Hey all!
I just noticed the strange number of religious pieces done this year for IZM. Oh well...
You can check out deviantart for a full description of my concept. This is to talk about my technique a little. To start with, the original image was done in HB and 2B graphite on a page taken from my sketchbook. It's a very high-tooth paper, so it suited my needs well. After I was pleased with the composition and level of detail, I ported it into photoshop to play with it a bit. I spent a long time (almost as much time as it took to do the original linework) on a transparent layer of white with the burn tool in order to give the image some shade and depth. I went very liberal; applying thin strokes of dark tone with a large brush and eventually building up more depth with progressively smaller, textured brushes. After I was happy with the level of tonal depth, I went in with the dodge tool and pulled out some highlights. I then created a soft light layer tinted to a burnt sienna color and then painted all the other colors overtop of that. I set the brush to low opacity, to keep as much of the burnt sienna undercolor as I could. Once I was happy with the color, I created a multiply layer to add in extra shadow areas and then a normal layer to add highlights. Once that was done, I flattened the whole thing and put a new layer of yellow ochre over top. I cut a big hole in the middle of the layer, gave it a really high gaussian blur, made it pretty transparent, and flattened the whole thing again. This gave the image a nice overall warmth and helped to center the figure. Finally, I out a very light canvas texture over everything, to unify any little irregularities in the burning or color process and called it a day.
This has been a good experiment. I'll need to think up a new dimension to add to this whole proceeding. More digital painting, perhaps. Or some traditional work first off. We'll see where it takes me.
More on my concept can be found here. http://tristan-despero.deviantart.com/art/The-Zombie-Priest-2-0-215681539
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