PROCESS VIDEO // rising - part 3

Here's part 3 of the process for Rising! If you want to watch the previous parts, here is Part 1 and here is Part 2. This video has a black screen for the first few seconds, don't fret through, the video begins at 6 seconds! (sorry about that!)

This is the part of the process where the least creative decisions are made. From a distance, the drawing barely changes - it’s about zooming in and working on those small details so that the image feels ‘finished’. For me, that mostly means grabbing my hard round brush and just smoothing things out. That’s why this one is sped up the most - 4 times the original speed. You can adjust the speed to be slower or faster with the gear button!

Some pointers while watching this video:

• During this part of the process, I’m just trying to figure out how to clean up the roughness of the image. Sometimes I don’t really know where to start, but it helps to focus on cleaning up the edges of the different elements and shapes. So basically I go from one area to the next, making sure that the edges feel neat and cleaned up. That usually helps clean things up fairly quickly.
• I flip the canvas from time to time. This is because I tend to focus on specific areas within a composition, and when I flip it, I notice new areas that I had ignored before. For example, the bottom left area of plants by her legs got more attention in the normal composition, but in the flipped canvas, I noticed that the opposite side was being neglected.  Flipping the canvas helps me to gauge which elements need more work in a more objective way.
• Towards the end you’ll notice me applying some textures. Basically I took a video of leaves flying through the air that I made with my phone, and isolated the leaves which I applied to the painting. I also used a dirty concrete texture to add more roughness to the bottom part of the plants. I usually apply effects like these towards the end of the process, just to push that level of organic detail a little further.

To me, this phase of the painting process feels very methodical and almost like mindless work compared to the rest of the creative process. I usually put on a good podcast and think about other things while I’m doing it. If you guys have any questions about it, ask away! I usually assume that there’s not a lot to say about it but I could definitely be wrong there. Hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any questions :)