Putting my process in here to keep track of things. Lots of firsts for this assignment for me.
First time using a Cintiq (I bought one used, fingers crossed it keeps working!)
First time making my own brush in photoshop (thanks to Lees course.)
First time really painting in Photoshop using a mix of what I learned from Will Terry and David Hohn's videos in the Jump into classes.
I did about 25-30 thumbnails in my sketchbook trying to focus on composition and landed on this one.
After that I played around with the proportions on the ipad. I ended up enlarging the fish in the corner, based off of some previous crits I saw on other peoples work.
The I played with the tones to see what worked or that I liked and did several variations.
Then on Photoshop! (At this point I was on an Intuos tablet, so I hadn't gotten the cintiq yet.)
First I scanned in some charcoal paper images to try out David Hohns technique. I'm a traditional charcoal artist, so that fits what I enjoy. Then I just stared paying around with some looks. This is one of my attempts to see how things worked with this technique.
Once I sat with this for a while I wasn't really liking the drawing style, seemed too plain. Some things were just not working to my liking. Also I got the cintiq! time to give this thing a spin! So after watching Lees brush video, I made a Pencil Brush and started drawing!
So kinda back to the beginning with tones but I had an idea of where I was going from the earlier work.
I had done some color studies at an earlier stage but I just started playing around using what I learned from several videos from SVS