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Someone asked me to explain how I speed paint on another forum and I figured that I could share my technique in this forum as well soooooo first of all look at this:



Now you get, I'm going to try to explain how I proceed.
First of all, for this painting, I have used, adobe photoshop and a graphic tablet, you don't have to have a very expensive or large tablet, A6 is enough ;)

About the picture naow :D

1. I think that for speedpaintings, painting entirly in grey is easier. Then on a layer I paint, using darker grey for shadows and lighter for highlight. I use a custom brush to whom opacity change with pen pressure.

2. On a new layer, multiply mode, I add the colors.

3. I'm adding some highlights (ligter grey)

4. I think that it's a bit flat for the moment, I'm adding more shadows with darker grey.

5. And finally some final highlights.

Well, I hope that my english is not that crappy and that you've understood what I meant ^^' plus it's not THE way of doing digital painting, there exist plenty of them. It's just the way that I've used, hope it's helpfull anyway ;)

1. I think that for speedpaintings, painting entirly in grey is easier. Then on a layer I paint, using darker grey for shadows and lighter for highlight. I use a custom brush to whom opacity change with pen pressure.

2. On a new layer, multiply mode, I add the colors.

3. I'm adding some highlights (ligter grey)

4. I think that it's a bit flat for the moment, I'm adding more shadows with darker grey.

5. And finally some final highlights.

Well, I hope that my english is not that crappy and that you've understood what I meant ^^' plus it's not THE way of doing digital painting, there exist plenty of them. It's just the way that I've used, hope it's helpfull anyway ;)

Not sure why no one responded. How do you speedpaint? Do you just like record your painting and then some how speed it up?

Gingerleaf: Speedpainting is the term given when someone does a painting quickly, in a short space of time.
A speedpainting is to a painting,
as a sketch is to a drawing.

flo: I've seen this method mentioned before, but not in this detail. Thanks.
One thing though - I've tried this technique a while back, and I notice white is impossible to paint over after doing greyscale. Any idea how to overcome this? I've tried but not found much in the way of a solution. :[

Well, I'm not sure this will helped, but, you don't have to use pure white, and really light grey works fine ;)