A Doggone Good Day

Such a pretty day for a little jog around town. Looks like Timber has decided to take a little rest after logging some blocks.

This is a full detail semi-realistic with full detail background gift art for TimberPuppers on Twitter. I wanted to draw (again) his character because I had thought he was a cute character especially as a toony dog. I've already drew him before in my toony style (in fact you can see one of them in my banner at the bottom of this post and in my Steem header 😉).

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Drawing Details

ART PARAMETER	DETAIL
Art Medium	Digital: Krita
Art Tool	Wacom Cintiq 13 HD
Art Style	Semi-Realistic
Level of Detail	Full Detail
Background Detail	Full Detail
Size	Full Body
Dimensions	Portrait: 2048 x 2560
Date Completed	2019-01-21

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My Layer Layout

• Foregroud Folder
  • Lineart
  • Highlights
  • Backligthts
  • Shadows
  • Color Folder
    • Quaternary Color layer
    • Tertiary Color layer
    • Secndary Color layer
  • Base/Primary Color layer
• Background Folder
  • Lineart
  • Color Folder
    • Highlights layer
    • Shadows layer
    • Base/Primary Color
  • (Copied and Merged Folder) Blurred Background layer
  • (Folder to be copied, merged and blurred.)
    • Buildings layer
    • Clouds layer
    • Sky layer
• Extra Sketch layer
• Fine Sketch layer
• Rough Sketch layer
• Canvas Background layer (neutral color like grey)

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Phase 1: Foregound Part 1

• Canvas Prep/Rough Sketch

  Layers Used:

  Canvas Background layer

  Rough Sketch layer

  We are going to start off with a grey or any neutral color background and sketch in a rough sketch of the basic shapes and the pose of the character and background.

• Fine Sketch

  Layers Used:

  Fine Sketch layer

  Then sketch over the roughs with a finer sketch to detail the figure more.

• Lineart

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Lineart layer

  Once satisfied with the look, I trace over the fine sketch with lineart.

• Base/Primary Color

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Base/Primary Color layer

  Then with the continguous selection "wizard" tool, select all areas outside of the character's parameters, invert the selection, and then fill with the character's primary color. Do this method this way to reduce gaps in your base color that you would otherwise have is you just select areas within the character.

• Detail Color

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Color Folder -> (Folder's color layers.)

  Here you just add in the character's other color details utilizing as many layers as you need.

Phase 2: Background

• Sky Layer

  Layers Used:

  Background Folder -> Sky layer

  Really I guess I should've finished up the foreground still, but I went ahead and did the background to get a sense of how the lighting would be for the drawing. I start off with using the gradient tool to put in a gradient blue sky.

• Cloud Layer

  Layers Used:

  Background Folder -> Clouds layer

  I add in some clouds.

• Buildings Layer

  Layers Used:

  Background Folder -> Buildings layer

  And add in the buildings. Hint: The line tool helps here. ;)

• Blurring

  Layers Used:

  (Folder to be copied, merged and blurred.)

  (Copied and Merged Folder) Blurred Background layer

  For myself here, I basically put the sky, clouds, and buildings layers in a folder, copied the folder, and merged the contents in the folder. Then used a blur effect on the newly created layer from the merge.

• Lineart

  Layers Used:

  Background Folder -> Color Folder -> Lineart layer

  I then lineart the wall and sidewalk.

• Base/Primary Color

  Layers Used:

  Background Folder -> Color Folder -> Base/Primary layer

  Just like the foreground (temporarily turn off the blurred background of course), select areas outside the parameters of the wall with the contiguous selection tool, invert the selection, then fill the area will the base/primary color.

• Shadows

  Layers Used:

  Background Folder -> Color Folder -> Shadows layer

  Add in the shadows.

• Highlights

  Layers Used:

  Background Folder -> Color Folder -> Highlights layer

  Add in the highlights. Backlights not necessarily needed for this.

Phase 3: Foreground Part 2

• Shadows

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Shadows layer

  I return to the foreground folder now that I got a sense of direction of where the light is coming from to add in the shadows...

• Highlights

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Highlights layer

  ...and the highlights...

• Backlights

  Layers Used:

  Foreground Folder -> Backlights layer

  ...and the backlights.

• Misc. Details/Final Check/Final Result

  Layers Used:

  (Various layers)

  Finally, I check over the drawing to make sure I got all the details I needed done and corrected. Then the drawing is completed!

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Thank you and hope you like the pic and tutorial!

Timber © Tw: TimberPuppers
Artwork by @bleuxwolf

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