DaveRapoza
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Venom - Marvel Cover - step by step & PSDs
🕑 Added 2022-09-15 18:00:05 +0000 UTCHey!
Hope you're well! This one was kinda interesting, I did this cover a few months back, right about where I started using Krita - I submitted the initial sketch that was done in photoshop, I wasn't thrilled about it so I decided to change up my approach to hopefully get some nice energy goin. When it comes to Marvel covers I feel pretty safe doing experiments in the approach, they're generally pretty lax when it comes to style/render quality and all that so worst case scenario it would likely still be fine - even if it stunk.
But with this I brought that color sketch(step 2) over into Krita and began using Krita's thick paint brush and the wet knife plus brush to paint around and find a more traditional looking render - it was a lot of fun and I thin the end result ended up feeling much better than that initial sketch.
To finish it up (step 5&6), I brought it back to Photoshop and just some soft brushes and whatnot to add some more soft shadows - I also did a variety of adjustment layers to play with making Venom pop more off the darker background I ended up going with.
There are two PSD's attached to this post, Venom - 1 is where I took the initial sketch and started rendering out in Krita - Venom - 2 is mostly Photoshop.
Thanks as always for your support!
Dave
Comments
Oronoro
Looking great, dude! What are your prompts? My prompts always give me really different looking thumbnails, but it looks like you figured out how to generate super consistent iterations. Seriously, share your prompts. I have a deadline tomorrow. You're breaking my balls bro.
Marcello Iozzoli
Love it!!
artbyken0
Great!
