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Julia Zieger
Raquel Costa
Tony Harmer
Freelance Visual Artist & Adobe Live Host Teacher at Digiversity.tv
Illustrator & Creative Director Little Black Spot Creative Studio
Digital Media Ninja The Work Smarter, Not Harder Dojo
Magdeburg, Germany
Braga, Portugal
Cambridge, United Kingdom
3 Artists, 3 Paintings
Inspired by the idea of Disney's "4 Artists Paint 1 Tree" we came together to paint the same subject in our own, unique styles, workflows, and software of choice. Hoping for completely different interpretations, compositions, styles, color themes, and creative approaches, we were not disappointed with the outcome of our first Artketeers Session!
Our first Artketeer Session on Adobe Live was just the beginning!
Art prompt
We asked the Adobe Live Community on Discord to vote for one of the three art prompts we came up with. The Prehistoric Pigeon knocked it out of the park!
»Prehistoric Pidgeon«
Time to brainstorm!
What if pigeons were our real ancestors, living in caves? What if pigeons looked like pterodactyl? What if pigeons were mammoths? What if pigeons were the attraction in Jurassic Park today? What if they lived in the prehistoric soup, just like bacteria? What if Pigeons were as big as a T-Rex? What if the Pigeon hasn’t changed at all since the stone age?
After having a lot of fun with my sketchbook, and just coming up with crazy ideas for my prehistoric pigeon, I decided to go with this one, and setting him up in a apocalyptic scenario. A Popcorn Meteor rain is hitting the earth and the pigeon's last hour has struck! DUN DUN DUNNNN!
Refining the Sketch
Watch the video to see how I refined the sketch on my Ipad in Fresco
The sketch I drew in my sketchbook with my red prisma color pencil
From Fresco to PS
After Sketching many different Pigeon characters, and having fun in my sketchbook, I took a photo of the drawing I was most happy with. I imported it to Adobe Fresco on my iPad and used it as a base layer.
With a pencil brush, I started drawing over my initial sketch to get a final, refined sketch.In the process, I redesigned the wings and added a tattoo, a bone on his head, and a bracelet. I opened my refined sketch in Photoshop and painted a layer for every big important shape.
Every Important shape is painted on a separate layer to control the values.
Shadows
Painting in Greyscale
To paint the shadows in, I used the shape of the pigeon as a mask on a new layer group and set the group to mulitply. I added seperate layers inside the group to paint in the form shadows, cast shadows and ambient occlusion. Having the 3 different kinds of shadows on individual layers gives you the freedom to edit and repaint one of them without messing up the others. By having the whole group set to "Multiply" the shadows blend into each other without creating a "stacking shadow" effect.
Instead of using a blend mode on each layer, create a layer group with a blending mode and add the layers inside.
Light Group blending mode set to "Screen"
Lights
I used the same workflow for the lights. The Group for the light layers is set to the blending mode "Screen". Paint the Direct Light, Bounce Light, Highlights and Reflections on separate layers to have more freedom when repainting or changing them individually.
Hover over the drawing to see the painting without light and shadow layers!
Shadow Group blending mode set to "Multiply"
Those basic shapes of the pigeon are on sepeate layers in this group. The light and the shadow layer groups blend in with them.
Greyscale to Color
Hover over the drawing to see the difference between greyscale and color!
When I am done with the greyscale image I start adding color. At this stage all my shadows and lights are painted in. I create a new layer and set it's blending mode to "Color". Every color has three properties. These are Hue, Saturation and Value.
Color
When we set a layer to the blending mode "color" it starts to blend with the layers underneath, while preserving the values of the base layers and mixing it with the saturation and hue of the color layer. This means my color layer respects the values of the shadow and light layers below and brings in the satuartion and hue of the color I chose.
Hue
Saturation
Value
The Layers with the Color are all set to the blending mode "Color"
With a "Solid Color Fill" Layer you can quickly change the design by simply clicking on the thumbnail and choosing a different color.
Here you can see how the color layer is mixing with the values underneath. You can use multiple layers for your color. This way, you can separate the colors for different shapes and control the color of the fill and bounce light.
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Click on the Avatars to see their Behance Pages
Julia Zieger
Raquel Costa
Tony Harmer
Freelance Visual Artist & Adobe Live Host Teacher at Digiversity.tv
Illustrator & Creative Director Little Black Spot Creative Studio
Digital Media Ninja The Work Smarter, Not Harder Dojo
Magdeburg, Germany
Braga, Portugal
Cambridge, United Kingdom
3 Artists, 3 Paintings
Inspired by the idea of Disney's "4 Artists Paint 1 Tree" we came together to paint the same subject in our own, unique styles, workflows, and software of choice. Hoping for completely different interpretations, compositions, styles, color themes, and creative approaches, we were not disappointed with the outcome of our first Artketeers Session!
Our first Artketeer Session on Adobe Live was just the beginning!
Art prompt
We asked the Adobe Live Community on Discord to vote for one of the three art prompts we came up with. The Prehistoric Pigeon knocked it out of the park!
»Prehistoric Pidgeon«
Time to brainstorm!
What if pigeons were our real ancestors, living in caves? What if pigeons looked like pterodactyl? What if pigeons were mammoths? What if pigeons were the attraction in Jurassic Park today? What if they lived in the prehistoric soup, just like bacteria? What if Pigeons were as big as a T-Rex? What if the Pigeon hasn’t changed at all since the stone age?
After having a lot of fun with my sketchbook, and just coming up with crazy ideas for my prehistoric pigeon, I decided to go with this one, and setting him up in a apocalyptic scenario. A Popcorn Meteor rain is hitting the earth and the pigeon's last hour has struck! DUN DUN DUNNNN!
Refining the Sketch
Watch the video to see how I refined the sketch on my Ipad in Fresco
The sketch I drew in my sketchbook with my red prisma color pencil
From Fresco to PS
After Sketching many different Pigeon characters, and having fun in my sketchbook, I took a photo of the drawing I was most happy with. I imported it to Adobe Fresco on my iPad and used it as a base layer.
With a pencil brush, I started drawing over my initial sketch to get a final, refined sketch.In the process, I redesigned the wings and added a tattoo, a bone on his head, and a bracelet. I opened my refined sketch in Photoshop and painted a layer for every big important shape.
Every Important shape is painted on a separate layer to control the values.
Shadows
Painting in Greyscale
To paint the shadows in, I used the shape of the pigeon as a mask on a new layer group and set the group to mulitply. I added seperate layers inside the group to paint in the form shadows, cast shadows and ambient occlusion. Having the 3 different kinds of shadows on individual layers gives you the freedom to edit and repaint one of them without messing up the others. By having the whole group set to "Multiply" the shadows blend into each other without creating a "stacking shadow" effect.
Instead of using a blend mode on each layer, create a layer group with a blending mode and add the layers inside.
Light Group blending mode set to "Screen"
Lights
I used the same workflow for the lights. The Group for the light layers is set to the blending mode "Screen". Paint the Direct Light, Bounce Light, Highlights and Reflections on separate layers to have more freedom when repainting or changing them individually.
Hover over the drawing to see the painting without light and shadow layers!
Shadow Group blending mode set to "Multiply"
Those basic shapes of the pigeon are on sepeate layers in this group. The light and the shadow layer groups blend in with them.
Greyscale to Color
Hover over the drawing to see the difference between greyscale and color!
When I am done with the greyscale image I start adding color. At this stage all my shadows and lights are painted in. I create a new layer and set it's blending mode to "Color". Every color has three properties. These are Hue, Saturation and Value.
Color
When we set a layer to the blending mode "color" it starts to blend with the layers underneath, while preserving the values of the base layers and mixing it with the saturation and hue of the color layer. This means my color layer respects the values of the shadow and light layers below and brings in the satuartion and hue of the color I chose.
Hue
Saturation
Value
The Layers with the Color are all set to the blending mode "Color"
With a "Solid Color Fill" Layer you can quickly change the design by simply clicking on the thumbnail and choosing a different color.
Here you can see how the color layer is mixing with the values underneath. You can use multiple layers for your color. This way, you can separate the colors for different shapes and control the color of the fill and bounce light.