A Digital Painting?
Gina King creates her Fine Art & Illustrations mainly with Acrylic Paints.
Recently She began to experiment with digital painting.
Here you will find the progress of Gina's first Digital Pinup Painting.
Step one: The Sketch.
I decided to work from a photo of Bianca for this experiment. The original photo is by photographer Peter Czerich from Marquis Magazine. I have made a few changes to the outfit and accessories by adding in lots of blingy jewels, and you will see later that the latex dress will be a different color.
Back to step one: I create the sketch with pencil & paper and then scan it into the computer.
Step two: Wacom Tablet
I always love trying something new. So, I got my hands on a Wacom tablet. This is a wonderful device that allows you to "paint" with a digital pen instead of a mouse.
I will be working in Photoshop CS4. To start painting, I add a new layer on top of my sketch and startin with the large blocks of color.
One advantage I'm seeing about working digitally is that the first stages of a painting are much faster. (no mixing of colors or cutting out masking film)
Step 3:
I have been having fun painting in the hair. I add in a darker shade of red.
The darker hair color makes the skintones appear much lighter than they did in steps 1 and 2.
I also add in a bit of black to her outfit.
Step 4:
I spend a little more time building up the hair color. I also decide that the lipstick color needs to be a deeper shade of red.
Now I'm starting to add in some of the darker shadows to skin.
More will be posted soon.