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PROCESS VIDEO // popcorn - part 2

Added 2023-06-22 09:03:01 +0000 UTC

Here's part 2 of the popcorn process video! Some info about this process video:

The video has been sped up to 250%, so 2.5 times faster than the real-time speed.
The full process of adding color took me about 7 and a half hours in total.
The brush I use the most here is the Gritty Butter brush from Wes Gardner’s 2020 brush pack.

In this part of the process, I spend a lot of time cleaning up the painting and rendering it further. I try to build on the orange color accent that I established in the last video by introducing more orange elements to the painting. I also try to add some subtle background elements, like pipes running along the floor or additional pipes behind the chair. This is always a precarious phase for me because I usually end up piling on a lot of detail and then scaling it back again because I preferred the way it looked first. So in general it’s a lot of back-and-forth - adding detail and then reeling it in again.

In this process I use a technique where I add bright highlighted areas, and add an additional saturated line around that highlight shape. This is something I do around 53 minutes in. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but in general I really like this technique of emphasizing the edges of the highlights and shadows. Even though it’s not entirely realistic, it does add more contrast and gives a stylized quality to the painting! In the end I think making a digital painting is all about finding these kind of tricks to bring some visual interest to the final piece and peppering it all around the image so that you really engage the viewer with it.

The next part is coming right up!