And now the completed piece! Golden Hour sky and some of the golden light on the horizon near where the sun is. The shadows work perfectly in what was plain grass and roads!
I'm so happy to be finished with this. Now I can get to drawing Alexander's character sheet for the next time I'm ready to put him to show. (It's been so long since I've drawn him individually!) Will certainly share when I have something ready for it.
I have learned the magic of Krita's Tone curve tool @@ (Thanks to my friend for suggesting it!)
In this version, the original, you can see exactly how gray I tend to turn things when left to my own whims. XD (As if you've not been seeing it already!) But just look at what Filter > Color Adjustment was able to bring out!
I have no real idea why I tend to paint in such a gray tone but I've been doing it for ages. ...I guess this all winds down to "praise the tools that digital art programs give us"! XD Or is it more "stop forgetting about them!", maybe? Either way, remembering for the next pieces should help super well!
Also, I've bought a set of brushes for Krita that should well help out when I need to paint grass and such so I have *got* to chatter about the maker and where it was bought. The store is run by KmcVisuals and this is the brush set I bought. As of now? I think I love them~
I'm probably going to bring a bit more daylight blue into this. XD It's so nighttime even if the sun is intended to be rising...We shall see what I finally decide on.
That said, I'm really having fun using Krita! Just have to learn how to control the textures a bit more.
The sky reference was from a photo that my friend took (artist: KBdraws92)
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Slowly learning Krita! A friend helped me defeat the "evil" of HDR. (It probably is nice for people who actually need it but it was just frustrating me.) XD So far, if I haven't said so, I've been enjoying this program. It doesn't take all that much time to look up and find things about it if I need to learn whatever, at the moment!
Right now, I'm VERY pleased with the grass here. I just put a flat brush of green down and then drew over that with a color pencil. I wonder if I can get other textures with other pencil brushes? Very fun at the moment! And I can't wait til I get to painting the sky with this program!
I could have so easily done this in FireAlpaca but it was very fun to set it up in Krita, definitely not sorry for downloading this program! I do still have a hair of an issue working with scaling things down (that signature for one!) but isn't that what these projects are for, when testing out a new drawing/painting program?
I'll be working from this from here out since I've been enjoying Krita so far. Let's knock on wood that it doesn't crash on me! Or maybe that was from some of the older versions? We'll see as the drawing and painting goes.
Finally got to settle down to paint this, it was *much* faster than I was thinking it had to be. XD But was still neat to toy with anyway.
Even if I don't know about swiping clouds like I did the footpaths (from previous/unfinished Jadewind and Mountains image) I'm just shocked with how fast this basic stuff came out. New rule to remember for next time...when painting thumbnails, don't make the color layer a multiply layer...would make putting all this stuff together a *lot* easier.
This has been quite fun!
So it's been a little bit of a while since I've shared anything to do with my drawings--thanks so much for being patient with me! Believe I've shown this version, yes?
I mean, if not, I've been playing with ideas and here's some proof. XD This is some sketchwork to throw ideas together and to decide how to plan the whole image. Here's what I've gotten so far!
Windmill in working order; couple clouds in the sky, a few paths that people have caused from walking between the roads, couple of farms...this piece is properly complete! <3
Totally loving these mountains, they worked out great! Thank goodness to the photos on pinterest, right? (Maybe too that it was fun to get distracted several times and look around all over the site too. XD)
Now I just need to adjust the ground and add in more of the town! ^^
Eee! Loving how this sky worked out! Didn't use the blending tool at all and this just looks great.
I'm just terrified of making up Jadewind and make that work out...We'll see what happens.
And some clouds *have* to be put in the sky too, they'd look so nice!
It has decided to be very...blue. And oh gosh how much fun it was to do this! Will be correcting those piles of cotton in the sky but they seem to have worked out for a good start.
This was a fun little thing to play with. It's going to help make a very nice painting by the time I'm finished! Now to start painting for details and all of that.
