The Captokyo's Mighty Muscle Slide Show Tutorial

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slide show part 1 intro and sketch to render : Press link for slide show

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There are a lot of great instructors on drawing, the best in my opinion would be the great George Bridgman, i would recommend his book “Bridgman's complete guide to drawing from life” . I try to keep two things in mind when i paint.

1. The body is composed of small shapes on top of big shapes.

2. Muscle are more like smooth squares than they are like flat circles.

I like to use painter 7 it contains my all time favorite brush “just add water” under the brushes named “liquid”.

I nearly always paint in black and white first and then color. Wile painting the black and white part i am continually improving the drawing. 75% of the painting is completed at the end of this stage.



Slide show part 2 tight rendering and color : Press link for slide show

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This is the stage i start to really use a lot of reference , if i am trying for a more realistic painting.

After the black and white stage is done i may adjust the brightness and contrast of the painting.

Next, the color, i create an new layer “colorizes” some times “gel”

next i lay down a base color , to be use mostly for the shadows, in this case purple. Next i paint more of the foreground colors , i will sample colors from my favorite paintings and real life.

Slide show part 3 final color and background : Press link for slide show

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Normally i paint the background last but in this case i already had a background, so all i did was create a duplicate layer of the figure and then moved it over to the background painting.

I made a duplicate layer of the background painting and set it over the figure layer and then set in on colorize so that i would have a complete color match with the background .

I then erase some of the color so that it doesn't look like a tomato lol.

I then blur the edges and the erase the overlap.

And now for the last i create a duplicate layer of the painting and then set the layer on “gel” you can use “multiply” if you don't have the “gel” layer, and now we are done .


I hope you enjoyed the Captokyo's Mighty Muscle Slide Show Tutorial,

Questions are wanted, so Please ask ! have a Fantastic time!