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002 - Saturation / Desaturation.
Saturation expresses how much gray
your color is mixed with. Desaturated
images contain a large amount of
grey. Example of artists using de-saturated
colors is Linda Bergkvist (Enayla)
and Socar Myles. I myself often
use saturated colors.
We
go a step ahead against the viewer but
still working in the background. The
objects in the far background are usually
very light or very dark. And details
are not visible to the viewer. Although
this rule is not often applied in my
own paintings, i prefer details everywhere...
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New layer or choose the base foreground
color layer. I used a brush that where
small enough to make single lines (note:
they are still quite large because of
the huge canvas size). Adding base texture
to the background trees.
I try to use different values and hues
of the main color of the are where I'm
painting. In this case i use different
values of green. But dark and desaturated
values. If i where to paint with the
brightest green that we see in the foreground
it had broken the depth.
Step
5 - Volcano
More
texturing, started working on the volcano.
I hadn't painted the sky everywhere
(left the part of the volcano smoke).
It took a while to repaint the sky so
it covered the whole background.
Then I started adding details to the
volcano.
More
basic texturing, going forward against
the viewer. I started on the tree that
comes in front of the volcano. Worked
on the first waterfall with texturing
and detailing.
Step
7 - Trying to fix composition
Info
003 - Composition
One of the most important issues
in paintings is the composition.
If a painting has a bad comp-osition
it can ruin everything.
It helps coming from a design and
movie back-ground. Imagine this
painting here to the left without
the volcano... everything falls
to the left.
Annoying and disturbs the mood that
I wanted.
Composition can be learned by reading
some design books and tutorials.
More
details on the volcano. Felt that the
volcano had some composition problems.
Just having so bright red colors there
ruins the mood. But by adding more of
the same colors around making a transition
between the colors somewhat fix it.
So
I added some lava or magma running down.
Also added some more details to the
trees.
Step
8 - The foreground
Not
much to say... Worked on the foreground
Adding basic textures. Using brighter
colors than i used in the background.
More details added with a smaller pencil
using a hard brush.
Step
9 - More textures
Tip
003 - 100% Black
It's not often I paint with 100%
black, nothing is really black.
Try instead to paint with a very
dark value of the color in the surroundings.
I
prefer working from left to right
in my paintings. Now when I have finished
the basic texturing on the foreground
I continue on parts that have been
neglected. Tried to give depth to
the forest by painting with dark colors
first and add brighter colors above.
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The composition was still falling
so I added some mountains in the background
to keep it from slipping away. You
can easily see that it helps.
