快速繪制一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)朋克城市

我將用我的速度繪畫技巧向你們展示一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)朋克城市氛圍的進(jìn)展。

I'm going to show you the progress of illustrating a cyberpunk city atmosphere using my speed painting techniques.

快速的縮略圖

對于藝術(shù)家來說，有一個小寫生本是一種聰明的舉動，你可以快速畫草圖、涂鴉和縮略圖，它可以幫助你開發(fā)和創(chuàng)造新的想法。你不需要設(shè)計什么大的東西。它甚至不是用來畫畫的，它只是用來探索的。當(dāng)時間到了，你認(rèn)為你的想法已經(jīng)沒有了，或者你沒有時間去思考下一步該做什么，你可以回到你的寫生簿，抓住你下一幅畫需要的東西!

另一方面，這是一個方便的工具，用于創(chuàng)建快速縮略圖，以便快速定義您的構(gòu)圖和值，就像我在本教程中所做的那樣。我已經(jīng)知道我想做一些有網(wǎng)絡(luò)朋克氣氛的事情。我所做的是創(chuàng)建一些非常快速的合成縮略圖。我沒有花太多的時間在這里畫畫。這些速寫大概需要2 - 5分鐘，并且他們引導(dǎo)我到我需要開始我的繪畫的地方，這些是指南。

Quick thumbnails

Having a small sketchbook for doodling is a smart move for an artist, you can do quick sketches, doodles and thumbnails and it helps you to develop and create new ideas. You don't need to design something massive. It's not even for drawing, it's just meant for exploration. When the time comes that you think you ran out of ideas, or you don't have the time to think of what to do next, you can always go back to your sketchbook and grab what you need for your next painting!

On the other hand, it's a handy tool for creating quick thumbnails to define your composition and values quickly, just like I did for this tutorial. I already knew I would like to do something with a cyberpunk city atmosphere. What I did was to create some very quick composition thumbnails. I didn't spend too much time for drawing here. These quick sketches are going to take almost 2-5 minute each, and they lead me to where I need to start my paintings from, these are the guidelines.

這一切開始的地方!

現(xiàn)在我對我的作品有了一些快速的想法，現(xiàn)在是時候開始我的作品了，用灰度的色調(diào)，先把重點放在價值觀和整個構(gòu)圖上，然后把顏色加進(jìn)去，然后再把更多的細(xì)節(jié)放在后面。這不是唯一的方法，但這是我最快的方法。還有很多其他的速度繪畫技巧和方法，從A到B，有很多方法，它們都是一個快速的過程。

但是記住,每個藝術(shù)家都需要找到自己的最快的方法, 因為我的快速做事的方式對于其他人來說可能會很慢，所以你必須嘗試不同的方法,直到你終于找到適合你的最快的方法。在這種情況下，我想做的第一件事就是去掉白色的空白頁，然后用簡單的方形畫筆快速地繪制我的平臺。

Where it all begins!

Now that I have some quick thoughts about my composition, it's time to start my illustration by working on a grayscale tone, focusing on the values and the whole composition first and adding the color to it and then putting more details later. This is not the only way, but this is my way for the fastest approach. There are many other speed painting techniques and means for getting from A to B, tons of ways and they are all meant to be a fast process.

But keep in mind that every artist needs to find his or her own way of doing it fast, because my way of doing something speedy may be slow for someone else, so you must keep doing it and trying different approaches until you finally find the fastest way that is suitable for you. In this case, the very first thing I want to do is to get rid of the white blank page and quickly paint my platforms with a simple square brush.

塑造它

當(dāng)我繼續(xù)畫我的形象時，我在遠(yuǎn)處的主要結(jié)構(gòu)，船舶和建筑物上添加了更多細(xì)節(jié)�，F(xiàn)在你會對藝術(shù)作品有更好的了解。您可以看到透視圖、光源和總體組成。

對我來說，最重要的是在我進(jìn)步的同時，立刻對整個形象進(jìn)行研究。這是一幅速度畫，你不要過多地關(guān)注一個領(lǐng)域(拋光，添加太多細(xì)節(jié))，而忽略其他部分，這會破壞你的構(gòu)圖和判斷。

我在整個藝術(shù)作品上取得了進(jìn)步，對每一部分都應(yīng)用了同樣的細(xì)節(jié)，這就是為什么我一直把我的變焦保持在100%，這樣我就能看到我的畫框里的每一個變化。做這樣的事情，并注意你的導(dǎo)航將幫助你始終跟蹤你的構(gòu)圖。

Shaping it up

As I continue painting my image, I add more details to my main structure, ship and buildings in the distance. Now you'll have a better understanding of the artwork. You can see the perspective, light source, and an overall composition.

The most important thing for me is to work on the whole image at once as I make progress. This is a speed painting and you don't want to focus too much on one area (polishing it and adding too much details), while neglecting the other parts, which will ruin your composition and your judgment.

I make progress on the whole artwork, applying the same level of details to every part and that's why I keep my zoom at 100% all the time so I can be aware of every change in my frame. Doing things like this and having an eye for your Navigator will help you to always keep track of your composition.

找到你的自信

正如您在下圖中看到的，我使用相同的技術(shù)和筆刷來添加更多的細(xì)節(jié)并取得進(jìn)展。我只是快速地在建筑物上添加一些紋理的筆刷，使它看起來更詳細(xì)，以及一些對船的觸摸。最后，我在這個平臺上添加了一個士兵，只是為了給他們帶來一些規(guī)模感。

你可能已經(jīng)注意到，我畫的畫不是很細(xì)致，很光滑，或者我們說它不是很干凈，也不會很干凈。在快速繪畫的過程中，我不會用這些東西來打擾自己，我很放松，在我畫畫的時候讓我的作品流動起來。當(dāng)你更頻繁地畫油畫時，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你開始繪畫的方式，取得進(jìn)步，完成它，充滿自信地成長，它真的會影響整個繪畫過程。

我一直都在問:“你的刷子是什么?”“就像刷子在做魔法一樣，當(dāng)它不做的時候!”這些只是工具，是我們使用它們的方式。即使你有一些很酷的新工具和畫筆，你仍然需要花些時間去做，去探索它，做一些工作來最終適應(yīng)它。因此，嘗試為你的工作流創(chuàng)建一些管道，花上幾個小時，直到你發(fā)現(xiàn)你更有信心開始并使用它們。繼續(xù)做下去，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)這對你來說有多容易。

Find your confidence

As you can see in the image below, I use the same technique and brush work to add more details and make progress. I just quickly add some textured brush work on the buildings to make it look more detailed, as well as some touches on the ship. Lastly I add a soldier on that platform just to bring in some sense of scale.

You may have noticed by now that the way I'm painting is not very detailed and polished, or let's say it's not really clean and it won't be. In the speed painting process I won't bother myself with these things, I take it easy and let my work just flow while I'm doing speed painting. As you do paintings more often, you will find your way of starting a painting, making progress and finishing it, grow with confidence, and it really effects the whole painting process.

I get this question all the time: "What is your brush?" As if the brush is doing the magic, when it doesn't! These are just tools and it's the way we use them that makes the difference. Even if you get some cool new tools and brushes, you still need to make some time for it, explore it and do some work with it to finally get used to it. So try to create some pipeline for your workflow, spend hours until you find out the way you're more confident to start and use them. Keep doing that and you'll see how easy it will get for you.

添加的色調(diào)

現(xiàn)在是時候給藝術(shù)作品添加一些色彩和色調(diào)了，因為我將從調(diào)整菜單中使用“色彩平衡”功能。有了這個調(diào)整，你可以快速添加一個色調(diào)。你可以控制你的陰影/中音和高光。

你可以看到下面圖片的結(jié)果，我已經(jīng)設(shè)法弄到了一些綠色的中音，并把它和一些黃色的亮點混合在一起。我還需要添加更多的色調(diào)，我想在我的構(gòu)圖中加入一些藍(lán)色，使它的單色性變少。

為了做到這一點，我在我的圖像上創(chuàng)建了一個圖層，并將其放在“疊加”模式下，使用漸變工具或柔圓筆刷，你可以很容易地把你的二級色調(diào)混合起來，并達(dá)到一個新的顏色組合。

Add tone

It's time for me to add some colors and tone to the artwork, and for that I would use the "Color Balance" feature from the Adjustments menu. With this adjustment you can quickly add a tone. You have control of your Shadows/Mid-tones and highlights.

As you can see the result in the image below, I've managed to bring some green midtone and mix it up with some Yellow highlights. Well I still need to add more tone, I've thought of adding some more blue to my composition to make it less monochromic.

In order to do that I create a layer on top of my image and put it on "Overlay" mode, using gradient tools or soft circle brushes you can easily bring in your secondary tone to mix it up and reach a new composition with colors.

帶來視覺效果

現(xiàn)在有趣的部分開始了;這一步有點棘手，但我要解釋一下。我現(xiàn)在要做的是用一些照片把城市的燈光從他們身上提取出來。你可以使用自己的照片或者從cgtextures.com找到一些。以開闊的城市景觀為主題。我們不會把照片當(dāng)成我們的城市，也不會把它們放在我們的藝術(shù)作品中。我們只需要燈光和它的氣氛。也要確保你在前視圖中使用了一個點透視的照片。當(dāng)你有了這個視角的照片時，你可以很容易地改變它，并根據(jù)你作品的視角改變它的視角。這很棘手，但是很容易!

現(xiàn)在導(dǎo)入您的照片，使用Ctrl + T來彈出“自由轉(zhuǎn)換”工具或簡單地編輯>自由轉(zhuǎn)換。現(xiàn)在你可以自由地變換你的圖像，但是在你做任何事情之前，只要在你的圖像自由轉(zhuǎn)換模式下右鍵點擊，然后點擊扭曲! 扭曲使您有一個優(yōu)勢，可以控制您導(dǎo)入圖像的每個角!試著把每個角都對齊到你的建筑物的角，這樣它就能符合你的視角，然后按回車鍵�，F(xiàn)在您可以更改圖層模式為“顏色減淡”和BAM !在這里，很簡單……對吧?

你也可以改變導(dǎo)入的圖像對比度，顏色越深，效果就越好。我們只需要那些窗戶燈!像這樣的聰明的動作可以讓你有更多的時間來開發(fā)，并且在你做速度繪制的時候更快地完成你的概念。你可以看到，我已經(jīng)在我的作品中附加了一些照片，然后使用相同的技術(shù)，你可以看到左下方的第二張圖片的不同是在“正常”圖層模式下，右邊的是“顏色減淡”模式。

Bring in some visuals

Now the fun part begins; this step is going to be a little tricky but I'm going to explain what's going on. What I'm going to do now is to use some photos to extract the city lights out of them. You can basically use your own photos or find some from cgtextures.com. Take some wide city landscapes. We are not going to use the photos as our city or put them right in our artwork. We only need the lights and its atmosphere. Also make sure that you use the photos with one point perspective in front view. When you have photos with that perspective you can easily transform it and change its perspective based on your artwork's perspectives. It's tricky but so easy!

Now import your photo, use Ctrl+T to bring up the "Free Transform" tool or simply go to Edit > Free Transform. Now you can transform your image freely but before you do anything just right-click on your image while you're in free transform mode and then click on Distort! Distort gives you an advantage to have control of each corner of your imported image! Just try to align each corner to your buildings' corners so it fits the perspective, and then press enter. Now you can change the layer mode to "Color dodge" and BAM! Here it is, so easy... right?

You can also change the imported image contrast as well, the darker it becomes the better it looks. We only need those window lights! Smart moves like this can really buy you more time to develop and do your concepts faster while you're doing speed paints. As you can see I have attached some photos in my artwork and then used the same technique, you can see the difference in the second image below on the left-side is on "Normal" layer mode, and the right one is "Color Dodge" mode.

新的細(xì)節(jié)

現(xiàn)在，我的結(jié)構(gòu)和基礎(chǔ)藝術(shù)品上都有一些很酷的氛圍燈光，是時候添加新的細(xì)節(jié)，我已經(jīng)設(shè)法在衣架和建筑物上多用一些技巧，第四步，同時管理我的時間，以達(dá)到在一個半小時內(nèi)完成速度繪畫的目標(biāo)，再用三十分鐘渲染最終作品。

所以我在衣架上做了一些細(xì)節(jié)。 我沒有把同樣的時間放在遠(yuǎn)處的另一個衣架上。 我只是復(fù)制和粘貼了我在前面做的事情。 我還添加了一些整體細(xì)節(jié)，如燈光，船舶等。

New set of details

Now that I have some cool atmospheric lights over my structure and my base artwork, it's time for a new set of details, I've managed to work a bit more on the hangers and the buildings, with the same technique that I have shared in step four, while managing my time to reach the goal of doing the speed painting within an hour and a half, and almost another 30 minutes for rendering the final artwork.

So I have worked on the hanger and put some details there. I didn't put the same time for the other hanger which is in the distance. I just copied and pasted what I did in the front. I have also added some overall details such as lights, ships and so on.

敘述

通常情況下，我從某件事開始，到最后完全改變。在你的速度繪畫課上最好不要這樣做，因為你真的需要管理你的時間。但我們是藝術(shù)家，改變一些我們不那么喜歡的東西并不是犯罪。這樣的態(tài)度甚至可以在非速度繪畫上變得非常有用。你總是要堅強(qiáng)面對自己的問題，當(dāng)你花太多時間在某件事上時，你很難輕易放棄它，但相信我，做這樣的事情會讓你進(jìn)步，記住你是為了更大的好處而做的!

現(xiàn)在我不會在這里講一個豐富的故事，我只想做一個簡單的速度畫，展示一個未來城市的氛圍。這里有一些我認(rèn)為非常適合的元素，但我真的不想要那種看起來像船的航天飛機(jī)!因為對我來說，它更像是一個科幻城市，而不是一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)朋克城市。

這就是為什么我把它完全拆下來，設(shè)計了一艘更類似于直升機(jī)的新船。它更適合發(fā)生在40年后一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)朋客城,也許我們還在地球上, 我只是用套索工具快速地改變了一個未來的航天飛機(jī)的梭子來創(chuàng)建一個形狀在它上面的油漆。當(dāng)他們值得的時候不要害怕做出犧牲。

Narrative

It often happens that I start with something and I change it completely by the end. Well it's better to not do this while you're on your speed painting session since you really need to manage your time. But we are artists and it's not a crime to change something that we are not that happy with. An attitude like this can even become real handy in non-speed painting sessions. You always have to be strong to face your problems and when you spend so much time on something it's hard to discard it that easily, but believe me, doing stuff like this will improve you and remember that you're doing it for a greater good!

Now I'm not telling a rich story in here, and I merely want to do a simple speed painting that demonstrates a futuristic city atmosphere. There are elements here that I think really fits right in, but I really don't want that shuttle which looks like a ship! Because to me it feels like it's more of a science-fiction city rather than a cyberpunk city.

That's why I completely removed it and designed a new ship which is more similar to a chopper. It fits better in a cyberpunk city that happens maybe in 40 years from now or so, and we are still on earth, so yeah as you can see I just changed the shuttle for a futuristic chopper quickly using the lasso tool to create a shape and over paint on it. Don't be afraid to make sacrifices when they're worth it.

最后

當(dāng)我達(dá)到我的最后一步, 我傾向于使用“Overlay”圖層模式添加更多的大氣元素，如煙霧，更多的燈光，和一些黃色的霧霾使它看起來更像一個密集的城市骯臟的天氣,最重要的是我轉(zhuǎn)變我的燈更多橙色/黃色的顏色有綠色陰影。

諸如“色彩平衡”這樣的調(diào)整對于這些變化來說是很方便的。最后，我給這些物體添加了更多的細(xì)節(jié)，比如在遠(yuǎn)處的航天飛機(jī)，更多的電線和一些筆觸。您可以看到下面的區(qū)別。

成分分解/渲染

最后一步，我想提一些我在畫這個圖像時用到的技巧。第一件事是我一直在水平旋轉(zhuǎn)我的圖像。因為你不停地在你的速度畫上工作，這是一個單一的會話繪畫，所以你必須完成你在一次運行中開始的東西！旋轉(zhuǎn)圖像會幫助你不習(xí)慣看到的東西，然后你會開始注意到所有的問題。這就像讓你耳目一新!

Final touches

As I reach my final step, I tend to add some more atmospheric elements such as smoke, more lights using "Overlay" layer mode, and some yellow Haze which is making it look more like a populated city with dirty weather, Most importantly I shift my lights to a more orange/yellow looking color with more green on shadows.

Adjustments such as "Color Balance" are handy for these changes. Lastly I add more details to the objects such as the shuttle in the distance and more wires and some brushstrokes here and there. You can see the difference below.

Composition breakdown/rendering

Now for the final step I would like to mention some good techniques that I use while painting this image. First thing is that I keep rotating my image horizontally. Since you're working non-stop on your speed painting, this is a single session painting, so you have to finish what you started in a single run! Rotating the image will help you not to get used to what you see, and then you'll start noticing all the issues. It's like refreshing your eyes and mind!

至于構(gòu)圖，一定要檢查你的導(dǎo)航器。我設(shè)法改變了平臺上的最后守衛(wèi)讓他們看起來更小，也增加了對比幫助我的作品。正如你在下面看到的，正如你可以在下面看到我設(shè)法分解我的藝術(shù)作品，以展示它的重要性。這是你的藝術(shù)作品和觀眾的眼睛之間的聯(lián)系�，F(xiàn)在我并不是把線條畫在我的畫上做這些事，但是知道一些構(gòu)圖技巧會幫助你對這些事情有一個清晰的心態(tài)，并且通過了解和練習(xí)，你會在不知不覺中一直做這件事。

藍(lán)色的圓圈顯示了我的興趣點，黃色的線顯示了中心(如警衛(wèi)的元素)，綠線顯示了三分規(guī)則(直升機(jī))，紅色三角形顯示了我的照明。我的賽博朋克城市速度畫現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好簽署。

As for the composition, make sure to always check your Navigator. I have managed to change the final guards over the platform to make them look smaller, also adding contrast helped my composition. As you can see in the below I manage to breakdown my artwork composition to show you how important it is. It's the connection between your artwork and the viewer's eyes. Now I'm not really putting lines over my painting to do this stuff, but knowing some composition tricks will help you to have a clear mindset for these things, and by knowing it and practice you will do it unconsciously all the time.

The blue circle shows my point of interest, the yellow lines shows the center (elements such as the guards), the green line shows the rule of thirds (Choppers), and the red triangle shows my lighting. My cyberpunk city speed painting is now ready to be signed.