GL finished?

I'm not happy with this. Not at all but I'm finding it hard to see the wood for the trees so I'll give up for now and return later ;)

GL...

Added some more to this painting :) for example the face :D

Comic Book style text Photoshop tutorial 34/365

I'm a huge fan of comics – not that I've been able to buy any in the last 5 years or so :( but I do love rereading my old ones. This had me thinking about the old style Pow's and Thwaks they used to put in fight scenes. I liked them, so I thought i'd show you a way of making them in Photoshop.

Step 1.

Go to http://www.dafont.com/badaboom-bb.font and download and install the font Badaboom, this is a fantastic comic font that I love. Also we want to download a cloud brush from http://simonrudd.info/brushes/. Next make a 1024x768 sized document inside Photoshop. Next using the Gradient Tool make a 50% grey to black gradient.

Step 2.

First set your foreground colour to white by pressing D followed by X on your keyboard, Select the Text Tool from the Toolbar and using the Badaboom font type KABOOM! I set my font size to 72 but you can choose what ever size you want.

Step 3.

we now want to add a Layer style, go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow. Leave the settings as default, next add a Inner shadow style, set the colour to #f70a0a and the blending mode to normal. Increase the distance to 5, choke to 8 and size to 24. Finally add a Bevel and Emboss Style leaving the default settings.

Step 4.

We now add a new Layer under the text layer and using Control and E merge the text layer and new layer together (First select the Text layer then merge). Select the now flattened text layer and go to Edit>Transform>Perspective. Grab the top right hand anchor and pull it up so the right hand side is larger than the left.

Step 5.

Now duplicate the Text Layer using Control & J, This layer is going to be a sort of shadow. First we hide our original text layer by pressing the eye icon in the layer window. Next we want to make it black, the easiest way of doing this is to add a Colour overlay Layer style (Layer>Layer style>Colour Overlay) set to black. Then we unhide the original text layer.

Step 6.

Finally we use the cloud brush we downloaded in step one, on a new layer brush in some clouds around the word. Make it thicker towards to beginning of the word and less at the end :)

Hope you liked the tutorial and please feel free to visit my website :)

Comic style

Biro and acrylics on card – based on a panel from Preacher : Salvation

Dr Fate – Clouds (cont…)

I’m not happy with the clouds at all – still got a looooong way to go :D

Sally Jupiter

Digital painting

Dr Fate (Cont…)

adding some more details

Dr Fate (Cont…)

Dr Fate (Cont…)

 

I carried on with the yellow under painting today, trying to build it up a bit – i also did the helmet (of Nabu) i’m going to have to do some more work on it later and get the shading right. 

I filled the eyes silver – may change them to white or even black – not sure yet.

close up of the helmet

I messed the hand up – the thumb was at the wrong angle so i had to paint it out – hence the big splodge of white paint. I actually applied it with my finger. I’m not sure I will be able to do much more painting over the next week as its half term and I'll be busy being assaulted by my kids :) 

Dr fate (cont…) also my 600th post!

Bit of a landmark today as this was my 600th blog post - woo! :D

Dr Fate

Started a new project today – i was very impressed by the latest Smallville episode featuring the JSA that I thought I'd do a painting of Dr Fate.  Plus it means i don't have to worry about facial features. 

**Note to self – you really must work on faces**

 

**update**

Rorschach (Cont…)

Worked on the hat, coat and scarf today - I’m undecided if i should paint the background or not. 

Fat Flash

Batman returns

 

I think I may have to touch up the flames on the left hand side

Acrylics on canvas 30x40 cm