The Lioness
This drawing is one created by following the great Disney drawer Aaron Blaise’s tutorial on creating Lion Heads in his How to Draw Big Cats set. He provides a head skull drawing to use as a template to draw the actual structure of the head for eye, jaw, cheek, and ear placement. Fabulous technique! He also gives lots of tips about the actual animal and its traits. The background was created using three different textures: the bottom one was just a middle gray color; the one on top was one I had previously created in his Wildlife Painting Bundle – Lion Painting Tutorial (87% layer opacity); and the top used one of the free Japanese textures (to convert to pattern go to Edit -> Define a Pattern) from Resource Boy at DealJumbo (Pat 268 rev at 10.23 Angle and 297% Scale) – it was converted into a pattern. To get the pretty orange and turquoise colors in the background a Color Lookup Adjustment Layer using SparkleStock Clover 3DLUT file SS Sham Rocker 02.cube (link for the free ones but can’t fine direct line to the free Clover LUTs) with the Table Order set to RGB (was set to BGR), Lighter Color blend mode, and Layer Opacity of 88%. A couple other adjustment layers and a Camera Raw filter for a slight vignette were added to finish up. I totally love Aaron’s drawing tutorials and all the great tips he gives you!…..Digital Lady Syd
Waiting for Sunset
Just had some fun creating a little atmospherics image. Following Aaron Blaise’s Digital Painting videos – these are from 2017 but they are still really relevant. One of the sections is called Creating Atmospheric Perspective using Layers. It was a lot of fun to do and pretty easy. Just used a Hard Round PS brush with Transfer on for the mountains layers and with a lighter color added using the Gradient Tool for atmosphere layers. Can make as many mountains and as much atmosphere as you want. The foreground flowers are from Maddy Bellwoar Hand Painted Gouache Brushes Plant and Flower set – Wildflower Stamp 9 – really nice. The deer shape is from a Photoshop set by Timoes Animal Shapes from 2002 and the grass reeds were created in Aaron’s class. Lots of fun. And Aaron has just released a new digital class but I have not tried it yet. I am sure it is also great!…..Digital Lady Syd
