This is a Photoshop painting I just finished. It was meant to be a quick one, but I wound up working on it most nights for about two weeks. Since “finishing” it I’ve found that some image applications don’t display colour properly (Like the Windows 7 image preview) and you pretty much have to view it with a black background (which this blog doesn’t have).

I’m close to finishing the drawing now. Does anyone have any critiques? I’m not sure about the background, I just threw it back there quickly. I should probably work on it a bit more.

It turns out that I had time to work on the image all day today. After adding some more detail on the gloves, I modeled the torso and skirt in 3DS Max and then imported it as a new 3D layer in Photoshop. From there I painted on the model using the standard tools.

I learned that Photoshop doesn’t like it when you use the smudge tool on a 3D models texture. It caused the program to think for a long period of time, and when it finished it looked as if nothing had changed.

The other issue I had was trying to see what RayTracing was like. I left my i7 going for about 10 minutes before ending the process because nothing was happening. If you want to raytrace something, I suggest you use 3dsmax and not Photoshop.

Not much to say, other then I’ve gone a little further working on my Photoshop image. No new techniques yet.

After installing my Wacom tablet on my new machine, I decided to create an image so that I can test out the features of Photoshop which I haven’t used because of my 4 year old graphics card.

The most useful feature by far is the rotate canvas feature.  It makes it very easy to draw areas of the image without physically rotating my tablet on my table.  Just hit R and rotate.

The pixel grid I found annoying.  So much so that I had to turn it off.  Panning now slides when you let go.  Not really useful with a pen as my hand jiggles a little when I use it and I sometimes flick the image too far.  I’ll have to think of something to add to the image so that I can test the 3D features.