Thursday, January 27, 2011

"Hexapod" step three: Color

Here's the color version of my "Hexapod" drawing.



I may try another version, but I kind of like the combination of the watercolor and the photo background. -- PL

7 comments:

Adam Riches said...

That turned out great, and I love the photo background, it's adds a really cool layer of depth to the branches.

Jeff M said...

Wow! The color really makes a difference! I also like the photo background. It works well with this picture.

mikeandraph87 said...

It turned out great. I do like the water color with the ohoto background. It makes it seems realistic even though its an alien bug creature.

When it comes to art I never did anything more than complex drawings. So if I may ask what was the process to add a phto background to a water color drawing?

Jeff M said...

Photoshop or Imageready usually helps with stuff like that mikeandraph87

PL said...

"mikeandraph87 said...
It turned out great. I do like the water color with the ohoto background. It makes it seems realistic even though its an alien bug creature.

When it comes to art I never did anything more than complex drawings. So if I may ask what was the process to add a phto background to a water color drawing?"

As "Jeff M" said in the comment following yours, Photoshop is a good tool to use for these things. And it is what I used. I scanned the art that I had watercolored, then opened that in Photoshop, and selected all of the background areas.I then opened the photo I was going to use for the background, selected it and copied it into memory, and then used the "Paste Into" command in Photoshop to drop the photo background in. -- PL

mikeandraph87 said...

Thanks,I'm too used to just the days of just drawing and painting instead of scanners and computers and photshop.haha. Thanks for the enlightment.

Jeff M said...

Im not great on paper... but Im decent on a touch screen... thats how I know photishop