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Hey! Here's a new painting for you guys. I felt like painting another forest scene, I hope you like it!

This one ended up being kind of a 2-in-1 scene, and took a bit longer than I had hoped. The extra couple of days I spent did help a lot in making me happier with the end result, so I'm kinda glad I didn't undercook it just to hit arbitrary deadlines I set for myself. Hopefully you guys appreciate that as well. 😅

Here are the download links for the rewards for this illustration:
WIP images
Short time lapse video
Long time lapse video
PSD files  

I've included the Paintstorm brushes I used for this illustration in the attachments here as well, hopefully some of you will find those useful.

The portrait doodle I added this time is meant to eventually be a part of a tiny tutorial I've been wanting to make for a long time, where I'll try to explain the Hard Light blending mode and how I use it to fix or improve my colors and values. Hopefully that'll be useful to some of you when I eventually get around to finishing it!

But I'll probably first focus on doing some new sketches over the next few days now. I'm looking forward to that. :)

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Griffin Barrows

Ufff, the way the guys gush so much sauce 😮‍💨 Also, the chicks are like... melon priestesses 🍈👀 haha, this is so sexy (and pretty)

Anonymous

Awesome stuff! I'm interested to see if the forest sketch gets finished 😍 the portrait is great, your art style works so well with fantasy themes and your use of color is wonderful!

Anonymous

Looking forward to the tutorial Yayy I've been struggling with using hardlight to create the base color with some skin color zone over the greyscale value. Using some softlight to pop the color after sometimes I feel like I have no control over it. I hope your simple tutorial will help. I admit I am also weak at studying a certain method in complex illustration. Usually, it has a lot of aspects, composition, contrast value, dark on light on dark, etc. So a portrait or bust-up figure is just perfect to start learning 🤗

Seth

Might add this to my top five favorites of yours. Amazing

calm

Yeah, hopefully the tutorial will help a bit! If you catch yourself just guessing what the result will be when you use a color on the Hard Light or Soft Light layers, then it's a good idea to start picking colors very close to 50% grey and gradually work your way out from there until you find the right color. Maybe that can help you feel a bit more in control. :) When working on those Hard Light or Soft Light layers I also feel like it's important to set the color picker to pick colors only from the current layer in order to maintain control over how colors blend on those layers. Incidentally that's the main reason I feel like I can't work in Procreate, because I've never found that setting for the color picker there, lol. Hopefully your software has it though!

Camih

Woo, awesome illustration! Can't wait for the tutorial!