making of jonathan shroud

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作者: Mario Veltri
翻译: cwws
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Hi there, my name is Mario Veltri I am a national and international award winner artist. I was published on many books and magazines as well as
Advanced Photoshop and my actual work is Art Director for one of the biggest italian magazines company.

各位好，我叫Mario Veltri，是一个获得过国际大奖的艺术家，我曾出版过多部关于高级Photoshop以及我的作品的杂志和书，现在我的在意大利的最大的杂志公司做艺术指导。

My aim in this tutorial is to show you all the steps of the work I did on this illustration.

这个教学的目的是向大家展示我在创作这幅作品时的每一个步骤。

Well. I started with some character concept drawing to find the best pose for the illustration I had in mind.

首先我会从概念设计开始，然后从我的想法中找到最佳的角色姿势。

I placed the pose I did like the most in a new document and started to draw rough and big paints just to have an overall Idea of the color balance and composition.

我把自己满意的姿势绘制在新的文档里，然后开始绘制大体的草图。只要把大体的颜色和构图画出即可。

To have an exact reference of the bricks perspective I created a poly model in Maya

为了得到准确的砖墙的透视参考，我在Maya里面使用多边形建模来完成。

and than I started to paint the background following the model perspective lines

然后我就根据这个参考物体的透视线把背景绘制出来。

After that I focussed my attention on the water under the character. I studied water ponds to see the behaviour of small
waves and of the reflexes. In this step the Photoshop “smudge tool” helped a lot.

接着我把注意力放在角色下面的水的表现上，我在池塘里观察小波纹的运动规律。在这一步骤中，Photoshop的涂抹工具给我很大帮助。

I would like to increase the dynamism of the image so I added a motion blur effect to the tentacle in foreground and I also made a water spray that follows his movement.

我想为画面添加一些动感，所以我为前面的触手添加了一些动感模糊，同时也根据运动方向绘制了一些溅开的水花。

Now cames the moment of the details, so I added a backward highlight to each tentacle and to the man shape.

现在开始绘制细节，我为每一根触手和角色都添加了轮廓光。

I also gave a water drip effect to tentacles near the liquid, to let image the viewer that they just came out from it.

我也为触角绘制了水滴的效果，让观众感觉他是刚从水里出来一样。

Than I felt the brick walls with some vandals writing

然后我在砖墙上绘制了一些涂鸦效果。

(the word “pain” is almost in all my pain-tings).

（”pain”这个词在我的很多画作中都有）

Since the illustration environment was a sewer, I felt the need to add garbages and some dirty rat

因为绘制的环境是在阴沟里。所以我添加了一些垃圾物品和脏脏的老鼠。

I did thing that a funny detail could steal a smile from the viewers and increase dynamism, so I made a flying rat that was dragged by the tentacle as side-effect of Jonathan’s attack.

我添加了一些笑料让读者觉得好玩，并且为画面增添活力，所以我画上一只被角色的触角弹飞的老鼠。