Sketch Blog

Now this was quite an experience. For those of you that don't know, Clip Studio Paint is Manga Studio 5. I use Clip Studio Paint (which I may refer to as CSP in this post) because I want to support the company directly instead of through Smith & Micro. Painting this portrait of Missy Elliott was a very pleasant and enlightening experience. I haven't done realism in quite some time and this portrait is still unfinished but I have painted it enough to get my point across. Painting in Clip Studio Paint is one of the best experiences in digital painting that I have had thus far. CSP doesn't lag and for those of you that come to my livestreams, you are aware of how fast I often draw and paint. It's very responsive but most importantly with it's customizable user interface, I have found the tools to be less distracting that Photoshop and easy and hassle free to blend. As you can see on the skin, the blending in CSP is beautiful and lag free which has become extremel...

All done in photoshop. I tried my best to try and get it to look as much like watercolours as possible. Why? Because I don't have money to buy paint or paper. Today I really wanted to make watercolour art. All my watercolours are so dried up I can't even open the tube. I can't even cut it open so photoshop it was. Artrage is awesome and all but I don't like the blenders. I've yet to master it. I overly abused the Sharpen filter and textures. My main layer blend modes were Colour Burn and Multiply. I'm happy with the overall results. I've been playing with digital watercolours a lot lately. In between requests and art trades I do this sort of thing as a warm up exercise so I don't forget what I am trying to learn. I used Photoshop CS6 and a Huion 580 tablet. It took me almost a whole day to set up my huion properly. There's something wrong with my intuos and I might need to send it off for repairs but I am thankful to have a back up at least....