Outdoor location painting with Manga Studio

 

 

Here's some recent Manga Studio EX4 painting studies of outdoor subjects. These had to be done from inside 2 coffee shops and a library because I had to use my laptop power adapter (dead battery). Although with the sun reflecting off of my aluminum Powerbook much of the time, it felt like I was outdoors anyway. The goals were to gain milage with various pencil compositing modes, geometric rulers, temporary layers and color palettes.

A uniquely digital architectural rendering style

Although I proposed a more traditional watercolor-type architectural style for this future food co-op, the client wanted a more pastel look. The resulting hybrid architectural sketch was done in a style only possible in the CG world; in other words, "coloring"  with pastels on an ink drawing would be near impossible in the analog world. (inks: Manga Studio EX4 + pastels: Photoshop CS4)

Two versions of an architectural rendering

These are 2 versions of a sample rendering that I did as part of a bid. I based the first version on high key, compressed value scale renderings provided as reference. It began looking too flat to me, so I added additional darks. The second version is closer to my concept of an architectural rendering and the lines were hidden to provide another option. The line drawing was done using the perspective ruler in Manga Studio EX and then colored in Photoshop, using some customized oval brushes that I labeled "UFO"s for brevity, although "almond"s would have been more accurate.