Learning Curve 101

So on my path to learn more about digital painting, I decided to work on a landscape piece. This way I’m allowed to play as much as I want. A cloud can look like just about anything so I don’t have to be exact about anything. In this piece I’m also playing around with colour. I chose to go with a bright vibrant red/orange. I’ve started with the sky as shown below.

It doesn’t look like much at the moment. Just an orange background with some redish shapes crudely laid out. And that’s fine for now. What I’ve done is made an indication of a sun by spotting out yellow on an orange background. I’ve then created a new layer and made all the red shapes on top of it. I have then taken the smudge tool and moved the clouds around a bit. Like thus…

So now we are getting some shapes and things. I’m going to end up over doing the sky a bit. For one, I’m just fucking around so it really doesn’t matter. And for two, I want to really play with the brush a bit and figure out the best settings and such.

Oh and by the way, next time I decide to do a painting in an intense red, slap me up side the head. I can’t look at the screen for more then 5 min at a time because it’s killing my eyes.

Coming soon.. more sky then on to the castle!