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Hiding the sketch and refining the background
Once I’m happy with the direction my background colours are taking, I’ll hide the sketch and just focus on the background. I use the Color
Sampler tool by holding down Alt and pulling colours from my reference images. At this point I’ve only used the Pastel brush and two custom
brushes. You’ll find that ArtRage has a unique way of blending and applying textures at the same time, while mimicking how colours are blended
in real life on the canvas. This means you don’t have a sprawling set of tools to try and choose from, which can be a distraction for some artists.
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Bringing the sketches back
Once the bulk of the background is done, I’ll start to
bring the main subject matter into focus. I’ve found that if
you complete the background first and then apply your
main subject matter on a separate layer, it makes things
easier when you need to do some cleaning up in the piece
or even decide to resize your foreground elements. It’ll
save you some time in having to repaint them, too.
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