Working on a series of re-painted pieces of Fred Marquand flash...
Here’s number 1! Done as a digital study to be spit shaded later on
Here’s number 1! Done as a digital study to be spit shaded later on
Digital flash... Fred Marquand ‘repaint’
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Sort of... they’re done with ProCreate on an iPad Pro
Looks great. Really like how it’s presented!
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Thanks guys
What is spit shading? ?Working on a series of re-painted pieces of Fred Marquand flash...
Here’s number 1! Done as a digital study to be spit shaded later on
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Spit shading is an old painting technique where you use one brush to lay down ink and another wet one to blend it out... traditionally you use your mouth to control the amount of moisture in the blending brush. Either by sucking out liquid or adding some... where the liquid used could be spit... nowadays a lot of people use water brushes for this.
Ah cool, sounds interesting thanks!
Looks great
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And some butterflies...
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And an actual painting from the digital flash sheet... a thank you gift for the guy who did my last tattoo...
Beautiful ??
great work
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And some eagle snakes... only one more left to finish...
Would love to see a video tutorial on how you make these!
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Can't promise anything but I'll see if i can do a small procreate recording sometime...
I the meantime I can tell you the process I use...
- First, I paste a piece of old traditional flash/stencil onto my ProCreate project and lower the opacity to 20 something.
- Then, I add some layers for linework, shading and a few basic colours.
- Then, I start with tracing the flash, and tweaking parts I want to change. Usually I do this a couple of times to get my own "hand" in there, if that makes sense?
- For lining I use the Monoline calligraphy brush at about 75% smoothing.
- To keep developing my drawing skills I try to change a bit more than I did in the previous piece I traced.
- After my basic linework is in place (I'll probably revisit it a few time during the whole process) I hide the original flash and try to forget about it.
- When the lines are done I used to start shading but recently, since I've been adding more open spaces, I've started with adding color first.
- Each colour has its own layer. Red, yellow and green are my base palet, with blue and an orange/brown as extra.
- For colouring I use the Monoline in combination with the fill tool mostly.
- Then shading, for that I use the Sketching Bamboo chalk... starting with larger circles at the light edge and tightening them as I move into the darker areas. Then clean everything up with the eraser and monoline/hard airbrush.
- Lastly I change the background colour, add a frame, labels and put some old paper texture on top set to multiply.
So basically it's all two brushes and a handful of colours.
That’s really helpful. Thanks very much for taking the time to explain it! I don’t have an iPad or procreate but I have photoshop on my desktop and a graphics tablet so I guess I can apply the same techniques. Thanks! ?
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No problem... I used photoshop before I got my iPad.
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Last one for now... digital piece...
Those dots were almost the first thing I noticed. Nice design though dirtnail
That is awesome :d
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