I really like this one. My fav of my newest. I'm going to make some changes to the soldier on the right but It's done besides that. I'm being interviewed for a couple jobs now so wish me luck.

no I did not use reference on this image. I want to keep the clouds undefined. I might soften them a little but I don't want the woman to be standing out to much.

Here is the sketch and base value layer I used to get started. These are both really simple because most of my designing was to be done as I painted

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Here is my new wacom and photoshop setup . Try it out alteast and see if you like it. It really speeds things up.


first off you need photoshop cs or higher. Go to actions and you can record a action then assign a key to play that action. here are the steps

1. Actions- create new action
2. click on Brush icon. Very important so no errors come up
3. select custom brush.
4. stop recording and assign F key.

now I have F4 as a erasor, F5 is Sharp brush, f6 is Soft, F7 is textured, and F8 is undo. this is a great set up and you can still use the middle alt for color picking and then use the number 0 9 to change opacity when needed. I also use o for smudge tool ( set to O ) which I use as a brush and L for lasso to quickly pick out shapes. photoshop does not allow you to rotate the canvas and to solve this problem I assigned F9 the horizontal flip to help in drawing accurate lines.

Now, go to control panel and click the wacom icon. change the function of the intous pen buttons from down and up to {{{ }}} Remember to put 3 {{{ . Now in photoshop instead of having to keep clicking the button to change size it will go in steps of 3 brush sizes and this is all you need. Any special size brush can be adjusted 1 step at a time by press { or } .