Monday, August 17, 2009
8-17-09 SKeenan
Another creature design for fun, to add to my "creature" portion of my portfolio. This is from an older sketch I found in which I cleaned up and ended up really liking the design. Seems everyone creates aggressive concept creatures (including me) , so I thought making a herbivore type grazing animal would be fun. I call this guy the "Gorebuck" , I know, I'm a geek lol.
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how do you get that bg texture? is this digital?
ReplyDeleteI have taken and collected digital pictures of various things like rocks, grass, dirt and other gritty stuff. When my painting is completely done, the last thing I do is drop in textures as overlay layers on very low opacity. It allows my images to look less "photoshopy" and more organic. Some times I will even paint on the textures after I dicover happy accidents. The textures used in this piece are from a rock surface, and some grass. You can use anything as a texture and it works beautifully. The key is to not have it be overwhelming and to have it compliment the piece your doing.
ReplyDeletesweet - thanks for the explanation!
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