My First Polygonal Art

12-12-2018, 04:36 PM

Stoker Wrote: I looked at your work profile and saw one of your designs.



Its amazing. Could you tell us some basics about this kind of design?

Of course. First, I created the background shape using a brush, creating half of it and then duplicating that half and reversing it, as to have it symmetrical. Then, I created a masking layer and put the image on top of the background shape, that way the image is inside the shape and not sticking out. Then I created a duplicated of the background image making it black and white (I believe, it's been quite a long time), then putting the black and white version under the original. I believe I then just erased parts of the colored version which I wanted to make black and white, using a soft brush opacity on more delicate parts, and a harder opacity at larger parts. After I got the basics done, I went over everything again with a soft brush to make everything clean and to be sure I didn't have any hard brush strokes visible. After that I simply added some color corrections to parts of the image making it more vibrant and to make parts of it stand out more than others, then went over the background shape with a soft opaque brush to get the soft edges to make it look nice.

Now that I think about it, I don't remember if I erased certain parts to make it black and white, or if I painted over it in black in white, either way works, I believe erasing is easier, but can lead to more mistakes (though they are easily fixable with the paint brush and painting over the messed up parts).