Contest Winner Photoshop Speed Painting (Part 2)

This is part 2 of the sped up digital painting for the winner of my 250 Subscribers screenshot contest that I held at the end of last year. It was completed over the course of a month or so and a total of 9 hours in Photoshop CS4.

More to come soon!

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Music: "Shining Eyes" by jaspertine // 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons
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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Speed painting
• adobe photoshop
• cs4
• illustrator
• digital painting
• digital coloring

[tweetykeya21]

You are completely awesome! I am learning how to blend in photoshop and it drives me crazy. Does your program stall for seconds every time you use the smudge tool? How do you avoid this?

[chrisknowsthis]

@tweetykeya21 Thanks! Mine doesn't stall because I purchased extra memory for my system. Photoshop and especially tools like the smudge eat up a lot of your comp's RAM, so you have to make sure that you're not running a bunch of other programs when you're working on large images. If you're using a tablet, make sure your double-click distance setting isn't too high. Also, google "photoshop scratch disk" and make sure that your settings meet Adobe's recommendations.

[ResultzMayVary]

Wow, wonderful. What resolution do you work on?

[chrisknowsthis]

@ResultzMayVary Thank you - I usually work at 200 - 300dpi depending on the project. I wanted Vanessa to be able to print this out fairly large, so I made it 14" x 17" at 200dpi (2800px wide by 3400px tall)

[AJTeezy]

a pretty girl doin someting produtive instade of just shakin her booty thank goodness love the tut

[chrisknowsthis]

@AJTeezy HAHA, you're welcome

[EmptyPromises892]

would you take a request?

[Susie369]

Awww Nibbles is so adorable! And you're awesomeee.

[shauna931]

@chrisknowsthis Ok. You Should try it its Brilliant =D

[ResultzMayVary]

@chrisknowsthis Wow that is so cool! I didn't even think of making one that big. Thanks for the reply! I'm going to try work on something this large next time :)

[chrisknowsthis]

@shauna931 sorry, I don't have Gimp at the moment, but when I have some spare time, I'll install it and give it a whirl.