Nursing battle robot

[treeshark]

Here's a demo I did for a studio where I freelance. There is a step by step demo at the link below.http://www.treeshark.com/images/Tutor/Paint7.jpg http://www.treeshark.com/images/Tutor/Detail.jpg
Step by step (http://www.treeshark.com/tutindex.html)

[Matt Smith]

AWWW a robot with feelings. I like this piece and the looseness you went about doing it. I need to get more loose with my work, I couldnt do this in 4 hours, I would be way to anal about it. I also checked out your site. Really nice stuff. Keep up the good work

[fungi]

wow you have really inspired me with this peice, and the step by step has really helped me and is now added to my bookmarks. so thank you for that.

the actual pic is really really nice, i love the lighting and the textures you put in. im glad you changed the head also, the original one looked ok but was kinda big. also the background is lovely. now i must go and try a painting myself!

great work! keep it up
cya

[cateaic]

I learned alot of good techniques from the step by step..Thanks! To pull that out in 2 hours amazes me. I thought youre rendering and lighting were very well done.

"Next I Make several copies of the picture on new layers and give them each a different colour balance from warm to cool. Then using layer masks I paint them in and out to get a richer mix of colour and reinforce the warm light from the left."
hmm..this sounds like a really cool technique but I couldnt quite grasp what you meant.

[treeshark]

From photoshop er.. six I think you have a thing called a layer mask so you can paint the transparency in and out. A simple example a cylinder.
http://www.treeshark.com/images/draw/cyl.jpg
Starting from left lowest layer first grey original next up the warm copy then the cool. I create a layer mask for the warm and the cool and fill each with black this causes both to vanish. Then if I paint say on the warm layermask with white any place I paint warm light appears I f I paint black then it goes away again. End result far right. Try it you will soon see the possibilities for fine tuning an image.

[bbwolf]

Nice atmosphere and composition. Nothing too overdone, everything viral is clear to see and your step by step tutorial is great. Especially the example of the three tones to get the shapes correct. I learned about that technique only recently at the workshop in amsterdam an it allready helped me a lot. I´ll recommend yer tut fer sure. Thanks. Nice work.

[cateaic]

Hey thanks for taking the time to do the visual...it really helped alot! Im gonna go try it right now..=)