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David Revoy

Process:
Digital painting from scratch (no A.I.) using Krita 5.1.3 on Fedora 37 KDE spin. Tablet: an Intuos Pro Large. A description of each step is written on the alt text of pictures.

📦Source and 4K wallpaper: peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/art

🗒️License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-By)

🌧️ Rain-effect video tutorial:
- Ytb: youtube.com/watch?v=VZ7g2netwo
- Ptb: peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/2Y9hd

#krita #MastoArt

Step 1 of the painting: it's really painterly, not contrasted and just direct blobs of painting at this step. Description of the illustration (not repeated on later image description as they are all similar): A digital painting of a visual development for Pepper&Carrot: a view of a city with high buildings and a tramway system on high bridges. The city is lighten with lanterns. Pepper stands in the foreground under the rain with an umbrella. A research of an 'antique Asian steampunk' in the designs.
Step 2: The 'blocking' step. I'm still using a large brush and I'm not zooming in at this step. I try to modelize with painting all the main shape and take care of the perspective, the anatomy and the light. You can note Carrot (her cat) was supposed to be part of this illustration. The illustration was like that for a big 10 days on my disk, I disliked it.
Step 3: I tried to fix the 'block' I had on my disk, for that, I decided I need something darker around Pepper to cut the silhouette. The umbrella was a good way to add a big circular dark element and also to get high saturation of the light going threw it. I also spent a little time figuring what to do with the part on the right. You can see here a medieval door... (and still Carrot).
Step 4; the final. I removed Carrot: too many point of interest was competing each other in the illustration. The rain was a good way to hide the lack of details here and there. The building was repainted on the right with a design that could fit the scene. I also added building, lights and suggested silhouette of poeple in distance.
14 Dec 2022 at 18:52 | Open on framapiaf.org
23 comments
Bloodaxe

@davidrevoy Aaw, dude, we know you don't do that AI stuff 😉 You've got an entire awesome comic that shows us you're the real deal ❤️

14 Dec 2022 at 18:54 | Open on fosstodon.org
DELETED

@davidrevoy Your work is so beautiful :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

14 Dec 2022 at 18:55 | Open on im-in.space
Aleson 🐰🏳️‍🌈
Arne Babenhauserheide
Nicolas Pettiaux
The Duality of Xan

@davidrevoy I love seeing the different iterations, and how things were added and taken out. It feels pretty similar to the way I write!

14 Dec 2022 at 19:38 | Open on writing.exchange
Flaki

@davidrevoy loving the translucency on the parasol with the warm window lights seeping through :birdheart:

14 Dec 2022 at 19:49 | Open on flaki.social
Frank Cote
Sergio Fernández 💻 🐧

@davidrevoy My 10 year old daughter and I love your illustrations. She's put one of them as wallpaper on her laptop, and she's reading your webcomics too. We have made a small contribution to encourage you to keep on with your loving illustrations. Thanks for sharing.

14 Dec 2022 at 20:14 | Open on mastodon.online
alexguerrarts

@davidrevoy awww I love this David!! The colors really pop!! ❤️

14 Dec 2022 at 21:58 | Open on socel.net
Seclovin
John J. Dziak

@davidrevoy That's so beautiful and evocative! It makes me wonder about the young lady's story. To me she looks pensive or worried, or a little sad.

14 Dec 2022 at 22:29 | Open on sauropods.win
AesAthena

@davidrevoy Really educational! Cool to put the "step by step" info in the alt text!

14 Dec 2022 at 22:58 | Open on mastodon.art
Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset:

@davidrevoy loving the glimpse into your process from the image descriptions 💯

14 Dec 2022 at 23:43 | Open on musicians.today
Stefan Große Halbuer
Petit Lutin

@davidrevoy Oh, Carrot 😀 ! I was wondering why I did not see him in the final illustration. I was expecting him to be in Pepper's bag 😅 but maybe it was too similar to the episode with the phoenix? 🤔

15 Dec 2022 at 13:22 | Open on framapiaf.org
David Revoy

@Petit_Lutin Yes, and also I saw recently I'm building my pictures with two many points of interest and it often impact my composition to be complex and bloated.
I studied the frame of good movies and saw director prefers storytelling one thing at a time. So, too bad for Carrot in this illustration, he is probably sleeping in her big bag. 🙂

15 Dec 2022 at 13:26 | Open on framapiaf.org
MHunt

@davidrevoy looks like she's growing up a lot.

15 Dec 2022 at 13:39 | Open on socel.net
Wren Birdie (she/her)

@davidrevoy
This is just wonderful work. Found you through someone who boosted your work. ☺️

15 Dec 2022 at 15:33 | Open on federated.press
ItsMeChrisWade

@davidrevoy This is phenomenal work. Seriously, can we work together one day?❤️❤️

15 Dec 2022 at 18:02 | Open on mastodon.art
David Revoy

@ItsMeChrisWade Thanks! Oh, sure, I would love it. Finding time is another issue 😅 , do you have any idea of how we could collaborate on a single artworks for the fun?

16 Dec 2022 at 13:41 | Open on framapiaf.org
Imaginetten

@davidrevoy it’s sad that we must point the non-use of AI out. I’m doing a lot more digital process paintings to show what drawing from scratch means. Head, heart, and hand. Creativity is not an algorithm.

16 Dec 2022 at 17:53 | Open on mastodon.social
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