Sherwin Abesamis: Lauren

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Lauren

Lauren, Photoshop

It was really fun to paint this digitally, because if you understand how to read the RGB sliders in Photoshop, you can mix colors in seconds flat. It would have taken me two to three times as long to do this traditionally with oil, and I'm not sure if the result would have been better.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking oil or abandoning it as a medium. I just had to finish this painting as fast as I could, as I had to leave the workshop early to watch the new Harry Potter movie. Haha!

5 comments:

Mauricio Abril said...: Nice job, sherwin!; 10:52 PM
Mauricio Abril said...: Oh, btw, so you use RGB to paint? Not HSB? How do you adjust for value or saturation?; 10:56 PM
Elora Lyda said...: greatttt job sherwin! amazing colors! haha harry potter... IT WAS AWESOME WASN'T IT?! :O how long did this take you if you said you were in a rush?! gosh...; 8:11 AM
Sherwin Abesamis said...: @Mauricio: Value and saturation are determined by the relative positions of the sliders along the RGB scale. This tutorial explains the idea much better than I can right now.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=148355

IMO RGB slider painting as a learning tool is superior to HSB slider painting/color picking, because it mimics the feel of traditional painting, in that you are choosing the color based the combination of six colors on your palette (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow).

If you have a few minutes after class tonight, I would be glad to show you an in-person demonstration of this method.

@Elora: Thanks! This took about four hours to do, but I've had a lot of practice painting from the model, so it's really just a matter of getting used to the process.

Yeah, Harry Potter was awesome! Action-packed!; 11:27 AM
reiq said...: yeap you're right I'll try that tip there :D; 5:20 AM