Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:41 pm by Shawn692
Yeah, I use Photoshop CS3...its just easier to use than corel but it really depends on your style. To me, its a lot easier to get smoother tones on PS.
My technique is pretty much identical to Indi's:
I'm lazy most of the time (like this one) and grid my sketch first. [Before anyone feels the need to blurt out 'wahwah thats cheating', shut up, your opinion doesn't matter to me, the textures/tones matter more to me.] Anywho, I don't use the smudge tool at all, and try to avoid using the blur tool as much as possible (but I end up doing it a lot on faces). Normally I only use one layer to paint on, but a lot of people use multiple layers and adjust the intensity of the colors, hues, etc to each particular layer, but I don't do any of that.
But like you said, I just scribble around and block base colors at a high opacity (like 50%) and then build up colors using a 25% opacity, then saturate and blend them at around 10-15% opacity to get the smooth look. I'm just starting to dabble with skin texture brushes but I normally stick with the standard brush with pressure sensitivity and 100% flow.
Once I'm finished with this sucker, I'll post a replay thats around 3000% realtime showing the whole drawing being done, so that might help you understand what I'm talking about. All in all, check out Indi's tutorial..
Shawn King does digital art stuff. Yo.