Painting a Zerg Drone

Just a time-lapse video of a painting I did of a Zerg Drone. Nothing incredibly fancy, but it'll give you some vague idea of how I work, and will hopefully be moderately entertaining.

The video starts off with a sketch I prepared beforehand, which I then draw clean linework over. After that I lay down some base tones and begin painting; I usually work one shade over the whole piece, blending as I go, then add the next lighter shade and shadows / highlights as need be. Then, after every few shades, I'll make some adjustments layers to give it some more pizzazz and help tie everything together. When I've got the forms down nice and good, I add in final specular highlights, fix up the background, apply some sharpening filters, add atmosphere, and sign.

So, I hope you enjoy it, feel free to leave any questions or comments you might have.

You can find the finished piece here: http://andantonius.deviantart.com/art/Drone-113955021

Actual painting time: 4 hours. Sketched and lined in Sketchbook Pro, painting in Adobe Photoshop CS4 using a Wacom Cintiq 21UX.

Enjoy!

Music from freeplaymusic.

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[thudmuju]

what recording program do you use?

[Andantonius]

@thudmuju Camtasia.

[StfuSiriusly]

where do u get the outline from? did u just mess around with which ever colors u thought were right? ive never done/seen this before. very good stuff man.

[Andantonius]

@StfuSiriusly The outline is just final lines done over a sketch I drew before the video. For colors, I had a few in mind from the original design and other inspirations, then just rendered them according to what I knew about light (which wasn't very much at the time, haha).

Thanks! :)

[ANTHMX]

share your brushes pls :(

[Andantonius]

@ANTHMX Pretty much all of my art is done with a plain ol' hard round brush with opacity set to pen pressure. There are a few custom brushes I use, some of which are in my dA gallery (same name as my youtube), so you can fiddle around with those if you like. Overall though I'd suggest spending some time to make your own brushes so you can get something that's uniquely you and fits your specific way of working. :)

[Andantonius]

@skullsmasher

Yes, Luke's is far better than mine. He is also an older, more experienced artist than I am (not to mention this was created nearly 2 years ago).

I am not trying to steal his spotlight by mimicking him, I could care less about popularity. I was inspired by him and was attempting to learn his technique at the time; I never said it was an original idea, nor did I intend it to be. I have done plenty of original work, which can be easily found in my dA gallery. Don't assume so much.

[NabCakex]

a poop with claws and wings

[DaxWebDesign]

You wanna teach me this?

[Omglisk]

fancy? no. cute? YES

[GhostXization]

@NabCakex =D

[ShichirouSuzume]

oh man, that's beautiful :3

[halranger]

cutest unit on star-craft ^^

[oRbbSC]

didn't i also see that on devart? ;)

[SunnyMuffinsRox]

<3 IT'S SO FLESHY I'M GONNA DIEEE! hahahaha

[sporelover1000]

In game it dosen't look so.......Mean....O_O