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David Revoy

Process:
1. Sketch
2. Color flat, neutral light
3. Shading
4. Contrast and Glow
- Software: Krita
- Source: peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/art
- Wallpaper: peppercarrot.com/en/wallpapers
License: CC-By

Step 1 (sketch) of a digital painting with a cartoony painterly style but with advanced shading. The scene is at night, in the middle of a forest in winter. Pine trees and snow in background. In the middle of the scene stands a funny very tall dragon. He has horns like a dear. Carrot, the cat, is on one of them and hang a decorative set of colored lanterns like a rainbow. The dragon is not really sure about this decoration. Meanwhile, Pepper, a young witch , just found in a box a shiny large yellow star. She share her excitement with a large smile.
Step 2. The color flat, painted with neutral light environment, without line-art but some ambient occlusion.
Step 3. The Shaded version, I use 'Hard Light' blending mode and Clipping Group.
Step 4. Post processing, mainly colors, contrast to check all the luminosity values are in the right places and foreground elements. Additional 'lens blur' is added too and Color Balance.
10 Dec 2022 at 9:35 | Open on framapiaf.org
16 comments
mushroom 🍄
My Actual Brain

@davidrevoy thank you so much for sharing this. I wish I had this skill set. I think your artwork is so beautiful! It’s nice to see how the creative process is broken down.:ac_heart:

10 Dec 2022 at 9:43 | Open on fosstodon.org
Gorobar

@davidrevoy wow, great. You even did the landscape version 😀

10 Dec 2022 at 9:47 | Open on rollenspiel.social
David Revoy

@gorobar 😉 Yes, and thanks for suggesting it, it was a good idea 👍

10 Dec 2022 at 18:01 | Open on framapiaf.org
vor

@davidrevoy

I guess that the "Fête des lumières" coming to your hometown, may be an inspiration source :)

10 Dec 2022 at 10:03 | Open on mamot.fr
David Revoy

@Vor Hehe, I saw it from the outside but never visited in. I had a quick look: festivaldeslanternes-montauban , 19€ the entry, or 16€ for those with an address in Montauban (😅 Ha oui, quand même!). Maybe I'll visit, it's until 5 February.

10 Dec 2022 at 18:14 | Open on framapiaf.org
Artha

@davidrevoy That shading is gorgeous!

And I don't even know how to start learning shading.

10 Dec 2022 at 10:12 | Open on mastodon.art
David Revoy

@Artha Thanks! I made a tutorial, but it's more about a technic I have using specific layer blending mode with Krita, than really the fundamental (values/light properties/color theory), it's here youtube.com/watch?v=7FRyAiLIGw , I use here the same method, just without the line-art.

10 Dec 2022 at 18:17 | Open on framapiaf.org
Arne Babenhauserheide

@davidrevoy … and I have my new desktop background! Thank you!

10 Dec 2022 at 12:16 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Linebyline

@davidrevoy Nice. I love the expressions. Pepper is over the moon about that star, while the dragon is still trying to figure out what he thinks about all this. It's brilliant.

10 Dec 2022 at 13:57 | Open on bytetower.social
Geoff

@davidrevoy c’est fantastique! Simplement superbe. Bravo et merci de partager!

10 Dec 2022 at 16:49 | Open on ruby.social
Jitsch

@davidrevoy It’s super interesting to see how much the 4th step adds to the atmosphere of this piece although it already looks quite finished after shading.

11 Dec 2022 at 10:12 | Open on mastodon.art
David Revoy

@yellowjitsch Thanks! Yes, it's difficult to jump from step 3 to 4; because my eyes spent hours reaching step 3 and after that, recovering a fresh observation skill on the result and deciding what color filter could enhance the piece is difficult. Somehow, I found that turning the rendering to black and white (with this tip youtube.com/watch?v=FTvVBi1Vo7 ) at this step let me more easily spot if my values are 'washed/dull' and not deep and with a certain 'luminosity brilliance/glossiness.

11 Dec 2022 at 10:24 | Open on framapiaf.org
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