First Tutorial

This is a breakdown of the 1st two hours of my first tutorial. It is hosted at:
http://hannsaki.deviantart.com/art/digital-painting-tutorial-pt-1-90347578 and was created by an artist known as hannsaki.

The following are several layers, although the original is done on two layers, I feel that more would provide a less stressfull envionment and more control over the piece. It also allows me to create a breakdown for future use.

Starting off with a little sketch of the character.

Blocking out the background.

Planning the lighting.

Working out the background composition.

Adding details here and there.

Early Vision Statement

Over the course of the semester I will be hoping to complete several of the tutorials hosted at
http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/20-tutorials-for-learning-digital-painting-techniques.
I will be completing these in order to advance my digital painting skills, in particular painting colour and texture techniques. As of right now, my goal is to use these tutorials and others like them to create a large scale piece of art, or several pieces, utilising the process of established commercial artists.

In my work I have found that I am very good at creating small characters with little or no context. These characters may look good but without the skill to create the world around them I feel that they appear very flat and, forgive the pun, 2 Dimensional.

With this in mind I will be studying, along with Photoshop techniques, the process artists use when creating a commercialised work. From the thumbnail to the £200 print on the wall, and the iterative nature of artistic progression.