Paint Foxy From the Five Night

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Paint Foxy From the FiveNights at Freddy's Seriesin Adobe Photoshopby Monika Zagrobelna 24 Jun 2015 1 Comment

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What You'll Be Creating


The Five Nights at Freddy's series has become a hit of the Internet. This simple

game with scary, but very likeable characters, and a literally haunting story has won

the hearts of many. With the fourth game possibly in development, and the movie

being created by a big studio, the hype is not likely to die soon.

In this tutorial we're going to create a digital painting of my favorite of the crew,

Foxy. Have you ever wondered what this lad would look like if he were a bit more

realistic? Let's find out! By the way, you'll learn how to create a painting from

scratch, step by step. We'll start with an idea, and we'll paint it all using only two

brushes and a few textures.

Tutorial Assets

Fabric Texture

Rust Texture

Wall Texture 1

Wall Texture 2

1. Sketch the Idea


Step 1This is a very important part. Even though you may think you know what you want

to draw, you can never know if it's the best you can do. Why not find out now, when

there's nothing to lose?

Create a New File, turn on some fitting music, and sketch a series of very, very

sloppy figures at a small scale. Use a textured brush for this, like Texture Sketch

from my set. Don't zoom in, draw from a distance, and don't even think about it. A

few lines here and there, and go to another one.

Step 2Set the Opacity to 20% and create a New Layer. Zoom in a bit, make the brush

smaller, and try to see something in these figures. There's no need for any details;


just try to define the general shape of what you see.

Step 3Choose one that you like the most. If there's nothing you like, repeat steps 1 and 2.

They should take so little time that you shouldn't worry about it.

When you have your favorite pose, select it with the Lasso Tool (L), and copy and

paste to a new file. Make it as big as possible (4000 x 4000 is my favorite, but

anything above 2000 should be fine).

Lower the Opacity of the sketch and create a New Layer.


Step 4If needed, define the perspective of the scene. It doesn't need to be anything


complex. All you need to do is to understand what the floor looks like.


Step 5Create a New Layer and draw a more detailed sketch of our character, still using

the previous sketch as a base.


Step 6For now it's looking more like a generic fox character, so let's add some Foxy


features, like a slightly dislocated jaw and a ripped body. Use the Eraser Tool (E) to

remove the parts that you don't need and replace them with new lines.

Notice it's still a very sloppy sketch, without details and clean strokes. In digital

painting we don't always need perfect line art, because a lot of details come with

painterly strokes. We shouldn't predict them before the painting phase, because at

that point we don't really know what we're creating.

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Step 1Delete the layers you don't need, leaving only the sketch. Create a New Layer and

draw an outline of the whole body with a hard brush, like Ink from my set. Don't

leave any breaks!


Step 2Use the Magic Wand Tool (W) to select the area outside the outline, and then

invert the selection (Control-Shift-I). Create a New Layer and fill the selection with

the Paint Bucket Tool (G). You can now delete the outline on the previous layer.


Step 3Place the sketch layer right above the shape. Right click it and select Create

Clipping Mask. Every layer placed above the shape and clipped this way will share

its boundaries.


Step 4Create a New Layer between the mask and the shape. It should be automatically

clipped, but if not, clip it manually. Fill the layer with a "color of darkness"the

darkest shade you can use without making the sketch disappear. In my case it's a

very dark blue.


Step 5Create a New Layer below and fill the background with the same color.


Step 6Create a New Layer at the top (don't forget to clip it). This part is about getting rid of

the sketch while still keeping the details it describes. Use white to paint whole body,

leaving only dark crevices. Don't think about lighting and don't be overly careful. It's

still just a sketch!


Step 7Create a layer below the previous one and fill it with black. Then Merge (Control-E)

them both. Delete all layers between the mask and this one. Change the Blend

Mode to Multiply to see our new "lineless line art".


3. Add Colors and Texture

Step 1Create a New Layer between these two. Now you can safely paint the flat colors.

They should have a neutral brightnessdarker rather than brighter.


Step 2Paste the Fabric Texture. Go to Filter > Liquify and use the tools you can find

there to modify the shape of the texture and make it more 3D. Then erase the parts

outside of the pants.


Step 3You can play with the Opacity of the texture to make it more fitting. Layer Mask is

also good for adjusting textures.


Step 4Paste the Rust Texture and adjust its size to one of the metal parts. Use the Free

Transform Tool (Control-T) and its Warp Mode to adjust the shape.

Then erase/remove the redundant parts with a Layer Mask.

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Use the same method to add rust to other parts.


4. Add Lighting to the Scene

Step 1Time for the most important part. By adding proper lighting to the scene we're

creating an illusion of reality. Lines and colors are more of a symbol, but lighting is

what speaks directly to our brain.

Create a New Layer right above the background. Build the rest of the scene using

very simple shapes. I've decided to place Foxy in a small, dark room, where he

approached someone. The light comes from the open door, and Foxy's head is

going to be in the shadow for a dramatic effect.


Step 2Now, more details. I've added a night guard standing in the door and seeing the

scene, and then I remembered what Foxy's hide is, so I've added the curtains. Now

it's starting to make sense, but what really happened here is open to the

interpretation of the viewer.


Step 3Let's shade Foxy according to our freshly defined lighting. Open Window >

Adjustments and add the Hue/Saturation adjustment. Check Colorize and make it

blue and dark.


Step 4Lower the Opacity if needed to leave a bit of color in the shadow.


Step 5The adjustment layer has a mask on its right. Paint on it with black to reveal the

light, and with white to bring shadow back.


Step 6Create a New Layer above the adjustment. Use the Eyedropper Tool (I) to pick the

color of the fur in the light. Make it brighter and then paint the strongly illuminated

areas.


Step 7Create a layer above all the clipped ones. Make the brush smaller and use the

same color to paint details.


Step 8Make the color even brighter and cooler (bluer). Use it to paint fine details of the fur.

Don't touch the shadow with it, and stay away from white.


Step 9Add details to the pants, too. Make sure to not use too bright a tintthis material is

matte and thus not very reflective.


Step 10Shade the metal parts. Be very careful and use a different shade for both rusty and

smooth parts.


5. Finish the Painting

Step 1This is possibly the hardest part. Even though the picture looks almost done, the

way between "almost" and "done" may be longer than all the steps before,

depending how polished you want to have it.

Let's start by adding a glowing eye on a New Layer. I've used a classic soft round

brush for this, but a simple hard dot would do, too. I've also added some blood on

the teeth. Notice it's not red, but rather dark purple.


Step 2The light hitting the floor and wall gets reflected not only to our eyes, but to Foxy's

body, too. We can use it to reveal the edges that stay hidden in the shadow.

First, use low saturated, bright blue to outline the metal parts, but only in the

shadow.


Step 3Make sure that the outline isn't too softyou can use the Eraser Tool to disturb it.


Step 4Use a low saturated, not very bright red to give a back light to the head and tail.

This way they'll be more visible. Do the same with the pants.


Step 5Let's outline the poor guy on the floor, too.


Step 6It's not only the floor that reflects light onto other objects. All of them reflect

somethingthat's how we can see them! Use the interaction between objects to

make them a whole.


Step 7Paste the Wall Texture 1 and set its Blend Mode to Overlay. Place it on the wall.


Step 8Paste the Wall Texture 2, changing its Blend Mode as before. Use the Free

Transform Tool (Control-T) to adjust its perspective. Hold Control and drag the

corners to get the effect shown below.


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Step 9Take a break, make yourself a coffee, and when you're back, look for mistakes. This

step is hard to describeyou just need to fix all those little things that don't look

right to you.


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Good job! Now you know how to create a detailed digital painting from scratch. Why

don't you go and paint all the other members of the crew with the same technique?

I'd love to see your results!

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About Monika Zagrobelna

I'm a Polish artist with a long experience indoing useless, but creative things. Since Irealized how bad I was after all these

years, I decided to take fate into my own hands andactually study things in order to draw them properly.My tutorials are the result of thorough studies - Ihope they help you as they helped me!

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Shahana Akter 20 days ago

Excellent! I like to work on Adobe Photoshop and your tutorial inspired me too much.

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