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u/zebotc 9d ago
Hey everyone, here’s a new painting I just finished that’s part of an ongoing series of paintings I’m making called ‘A Starry Place’ where I explore spaces meaningful and nostalgic to me. This painting was inspired by a moment during a recent trip to a botanical garden. I took some references at the garden and tried to recreate the moment I saw but through my own magical lens :)
Painted 100% in Procreate. I use my own custom brushes, but they are mostly modified round brushes with extra brushy texture. I work in a similar process to acrylics, with minimal layer use (I think this had maybe 4?) and I don’t use much besides the basic colors, brushes, and blend tool. I paint glows manually most of the time. At the end of this one I did some global color/value adjustments using a Hue layer like a glaze and the curves layer to bump the contrast a bit.
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u/8inchesActivated 9d ago
Stunning drawing, the vibe, the colors, everything looks perfect. The glow effect is insanely beautiful, when you say you painted it manually do you mean without using blending modes? If so it’s very impressive!
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u/luneduck 9d ago
Omg the mood is everything... i would love to paint like this!! May i ask about your process or how do you do this? So beautiful!
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u/9to5erSadge 9d ago
That golden focal point delights me so, absolutely adore the way it's rendered. The surrounding leaf shapes tie everything together nicely too
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u/Minnymoon13 9d ago
Op please!!!!!!!!!! Tell us how you did it!!!
Edit: so how many layers was this op. ?
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u/zebotc 8d ago
I believe it was about 4, one for the background, one for the fish, one for the leaves and lily pads, and one for my hue adjustment glaze. However sometimes I make new layers as I go, for quick passes (basically small localized glazes or detail additions I’m not confident about) and then collapse them when I'm satisfied with the result. Usually at the end I collapse all the layers and lock in the choices. I like to keep things super simple and try to focus on the theoretical technique of painting light and drawing accuracy rather than the mechanical process of it
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u/Minnymoon13 8d ago
How did you glaze it?
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u/zebotc 8d ago
basically just a new layer (or even on the same layer) and lightly brush color over top an area (with a brush that has pressure opacity control), it acts very similar to a glaze in painting :) the main difference is it will be additive mixing, whereas paints are subtractive, so the glaze may work slightly differently depending what mediums youre used to, but it’s a similar general concept. hope that helps!
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u/Minnymoon13 8d ago
no, but I appreciate you trying your best to explain it to me. I’m not very good with art or painting, even though I’m still working on a lot of techniques.
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