Week 4 Digital painting and Colouring

Digital Colouring

In this weeks lesson we learnt about how to digitally paint, in this case it was painting over an image we had already taken. I chose to do an archway near the cathedral.

Here is my photo I will be painting

Here I have sampled the main colours already in the image to create a digital palette that exists on its own separate layer. these colours are useful when I need to paint a specific shade from the image

I lowered the opacity of the main image to see what I was actually painting,

Here I started with the darkest tones in the image, the shadows and dark scaffolding to the left

Then I added the next lightest colour to the image overlaying where it lies on the actual picture

I then added another shade of brown and more detail to the arch

Again more detail to the arch with another shade of brown

I then added the fancy metalwork that surrounds the glass

Here I added in the glass and the main basic forms and shapes of the statues

This is where I added large areas of colour mainly to the brickwork

Here is the painting with the under image of the photo

I then added a frame to the image to cover the over running brush marks

Here is the finished piece:

This task was harder than I expected it to be but I did enjoy the experience, it did feel a bit cheap to just paint over an image, just like digitally tracing. The result of the painting isn't my favourite digital piece but I can definitely relate that image with my original photo.