Painting with Midtones

I painted this piece in Photoshop for Reddit Gets Drawn from a request by user Meathat. For this piece I tried to use larger differences in hue and saturation instead of value to get some nice readability while staying mostly within the midtone range for value.

Backyard Pics

Some pics I took from my backyard while the sun was setting. I haven't been using my camera as often as I'd like.

This Time in Color

Here's another piece I painted in Photoshop for Reddit Gets Drawn. It was a request from user AlexiaRose. 

Decided to start straight from color this time!

Joining in on Reddit Gets Drawn

Recently found out about a subreddit called Reddit Gets Drawn (/r/redditgetsdrawn) so i decided to take a shot at one of the requests.

Heres's what I made for user elfi666 in photoshop:

I decided to deviate a little from the original image by giving the face a more curved lens look.

Hope they like it!

Scenic(-ish) Mountain Road Drive

It's been a while since I've posted anything to this blog. I've been feeling really burnt out after finishing grad school, so hopefully this post can be start of many more to come.

I took a few pics of my friend Karim Abou-Zahab on our drive down from Chhim in Mount Lebanon. Enjoy

Movie Mermaid Concept (2nd Iteration)

Movie Mermaid Concept

I just started working on the conception of a mermaid model for a friend's feature movie using ZBrush and Photoshop.

After sculpting and poly painting the model, I took several passes(Base, Skin, Color, AO, Reflection, Tight Spec, Med Spec, and Rim) by applying ZBrush's diffrent materials on the model:

Base

Skin

Color

AO

Reflection

Tight Spec

Medium Spec

Rim

Afterwards I combine the previous passes in photoshop, and with a little paint over and blur effects end up with the current concept pieces:

Head Render

Perspective Render

Tail Render

Mermaid Swimming

My Layers in photoshop starting with the lower layers up were:

• Base
• Skin (Hue at 60%)
• Color (Color at 64%)
• AO (Overlay)
• Reflection (Overlay)
• Tight Spec (Pin Light)
• Med Spec (Pin Light)
• Rim (Color Dodge between 95-100%)