🎨TUTORIAL//Rendering Chrissabug's way
Added 2023-11-21 12:43:50 +0000 UTCIn this tutorial I'm going to guide you through my process of rendering an artwork!
Rendering is NOT my favorite process, which is a reason why I've developed an approach that relies quite a bit on lineart, textured brushes and layer styles, with some paintover in the later half of the process. My goal with rendering is to clean up the art just enough without OVER rendering and making a blurry digital-looking mess. I want my work to feel like it has some of that traditional grit!
I hope this tutorial will offer some helpful insights and ideas to incorporate into your own process!
Resources
CSP Brushes used in the Tutorial are available to download at the bottom of the post:
- Smooth Watercolor Brush (for blending, I mention it in the tutorial but do not actually use it in this tutorial)
- Wet Watercolor (the main brush I use for "rendering" in this tutorial)
- Chrissa Messy Ink (for lineart and detailed paintover)
- G-Pen (For blocking in hard shadows)
- Messy Watercolor (for painting light in the background)
- Soft Airbrush (For painting Gradients)
- Droplet (for scatter particles or droplets for things like freckles)
Paper Texture used from True Grit Texture Supply available for purchase here
Past Tutorials Related to this topic:
- How I SHADE (VIDEO)
- Layers Workflow for Beginners (VIDEO)
- How I color Stylized Skin
- Lighting a face and finding FORM
- Fantasy Portrait Beginning to End Walkthrough
- How I Finish An Artwork/My FINAL Touches and Steps to completing Illustrations
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Comments
My pleasure! Yeah, sometimes things happen quickly in tutorials and I need to go back and rewatch tutorials to make notes of things like you suggested! I hope this tutorial helps push you towards a look that you like!
ChrissaBug
2024-08-24 09:07:21 +0000 UTCThank you for the video - I may need to watch it again and make notes, haha. I have been struggling with getting the flat colours to something more finished and I am not so much a fan of the flat blended look (Probably why I love your style) now I just need to improve my line art to practise!
Helen Rygh-Pedersen
2024-08-24 06:40:33 +0000 UTCMy pleasure! Thanks for watching! I usually layer the paper texture on top of all the other layers so that it will be visible on everything. Sometimes if I want even more texture in the background, I will add another layer of paper texture just above layer one or any background layers but below the character layers.
ChrissaBug
2024-04-22 17:49:47 +0000 UTCThanks for your videos! Do you use Paper Texture as an Picture in an new layer above all layers or as Paper Texture in Layer one "Paper"? Thanks.
Nineandthreequarters
2024-04-22 13:16:36 +0000 UTCThank you! So glad you liked it! Were you able to grab the wet watercolor brush download from the bottom of the post?
ChrissaBug
2024-02-19 06:31:47 +0000 UTCLove the tutorial!
Moloik
2024-02-19 00:38:54 +0000 UTCHi! Thank you so much for saying so! It makes me super happy to hear that the tutorials have been helpful!! I have been trying some out and trying to make one that is close. It’s tricky because the watercolor “edge” functionality in procreate works a bit differently then in clip studio so it’s hard to get the same look. I’m gonna keep trying, but for now what I do to try and get a similar final result in the artwork itself is use The Maxpack watercolor brushes(they are available to purchase. Just google maxpack watercolor and I think they should come up) and to blend, instead of relying only on the eraser and brush like I do in this tutorial, I set the smudge tool to something like the maxU watercolor smudge heavy bloom.
ChrissaBug
2024-02-05 06:25:41 +0000 UTCHi, I just joined! I absolutely love your style, and your tutorials have already helped me improve my artwork so much!! Do you know of a good brush similar to the wet watercolour for Procreate?
caowynn
2024-02-05 01:46:18 +0000 UTCNo worries! Ask as many questions as you want! For the initial shadow setup, I stick with one color. Since I use a hard light layer mode, the one color still blends well with the colors that it’s on top of. And for the warmer background I would go with a gray that is it tinted with a bit of orange probably. Also, even if you don’t have the background in yet, it can be helpful for shading to at least roughly have the general color of the background behind the character. Just so that you have an idea of how the character will look within that color of environment
ChrissaBug
2024-01-09 07:15:11 +0000 UTCquick question when setting up the basic shadows (with the hard soft brush) do you use that one ambient color shadow for the whole piece? I didn't see you changed the colors, but I want to make sure - also when you don't havea background yet (but will be brownish/yellowish - how would you pick up the base shadow color? sorry for the many questions :D
Arashi87
2024-01-08 23:07:23 +0000 UTCHave you imported other csp brushes into clip studio before? Photoshop brushes should import the same way. Just extract the set from the zip file and then drag and drop the brushes into your brush panel in csp. I do want to make a csp basic workspace and intro tutorial soon, and will go over how to import brushes but I don’t have it made yet.
ChrissaBug
2023-12-01 10:09:37 +0000 UTCIs there tutorials on how to get the Sparkles brush pack into CSP?
SwellerSpade0
2023-12-01 09:48:30 +0000 UTCOh nuuuu! Haha! Well now you know and it will CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
ChrissaBug
2023-11-29 12:25:56 +0000 UTCHere I've been manually toggling between color and transparent like an idiot when I could have clicked C all this time :')
Faedusk
2023-11-29 12:20:44 +0000 UTCOmg! It makes me so happy to hear that it was helpful and you have some motivation!! Let's goooo!!! 🎨💪
ChrissaBug
2023-11-25 17:06:50 +0000 UTCI have been struggling so much lately with over-rendering my work and this tutorial was so helpful!! Thank you so much for making it! I finally have the motivation to paint again!
Lucienna Caffie
2023-11-25 16:40:43 +0000 UTCMy pleasure tea! Thank you for watching!
ChrissaBug
2023-11-23 20:16:11 +0000 UTCMy pleasure and thank you! For the procreate brush, let me think on it and play around a bit and get back to you!
ChrissaBug
2023-11-23 20:15:57 +0000 UTCthank you so much for sharing, very insightful tutorial
Tea
2023-11-23 09:59:12 +0000 UTCThis is an amazing tutorial and piece of art! Thank you. I just signed up, and I am wondering if you have a brush like the wet watercolor brush you use for blending but for procreate? I went through my watercolor brushes I already have and none of them seemed to do the trick.
Alison Weber
2023-11-23 02:04:42 +0000 UTC
