finished final image

final post

This week I mainly worked on putting the details onto the picture. I am not finished with it yet but I only mainly have the clouds, mountain, water, and land to do. I spent many hours and fried eyeballs staring at the screen placing the lines for scales and lines for trees. It is surprising how many little marks it takes to go along a neck or back and how time consuming it can get. It is also surprising how much difference they add to the picture and make it pop. I am real happy on how it is turning out and can’t wait till I’m finished. I figured I could use some of the effects of photoshop to help me out on the water, mountain, and land to make them go by more quickly to get the look I want. I might also play with it some to see if I can add to the trees a bit. I also need to add some basic shading below the trees, in the trees some, and a bit more on the dinosaurs if I have time. I also figured out how to capture my screen so I went through the process of documenting the different steps for my painting tutorial. I have the drawing part, the basic background, then the basic dinosaurs/foreground, and then some of the detailing.

final post 2

This week I started to actually do the digital painting. I new the basic colors I wanted for my background which were pretty obvious. The hard part was figuring out what colors I wanted to use for my dinosaurs. The only thing I knew was that I wanted them to be fairly brightly colored. I figured I also wanted one of the dinosaurs to be mainly a cooler color and the other to be a warmer color. After playing a around with different color schemes I figured I wanted the T Rex to be cool because I wanted my Armargasaurus to be hot pinkish and lime green color. That only left to figure out what colors to make the T Rex now. I started off with a dark, rich purple color with a bright yellow underneath. It turned out not quite bright enough to me so I decided on probably doing a bluish color. I stuck with a basic yellow bottom but I made it a little less bright. I then picked a red for the T Rex’s crests and plated scales along his feat because they stand out bright against the blue. I have now basically completed all my base colors and prepared myself for completing details over the next week.

final project drawn out

I started off with drawing out a few sketches of the dinosaurs and some positions I wanted them in. After I figured out how I wanted them I taped four pieces of paper together so I can undo them and scan them into my computer later. I chose the armargasaurus because of the frills going along its back to add more interest. I also picked a more exotic t rex to add interest with its spikes and plates on its face. I wanted the picture to be at a very intense moment in the fight so I had their mouths open and tongues hanging out to add to their fright and hunger. I also wanted the armargasaurus to be very imposing so I had it up on its hind legs. Then I had the t rex twisting and bent in action roaring. I really wanted to have a good composition as well and have it add to the intensity. So I had the armargasaurus take up most of the space and even had parts of him going off the paper. I also had him looking down towards the t rex too. I also got the dinosaurs interacting with one another pretty well I think with how they are situated. Then I placed the forest, lake, and mountains way in the back of the barren wasteland so I wouldn’t take away from the key point and intensity of the dinosaurs.

final project sketches

Sources

www.fishgoth.com/origami/dinodiag.html

www.fishgoth.com/origami/basics1.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXLqYWyZX0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFcqtGaosUM