Ru”Bacom, Pedlar of Dragons.
Today’s blog post is looking at the first step of my digital painting process. My first step is subdivided into three sub drawings as shown below. A construction sketch. This is laid down in Blue, Green and Red to build up the forms and get the basic shapes in place. I than put down a rough sketch in black establishing contours and basic shadows. In the third pass I lay in the basic highlights and usually add an under painting color wash just to start myself thinking about the palette I want to develop. The color I use is normally complimentary to the main feeling I want to express in the final image.
The last image in this post is to demonstrate how I set up my workspace as I begin to draw. I collect several reference images that I keep near by when working, Often including images from a book or on my Ipad set up as well depending on what I’m working on and how many details there are.
In the next post we’ll look at the tight sketch process. Fixing some angles and details and planning the painting process.
The next two process posts will include time laps and/or tutorial videos to demonstrate the process in more detail.
