Colouring greyscale help needed!
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This already looks really, really good, and everyone's made great points already. I think my two cents are first, I'd deepen your values just a bit via adjustment; your lighter areas feel pretty muted, which might end up looking a bit washed out once color gets incorporated. I just saw that you mentioned it's a night scene, but from the overall tonal look, I'd read it as murky midday. Just a thought! Can't wait to see how this develops.
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What a cool idea. I'm not much good at digital painting so can't really contribute there. Maybe the comments have persuaded me to try the course though.
Besides picking a few places for highlights (maybe the window light around the silhouette or the foreground torch?) I think I would overlap both the left gargoyle and the mid-tone right tree on the house. That could give you a bit more depth and solve the tangent problem.
Love the mood and detail. Look forward to seeing the result.
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Right, so i've come up with this. Its not exactly as I had it in my head, obviously I could sit and render it till the cows come home, but if anyone's got any thoughts at this stage, they would be very useful and appreciated! I think the washed out comment mentioned above has happened, shame I didn't see that comment till just now! lol. Learnt soooo much from doing this piece, mainly to not watch so many tutorials, turns out it doesn't stick in your head unless your applying it at the same time! Least with me anyway.
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@gavpartridge Overall this is nice and you do have a nice atmosphere working for you. One thing would be the two characters are still hard to see even with the torch light; you could still have some of the cool sky light on their back edge just to make tem pop out a bit. I know they are hiding but they could also be moved out slightly to the right.
Cheers
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With the torchlight and warm cool contrast it does seem more solid than in greyscale. Looks nice!
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Thought i'd put this up, I'm much happier with it now, albeit 'finished not perfect' as Jake says! If anyone is interested, In the end I simply shifted the hue of the greyscale towards blue then painted a bit of yellow on here and there, bit of rendering and texture etc. Couldn't work out another way to make it look decent. I'm only just starting to work with colour, having just drawn in pencil pretty much my whole life. Is this monochromatic then? If anyone else has advice on painting colours at night please let me know, Like, how does grass look under a blue moonlight? Just blue right?? I'm rambling now, this stuff melts my brain.
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@gavpartridge I really like the finished product. Good job.
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I know this topic is ancient, however thought this would be useful. I actually got an overpaint from Borodante on Youtube, he provides some useful information on colouring greyscale images. Link is below.
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@gavpartridge this is so cool! I realise watching this how little I really know about digital painting. He just effortlessly moves and distorts parts of your original image - I think I would have been redrawing it all, taking huge amounts of time!
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@neschof I know, i think thats a large part of digital painting, having a solid workflow and technical knowledge. I waste so much time doing things the long winded way, when theres a often a two second shortcut that would achieve the same thing. Thats why he's on youtube i suppose! Lol.
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@gavpartridge thats a great link, thx! lucky you
