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Thank you very much, I'm glad it helps inspire you to create! To answer in short, the exact shade is not really important at all - the real key lies in making sure the relative difference is correct between those shades. For example, 30 vs 80 and 20 vs 70 are both totally fine pairings for a dark vs bright area.

GUWEIZ

Hey I love your art and your work really motivates me with my own art. Right now im trying to keep improving with my art. But I keep hitting different brick walls. One of the main things I keep hitting is issues with lighting like here you have the light in the back but the darker shades on her how do you know what colors to use or what different levels and shades you need to use.

Woah! have you described somewhere your characters? I'd love to read about their stories 😍

learclow

That's a good area I've yet to fully explore, but at the moment video tutorial EP01 does cover from blank canvas to finished image so hopefully that can be helpful in the meantime.

GUWEIZ

I use soft light layer to add local colors like skintone and wood table, and then apply a selective color layer with a slight blue in the neutrals.

GUWEIZ

Another question that I would appreciate to see in a tutorial - how do you get to step 1? You seem to place a lot of emphasis on the general composition and lighting of the image without worrying about details, and an explanation of the thought process that goes into the initial sketch would be very helpful!

Could you explain how you add initial colors to the piece between images 2 and 3? How do you select colors and apply them? My colors always look weird when I try to break a sketch out of grayscale.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy my work!

GUWEIZ

Your work has always inspired sm I find sm joy at analyzing your pieces since the day I found your art on a two steps from hell playlist. Keep up the amazing work !

Akitsune.a

Thank you for the question! To answer it briefly here, it's mainly positioning the focus in a good spot on the canvas, and then making sure regions of high contrast draw attention to it, e.g. the bright light silhouetting the character

GUWEIZ

This particular tutorial will be in written form, but I'm open to doing a long painting video in the future as well.

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question! To answer it briefly here, I mainly focus on surfaces and volumes once I start painting, mostly blotting out the lines but leaving some high contrast edges here and there that I think does unintentionally gives it a bit of a lineart look.

GUWEIZ

Thank you!

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question! To answer it briefly here, I have a rough idea of what it might be like, for example, here I knew I wanted some kind of food on the table scene, but a lot of the concrete details come from the drawing process itself!

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question! To answer it briefly here, I don't deliberate try to strike any kind of balance, but mainly I just try to pay attention to basic volumes and lighting, and painting more where I feel the focus is!

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question! To answer it briefly here, I feel it's partly the rough and dimly lit environments that both encourage and forgive a rougher presentation. It's not too hard for me to end a painting once it's clear enough to convey the message as that is my main objective.

GUWEIZ

Thank you! The tutorial on this piece will be a written and illustrated project, although there will be a video as well of course for this month, just on a separate topic! There is quite a bit of my painting process in video EP01 and 02 in the meantime.

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question! To answer this briefly here, the idea is almost always to go from big to small. Make sure the biggest surfaces are differentiated first, e.g. visualise arm as a cube for example, and then go to the next level, such as big folds and their surfaces, and so on.

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question, I do plan to create a video tutorial regarding references so that will be coming up! I've quite a bit of practice working around gesture and posing, although I definitely have a long way to go with the more technical details of anatomy.

GUWEIZ

Thank you! It feels to me like more of a priority thing, I just paint more on areas I tend to want the focus to go (of course also planning the composition for that), and then the rest can feel a bit rough as long as they follow basic fundamentals.

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question, to answer it briefly here, I use soft light layer type to introduce colors, and follow that up with color balance or selective color filter layers to fully add colors to the scene before further painting.

GUWEIZ

Thank you for the question, I think it's important to observe reference especially when you are unsure of the exact result you want to achieve. If you are able to find a lighting setup you like via ref images, you can use almost really any tool to adjust and tune your image. Of course over time you will build your knowledge and have mental reference to use.

GUWEIZ

Hello! Sorry, unfortunately I'm not planning to upload .psd for now.

GUWEIZ

No problem :) I think it's mainly because during that period of time I was able to draw 7 days a week full time, where previously drawing was mostly a weekend thing.

GUWEIZ

(Sorry I wanted to ask another question lol) In your art book the progress you made from 2015 to 2016 was insane, what did you study or focus on during that time period to improve so much? I feel like I’m somewhere in between those two...

Hello sifu ! Hope you have a bless and wonderful day ! I have a request, can you share a psd file of your work. Thank you in advance, sifu!

Thank you for the question! For scenes like this, most of my reference searches are very intuitive, for example films with fight scenes in bars, restaurants and general searches like messy table, etc. When using those references, I try to keep in mind what I am actually looking to extract and apply. For example, visual reference helped a lot in helping me decide how "dense" the contents on the table should look to be convincing, how food spills realistically, etc.

GUWEIZ

Hello hope you're having a wonderful day! I was wondering if any references were used for this piece, and if there were, how did you go about utilizing them to create this scene. Amazing and Inspiring work as always!

For me, I always get stuck around what equals step 3 or 4 here, or I screw up the image pretty badly after that. So I would love to hear how you add vibrancy to the colors in the scene with the layer setup that you have until then. :) It really unifies the scene and I'd love to achieve that, too.

I want to ask how you color things when go from Black and white :D Like how you use layer mode for coloring and how to balance it. Thank you!

Damn, how are you able to make an amazing painting despite the lack of details/roughness of the brushwork on like 90% of the painting? its amazing!.. welp, gotta change my wallpaper

Paul Quimma

You’ve said you’ve never really studied anatomy but your proportions are perfect. Is that something that just comes with time and practice or do you use references for the poses too? Also a short video/post on how you use your references and what sort of things you should use references for would be amazing, thanks!!

How can we express information with fewer paint strokes? Like on the clothing and objects for example.

Javier Anaya

Can't wait for your next process video. I'm particularly interested in seeing a real-time segment on how you actually render certain surfaces like skin, clothing, walls, interior motifs, etc. Great job again!

Anh Trinh

This "Bad Guys" series is done with a style way more lose than your previous works ; and it works perfectly with the dirty and hard world these women live in. Is it, or was it hard for you let these zones in almost a sketchy state ?

CJoe

you're awesome

Great! As always! I have a question concerning your brushwork, it looks amazing, just how you keep the balance between being loose and detailed at the same time, so yeah, curious to hear more about your methods and approach. Thanks

Anthony Glan

Sorry if this is a silly question! I struggle a lot with backgrounds so I was wondering, do you usually have a background in mind before starting on a piece? Or do you just see what fits best after drawing in the characters? Thank you so much for putting out tutorials for us!

Amazing like always

We are blessed with your amazing work again! Beautiful!

Cristina

How do you go about painting over your line work? I am in awe of the way you capture both a painting and line work feel in your pieces.

Gruesome

Amazing as always.. can u make a tutorial going into details with the picture and not make it time-lapse ..just going through the motion in a normal pace time please

Flappyblackbird

WoW 🤩 ! Personally I think there’s a lot happening in this piece and you have managed to balance it so well composition wise… so how do you exactly achieve that balance when you want to add different details all over to help with the story ? How to not make it distracting from the focal point of the image?

Manohar M