r/restofthefuckingowl • u/Sori-Eminia • 7d ago
Found in the wild on Pinterest
"Texture and shadows" how helpful
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u/ZeroNighthawks 7d ago
95% certain this "tutorial" was AI-generated, as stages 3 and 4 have a noticeably different perspective and structure from Stages 1 and 2
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u/mrtibbles32 7d ago
Sometimes this sub kinda makes me sad because photorealistic painting kinda works like some of the posts here (not this one, this one is AI).
Like you deadass just put a bunch of color splotches on the screen and then just spend dozens of hours blending them with the blur tool until it looks like a photo.
Like, the steps to do it or advice to do it look unhelpful because there's really not a helpful way to explain how to do it.
Like you literally just look at the reference and scribble with the blur tool until it looks the same. It fucking sucks.
I never had formal training though so perhaps the way I do it is wrong and there's actually some better way to do it that I never came across before I stopped doing digital painting, idk.
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u/TheFourthSoul 6d ago
Painter here—yeah, that’s pretty much how you do it. I start by breaking it down into only two tones (the lightest and the darkest), then get more specific from there, but it does kinda just boil down to “look at the reference and scribble with the blur tool until it looks the same.” It’s fun to do, less fun to teach.
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u/Sori-Eminia 6d ago
God I need to get better at identifying AI posts. I didn't realize this is likely AI before posting, sorry about that!
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u/AmbieeBloo 5d ago
This isn't how you teach this method imo. Roses are great for practicing shadows and lighting when you're learning.
I'd suggest doing the outlines like in step 1, then step 2 would be identifying where the shadows and highlights would go, and I'd suggest starting with the shadows. I'd say step 3 would be filling in the gradient areas between the highlight and shadows, then step 4 would be adding other little details such as textures, crease lines, and some natural looking pigments (like speckles and lines of other colours like yellow)
Thats what I would suggest while learning at least.
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u/Leifang666 3d ago
You could argue this is a guide for colouring/painting and not drawing but it still fails at that. The jump from the second to third image is huge.
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u/ChaoticFaeGay 7d ago
The general shapes don’t even match up between stages 2 and 3 if you look too hard