STEP-BY-STEP // speedpainting interiors (Patreon)

You guys might have noticed that I’ve been drawing more interiors lately! I always struggled with interiors in the past because I’m not great with perspective and scale. I still have a long way to go but I find that doing quick speedpaint studies helps me learn the most! The hardest part for me was setting it up, because I was using a technique that was more suitable for character art. 

So for those of you who struggle with similar issues, I put together a step by step showing how I set up an interior speedpaint. The main difference in my workflow when I draw interiors is:

• I use a lot more layers. I add each main element - like the couch, table, chair, etc - on a separate layer so I can easily use transform tools to adjust them, and later on lock the transparency and add shading to each shape.

• I’m less reliant on the sketch lines. I just ditch them altogether later on in the process. Usually because my initial sketch is a bit off and I fix those mistakes later on, so the sketch just becomes distracting.

• I do less with the brush tool and more with the lasso tool. When I use a brush too much on interiors, it all gets really smushy and overly smoothed out, so I stick to harder edges with the lasso and try to get soft gradations with feathered lasso / gradient instead of the brush.

If you haven’t seen the lasso step-by-step resource yet, check it out because the techniques I use with the lasso tool are essential to this interior speedpainting process as well! Hopefully this is helpful!