At the beginning of this painting, I have an impulse to draw a reference tutorial, but I want to declare that the so-called tutorial is by no means how good the painting is consciously, but it can greatly exercise my painting ability and share some experiences with some friends who like painting. Why not? Well, I admit that it's because I have no plans to write recently ... I'm a pure science student, so I haven't received any systematic training in painting. So this article may have many mistakes. Please forgive me and leave what you want. All my painting skills are presented here without reservation:) The following effects may be what I hope to achieve, but they are for reference only. Let's talk about line drawing first. In my spare time, I will think, and sometimes I will come up with some ideas that I think are better, and then record them, either in words or with thick lines. After work, I can choose one of these messy thoughts to describe it. Line drawing is very important. I am used to writing on a smooth sketchbook, using a mechanical pencil of 2B 0.5 and an eraser that is easy to use. The sketch will be finished soon, but the basic ideas are all in it-Sylvanas Windrunner is crying with a necklace in his right hand and a "Forgetting Bow" designed by me in his left hand. The background is the eerie undercity and the equally sinister Fear Lord. At this stage, you can ignore the authenticity of the picture, because all the elements in the draft may be described in detail in the future. Personally, the foundation is very important, and software can effectively supplement your shortcomings in art skills. However, if there are many structural errors in the online draft stage, it is difficult to complete an excellent CG work, so even the line draft for positioning cannot be drawn casually. When painting, you can listen to the original soundtrack of WOW and feel the soul of Azeroth. Ok, the draft is over. Scan it into the computer with a scanner. At this time, I found that the picture was a little short and fat, so I added a paragraph to the canvas with the image processing function of PS CS3 (you can right-click the picture border and choose from the menu), and directly added some simple contents with the drawing pen. Tips: You don't need to draw exactly according to the line drawing, because it may limit your play. 2. Initial coloring: The resolution of my scanned manuscript is about 477 1*5952 (pixels). Create a new layer on the scanned original, select the option of "Overwrite the positive film" and start coloring. First of all, think about the basic color of the picture you want. For this picture, I chose cyan as the sky color, and the picture is dark blue with low purity, so I used the "gradient tool" to fill the whole picture without leaving any dead ends. Next, there are some specific colors in the world. I think the combination of yellow and purple will make this painting look beautiful. Therefore, the armor of sylvanas windrunner Windrunner is edged with gold with low purity and lightness, and the dark part of the Queen's armor is painted with slightly darker purple, and at the same time, simple highlights and reflective positions are drawn-it is best not to only improve the lightness of the color. You can try to use some other colors instead of simply increasing the brightness of the dark color (pay attention to the queen's left shoulder armor). Finally, I thought of the reflection of undercity Green Canal on the Queen. Yellow-green and cyan are also a simple contrast between cold and warm. Then draw the color of the background-you can choose your favorite color at will, but it's best not to scribble or brush smartly, because we don't have CM's deep understanding of color and light and shadow, so try to be conservative. Varimathras is a supporting role, which may be cancelled in the future, so I just drew a simple light and shadow on him to remind myself that this role still exists. After the basic color is finished, you can reduce the picture and look at it to see if there is anything disgusting. At this time, I still didn't emphasize the authenticity of the background, and the reason will be explained later. Of course, if necessary, we can coordinate the picture by adjusting the color balance, and then we can merge the layers and start the next step. Tip: I usually use a brush. This brush is a good custom brush, which can be found online. Similar to PS's own 19 wet edge brush. You can find it online. The name is "Ink Brush", and the brushes in it are all good. 3. Turn off the music, put on the opening animation of World of Warcraft, and start the next step of cold weapons and magic sound effects. There is only one floor now. There will be different paintings here from others. I remember a master said that painting should be holistic, while not painting, don't draw very carefully. But I'm not like this. I like the grandeur and evocative details of the picture, so I will choose a place I like to paint directly and refine it. This is also a ruler, because all parts of the final picture should be roughly fine, and finally the layer effect should be used to distinguish between reality and reality. There is another way to do this. It is very important that you must be attracted by your own paintings, especially the first part-paintings are for the audience, but if you can't even attract the author, it will be difficult for the audience to buy them, right? When I first painted this picture, I wanted to give the queen an ecstatic expression. As a result, my heart was pounding after painting ... I think this is the excitement, which gave me great confidence and made me work smoothly in the future. Tip: Reduce/enlarge the painting to the size you want to display at last, and then use CTRL+ to enlarge one layer to draw. For the part to be emphasized, enlarge two or more layers to draw, and the final picture will look more detailed. Some parts of the skin are bloodless, so don't paint them all rose. Use some cyan boldly, and the texture will be more real. In addition, don't forget to get a little rosy on your nose and highlight it, which will enhance the viewing effect of the whole picture. You can debug the screen at any time by using the commands in CTRL+T, such as rotate and zoom. Pay attention to the contrast between cool and warm colors. Pay attention to complementary colors. 4. Continue to draw the avatar. After painting, I chose her left shoulder nail and started painting. There is nothing too difficult here. Pay attention to the metallic texture. The bright spot of metal is more obvious than cloth and skin. In addition, draw scratches with a very thin brush. Don't ignore the sketch relationship. If the relationship is not satisfactory, you can use the "deepening" function to draw a few strokes gently, which should feel good. The following is the drawing process of shoulder armor, and other parts are similar. Tips: I find that some people's paintings feel very empty. One of the reasons is that they dare not emphasize the edge line. In my opinion, you must pay attention to the edge line of the close-up picture, which will make your picture look more stereoscopic. When I say edge line, I mean the contrast between edges. Try to use black as little as possible, because the dark parts should also have a sense of hierarchy, and pay attention to all the details, and the final picture will look more beautiful. Make more use of the previous environmental colors and absorb more colors on the finished drawings. Of course, if you are confident about the color, you can choose the color more boldly. 5. Insist that if you feel a little tired, you can go and see Mr. Edison Chen's photographs. When you have had enough rest, we will continue. After I finished drawing the shoulder armor, I noticed that I drew the line between her and the background in black, which was for the next step. I further completed the shoulder armor, adjusted the headscarf and drew part of the breastplate. At this time, the shoulder armor is slightly abrupt, but it doesn't matter. Tip: Stick to finish painting, and you will make greater progress. 6. Continue to describe everything about her. Remember, we should pay attention to the differences of various materials-skin, metal, cloth, hair, stone, wood, etc.-and their properties are different, which should be reflected in your pictures. Up to now, it has always been the first floor. Tips: Single layer will make your painting feel stronger as a whole and closer to the traditional painting method, which is what I pursue. 7. Separation of Layers When Queen Xi painted almost the same painting, I copied the layers and separated the characters from the background with the help of the connecting lines just drawn. At this time, a monochrome layer will be used as the reference layer-as long as it is convenient for comparison. Simply enrich the background. If there is no big problem, move on to the next step. 8. Boutique characters continue to fully depict characters in exactly the same way as before. At this time, I changed an album that I had never been to. I like listening to the second song, but when you find that the song has been played but you don't know it yet, you are devoted enough. Tip: If your figure feels flat after painting, you can build a new layer and draw shadows by superimposing and adjusting transparency to emphasize the three-dimensional sense. If your task color is warm, use cool color, otherwise use warm color or even black. Because I am satisfied with the relief feeling of the queen after painting, I only use the "lightening" brush to emphasize the local effect. If the previous picture is fine enough, the effect will be better after highlighting. Tip: Reasonable application of a simple "subtractive" brush can achieve unexpected and excellent results. 9. I removed the original big bow, because I have been painting here for 6 or 7 hours, and I am tired, so I will draw a bow in the future and replace it with the default bow in WOW. Of course, I can't be careless. I added elvish features to her, such as long eyebrows, facial lines and tears, to make the edge line of the shoulder armor more reasonable, and also adjusted the position of her arms so that she would not be as tough as in WOW. At this point, the characters are basically completed. Reduce background brightness, improve contrast and highlight people. 10. Making wallpaper, I found some materials that can be seen everywhere on the Internet, such as the dark map and the great circle commonly used in the official wallpaper of Warcraft, put the queen in the foreground, and found a picture drawn before Arthas in the background-the relationship between these two people is quite deep. Next, I want to add noise. Choose to add noise in the filter to make the picture more textured. Change the resolution of the picture to 1024*768 (pixels), and finally put your own LOGO on the finished picture to make the picture more official. If you are as shameless as me, you can also write a Jeremy Sun in 2008. All rights reserved to cover up commercial illustrations. Sign. Eight hours later, a painting I like very much was finished. All CG processing is completed in PS CS3. Tip: Adding appropriate variegated colors will make the picture more textured.