art). I'd be interested in knowing what a typical Braden Hallett day looks like.
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@xin-li I do like drawin' them clouds
@chrisaakins I saved up some money when I was working as a teacher in the butt-end of nowhere BC. Right now I have no responsibilities, so I'm doing this full time
I wake up at 5:00, work from 6:30 - 9:30, then 10:00 to 11:30, and then 1:30 to 3:00. So a good 6 hours of drawing minimum. Then I fit in some sketching and whatever I feel like for the rest of the evening. -
Second process and colour test.
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Rough paint. Throwin' colour around. Pretty much ready to settle in and paaaaaaaaaaint away. Hooray!
@jdubz I resketched and reinked the mouse rider a few more times. For some strange reason this was still the best option of the inked versions both for sense of movement and silh. I still love the original silhouette, though
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@Braden-Hallett said in Slowvember progress.:
I have no responsibilities
Man am I jealous!!! I wish I would have done something like that. I'm lucking to get an hour a day to do art with crazy ass job and crazy ass family LOL.
