Spider Harp

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Spider Harp

Idea and SketchI often draw a lot of sketch, on computer or on paper. Each idea are precious, andcombining them are often a great deal to have original content. Firstly I wanted to drawa girl with a big dragon head up on her shoulder. In drawing the tiles skin of the dragonhead from side, I wanted to dispose them in a particular way. That's why I decide tomake them around the point of eyes. The pattern finally obtained was like a spider web :immediately I change my original idea to this new theme, changing the low part of neckof the dragon in a tree, and his eyes on a spider.



Sketch done on a A5 paper, scanned at 300 dpi

Digitalise it and first grays

After scan it a first time with a low definition ( 150dpi is enough ) I start to blur all with aGaussian blur before cut the element with selection tool under Photoshop CS2 . I definewith this way some layers : a background I fill with a circular gradient and a foregroundcomposed of the "character" layer and the "tree" layer. I paint some part with a darkbrush to have a start of interesting "material" to paint on after.You have probably a question in mind - Why blur at first ? Cause I want a smooth details,and the scan have a lot of grain and sharp details of pencils stroke. After blurring makethe painting more simplest for my way to paint.

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Bluring of the previous sketch, and play with value level



Black and White Painting

My separate layers are ideal to treat separately the background or the foreground. Onthe foreground I paint the most with Painter 9.5 digital airbrush / and Blenders, I likeacrylics too (for the trunk brush stroke , for example).

I help myself with a Daz 3D characters (Victoria). I setup the same type of pose, somelights for the head and the hand. It's make a good reference and a low-cost poser girl :) .Sometimes I print this reference to make more place on my screen. I try to paint using allthe grays levels: from the white light to the darkest shadows I can.On the background, I create a custom brush stroke to start to have some organicsmaterial. You can surely easily guess the shape of this brush on the visual behind. To hadsome more chaos, I make another layer on my background with a cloud filter (photoshop)and erase it a bit.



B&W painting with Painter 9.5I add another layer for foreground plants and vegetations (darker to divide the plan thebest). I draw the web on a new layer using the photoshop paths. I block the transparencyand I paint with white grays to have shiny spider web.



Photoshop vector tools for the spider webI add other details in Painter, focusing them on some part to attract the eyes :items /

hand / face / spider. I finally paste on the top of my layers various textures ( concrete /paint textures / wall photos ) I combine with layer effect, opacity and eraser. This add agood paper texture to the picture.



result



layer details

Colors

On the top of all my layers I had a layer with the "color" mode. I paint with a simpleround airbrush some colors. I try different color scheme cause it's easy to change withoutspending much time. (here you can see a version with blue colors, I studing at this

moment. I'm happy to kept this screen somewhere on my disc cause it's a good exempleon how the color play on the mood of the total scene ). My final colors will be as a startof autumn : orange / green / yellow / brown.



cold ambiant



warm ambiantFinal step is the time to create a new final layer on the top of all and paint coloringdetails. As the round drop of water on the spider web, or some delicate red touch on thelips. With the advice of the WIP forum, I change a lot of little mistakes (change thespider pose), and add textures pattern to the hat, and details to all the items of the girl.I had a neutral light from the left side to add volume to the back of girl. I collapse all mygray layer during this step to paint more fluently without "eating" all the memory of mycomputer , you can see the details of my layers.



final layer effect



final illustrationHope you enjoy this tutorial. Have a creative day !

- DeeVad

This tutorial was firstly published online by Cgarena here

Install :

Mypaint palette is a feature that wasn't merged into the 0.8.x series. May be for thefuture 0.9 series.This section will cover the basics, if you have another way for another system / software.Please use the comments to share this knowledge it can be usefull for others digital

painter.MypaintExtract the archive, and open Mypaint, go to the menu "Color" and "Load palette" , selectthe *.xml file in the /mypaint folder of the downloaded and extracted folder. And that'sall :)GimpExtract the archive, select the *.gpl files in the /gimp folder of the downloaded andextracted folder. Copy and paste them in the folder (your-user-name)/.gimp-2.6/palettes/ . At loading Gimp will recognise the 2 files :)PhotoshopExtract the archive, launch Photoshop and go to File->Edit->Preset Manager , and loadthe *.aco file (inside the /Photoshop of the downloaded and extracted folder. And that's

all :)

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