That Tutorial People Want.
Some_tall_guy1
Join Date: 2003-05-22 Member: 16601Members
Join Date: 2003-05-22 Member: 16601Members
<div class="IPBDescription">:)</div> Step one: Basic shape
First thing to do is fill the background with black. Now, to get the basic shap you should use a medium to large sized brush depending on the size of the object your painting. The opacity is set at 15 with a colour of Red: 238 Green: 156 Blue: 0 (an orange colour). Now you would paint the basic shape of your object. Dont worry about detail yet. In my example I'm making a flower.
First thing to do is fill the background with black. Now, to get the basic shap you should use a medium to large sized brush depending on the size of the object your painting. The opacity is set at 15 with a colour of Red: 238 Green: 156 Blue: 0 (an orange colour). Now you would paint the basic shape of your object. Dont worry about detail yet. In my example I'm making a flower.
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This step requires a bit of thought and time. Using the same colour set to an opacity of 5, I would emphasize the areas in which I want to stand out more. The technique is to use lots of small, fluent brush strokes using a smaller soft brush around the edges, then as you gradually move inwards use smaller size brushes. If you want things to look pretty you would concentrate more on the smallest sized brushes. Eventually things will start to look like the example below. I would usually go into more detail however.
Now, create a new layer on top of the first one and name is "Dodge1". Set the layertype to colour dodge. With brushes a bit larger than the previous step and an opacity of 15 (the colour remains the same), make sever brush strokes over the areas you want the brightest until it looks similar to the below example. Dont over-do it on this one layer though or things could get a bit messy if you ever try to tweak it.
Using the same method as in step three, create several more layers with the colour dodge setting (I made 5 in total). Go over each layer and add more "flame" to your picture. The outer areas of the picture should have a much higher concentration of brush strokes to give it that yellowy orange look, while the inside is a bit dimmer. After a few layers things should start to look good.
The last step is very fast. Create a new layer with the Burn setting on top of all the previous ones. With the same colour brush, opacity 15, decent size, go through your picture where I told you not to have the fire so dense and apply brush strokes. This will give it a nice red glow. Pretty eh?
The last step is Basically touchups, if you feel you want more flame, go back to the first layer and add brush strokes using a small brush size. While in the first layer still, add a glow around the picture by using a large sized brush and opacity set at 2. Flatten the image and smudge areas you think are a bit too sharp (just a bit). Now a good philosophy for this is that your never really done, you can always add more detail by using different sized brushes. It will only look better if you put more time into it.
Feel free to pm me if you have questions or comments.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72115' target='_blank'>Prime example.</a>
ah... which dodge?
How's this?
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Sorry to bump, but I don't think this was amazing enough to deserve its own topic.
My problem is that the final layer of Colour burn doesn't do anything, it's not making anything glow for me :<
Does the final comment on the tutorial seem right?
<a href='http://www.hawxby.com/viewtutorial.asp?id=16' target='_blank'>http://www.hawxby.com/viewtutorial.asp?id=16</a>
This my first work that I did in about an hour and a half, pretty sloppy, but I still like the results. I'll continue to practice it!
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Workin on fire Phoenix...bout 40% done...i should really get back on it...
Regards
- Rover
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I'll edit this with a link to the full sized image after I get the Internet to myself (huge files and WoW don't fit through the same CAT 5)
Pjofsky, if you want it to stand out even more in certain areas. Go to the first layer (step one) and actually add in a bit of detail but be careful because itll be magnified a whole lot with the other layers on top.