Thumbnail Vehicles

Hi Folks!

I stayed home from school today because I caught a cold. And I'm sniffing and sneezing nonstop. So I decided to take a break from the Delirium Project, of which I will post something later this week, and make some thumbnails. I never did thumbnails before so it was kind of an experiment. I didn't save all the steps because I wasn't planning on posting this. So I have only step one, the final step and some kind of in between step :P

This is step one- I made some vehicle silhouettes with a flat brush, on a new layer.

Then I made a new layer and connected it to the silhouette layer by right-clicking on the layer in the layer pallet and choosing Create Clipping Mask. Now, if you draw on the clipped layer all the paint you apply will only be visible on the silhouettes.

And this way I added, windshields, racing stripes, shadows and highlights without painting outside the silhouette.


The final image:

I hope you enjoyed this post and I'll speak you later this week!

Byezzzz!

-Emiel

Custom Brushes

Hi there!

It's been a while since my last post. I'm sorry for that, but I was a bit busy. But now school started this week I will post more frequently as I promised :D

So today I want to talk about Photoshop custom brushes. In Photoshop you have the opportunity to make your own brushes. I don't do it often because I use almost only the basic brushes. But sometimes it is very handy to make a set of brushes.

(For the people who want to now which brushes I use: I uploaded my own brush set and you can download it here. The Leaves brush that I will make in the tutorial below is also included in the downloadable brush set. I made them with Photoshop CS5 Extended but I'm sure they can be used in at least all Photoshop software CS3-CS6.)

How do you make you're own Photoshop brushes?

Start with opening a new file in Photoshop (File> New) I made it about 300 x 300 pixels big. Then, use the Lasso Tool (L) to make the shape of your brush. I wanted to make a brush which I could use to quickly draw bushes and leaves so I made the outline of a bunch of leaves.

Then use Fill to fill your selection with black paint (Edit>Fill)

Then go to Edit> Define Brush Preset... All the black on the canvas will become the brush. (Tip: if you want a brush of which one piece is another opacity than the rest of the brush, just make it grey and Photoshop will make it more transparent when making the brush.)

Give your brush a name and click OK.

Now you can pick your fresh-made brush from you brush preset picker.

You can draw with your brush right now but you can also give it some special effect. Open the Brush Panel which you can find next to the brush preset picker. First, change the size of your bush to a size that is better to handle when opening it, so about 100 px. Then, in my case set Spacing higher to make a little more space between the brushes.

Go to Shape Dynamics and Change the Size Jitter to 40% to make the size of your brush more random. Then, do the same to the Angle Jitter, to make it look more like a random bunch of leaves.

Then go to Tranfer an set the Opacity Jitter and Flow Jitter both to 25% to make some of the leaves more transparent than other.

To save these new settings go to your brush preset picker and click on New Brush Preset. 

Give your brush a name and click OK. Now your new brush is finished and you can use it whenever you like!

To give an idea of what you can do with my Leaves Brush I made a quick example:

I hope you've learned something in this tutorial! What I told you here are by far not the only options in the Brush Panel. So, experiment a lot with it and I'm looking forward to see what brushes you made ;D

Byez!

-Emiel

Holo-Screen

Hi there,

I spend the whole evening yesterday to take some pictures. This morning I edited the first one in Photoshop CS5 and this is the result:

It was a hell of a job to get all the perspective grids the way I wanted but I'm very pleased with the result :D To get the grids right the Vanishing Points filter in Photoshop worked very nice. If you want to try the vanishing point filter it can be found in Photoshop here: Filters > Vanishing Points. The tutorial I used while working on this picture can be found here.

I hope you guys enjoy this pic and thanks for reading!

Byezzzz,

Emiel

Environment Practice and Corporal Ianor

Hi there!

The following piece is done a few weeks back but I still want to show it to you.

I tried to give it that action/spying/war game feeling by putting in some ruined houses and a smoke cloud in the distance. The guy with the sniper and red scarf is the main character.

I hope you like it and feel free to tell me what you think about it.

Another piece that I want to show you is also not that new anymore. 

It's a picture of Corporal Ianor, a character of a story I wrote a long time ago. Some lines are a bit messy because I was filming the whole drawing process and my computer became much slower because of that. So my tablet didn't react that good sometimes. If you are curious about the video here it is. I did speed it up a little.

Thank you for reading all this and have fun reading the posts that are coming later this week.

Byezzz!

Emiel

Hi there folks!

Welcome to my blog! It's not much yet, but I'll upload some artwork and stuff later this week. In the mean time you can check my artwork on my deviantART page, which you can find here. I hope you'll stick around and enjoy my posts :D

Speak you later this week!

Byezzz,
Emiel