08-30-2024, 09:10 PM
@cgmythology - Thanks! Yeah the higher contrast ones do seem better here, making it pop out a bit more from the darkness.
@darktiste - Thanks a lot for the tips, helped with the current piece I made. That embossing idea might be useful to try out for scratches and dents and maybe punctures in metal, I'll have to see if their is an equivalent in Krita (which I am sure their probably is) and test it out.
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So I have finally completed the droid piece, took a hot minute. The big hangups on it for me seemed to be the perspective for the character and the background, which I had to re-do 3 or 4 times. Then the lighting which for me was difficult due to so many light sources and having to figure out how they interact with each other, and creating the cast shadows and how that works with several light sources. Then the overall contrast and darkness of the piece.
But in the process of making this piece I did realize that I should try to plan things out more for these more in-depth pieces, especially ones like this that were a bit more complex for me. Having to re-do the cast shadows several times, adjust the perspective on things, and switch up the color & brightness on things was a big headache when I was already far into the piece. I could have cut a big chunk off of the time spent on this with a lot more planning and plotting out all of the major aspects of it.
But nevertheless, I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I did make some alternate versions of it, 1 with even higher contrast & more fog/haze, and 2 color variants.
Oh yeah, I made a little backstory to this piece as well. It's nothing groundbreaking, but I thought I'd add the basic idea of it here for context. A mining company discovered this relatively lush asteroid and thus in their eager pursuit they set up a facility on it. In the early phases of mining, pockets of an undetected aggressive toxic gas were released, the facility was then evacuated hastefully. With the toxic fumes released and too dangerous and costly to return, they abandoned the asteroid. But the droids still wander the unmaintained shafts on their never ending patrols as if nothing has happened.
@darktiste - Thanks a lot for the tips, helped with the current piece I made. That embossing idea might be useful to try out for scratches and dents and maybe punctures in metal, I'll have to see if their is an equivalent in Krita (which I am sure their probably is) and test it out.
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So I have finally completed the droid piece, took a hot minute. The big hangups on it for me seemed to be the perspective for the character and the background, which I had to re-do 3 or 4 times. Then the lighting which for me was difficult due to so many light sources and having to figure out how they interact with each other, and creating the cast shadows and how that works with several light sources. Then the overall contrast and darkness of the piece.
But in the process of making this piece I did realize that I should try to plan things out more for these more in-depth pieces, especially ones like this that were a bit more complex for me. Having to re-do the cast shadows several times, adjust the perspective on things, and switch up the color & brightness on things was a big headache when I was already far into the piece. I could have cut a big chunk off of the time spent on this with a lot more planning and plotting out all of the major aspects of it.
But nevertheless, I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I did make some alternate versions of it, 1 with even higher contrast & more fog/haze, and 2 color variants.
Oh yeah, I made a little backstory to this piece as well. It's nothing groundbreaking, but I thought I'd add the basic idea of it here for context. A mining company discovered this relatively lush asteroid and thus in their eager pursuit they set up a facility on it. In the early phases of mining, pockets of an undetected aggressive toxic gas were released, the facility was then evacuated hastefully. With the toxic fumes released and too dangerous and costly to return, they abandoned the asteroid. But the droids still wander the unmaintained shafts on their never ending patrols as if nothing has happened.