Main Painting and details

Using pencil - The first step of the final image is the drawing. We keep the same composition that we have on the initial sketch, separating the image in to two parts, on one side the main figure and on the opposite side the forest clearing, where the last birds escape. During the drawing process, I made the definitive changes on the hunter's design. For the forest we make the drawing of the principal lines of the trunks and we just insinuate the place where we will set the leaves mass, but it will be on the colour phase when we will detail the branches and vegetation.

Applying the paint

The following process is the same that on my previous works, with some differences. We create two layers over the pencil drawing. A normal layer that will be filled with white and a multiplying layer, where we will apply the colour. The white layer will be hidden while we are painting and its function will be to eliminate the line drawing as we are progressing on the colour work. For choosing the colours we will use the HSB Slider tools. It is very comfortable to work with this and making changes of colour and shades is quick and easy.


It is time to front the colour layer. We start painting quickly all the scene, with colour stains, with no details, for getting a global vision of the scene's tone. On this rough colouring we can use Dry Media Brushes for creating some bas texture. We will use through the drawing normal brushes mainly, and it is on the vegetation zone where we will create special brushes. On the initial phase we will paint basically the trees main trunks and we will mark with colour stains the leaves masses. Once we have applied a good colour base we start adding shades and marking them with more detail light and shadow zone; we will also create a more detailed vegetation and will paint branches and little leaves. For this we will activate the brush size by pressure option. with no doubt, the more complicated part of the image is the vegetation, for the great amount of details and shades; that is the reason why we will go more deeply into this point.