Dark Archer: Never Stay Down
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This is for my fellow Dark Archer fans! I wanted to get a screen shot of this scene from "Streets of Fire" for my desktop wallpaper, but when I went to Screencapped.net... well, you can see if you look; the screenshots don't have any good composition or lighting. So I made my own.
Sorry it took so long, but after doing most of it, I realized I don't know how to paint digital portraits, so I took a detour to try to learn that. :X Still working on that, but the good news is, I may be able to paint fan art instead of trying to rely on making 3d morphs in Poser....
For those curious about the process....
Well, first, I took the three screen shots and cobbled together somewhat of a photo montage for the pose I wanted. Then I painted over the pieces. As I said, that was all pretty easy. Dark cloth, wrinkles.
Oh, okay, the belt I totally cheated... and painted with the clone tool. :X The side panel is half painted with the photo overlaying it. The rest is painted, though.
Then I got to the hard part, his head. I tried to sketch it out... but it is a really difficult foreshortening, and with his jaw open, even more so, and I had NO idea which way the upper lip would go.
I tried to find other screenshots with Malcolm's head at the right angle... that's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But then I got smart! I took a cue from one of the portrait painting tutorials I was trying, which uses Poser as a reference tool. I took out my Poser Captain Jack Harkness (verion... uh, 3 i think. very very far from being complete, trust me.) and just put the expression on and the head in the right position, and I even replicated the scene lights. That was SO much more helpful!
At the end, I tried something else new... instead of saying it was "finished" and posting it, I put it on my desktop a few days, to sorta live with it. Normally, after I post a finished work, I get very disappointed with it a few days later, and see all the flaws I couldn't fix.
But this time, I noted them all down and actually went back to fix them. So this painting got finished at least 4 times. :X Which is good, because I did fix a lot of things that were bugging me.
It still doesn't look like I want it to look... but at least I can't complain about flaws in it. It's as good as it is going to get at this point, without me doing the whole thing over from scratch.
PS: If anybody is interested in my digital portrait painting sources and progress, let me know. Otherwise I'm too embarassed to show what a real mess I made out of poor John Barrowman's head. :X
This is for my fellow Dark Archer fans! I wanted to get a screen shot of this scene from "Streets of Fire" for my desktop wallpaper, but when I went to Screencapped.net... well, you can see if you look; the screenshots don't have any good composition or lighting. So I made my own.
Sorry it took so long, but after doing most of it, I realized I don't know how to paint digital portraits, so I took a detour to try to learn that. :X Still working on that, but the good news is, I may be able to paint fan art instead of trying to rely on making 3d morphs in Poser....
For those curious about the process....
Well, first, I took the three screen shots and cobbled together somewhat of a photo montage for the pose I wanted. Then I painted over the pieces. As I said, that was all pretty easy. Dark cloth, wrinkles.
Oh, okay, the belt I totally cheated... and painted with the clone tool. :X The side panel is half painted with the photo overlaying it. The rest is painted, though.
Then I got to the hard part, his head. I tried to sketch it out... but it is a really difficult foreshortening, and with his jaw open, even more so, and I had NO idea which way the upper lip would go.
I tried to find other screenshots with Malcolm's head at the right angle... that's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But then I got smart! I took a cue from one of the portrait painting tutorials I was trying, which uses Poser as a reference tool. I took out my Poser Captain Jack Harkness (verion... uh, 3 i think. very very far from being complete, trust me.) and just put the expression on and the head in the right position, and I even replicated the scene lights. That was SO much more helpful!
At the end, I tried something else new... instead of saying it was "finished" and posting it, I put it on my desktop a few days, to sorta live with it. Normally, after I post a finished work, I get very disappointed with it a few days later, and see all the flaws I couldn't fix.
But this time, I noted them all down and actually went back to fix them. So this painting got finished at least 4 times. :X Which is good, because I did fix a lot of things that were bugging me.
It still doesn't look like I want it to look... but at least I can't complain about flaws in it. It's as good as it is going to get at this point, without me doing the whole thing over from scratch.
PS: If anybody is interested in my digital portrait painting sources and progress, let me know. Otherwise I'm too embarassed to show what a real mess I made out of poor John Barrowman's head. :X