jinsley Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Rendered with Photoshop CS3 trying to emulate "the Pantone look" as requested by the partner in charge... I am starting to get more and more requests for this sort of style... Being the 3D and rendering dude in the office, I intend to practice this NPR technigue so that I can keep everyone happy, and its a nice change too to sit down and work on my tablet for a couple of hours... kinda relaxing. Still needs a little work and I want to soften the shadows a bit... Comments and crits most welcome! Thx. -JI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomD_Arch Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 "Color Rendering" by Michael E. Doyle. Great book for the Prismacolor marker and colored pencil technique. Would make a great reference for this sort of rendering. IMHHO I like the rendering overall. Are those creatures of the sea clouds? The curvature of the tree looks a little funky, drew my eye to it right away. I would marker the people in rather than leaving white, nobody would have the forethought to leave that area undrawn. You can use a white brush tip with opacity, however, as if drawing over with a white pencil. I like the squiggle linework... NICE. I like this style of drawing, especially detail drawings. Shows the thought process so young and exciting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neko Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 nice work james. you scanned the original sketch, right ? you just did the colour work ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinsley Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Hey Paul, 1.) scanned original sketch and cleaned up lines... I had to scan it in two peices and oddly enough the second half (right hand side) kept on coming out at a much lower quality with alot of noise... I thought maybe I had screwed up the setting, but in the end I couldn't figure it out... the drawing was done in ink so I don't think there are any marks that are not visible to my eye... 2.) painted in Photoshop using my bamboo and a set of brushes I have been working on for the last little while and collecting from other resources. Thomas: I tried darkening the people last night but felt they came off very heavy... will take another look at them and the tree today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neko Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 the trees could use a bit of work, but i don't mind the people being white. i think it reads quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Twyman Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Nice, really like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I really like it. Some demo tuts would be sweet. Maybe show us time lapse snap shots of your next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Very nice. What's with the watermark of prehistoric fish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Very nice...I really like the old school look. If I had any talent at sketching, drawing or painting, I would attempt to create an image like yours, but I s**k at anything requiring more than a keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinsley Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 Thx for the positive feedback guys... here is the final with requested changes before I found out there are revisions to the design this morning... haha. Frosty: I would love to put together a tutorial, but time is a huge issue for me, I would suggest to people to grab a book that deals with using pantones or tria markers and just browsing some of the projects they go through. I think the hardest part of a project like this is the linework. After that the photoshop process was mostly trial and error with layers either set to multiply, screen or linear burn... I will record my screen the next time through and post a time lapse on Vimeo though for anyone who is interested... will probably be next week. Andrew: this project is being proposed to First Nations on Vancouver Island... the symbols are part of local stories and community beliefs. Dan: I'm no Dylan Cole either... grab a cheap tablet somewhere and give it a shot... I picked up a Wacom Bamboo for $100. I find it relaxing and a nice change... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I look forward to you post when you go thru the process. I have a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet, but hardly ever use it. It might help to have a project or tutorial that includes the use of the tablet and just do it from start to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinsley Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share Posted May 24, 2009 ok, ask and ye shall receive... so I searched around the forums and found a few recommendations for camstudio and attempted to do a quick walkthrough/ explanation of how I put the image together which is now posted to Vimeo. Unfortunately, what I thought was 5 mins turned out to be 18... what can I say, I talk alot. So when I get time tomorrow I will do a much faster once through of the "build-up" of layers and post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Thought you forgot about us!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinsley Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share Posted May 24, 2009 Thought you forgot about us!! haha... no, just the link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Great job! Thanks for taking the time to post. I have been looking for an alternative to Max to do elevations and plans for a while. There has been discussion abound as to whether PS, Illustrator, Autodesk Impression, or even M-Color are best suited......the 2 latter are specific to CAD. When under time constraints, and especially for elevations, any one of these methods is preferable to Max. I just haven't spent enough time with any of these techniques to be able to create anything meaningful. I have only been doing this a couple of years, so learning Max and basic compositing in PS has been my focus. Thanks for the insights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomD_Arch Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Your tutorial is F@$*ing awsome! Dont make it shorter. The way you explain things is great for idiots like me that like to know the thought process behind what people are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nymn Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Great behind the scenes info!! Thanks alot for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadmunkey Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Excellent and very informative tutorial. Thanks so much for taking the time out to share with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianzajac Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 haha... no, just the link! Good job. We just tweeted your link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinsley Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 Thx for all the positive feedback! Couldn't ask for more, wasn't too sure about going public with my work, I don't consider myself to be an expert in PS or close to it. I feel like PS is such a large and flexible program that you can put 10 guys in the same room with the same image and have 10 different workflows to get from point a to point b... Putting together that little vid was not nearly as much effort as I thought it would be so I think I might start documenting my work a little more often. I have been looking through David Fano's site, http://designreform.net/ , alot lately and thinking of taking the same approach with rendering out of Max with Mental Ray and rendering Ink linework in Photoshop both as a learning experience for myself and to hopefully share with others. I think it would be great to have a video posted to cover everything from simple things like setting up your layers and project, or different ways to use the pen tool, getting on to more complex procedures like camera matching or extending your scene with digital matte painting... maybe even getting into max or other modelling programs and going over topics that affect arch viz specifically... haha, I can dream right!? I think I will start with a few posts on photoshop and see if I make it that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 James, that sounds great....I will definitely follow along. You know what could be interesting would be to start our own little online workshop. Meaning...we pick a single project or scene to create, each person involved gets specific task related to the overall scene. We then go over that scene on a designated day, and review how each one went about completing their task. Could be a valuable and free learning experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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