Chapter 22

Digital Drawing Exercise Six: Painting an Existing Digital Model Rendering

This exercise takes an image generated from a digital modeling application and paints it with Photoshop. It requires a pre-existing image from a digital model.

The point of this exercise is to significantly improve an image generated by digital modeling. This exercise uses low-opacity paint between the various elements of the setting, foreground, and background, for example, to enhance focus of the rendering. It uses painting to add costumes to the figures generated in the digital modeling software and to complete the surround of the audience. The initial digital image has a very mechanical appearance.

Step One—Make a copy of the background layer. This assures ...

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