I chose this value because I tend to want lots of room to go darker (to add shadows and other dark elements), and only need a little room to go lighter. I selected a fairly light gray to begin with. So, let’s kill that white-canvas monster with the ‘Fill’ tool. This makes our decision-making so much less stressful at the outset. Oh, by the way, ‘values’ and ‘grayscale’ refer to the same thing. My settings when creating the new canvasīut never fear! This is precisely why we’re using the grayscale-to-color technique: we only have to worry about values to begin with. You’ll now be confronted by one of the scariest things in art: a blank white canvas, *gasp!*įig 2. 2 for the settings I used, but feel free to use whatever settings you like. Stage 2 is when we’ll add in the color and bring the piece to a rendered finish, fit for a portfolio or commission!įirst, let’s start a new canvas. We’ll deal with blocking in the character and its overall design. Stage 1 is a grayscale (or black-and-white) painting. We are going to do it in two overall stages.
#GAME TEXTURES IN OPENCANVAS 7 FULL#
We’ll be painting a character with basically human proportions, in full color. The main tools and windows we’ll be using in this paintingīefore we begin, let me outline what we’ll be doing. Hello and welcome to my tutorial on digital character painting! Clip Studio Paint is a great program, and as you’ll see, we only need a few of its many tools to do a good-looking painting.