How the heck do you paint that quickly? All of my paintings(and my friends) take like 30+ hours lol. (to see my paintings, my DA is art-of-tennis.deviantart.com btw) I've always just painted with a round brush and varied the flow/hardness. Is it the custom brushes that speed you up so much?All the original drawings (for the meme) generally took anywhere from 1-2 hours each. I tend to work on things for only a couple of hours (unless they're commissions or schoolwork of course) because I get bored. I'd put more time in if something was really giving me trouble like if I can't nail the sketch right off the bat or if I'm procrastinating, but I hate wasting that time.
FOR INSTANCE, Vespiquen's (last one I did) file was created at 5:30pm May 19th and modified for the final time at 7:00pm the same day. So It took 1.5 hours. The first one I did was Shinx at 4:00 the previous day. So I finished 17 pokemon in roughly a day, minus the time where I was sleeping or doing other stuff. Some took 45 minutes/under an hour. Depends on how lazy I was.
Helps that I've been drawing/painting digitally since '04 and have picked up on handy shortcuts so I can do the tedious bits faster!
Uhhh I dunno lol? I think I'm just fairly quick-- as long as the painting isn't hardcore developed or something (these were SO simple). Custom brushes help in adding really fast hints of atmosphere, things like spores/etc, but otherwise...How the heck do you paint that quickly? All of my paintings(and my friends) take like 30+ hours lol. (to see my paintings, my DA is art-of-tennis.deviantart.com btw) I've always just painted with a round brush and varied the flow/hardness. Is it the custom brushes that speed you up so much?
I see, thanks. I'll try the palette knife brush idea sometime. Yeah, I had seen the adonhis brush pack that you posted awhile back; it looks promising, perhaps I'll try it sometime. Sorry for linking to my da on here btw, I probably shouldn't have done that since this is your thread...Uhhh I dunno lol? I think I'm just fairly quick-- as long as the painting isn't hardcore developed or something (these were SO simple). Custom brushes help in adding really fast hints of atmosphere, things like spores/etc, but otherwise...
I use a round brush (sometimes the kind that tapers with pen pressure for line weight) to sketch and I block in colors/tones with a 'palette knife' brush I made. Makes things like cool and somewhat angular (also easiest PS brush to make ever):
AND well since I'm procrastinating from packing, here's kinda... some process pics. I don't save separate files, but I tend to make new layers when I start on a new stage of my painting.
I get the feeling these will be very unhelpful, but:
LOOK AT THE FIRST POST IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MY BRUSHES. THEY ARE IN THE SET I LINKED THERE.
Process for Aerodactyl. - totally jank 'painting'
Process for Honchkrow. - slightly more painterly and less messy.
Process for Metagross. - emphasize setting and shadow, intensity of mood
Process for Roserade. - another way of shading, and simple BG
And a big image so I can SHOW OFF in case you don't want to click a link: