Thursday, December 12, 2013

Using Photoshop for Pre-visualization
"Cave Creek Rocks"  •  digital  •  ©Angela Frame
"Carefree"  •  digital  •  ©Angela Frame
Photoshop is a powerful tool for pastel pre-painting planning. I want to get my pastels more crisp, the marks more decisive and "chunky." Thank goodness I'm married to a professional concept artist. He gave me the idea to paint comps in Photoshop. I gave myself three rules:

1) use only 2 brushes
2) limit the palette of colors
3) the straight lasso tool is your friend

I'm really pleased with the results - they look like they have a personality - my personality!