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Define the background with more saturated colors. In my scene it’s night (so the sky is dark-blue) and there’s a fire somewhere near (maybe the warioress has something to do with it?). Blue-orange is the most classic combination and it works everywhere, trust me. Even in the day scene it’s good to use both colors to light (orange as sun’s light, and blue as sky’s reflection).

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Now I’ll show you a trick for strong lights – pick a light color and choose Linear Light mode for your brush. Before touching anything, make sure your background is on one layer. Then paint the light on it, using this mode frugally, since too much light could kill the scene (unless it’s your style, then go on).

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Step 5

Select the layer with the sketch (make sure it’s right over the body base) and choose “Make Clipping Mask” from the Layer menu (or click Ctrl + Shift+ G). This way all the parts of the sketch that are over the body base will be clipped. There may be a lot of layers within the clipping mask. Create a new one under the sketch, it’s going to be used for shading. Lower the opacity of the sketch to make it a non-disturbing template.

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Take a hard brush with low Flow (15-20%) and paint the shadows. Don’t dive into details, this phase is supposed to help you get rid of the sketch. Remember about light source!

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Step 6

Before we dive into details of the body, it’s good to complete the outfit – it’s going to cover a lot of skin, so painting these parts of skin would be a waste of time. Sketch the outfit with strong lines on a new layer outside of the clipping mask.

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Now do the same as with the body – paint a base for the outfit, clip the sketch and lower its opacity.

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Step 7

Hair can be considered as a part of the outfit too. Paint the strands with hard brush (60-70% Opacity), then fill empty spaces on a lower layer to fully cover the head. Cross the strands all the time, even the straightest hair tangle. It’s good to draw the strands as X’s, not lines.

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Step 8

Let’s come back to the outfit. Part of it will be made of red leather, the other part – of metal.

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10 responses to “Create a Fantasy Warrior Painting From Scratch”

  1. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Unable to download the “Pose References” file … Please advise. Thanks

  2. Trevor Garratt Avatar
    Trevor Garratt

    Doing things like this from scratch really makes you appreciate the work that goes into it.

  3. Maidul Islam Avatar
    Maidul Islam

    Some Fantastic images here, some really creative, some excellent timing.

  4. Kakaman Avatar
    Kakaman

    kaka

  5. frederick123 Avatar
    frederick123

    amazing tutorial. Just bought the graphic tablet, so I was not sure, how to handle no line art, this helped a lot. Thanks

  6. Junaid Ahmed Avatar
    Junaid Ahmed

    I was just looking about that, thanks for worth sharing.

  7. Rocky Avatar
    Rocky

    haven’t tried it yet but going to in a few days. just want to say thanks for taking your time to do this and looks great I hope to be able to do it to :)

  8. waagraphics Avatar
    waagraphics

    why this type brushes not work properly waagraphics.com

  9. nik Avatar
    nik

    what brush do you use to scketch ?I’ m super amatuer on this !

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      interesting…i like it

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