My first original photoshop piece. Later on, im going to go back and fix up details like the shading and maybe add a decent background.
If anyone could give me any tips on shading the sword properly i would love them forever.
Okay with the sword, leave some of the area white of course because swords usually have a real reflective luster. Most of the time I color my swords I start with a turqoise(ish) color and shade it gentley to create the "glare" part. Then over that I get a light gray and may shade that into a darker bluer gray (pick put a box of verithins, I think 24 box, they are about 13 bucks and they will have two types of grays that are PERFECT for this). After you lay the gray on, go over it with turqoise again, and then use a nice blending pencil such as prisma white to burnish.
You can repeat these steps in photoshop as well with similar colors. To shade even DARKER areas on the sword I would recommend an indigo MAYBE, or as nuts as it sounds, if you've got a kinda blue gray, find a really light orange possibly to desaturate the dark areas (blue is opposite orange on the color chart so orange will darken a blue). Good luck, let me know if you have any other questions.
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Virangelus Says:
Okay with the sword, leave some of the area white of course because swords usually have a real reflective luster. Most of the time I color my swords I start with a turqoise(ish) color and shade it gentley to create the "glare" part. Then over that I get a light gray and may shade that into a darker bluer gray (pick put a box of verithins, I think 24 box, they are about 13 bucks and they will have two types of grays that are PERFECT for this). After you lay the gray on, go over it with turqoise again, and then use a nice blending pencil such as prisma white to burnish.
You can repeat these steps in photoshop as well with similar colors. To shade even DARKER areas on the sword I would recommend an indigo MAYBE, or as nuts as it sounds, if you've got a kinda blue gray, find a really light orange possibly to desaturate the dark areas (blue is opposite orange on the color chart so orange will darken a blue). Good luck, let me know if you have any other questions.