It took me awhile to figure out exactly what I wanted to draw, and finally I decided on a tornado, because I thought a lightning/thunder storm would be too difficult. I started off with a light colored back ground, and took the paint brush and a dark-grayish color to create the clouds and tornado. I took a lighter gray color to the clouds and smudged it with the dark color already there. I added some brownish-gold color to the funnel of the tornado to make it look like it had picked up some dirt along the way. I then started working on the sky in the background, as I had forgotten to do the distance objects first. I took a pinkish color for the background of that and added a more purple-ish color. I then smudged it to look more realistic. Around the time I was getting to the ground of my picture a fellow classmate mentioned the airbrush and I started using that to add in the green and lighter tones of brown in the ground. Now that I look at it, my horizon is a little bit crooked, but what can you expect on my first drawing? I'm better at ACTUAL drawings then computer drawn...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Tornado!
It took me awhile to figure out exactly what I wanted to draw, and finally I decided on a tornado, because I thought a lightning/thunder storm would be too difficult. I started off with a light colored back ground, and took the paint brush and a dark-grayish color to create the clouds and tornado. I took a lighter gray color to the clouds and smudged it with the dark color already there. I added some brownish-gold color to the funnel of the tornado to make it look like it had picked up some dirt along the way. I then started working on the sky in the background, as I had forgotten to do the distance objects first. I took a pinkish color for the background of that and added a more purple-ish color. I then smudged it to look more realistic. Around the time I was getting to the ground of my picture a fellow classmate mentioned the airbrush and I started using that to add in the green and lighter tones of brown in the ground. Now that I look at it, my horizon is a little bit crooked, but what can you expect on my first drawing? I'm better at ACTUAL drawings then computer drawn...
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I really like how you made the tornado; it looks twisted and moving. The airbrush and smug tool turned out to be very successful for you. The one thing I might suggest (and this is a composition issue not a computer technical thing) is that you put something on the ground. As of now I have a hard time deciphering the background from the foreground because they blend together. I do really like the texture you created for the ground. It looks like grass, but it's not solid green.
ReplyDeleteI know now that I need to go the ground before I start working on the tornado, so I'll do that in the future. And I didn't really know what to put on the ground and I wanted to put something on the blog, so I put it up as finished. Thanks for your comment.
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