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		<title>A night out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently I read the new graphic novel telling the story of Stephen King&#8217;s Dark Tower.<br />
Though I never made it through the second volume of King&#8217;s saga, I liked the graphic novel very much.</p>
<p>Especially the artwork!<br />
In the first volume there was a mini tutorial. I decided to try the technique on an old sketch:</p>
<p><a href="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/a_night_out_sketch.jpg" rel="lightbox[133]"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none" src="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/thumbs/thumbs_a_night_out_sketch.jpg" alt="a_night_out_sketch.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>The first and most important step: Create clean lineart!<br />
Since I normally don&#8217;t do this, it took me a rather long time. But spending time and effort on this will make life easier in the following steps.</p>
<p><a href="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/a_night_out_lineart.jpg" rel="lightbox[133]"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none" src="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/thumbs/thumbs_a_night_out_lineart.jpg" alt="a_night_out_lineart.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>Next I worked on the background. I had reference material for the flames which helped a lot when it came to picking the appropriate colors. The fire was painted with different standard brushes and a low value for &#8220;Flow&#8221;.</p>
<p>According to the tutorial, I picked the darkest color from the background and filled my lineart with it:</p>
<p><a href="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/a_night_out_wip1.jpg" rel="lightbox[133]"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none" src="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/thumbs/thumbs_a_night_out_wip1.jpg" alt="a_night_out_wip1.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>Not bad, but this led to the next problem: How much color could/should be visible on the characters?<br />
This time I tried something I learned in the digitalartforum: Treat coloring and shading as different problems.<br />
So I did the shading with only one color on one layer. On top of it I had another layer on which I only painted the colors without any shading.<br />
The color layer got the blending mode &#8220;Color dodge&#8221; and 50 % opacity. Now it looked like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/a_night_out_wip2.jpg" rel="lightbox[133]"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none" src="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/wip/thumbs/thumbs_a_night_out_wip2.jpg" alt="a_night_out_wip2.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>Almost there! Some work on the metal parts and some highlights and I call it done:</p>
<p><a title="Snake und Amy machen sich einen schönen Abend. | Snake and Amy are having a good night out. " href="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/digital/a_night_out.jpg" rel="lightbox[133]"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none" src="http://fangdom.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/digital/thumbs/thumbs_a_night_out.jpg" alt="a_night_out.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m quite satisfied with the result. Having such a structured work flow was very helpful for me.<br />
Maybe it is for you, too :)</p>
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