DaveRapoza

Lilith - video process

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Here's the process I recorded for Lilith, it's sped up a bit and there's a couple short parts I didn't record but it's pretty much the entirety of the process. Hope you enjoy! Here's the final from the previous post as well -

Thanks as...

Lilith - Diablo IV - steps & layered PSD

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Here's something I did for fun, playing with a more moody feeling, lots of textures, trying to really get across that classic Diablo feel I love. Really enjoyed painting this, I recorded most of the process, I think I spent around 3 hours on this one so it's not something I would call finished but it's nice to try and play with style ...

Robot head! - layered PSD, steps

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Hope you're well! Dropping this here, another test on the more painterly style I'm aiming at, similar process to the Barbarian from the other day but with more of a watercolor underdrawing and lots of blender brush toward the end. I think this direction is pretty cool, we'll see how something like this works out in a giant illustratio...

Art Dump! - Diablo IV Barb, Ginyu, Venom, steps, PSD!

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Been a minute since I posted up - wanted to share what I've been up to - lots of style exploration, getting deep in the weeds on textures and trying to stay loose with my brush strokes. Really enjoying the results, it's mostly stemming from the addition of a tight "pencil" drawing,  this is the clip studio pencil brush I mentione...

Chun Li - high res file + sketch

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Happy Valentines day! Here's a little somethin I did yesterday, drawing a lot with Krita and the Pencil brush I use in CSP - finished in Photoshop. Hope you like her!

Thanks as always for your support!

Dave

Ginyu Force + Diablo IV demon + Skull breakdown

Livestream is tonight at 8pm MST - check the link here! 

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Hope you've been well! This here is a variety of things I've done to further nail down my process - it's feeling pretty strong to me at the moment so I'm gonna ...

Necromancer - Inks, PSD, steps + livestream tonight!

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Real quick! Live stream is tonight at 8pm MST, check the link here! 

Here's the latest inked piece I did - this one was inked and sketched in Krita and colored in Photoshop - the highlights for the sharper side lighti...

Shadow over Mystara - Elf - steps!

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Hope you're well! Been working on this here and there, really enjoyed playing with another style for this one - this one isn't entirely finished at this stage, but I wanted to share where it's currently at - this is basically just the values I rendered in Krita with some colors beneath it. The next step would be a basic paint over wit...

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - high res

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Hope you're well! I think this one is done - or it's as done as it's gonna be without me going in and completely redoing the entire composition! I hope you like how it came out!

Thank you all so much for your support - the high res link is attached to this post if you'd like to print this yourself - but please, ...

Sonic 2 - some bird renderin' and questions!

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Quick post to accompany the Sonic high res - in this stream I painted up the little bird animals and took a bunch of questions from chat!

Thanks!

Dave

Sonic - progress

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Just a quick update here - been working on this guy, feeling pretty good about where it's at - I need to add a few things to it, maybe some birds, definitely Tails, and then I'll give it a once over and make sure it's all ready to wrap up. Anyway, just wanted to share as it's not ready to post for prints yet but feeling the progress!<...

Sonic the Hedgehog - timelapse video!

This one is just the character! I had planned on recording more but I honestly thought the background would be more of an afterthought after I got the initial character done - this image was more or less another experiment in style. 

Check the high res post for steps beyond this as well as the high res image itself.

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Zombie process!

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Here's a realtime process from the other day where I painted up a zombie portrait using Krita and Photoshop - there's a chance this video is blocked in a couple regions(my apologies there!), but I wanted to share this to show a bit of how I made the Sonic image I just posted up - I used this same process for that image and I'm really ...

Sonic the Hedgehog - high res + process

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Hope you're well! Here's a Sonic painting I just wrapped up this afternoon - I was trying to see if I could take the Zombie process(another post that should be up alongside this one) and apply it to a character that was a bit more simplified/graphic, turns out if worked! Feeling great about this whole approach and honestly couldn't be...

Discord Comic Challenge!

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This month we'll be tackling comics for our Discord challenge - this means hopefully breaking out of your comfort zone to try something new! At least, it'll be new for our monthly challenges - so, as well as the video above, here's some examples of what you could do as well as the criteria for the challenge.

A 3-6 panel...

Morrigan & Garfield - Steps!

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Some more process and approaches to working! The Garfield one is the process done in Photoshop while just rendering over my sketch followed by a color pass render - the Morrigan process is a Krita to basic color fills, soft light layers, multiply layers for shadows and tones followed by a paint over in Photoshop.

Thanks as alway...

Experiments and Studies!

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Here's a couple things I've been working on - lots of studies and trying processes with Photoshop. Playing with textures and working on my general process between Krita and Photoshop - the next thing I'll be working on is the video process for the steps I'm working on in these.

Thanks as always for your support!

Dave

Random Test Arts

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Hope you're well! Here's some work I've been playing with the last couple days - mostly trying out different approaches to Krita -> Photoshop. It's been a lot of fun trying to find a streamlined process for the more "Magic: The Gathering" type work. These are all really quick, around 1-2 hours each, if I took it to final it'd be wa...

Ghost Rider - PDF Breakdown!

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Hope you had a happy holiday season so far! Here's a write up for the latest Ghost Rider cover I created using Krita and Photoshop as well as the brushes used below. I attached the PDF to this post below so you can look through everything slightly easier. I've been thoroughly enjoying this process, from these basic steps I can knock o...

Diablo IV - DemonGuy steps & PSD

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So, I've been playing a lot with this approach, feeling really positive about the speed I'm getting to with these - this one above took around 1-2 hours - the main speed boost is coming from those initial Krita renders(steps 1-3), the rest is me rendering more realistically(sorta) in Photoshop with textures and softer skin feel and wh...

Melinoë - steps, PSD, print

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Hope you're having a good day! Last night I wrapped this portrait up of Melinoë from the upcoming Hades II - I've been really enjoying my time with Hades, only about 5-6 hours in so far but loving it. The art by Jen Zee is just beautiful, I tried my best with the illustration to incorporate a bit of their heavy use of black this port...

Gollum - steps & layered PSD

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Here's something slightly more realistic as well as "Goblin" themed. My idea was to do a type of study from the Lord of the Rings movie Goblins - halfway through I realized it'd be a good opportunity to paint a version of Gollum that I always imagined. I focused heavily on creating a base of texture for him before detailing everything...

BatGoblin - steps & layered PSD

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Hope you're well! Here's my BatGoblin from last night's stream, I included steps above but the PSD below has more comprehensive steps, I tried to keep everything I did on a separate layer - it's best to view it in Photoshop but CSP works too!

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Goblin Discord Challenge!

Happy Holidays! 

Welcome to the next Discord challenge - Goblins - we're going to keep things loose this time around and design our very own special Goblin concept or illustration - I am hoping you can think outside the box with this one and come up with some great work - the only requirements is a bit of foreshortening/dynamic/overla...

Skully - steps & PSD

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Hope you're well! Here's something I've been playing with as far as a technique goes - I more or less just wanted to get across a "painterly" look using the same general process I've been using but playing more with texture and losing edges when I can. The attached PSD breaks down what part is done in what program but it tends to go l...

Current Process - Krita to CSP to PS - video tutorial!

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Hope you're well! This tutorial is meant to accompany the latest Darkstalkers process post to further explain the steps taken to accomplish the final render. Please check out those steps as you watch the video to get a feel for what I'm doing and how I'm structuring out my process. 

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Darkstalkers - Anakaris process!

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Been working on this piece here and there as much as I can between work/comic work - wanted to share a bit of the process for Anakaris - please check out the accompanying post where I walk you through my Krita to Clip Studio to Photoshop process, there I explain exactly what's happening throughout these steps while I rendering a blob!...

Blackbirds Livestream - Painting Rose Witch & Background

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Wanted to quickly share a bit of the process for the Blackbirds painting in case you missed the livestream - worked on this for a few streams, hope it's helpful to watch! My video says it may be unavailable in certain areas, please let me know if that's the case and I will be able to re-upload with muted audio.

Dave

Blackbirds - Sketch vs Final

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Finally finished this one, took forever but we're here and it's over! These giant paintings take me way too long, but I really enjoy the final result so it's worth it. Learned more than I can really mention here while working on this, I think putting in serious hours into this one really helped hone my approach with Krita as a major p...

Comic Livestream

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Wanted to quickly share a bit of the process for the comic I posted yesterday in case you missed the livestream - worked on this for a few streams, hope it's helpful to watch! My video says it may be unavailable in certain areas, please let me know if that's the case and I will be able to re-upload with muted audio.

Dave