How I Painted - Castlevania - Full PDF Breakdown
Added 2020-12-04 06:01:17 +0000 UTCHey!
Hope you've been well! Here's the full breakdown of the Castlevania piece I created for Cook and Becker! This PDF(attached to this post, as well as viewable on here) covers everything from how I approach the sketch to compositional shape breakdown and finally how I manage so many aspects of an illustration and bring them to render.
This piece took me around a month's worth of work to complete, but this was spread out over 6 months - which is crazy. You may remember I mentioned, back when I did the Final Fantasy 6 piece, that I was denied the option of working on Final Fantasy 6 so I decided to do it here on Patreon - well, this was my second choice!
I hope that this walkthrough is helpful for you, if you have any questions feel free to leave them below!
Thanks as always for your support, it means a lot to me, especially now that I have my second baby boy here in the world! I really appreciate what you all do for me!
Dave
Comments
ditto - I honestly joined Dave's Patreon to get the high res for this so I can print it for my office. Is there any way we can get Dave's attention?
Fadi Bahhady
2023-07-15 22:56:12 +0000 UTCYeah I would love to have this to print as well.
Douglas Nagle
2021-08-17 17:24:10 +0000 UTCNoticed this is sold out now, is there anywhere we can find the high res to print our own?
Jeremy Umlah
2021-08-13 23:56:50 +0000 UTCJust realized how much Dracula looks like Hugh Jackman
LordKarnigan
2021-01-29 00:29:54 +0000 UTCHi Dave! New patron (and first time Patron user) after I saw your FF6 piece. Incredibly impressive stuff and I really appreciate the level of detail you provide for your process. I have one question. On one of the Simon rendering slides you mention setting your watercolor brush to 30-60%. Is that opacity? And when you mention using the same brush earlier for the line work, what was the percentage it was set at? Thank you so much!
Nick Sermuksnis
2020-12-29 10:04:47 +0000 UTCI don't think so. I believe it is a private commission!
Wassim
2020-12-26 09:39:39 +0000 UTCThis art is AMAZING... is this available for download?
Rodolfo Canato
2020-12-18 20:53:21 +0000 UTCThanks Dave!
Alfred Manzano
2020-12-09 23:15:16 +0000 UTCThanks! And yes, Christopher is right, I use it to individually adjust colors in the characters, it's really great for that.
David Rapoza
2020-12-06 06:38:19 +0000 UTCThanks Christopher! I just tried this filter out and Holy Shit..... life changer haha
Alfred Manzano
2020-12-06 06:16:15 +0000 UTCIt allows you to edit individual colours, so you can change the reds in your picture to be blue as an example... kinda like when you change the hue slider and your picture goes all whacky colours, but for single colours at a time, and with precision. So Dave might use it only to tweak the colour of the red armour for Simon. At least, if I remember correctly!
Christopher
2020-12-06 01:40:37 +0000 UTCcongrats on the baby man! Thanks for sharing all this. I was surprised that you begin rendering over your line layer, I always rendered below my lines then use another later after to brush out my lines, I'm definitely gonna try your approach. also question, if anyone can answer. what is "Selective color" adjustment???
Alfred Manzano
2020-12-06 00:31:02 +0000 UTCawesome...defo some good tips. going to re-read it all to make it sink in
Adrian Trueman
2020-12-05 22:07:38 +0000 UTChello Dave, this pdf is helping me a lot, thank you very much. I also have a question, how do you normally charge this kind of piece, i know you are a senior and stuff like that, but i would like to have a base.
Lagarok (Ohletob)
2020-12-05 14:23:21 +0000 UTCHi dave just want to say thank you for this year of HUGE content and that piece is incredible.
gus
2020-12-05 14:03:31 +0000 UTCOutstanding stuff, Dave. This kind of resource is incredibly helpful.
Oronoro
2020-12-05 00:07:39 +0000 UTCJesus Christ! That jump from page 5 to 6. I was so shocked I laughed. Amazing work, Dave.
Joshua Barbour
2020-12-04 21:54:32 +0000 UTCThank you for taking the time breaking down this project.
Ellen Yu
2020-12-04 21:54:28 +0000 UTCdave these are godsends in helping organize work pipelines in how i do my illustrations now. thank you.
Paul Bautista
2020-12-04 21:29:22 +0000 UTCThis is STUNNING! Love Castlevania, and this poster being made by you... its just perfect!
Beto Lima
2020-12-04 15:46:44 +0000 UTCdude, you have no idea how helpful it is to read or see your breakdowns, thank you
Protski
2020-12-04 15:18:01 +0000 UTCI took a lot of notes from this and added them to my Dave Rapoza composition folder. Congrats on the second baby! Still looking forward to Fuck You!
Zack Thornhill
2020-12-04 13:02:28 +0000 UTC:0, YES, ohhhhh YEEEES. Damn yes. Congratulations.
Klutsen
2020-12-04 12:51:05 +0000 UTCCongratulations for the baby Dave :D You are an amazing artist and person, a really big inspiration for me
Lagarok (Ohletob)
2020-12-04 12:08:10 +0000 UTCCongrats to you and Kim on the new arrival :D And also thank you so much for this awesome PDF. I LOVE THE SHIT OUT OF THIS ARTWORK so I really appreciate you sharing the process.
Paul Loubser
2020-12-04 09:39:08 +0000 UTCHappy baby dude👹
Louis Whitworth
2020-12-04 07:03:05 +0000 UTCalso, please ignore the duplicate text on the page, total accident - got a newborn so I think my brain just died a little haha
David Rapoza
2020-12-04 06:14:26 +0000 UTCCongratulations on your new arrival, mate - enjoy this special moment and I hope all is well with you and the family.
Sam Patterson
2020-12-04 06:03:51 +0000 UTC
