Joust Tutorial by Vince Chui

I work out the roughs. My concern is mostly blocking in shapes, rather than detail. I use it as a guide, to map out this piece.

I retrace my old rough drawing. I isolated the woman in the drawing so I can focus on her.

In this piece, I decided to seperate each element to showcase the designs individualy in my portfolio. This will be combined later for the final piece.

I like to block in a midtone before painting. Allowing me to focus on the shadows and the highlights.

I lay in my shadows.

I block in the flat tobes on another layer.

Now here's the fun part. Highlights. It's really easy to put equal strength highlights on a picture. You must resist this if you can. I sometimes I adjust highlights later when I add Colour.

I also had darkened a few places. On top of that I do alevels adjust to tweak my black and white range.

Ok now the grey tone is done.

In your Blend modes Select Color. You can just add flat colours on top of the black and white Picture. It should preserve all you highlights and shadows.

I add more colour depth. Slowly building up saturation. Mainly highlights have more saturation. Secondary lights are more grey in colour.

I give a yellow tint to the whole piece to tie all the colours together.

I also add some grime and scratches on the armour.