PROCESS VIDEO // forest (Patreon)

I put together the process video for this painting! The whole thing took me a little over 3 hours to do, and I sped it up to twice the original speed. You can slow it down or speed it up in the player bar! I also filmed parts of the process with my phone, which I’ll post right after this one! 

Here's the final result of this process:

During the process for this one, I was searching for the right mood and colors. I liked my initial sketch, but once I started adding colors, I actually really didn’t like how it looked. I just felt like the values were off and the green was looking a bit cheap. I end up fixing it by darkening the tree quite a lot and adding some more vertical brush strokes to it, and around 21 minutes in, I hide background entirely so I can work solely on the tree. I felt like if I could make the tree work, I could adjust the background later. And that’s what ended up happening - by later applying the same kind of vertical brushstrokes to the background, it all started to feel more unified. I guess the image just needed some texture and consistency which it was lacking before!

After that it was a lot about adding interesting shapes in the rendering process. I was actually thinking about this a lot while painting, because I had already started brainstorming the content for my tutorial on interesting & flowy shapes when I created this. I think this process video is a good companion piece to that tutorial. Be sure to check it out if you haven’t seen it yet!

Hope you enjoy this process video and as always, if you have any questions, ask away!