First try playing around colorising with blending modes in Procreate

I had some bad luck with this one. I had one idea of what i wanted to do but it wasnt coming together so I scrapped that. which was about a weeks worth work. Then i switched to a different idea since i thought i could do better with it, which is what i posted. But after working on it for a almost a month the file got corrupted when I got a random power surge. So I had to completely restart. so another few weeks worth of work I got it done finally. I know there are issues with it but I think its time to move on and work on the other assignments before i fall too behind. Maybe I'll come back to it and fix it up. But I did get plenty of time to play around with layer modes :p

So this is my second piece for the assignment. This is a spell caster image I created for the assignment. I worked in layers and used the different blending modes for the highlights, shadows, magic, etc… I love how quickly you can change colors and tweak things when the layers all work together. I used the hue and saturation on the color layers and pretty quickly came up with a few different looks.

Here's my attempt at the assignment! I used a grayscale study that I had done before as a base to work with.

I’m working in procreate so some things are slightly different. Some of the names are changed, but the concepts are the same. I decided to try coloring one of my grayscale paintings using multiple layers and different blending modes. This is a screenshot of some of the layers. I need to get better at labeling and organizing as I go. But this is cool stuff.

This assignment popped up while I was working on a painting trying to sum up everything I learned about art in the past 3 years, so I decided to "merge" both. I did a new painting in greyscale, and using blending modes to color it. I also used blending modes for painting, adjustments, adding a few textures and the effects on the blade. - Textures were added (on the bridge and trees) using overlay - Colors were added with gradient maps with the color blending mode - The effects on the blade were added using the technique Jon showed with Linear Dodge (layer + brush in the mode) - Some details were added using either overlay, multiply or screen (mostly where they had to be used on top of something that had already some shading) This took me 4 weeks and was draining but I'm proud of the result. Altough a lot of the time was "lost" on trying to understand the details of the character, Sekiro. (a lot of small details overlap each other). I also learned a lot by making "bad" decisions during the process and understanding their consequences, which I hope will speed me up for the next paintings. I am posting the finished painting, the "refined" sketch, and the WIP right before I started coloring.

Here’s what I came up with for my blending modes assignment. I had to paint a futuristic bar scene for a comic page I’m working on, so I figured it would be a good opportunity to test out some of the techniques from the lesson. I tried to use the same blending modes as the assignment demo in a similar order. (multiply, overlay, lighten, screen and linear dodge). I also used a metal texture (set to color dodge) to highlight the bar counter which will be the focal point of the panel once the characters/objects are added in.  Im still having a bit of a hard time with my painting looking a bit too digital vs more painterly, but I found that the lighten and screen modes really helped give the image more depth and realism. Thank you for another great lesson! :)

I've been doing Still Life studies of random things on my desk in-between assignments so this is one I was working on when this assignment came out. I ended up just setting my brush to Saturation mode for the chapstick after painting it cause it was looking kinda muddy due to it being too desaturated. And I also set my brush to Colour mode at the end of the painting for the hand sanny to add some yellow for the light-source that was hitting it For the actual attempt I ended up colourising my Greyscale Layers Assignment of the Shaman, or whatever you wanna call it. I grouped my greyscale painting layers and then made another group above that using layers set to Overlay to colour it. I ended up not liking this technique, it didn't feel very intuitive and was kinda messy so I'm gonna try doing it a different way next. I do like the method of going from greyscale to colour though since I'm using to pencil drawings and have very little experience with colour. I just need to find a way to make it look less like a colourised greyscale painting though

I used Overlay to put colors, and chose Darken and Multiply to adjust the darkness and the reflected light of shadows. I also tried to draw patterns around bumps on the skin with the Dissolve mode, but I didn't get the result I originally expected. I've been enjoying the course so far. It helps me a lot!

I’m so excited to start hearing about color!

Dissolve can be really useful to make quick 5 o'clock shadow. Use a textured brush in a blue to lay down the pattern of hair and then blur the layer to make it blend into the skin.

This really seems like it is more aimed at being a photoshop course honestly. Which is fine, but I don't think it's for me.