Photoshop 7.0
Photo references.
I was a bit stumped for ideas of what to paint next after the last painting was finished.
But then it occurred to me that I haven't drawn a car since I was......ten or so! So I decided I could need the practise and that I needed
a car painting in my portfolio. This painting was made using two pictures as reference; one for the car, and one for the background.
I wanted to give this piece more of a painted feeling, so I went for a custom brush in Photoshop that I thought would work well.
I'm happy with the end result, but the paint strokes don't look much different from the ones in the Lynx painting I did. I don't
really know why that is, 'cause they are very different brushes.
As with the Lynx painting, this one also came out "messy" the closer you get, and better looking the further away you get, partly because I used
much the same technique; painting at a distance and then correcting with details later.
When I paint now, I always start out with a sketch, which is on it's own layer. I then make a layer that will be the painting itself, and a background layer.
If there are several objects in the image I'm about to paint, the painting part of the 'project' will most often have one layer for each object.
I then choose a mean, or "average" colour for every object and/or part of every object, and fill in the shapes of the sketch with those average colours.
I then start 'moulding' out the objects by adding shadows and light and details.
The sketch layer stays on top all the time (but I never paint on it), but I hide it from time to time to see how the painting is coming along without the sketch, and finally I remove the sketch alltogether.
Since this painting has a few technical likenesses with the Lynx painting, I decided to show you a close-up, so you can see the brush strokes better:
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