So I’d been working on an art piece for some time.

As usual I started it and abandoned it…again.

It kept nagging my head for a long while and finally I took it up spent the whole day on it…again! 😀

I think this is my most detailed(and frustrating) Digital Painting I’ve done.

I’ve spent countless hours on it and I know its not perfect 😦

So I had to push myself to quit and start working on other pending stuff in my life 😛

And without much further ado:

Tada!

Kylo Ren & Captain Phasma – Star Wars – The Force Awakens – Digital Painting

Kylo Ren & Captain Phasma – Star Wars – The Force Awakens – Digital Painting

Its done in this amazing Free & Open Source Software available on Planet Earth – Krita

If you haven’t heard of it check it out – https://krita.org/

Tools:

Wacom One Tablet; Reference images; Krita

Bit of the workflow:

I had a white layer as background, a grey layer to outline, another layer just to paint the whole thing, another layer for snow, a separate layer for black patches of darkness, another for the blue patches of light and finally one for snow.

That sounds like a lot but trust me people work with tons more. 😐

Oh yeah the date and signature on another layer 😛

All the brushes were the default ones in Krita. Nothing external was used.

Try to get the outline right.

I had major problems drawing horizontal lines, so one way which i used was to rotate the image 90 degrees and work by drawing vertical lines which are much easier.

The steel-ish color’s where achieved by using different shades of grey and smoothly combining them.

Commonly used brushes were (Bristles Textured, Basic Circle, Smudge)

If you’re a beginner like me in Digital Painting and wondering where to start then:

1. Forget Everything

2. Take a Star Wars character

3. Draw!

Draw?!?

Yup you must.

“Do or Do Not. There is No Try” – Yoda

Its the only way you’ll ever progress and the better way to gain more experience and understanding of the Software(krita) and your workflow.

So that’s all from me! 🙂

Have a great day!

Thanks for reading! 😀

May The Force Be With You

-bull500