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Elyzius

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Artist // Hobbyist // Varied
  • Philippines
  • Deviant for 15 years
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Favourite Visual Artist
Diego Velazquez, Jan Vermeer, Alfons Mucha, Gianlorenzo Bernini
Favourite Movies
The Third Man, Rebecca
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Enya, Palestrina
Favourite Writers
Andrew Vachss, Neil Gaiman
Favourite Games
Neverwinter Nights 2
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
Scalpel, cleaver, and chainsaw
Other Interests
Computer game modding and development
For some time now, I've been using three kinds of blending modes in my digital paintings: an underlying Normal layer where I paint only local colors, a Multiply layer on top of that for shades and shadows, and an "Add (Glow)" layer (a.k.a. Linear Dodge in Photoshop) for highlights. It's possible to paint everything in a single normal layer, but then you'd have to figure out for yourself how the colors change as light and shade strike them. I've discovered that it's possible to reverse-engineer a photograph to see how light and shade affect local colors. For this demonstration, I'm going to use a photo called Alex stock 27 by Random-acts-stock. The first thing to do is to try to extract the local colors from this photo. I can't do this with 100% reliability, so the best I can hope for is a reasonably accurate guess. By doing some digital painting as well as blending mode manipulation, I was able to come up with the following image. As you can see, I kind of fudged the details
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In some ways, colored porcelain is like gold. Both are reflective, and both tint their reflections with their own intrinsic color. Porcelain, however, is considerably less reflective than gold. It is also glossier, which is why its specular highlights are smaller. These characteristics can be observed in the 3D models shown below. My workflow for painting gold digitally is similar to the technique I found for rendering porcelain in that both have a tinting layer to give these objects their intrinsic color. Whereas I used an overlay layer to tint gold, I used a multiply layer to tint porcelain. The underlying reflections of the porcelain obje
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Hundreds of years ago, alchemists performed strange experiments in their attempt to transmute base metal into gold. Finally, in the Year of Our Lord 2016, I discovered the secret. I now know how to turn base metal into gold... but only on the digital canvas. I'm an artist, not an alchemist. As such, I am happy to share the secrets of rendering gold in a digital painting. I will build upon what I have learned on rendering polished steel because for those who can depict polished steel reasonably well, rendering gold is a cinch. Polished steel will literally be the base metal on which I build a workflow for rendering gold. Using my raytraced 3D
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Thanks for the detailing critice! Hope to make better pieces! Have fun!
Glad to be of service. Oh, and thanks for the +fav. :D