Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple - Sepia Pencil Tutorial

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This is one of Liz Hooper's interior illustrations for my game Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, coming from Evil Hat Productions. You can see the final illustration here: http://www.danielsolis.com/do/?q=blog/do-buffalo-wings-final

I'm taking her black and white pencil illustrations and adding sepia tones to create atmospheric perspective. You can find out more about atmospheric perspective here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_perspective

For each plane of perspective, I use quickmask and a soft brush to outline each subject.
Then I use that selection to make a layer mask around that subject, so only the subject is visible.
Then I use a screened color overlay on that layer so that the blacks turn into my desired sepia tones.

Repeat for each plane of perspective, making sure that the closer subjects are darker and higher contrast while the farther subjects are lighter and lower contrast.

Once the colors are in place, I add an offwhite paper texture on top of everything and Multiply that, to give everything a warm tone. I carefully mask out sections that should be lighter, though.

After that, I screen a grayscale watercolor texture to the paper texture, so the whites are knocked out of the paper, creating a cloudy washy feel. I add several of these watercolor textures to the clouds to they are brighter than the sky in the background.

MUSIC: Caterpillar - Beats Antique: http://www.amazon.com/Caterpillar/dp/B001F85DJE

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• atmospheric
• perspective
• do
• pilgrims
• flying
• temple
• buffalo
• wing
• sky
• native
• american
• fantasy
• photoshop
• tutorial
• mask
• layer
• quickmask

[DanielSolis81]

@vitkyre You can find a link to the Amazon download page at the bottom of the info.

[DanielSolis81]

@vitkyre The music is "Caterpillar" by Beats Antique.

[vitkyre]

This is fun to watch, and the picture is wicked awesome! Who does the music that's playing?