[CR] The Station
I've decided to start doing daily art fundamentals practices and studies for now as I have a lot left to improve. I'll continue drawing dragons once my ink pens that I ordered arrive. :) Initially I was looking for some gem references, but I accidentally came across the station photo on Pixabay and it blew me away so I decided to paint it instead.
This study took me around 1h to do.You can check out my reference at the end of the post.
The process:
I started with a perspective grid that I made long ago. I've seen other artists use this method and it's great. You can download my perspective grid here: https://sta.sh/0qu924ntu41 You can transform the grid freely. If you do 2 point perspective, make sure to align the horizon line.
This was a quick study so I didn't use any perspective tools and methods here as this was more of a warmup. By methods for example, I mean making sure that the pillars are evenly aligned in perspective. I have to revisit Scott Robertson's perspective tutorials, as I forgot most methods :)
Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/station-tracks-train-station-rail-839208/
I'm using pixabay for reference as the images are CC0 :)
Sugestions for interesting, unique themes are welcome! Or you may share an image you'd like me to paint (it has to be CC0). If I pick your theme to draw, you win 0.1SBD ^^
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Howdy from Texas kristyglas! This amazes me! lol. It looks so much like the original photo that it appears more like a duplicate than one created by you. I have no idea how you did it so precisely but it's incredible. And you usually draw by hand with pencils?
Thank you :D Actually I do digital art full time. However, drawing by hand helps me improve and it's fun ^^
oh I get it kristyglas.. yes and you are very very good at it too! lol.
Awesome work, @kristyglas! Beautiful rendering! :-)
Thank you! ^^
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Thank you very much!! :D
Amazing, it's a good break from your usual dragon concepts and other fantasy works. You're hitting the right values and colors :D
Thank you :D Yeah I agree, switching things up is great ^^
When you look at your first photo quickly you think it's a photograph. I had to scroll down and up again 2 to be sure if it's your study. It's really great! The colors are matching your reference image almost perfectly (yours are better though :))
If you would have invested more time into this study what would you change? I'm asking as I can imagine that you would maybe work a bit on the background? I'm not giving you a critique point just being curious as you didn't give the background too much detail. Which I understand as you only spent one hour on the whole image.
If you can do such things in one hour I wonder what you can do in a day ;)
Thank you for sharing! Have a great weekend!
Thank you :D Yeah I was definitely considering spending more time on it, but I have a new reference waiting for me :D
The way I normally add extra sharp details is to blur the image just a bit at around this stage and then take a sharp 100ish% brush and go from one corner of the image to other adding crisp details. This part of rendering actually can take 5-10 times more time than setting up the scene ^^
Here is one of my old posts with more details:
https://steemit.com/artexplosion/@kristyglas/the-blue-aquatic-dragon-dromarine-full-art-process
WOW! I would like you to see my face when I saw that older post of yours!! That is amazing! I'm going to go through it and see how much time you spent on that one just to compare :)
Aww thank you haha xD Yeah sadly don't have as much free time right now, it would take me a couple of weeks now at least, for that much details :D
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This is amazing @kristyglas!!!
Great perspective and the colours are soo good, the photographer of the refrence pic did an excellent job too!
Thank you <3 Yeaah the photograph blew me away :O I was so surprised to find it on pixabay. This is such a perfect setting for a story or a movie :D
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Thank you very much! :D
Woah this is amazing Kristy! Your perspective is on point!
Thank you!! :D
You know you did a good job when someone like me rocks in mistaking the drawing for the photo 😆 (I had to look closely 😆)
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Aww thank you haha xD <3
I wish my photos were this good ;)
Oh man! I thought it was photography for sure - you should write on title that it is painting! That makes it way more interesting 😍 And it will be interesting if you can refer one of my photography works to paint, please take a look on my blog- if you like!
Thank you! ^^ I can't because of the rules of artisteem where I posted from :)
I don't know what's interesting to you but for me everything related to outer space is. I found this image. I hope it works for your project ...
https://pixabay.com/en/astronaut-spacewalk-iss-tools-suit-877306/
What you did with the station was great.
Thank you, I love the theme :D Will try it tomorrow or day after.
I might find a different photo as this is very complex ^^
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