Digital painting workshop

 Over the last couple of weeks, Justin has been doing digital painting workshops which I have been attending. For these workshops, I decided to do an environment painting for my premise project using the techniques Justin taught us. We started with a greyscale painting to focus on the compositon, lighting and depth. Once the greyscale was completed, Justin gave me some critique to improve the composition, and then I used layer modes to block out the colours of the piece and were the lights and shadows would fall, and finally I cleaned up the colour blocking and added some final touches to finish the piece.

Greyscale painting

Colour blocking

Finished Painting






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