Digi-painting a flower, Tutorial

[tttia]

This is a brief walkthrough of painting a flower. I used Painter 9, but you could use nearly any program that has brushes and transparency etc.

 

 

 

Step 1:

 

I always start in a layer above the canvas in case I want to put a background later. Block out the shapes. Use an opaque brush with fairly hard edges. I used the default acrylic brush in Painter just to make it simple. Part of this first step is to realize which parts overlap others. Some elements you may want to wait to block in for later. I decided to paint the inner parts of the flower after I did the rest to make sure that it overlapped correctly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2:

 

Start a new layer. Define the shadows and shape. Try to ignore the color of the flower for now and just look for shadows and light. Use a more transparent brush. I went down to about 10% opacity for this step. That enables you to make smoother transitions as you work the tone in.

 

(The bumpy areas are just jpeg artifacts since I saved at low quality...ignore them).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3:

 

Start a new layer. Now you can begin adding the actual color pattern of the flower.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4:

 

Start a new layer (yes, I start a new layer for everything!) Next comes the detail work. Don't rush this part. I found it easiest to use a detail acrylic brush here, about 6-7 pixels wide. I started with the darker lines. Next to the darker ones are often lighter ones as the lines are acutally ridges in the flower.

 

 

 

You may also notice the stem placement has changed. This is the advantage to doing everything in its own layer. It is easy to change one element.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5:

 

Start a new Layer. Add the overlapping parts of the flower. You are finished!

 

 

 

[woopidoo2]

How do you begin with step one? the tut begins wih that picture, do I need to copy it? I think ive got it wrong... :roll:

 

 

 

Btw, Ive seen some other tuts, very good they are, but I like ur sig most :wink:

[tttia]

Thanks :)

 

 

 

Incidentally, anyone can use the sig.

 

 

 

Find a picture of a flower somewhere :)

 

 

 

or just go get a real flower, either way.

 

 

 

The goal is to apply the principles, not do the exact flower.

[Alduron]

Nice tut tttia as always and great work.

 

 

 

Hope to see ya stay for a while ;) I think the folks here would love to see more of your creations.

 

 

 

As for your sig I am afraid you are the only one that may use it on this forum since we no longer allow religious sigs.

 

 

 

~Alduron

[tttia]

Thanks, good to see your still around :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ah, kind of a grand-father clause then?

[Alduron]

Thanks, good to see your still around :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ah, kind of a grand-father clause then?

 

 

 

Yup, thats what it is.

[gandorf_101]

hey tttia again! :)

 

 

 

im getting a tablet soon hopefully so if all goes well i can try this tutorial out pretty soon :) flower looks nice :)

 

 

 

anyways good to cya back 8-)

[remoteman]

nice tut there tttia, i've been waiting for one :) i checked out ure site too, the print with the dalmation is awesome.

 

 

 

nice to see you back

[tttia]

Thanks folks :)

 

 

 

And yes Gandorf a tablet helps tremendously in my opinion, so much more natural.