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SiFSweetman
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Earlier this year I received my copy of Allison Theus' incredible art book, Mostly Monsters, a collection of creature designs of hers from the last several years. Allison is one of the most influential creature designers in helping me figure out the way I wanted to approach creatures and that is I think really evident in the above piece. I'll do a big appreciation post at some point for creature designers whose work I really love, but that's not what I wanna talk about. I'm actually here to talk about the finishing process I used here and on my piece "Spending Jyura's Dream" because it's a pretty simple process that I can throw onto line drawings that I don't really want to colour, but that gives them a nice effect imo.

This process is done entirely on my ipad in Procreate, and I'd be happy to go into my design and drawing process at a later date.

  • Here's my base drawing, with a basic light grey fill: the first drawing as above but, no background, light grey fill on the line art

  • I used some watercolour brushes to put together a background fill. I've applied some of Procreate's in-built halftone effects to it after the fact.

  • Using only slightly darker of a grey I applied a basic set of shadows to the piece. I brightened up the centre of the image using a massive spraypaint blast in the middle. This is creating those spatter effects as you get towards the outside of the image. as above, but with a watercolour wash bg and light shading

  • I duplicate the shadow layer and then convert that layer into halftone. As above, but the shading layer is now in halftone and the procreate halftone menu is highlighted

  • Now's where the fun effects start. After applying a soft vignette shadow layer, I copy the whole canvas and paste the merged image on top.

  • I go into the gradient map settings and I start playing around with those (a lot of the defaults are great). Just apply that shit to the whole canvas and reduce opacity to desired effect. The above image is now in a gradient going from dark red to gray-blue into olive hues and ending on a light mint colour

  • To finish, I apply some chromatic aberration to the whole thing. Procreate has 2 settings for this, perspective (which uses a center point and the aberration moves outward from that) and displace (which displaces the colour evenly through the whole image in the direction you swipe). I use perspective such that it only creates aberrations towards the edges of the canvas. The above image now has chromatic aberration on the edges, the appropriate Procreate menu option is highlighted


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