Blending, and we’re Blending, and

we’re Blending, and we—‘re– done. One of my favorite scenes from Big Bang, when they are heading to a comic con. But Essentially that is what I am doing this very moment as I am hand-painting (in Photoshop) a texture for my character submission for the Blizzard Art Contest.

This is my first dive into hand painting in photo at all. I have been painting in real life since grade school, so I have a small background of being artistic in Traditional sense.

Here is a shot of the chest where I am in the first stages of blending and defining.

I am using a Wacom Bamboo tablet and a brush with pen pressure to be able to do this blending. Let me tell you, I love it and am definitely considering this as one of my independent studies next semester.

I wanted to add that I use to hate Tablets, I bought one 2 years ago to integrate into my Graphic Design degree and never got use to it. After using it now with this painting, I never want to go without a tablet again. I absolutely love it and recommend just taking the time to get used to the tablet if you are in the same boat I was.