Others tutorials: greyscale to color

There are so many resources of inspiriation and tutorials everywhere nowadays, can't hardly keep up with everything.

I'm too lazy to create an account on Pinterest, so I'm gonna start gather some of my favorite links and tutorials on this blog, just so I can have them all in one place. And why not sharing it with you guys as well? Many of you have probably seen them before, but I'll highlight them anyway ;)

I'm gonna start with linking to tutorials showing how to apply colors to a greyscale paintings.




Color + Overlay Tutorial by Dave Rapoza



Sycra made an interesting video about understanding color and value.


Matt Kohr has also made an interesting video, that could be applied to greyscale sketches.


Here's another one from Clint Clearley! Tip from the comments section - Thank you! :)


I may have a few others in mind as well, which I can't remember at the moment. I'll add them later!
Do you know any other tutorials showing how to color greyscale pantings? 
Please share, I'd love to see them :)


- Andrea

Some recent animal sketches

 Photoshop CS5 & Cintiq 12WX

Tiny batch of some recent sketches, hope you like them!

Trying to simplify things, handle light, and speed up as much as possible. I'm really aiming to get away from rendering my images for long, since it feels like I'll lose many of my other ideas that keep coming.


Other than that, I've had a pretty good day overall :)
How have you guys been?


- Andrea

Tools that I use

  My workspace.

I often get questions about the tools or softwares that I use to make my illustrations.

Beside my old fashon sketchbooks and pencils, these are the tools and software that I use:

- Wacom Cintiq 12WX
- Wacom Intuos4
- Macbook Pro, 15 inches
- Adobe Photoshop CS5

I'm very happy with all of them, and think it's the combo that suits me best.
Since I travel a lot, a laptop and intuos4 is perfect as a portable studio.

I always use my Cintiq when I sketch and draw, it's priceless when you want to work with precision.
   
When finalizing my paintings, I often prefer my intuos4 though, I always check the painting on my computer monitor anyway, since I don't really trust the way my cintiq is calibrated(I'm not that good at calibrating stuff, haha).

So yeah, that's pretty much it!

Hope that it answered some of your questions :)

- Andrea

 

Some client art

   "The Ice Queen" - Photoshop CS5 & Cintiq 12WX

 

"The Wolf" - Photoshop CS5 & Cintiq 12WX

Here are two of my recent client works for a Swedish magazine called Kamratposten. 


I really enjoy those jobs. Usually I get to illustrate short stories that young readers submit to the magazine. I get their script and all I have to do more or less, is to come up with something nice and pretty, so I get a lot of artistic freedom :) 

These have already been posted on my other sites, but I thought that I'd share them here as well, along with the steps of how they were made. Hope you enjoy them, and thanks for looking! 


The steps:

Step by step

1. First sketch.

2. I start blocking in everything with solid colors.

3. Let the painting begin!

4. I keep painting and rendering the illustration until it feels finished.

Step by step.

1. First rough sketch.
2. Rough color sketch
3. Each part gets blocked in with solid colors.
4. Time to paint! Fleshing it all out.
5. Painting some more. I start adding light & smaller details.
6. Finished!

 - Andrea

Some of my recent art

Been drawing and painting so much lately.
So here's a little batch of personal art that I haven't posted on here yet.


I'd like to thank you for the suggestions in my earlier post. I'll keep them in mind and try to come up with something :) I saw that some of you would like to see more tutorials from me. Is there anything in particular you'd like to see, except my workflow?

Let me know!

Thanks for looking :)


- Andrea

I'm still alive!

"Did he just watch me poop?" Photoshop CS5 & Wacom Cintiq 12WX

Whoah, can't believe it's this long since my latest post. 

Though I should say hi and welcome to all you new visitors and followers on here. 

Thank you for the support and sorry for being such a slow-poke! ;) 

There are so many things going on right now. Beside my day-job(where I work as a concept artist) I also do some freelance illustrations, personal art for myself, and at the same time trying to live a somewhat descent and social life haha! 

It's going pretty well. I'm very busy, but happy :) 

Well, gotta go sketch now. I feel the urge.. Promise to get back soon :) 



Oh, by the way, I have a question for you guys...

If you could choose, what would you like to read about on this blog?   

All feedback are welcome! 

 Cheers and see you soon! 


- Andrea

Trick or Treat 2012

Or.. Pumpkins or Unicorns?


Done in Photoshop CS5 with a Cintiq 12WX.


Happy Halloween everyone :)
Thanks for all the love and support!





//Andrea

New little painting: The Donut

Just something really silly :)

Photoshop CS5 + Cintiq 12WX


//Andrea

Art Dump from last month

Posted these back at conceptart.org, thought I could share them here as well.
Wips, studies, sketches and so on :)

Hope you like!

- Andrea

Cover Art for HarperCollins: "Always October"

Finally, I'm allowed to share some artwork for a book cover that I made last year. It's for the novel "Always October", written by Bruce Coville and published by HarperCollins.

It's the first cover I've made for them so far, it's been a true pleasure and I had a lot of fun working on this piece.
As far as I know, the novel will be available in August, and I'm really looking forward to see it printed.
I'll definitely keep you updated about this later this summer/fall! :)

 

Here are some closeups. Hope you like it!

- Andrea