Melodie of a bright day painting

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Intro:

This tutorial will take you through the creation of "Melody of a Bright Day". You can find the painting in my portfolio. As in my previous walkthroughs I will try to guide you through the steps in this painting.

Step 1:

In this painting I again made a sketch on paper first. In fact, I made several. This piece involves a quite difficult and extreme perspective, and I feel much more comfortable with doing perspective setups on paper. I tried different settings, changed the perspective and tilted the image until I was satisfied. What you see is my final concept.

Step 2:

I had a pretty precise imagination of what the image was supposed to look like in the end, and what colours it should have, so no big trying around here, I quickly blotched in the colours, trying to get a good contrast here and decreased the opacity of the lineart, since it was only a rough guide anyway.

Step 3:
Here I finally got rid of my sketch layer, smoothened out the mess from before and started to define my lighting. You can see the strong highlights on the top of the curtains waves, and a soft shadow cast by the curtain on the wall. Plus I defined some lines and the corner of the room. I felt it looked wrong without a corner. A longer room would have required more windows, I guess. As you see I have also flipped the image, to check for mistakes, and to be more comfortable with drawing certain lines. Actually I flipped this painting a lot during its creation, I can only recommend this, makes things a lot easier.

Step 4:

Floor tiles. LOTS of floor tiles. A pain to paint, and quite some tedious work, I can tell you. The overall process was not difficult, though. I set up a few perspective guides for the tiles, painted them in, and after that went over them all again to give them a basic shading.

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