today in the graphics tablet workshop I refined two images the one aboveis a scene that you nay have already recognize, I do like this scene much more, the other was cartoonish, talking to Phil was a great help as he talked to me about the composition.

This peace is what I'm still working on at the moment it is from again chapter 12, when the guy is in the pterodactyl swamp.



This is my sketch book representation of it, as you may figure, is that the photo shop image is not yet complete, the pterodactyl is not with in the picture.

when the image is complete, I will then go through step by step of how I created the image.

(I have been advised by others that it is best to photo copy my images instead of taking a camera image of them, so there for this will be the last of the images taken by camera up on this blog, I've yet to upload sketch book images, of previous ideas)

taken from another image of the passage. this scene is where the guy is running away from a large dinosaur, where he suddenly fell down a twenty foot ditch, latterly finding out it was to trap dinosaurs. He land face up right confused and looking up at the sky, with the stench of rotting flesh around him.

first as you see I created the night sky, (I'm thinking of using this as a more consistent skyline as from my old sky, they seemed patchy, to be honest I was trying to find a tool that would do everything, but its effect was never any good, I tend to do a thing by limiting my self with tools at times which is something I'm now breaking out of, due more experience)
(^added stars^)

here by inverting the lasso tool, I created a dark gray foreground though it is a whole your looking out of, once creating this I then started the walls of the whole.
I then created the tree scene above by, using paint pot, and covered up a new layer with the green. through both scenes open (e.g the whole above the green). by using a textured rubber I then cut away the main whole; to create the over lying trees above/ adding black to put shading the base of the trees.

Once creating this, I added in the highlights.


Adding depth to the whole. I created shading by putting darker tones around the edge, and changing the occupancy level.
To finish off the peace I added blood to the walls around the whole, to add a slight history to it; though I was debating this, due to that I didn't want the image to look cheesy, but I think it is justified due to that there are rotting corpses of dead dinosaurs down with in the whole.


I think the image went smoothly, while creating it, though I did this during the day without a graphics tablet and done by mouse, but besides that, the image went smoothly and really well. If i where to improve it, I would go into more detail with the rocks.

While showing friends, Charlotte suggested it could be took that your looking at this image in two ways. You could look that you was looking at cracked ground from above, looking at a puddle with its reflection of the land around/ dry river bed. If this was the case and to take up this perception, I would add a blur effect with in the "puddle".

this is the Night scene in chapter 12 where the guy sneaks out of the camp at night.




I had this image pop into my head, so I had decided to create this in photo shop

(here's where the fun begins)



first I started off with the night sky

I then started layering up mid grounds

I then started to create the trees that would surround the camp


I then added more layers to the image to give more depth.


here is where things started to go a bit crazy. this used to be many many layers, the tents, fire, light and smoke was broken up. wile creating this image I had problems with the brushes, as I was manipulating brush options, the red spray paint option somehow turned on and was coursing me lots of brain ache, it came the point where i merged all the layers, carried on, realized my mistake for the blog, step backwards and it got to the point where it didn't step backwards any more and these where still merged sadly. If I was to re do this, I'd look out for the red spray paint option again and try not to make that same mistake.


after this I created a new layer to put below this, to add a touch of shading.

This is my final out come, here I created the main foreground, and created it in black.

when doing this, the main thing I found hardest was creating the light from the camp fire, I was trying to put light up on the tents but I couldn't find the right tool and the red spray option was coursing havoc, (Ive learnt to look out for this option in future).

(ps i hope this had improved my blog by setting it out this way)

Are we allowed to add colour to the quick sketches??? with in our sketch book????

This image is made straight from Photo Shop today, with not much planning when coming to thumb nail drawings, I'm guessing it's more of a practice of technique and visual perception from the book and visual images found, but again it is a improved version of the forest scene from earlier, i feel what I need to develop now is the mass, specific plants, used to describe the scenes.


I was thinking of whether I could count my night forest scene as a third choice of scene, how ether, I do have other scenes that I'm working from at the moment.

at the moment I'm trying to work out how to, create the scene of the explorers sailing down the river.

I must also remember the main part about building the background, mid ground and forground.

these are some more of my experiments

I'm in abit of a muddle with these ones, as of an opinion from my dad and I agree that, the final one is very washed out in color due to I think too much light into the image


These are the same image with layers taken off, i do particularly like these two.

I also feel this one looks more like a painting.

But here is the one with the light, although I still doo like this one, due to that i think the light gives it a misted affect with the light penetraiting through the grass, I may adjust this later though.