Post #681464 by Gene S Morgan on Mon, Jun 10, 2013 8:32 PM

I have explained before why I add greens and reds to the image. I love all primitive art. It amazes me that they could produce such wonderful art with very simple tools and limited materials. Styles are always associated with the tools and materials they came from. To me tikis are like impressionist artist of the 19th century. They are not meant to portray the reality of their environment. They are imagined beings that look almost alien. They inspire my own imagination much the way Van Gouth or Picasso do. Using greens and red in shading is an impressionist technique.

Our tiki with some color.

The next step in my process is to add texture. I do this to age the tiki image. Hey, tikis are suppose to be old, right? They need a rough surface. You can see on the interface that I have the brush menu open and there are lots of brushes in it. Some of them I made and others I got from other folks. You can never have too many brushes. I chose one of my crack textures.

Before I start painting texture I go to the filter menu and increase the contract and saturation of the image. Applying texture tones down the color of the image so you gotta boast color before you start.

I apply texture over the entire tiki starting with a fairly big brush with a lower strength.

I don't think that I have mentioned it but the color you are using appears in a box next to that wavy line at the middle top of the interface. There are several ways to chose colors, and they are very easy. Just click on that box and see your choices. It is always a somewhat dark color when shading or texturing. I switched to a smaller brush size and darken some areas such as under the nose even more.

Using the same brush I change my color to white and add subtle highlights. This just adds a little more form to the features. As I said, keep it subtle. The strongest area is the tip of the nose.