Concept Art Techniques - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 251

FiG 14.20
Step 10: Composition Adjustments and Details
Goal : To improve the composition and legibility of the image.
Tool : Painter.
The composition is still lacking in some respects;
I do not feel that it is as dramatic as it could be,
since the boat is almost parallel with the bottom
of the frame. The first thing I do is rotate the entire
canvas and crop the image down slightly. I feel
this adds to the unbalanced feel of the boat being
tossed around by huge waves.
I then start to define the forms using a small “wet
gouache” brush, picking out the highlights on the
metal heads of the monster, as well as giving the
vessel a crew.
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Step 11: Photograph Elements
Goal : To add detail and texture to the image.
Input : Personal photographs taken in the Canary Islands.
Tool : Photoshop.
It is quite easy to make surfaces in digital paintings look flat and “plastic.”
There is no differentiation in surface texture between the rock of the cliffs and
the water splashing against them.