我将用我的速度绘画技巧向你们展示一个网络朋克城市氛围的进展。
I'm going to show you the progress of illustrating a cyberpunk city atmosphere using my speed painting techniques.
快速的缩略图
对于艺术家来说，有一个小写生本是一种聪明的举动，你可以快速画草图、涂鸦和缩略图，它可以帮助你开发和创造新的想法。你不需要设计什么大的东西。它甚至不是用来画画的，它只是用来探索的。当时间到了，你认为你的想法已经没有了，或者你没有时间去思考下一步该做什么，你可以回到你的写生簿，抓住你下一幅画需要的东西!
另一方面，这是一个方便的工具，用于创建快速缩略图，以便快速定义您的构图和值，就像我在本教程中所做的那样。我已经知道我想做一些有网络朋克气氛的事情。我所做的是创建一些非常快速的合成缩略图。我没有花太多的时间在这里画画。这些速写大概需要2 - 5分钟，并且他们引导我到我需要开始我的绘画的地方，这些是指南。
Quick thumbnails
Having a small sketchbook for doodling is a smart move for an artist, you can do quick sketches, doodles and thumbnails and it helps you to develop and create new ideas. You don't need to design something massive. It's not even for drawing, it's just meant for exploration. When the time comes that you think you ran out of ideas, or you don't have the time to think of what to do next, you can always go back to your sketchbook and grab what you need for your next painting!
On the other hand, it's a handy tool for creating quick thumbnails to define your composition and values quickly, just like I did for this tutorial. I already knew I would like to do something with a cyberpunk city atmosphere. What I did was to create some very quick composition thumbnails. I didn't spend too much time for drawing here. These quick sketches are going to take almost 2-5 minute each, and they lead me to where I need to start my paintings from, these are the guidelines.
这一切开始的地方!
现在我对我的作品有了一些快速的想法，现在是时候开始我的作品了，用灰度的色调，先把重点放在价值观和整个构图上，然后把颜色加进去，然后再把更多的细节放在后面。这不是唯一的方法，但这是我最快的方法。还有很多其他的速度绘画技巧和方法，从A到B，有很多方法，它们都是一个快速的过程。
但是记住,每个艺术家都需要找到自己的最快的方法, 因为我的快速做事的方式对于其他人来说可能会很慢，所以你必须尝试不同的方法,直到你终于找到适合你的最快的方法。在这种情况下，我想做的第一件事就是去掉白色的空白页，然后用简单的方形画笔快速地绘制我的平台。
Where it all begins!
Now that I have some quick thoughts about my composition, it's time to start my illustration by working on a grayscale tone, focusing on the values and the whole composition first and adding the color to it and then putting more details later. This is not the only way, but this is my way for the fastest approach. There are many other speed painting techniques and means for getting from A to B, tons of ways and they are all meant to be a fast process.
But keep in mind that every artist needs to find his or her own way of doing it fast, because my way of doing something speedy may be slow for someone else, so you must keep doing it and trying different approaches until you finally find the fastest way that is suitable for you. In this case, the very first thing I want to do is to get rid of the white blank page and quickly paint my platforms with a simple square brush.
塑造它
当我继续画我的形象时，我在远处的主要结构，船舶和建筑物上添加了更多细节。现在你会对艺术作品有更好的了解。您可以看到透视图、光源和总体组成。
对我来说，最重要的是在我进步的同时，立刻对整个形象进行研究。这是一幅速度画，你不要过多地关注一个领域(抛光，添加太多细节)，而忽略其他部分，这会破坏你的构图和判断。
我在整个艺术作品上取得了进步，对每一部分都应用了同样的细节，这就是为什么我一直把我的变焦保持在100%，这样我就能看到我的画框里的每一个变化。做这样的事情，并注意你的导航将帮助你始终跟踪你的构图。
Shaping it up
As I continue painting my image, I add more details to my main structure, ship and buildings in the distance. Now you'll have a better understanding of the artwork. You can see the perspective, light source, and an overall composition.
The most important thing for me is to work on the whole image at once as I make progress. This is a speed painting and you don't want to focus too much on one area (polishing it and adding too much details), while neglecting the other parts, which will ruin your composition and your judgment.
I make progress on the whole artwork, applying the same level of details to every part and that's why I keep my zoom at 100% all the time so I can be aware of every change in my frame. Doing things like this and having an eye for your Navigator will help you to always keep track of your composition.
找到你的自信
正如您在下图中看到的，我使用相同的技术和笔刷来添加更多的细节并取得进展。我只是快速地在建筑物上添加一些纹理的笔刷，使它看起来更详细，以及一些对船的触摸。最后，我在这个平台上添加了一个士兵，只是为了给他们带来一些规模感。
你可能已经注意到，我画的画不是很细致，很光滑，或者我们说它不是很干净，也不会很干净。在快速绘画的过程中，我不会用这些东西来打扰自己，我很放松，在我画画的时候让我的作品流动起来。当你更频繁地画油画时，你会发现你开始绘画的方式，取得进步，完成它，充满自信地成长，它真的会影响整个绘画过程。
我一直都在问:“你的刷子是什么?”“就像刷子在做魔法一样，当它不做的时候!”这些只是工具，是我们使用它们的方式。即使你有一些很酷的新工具和画笔，你仍然需要花些时间去做，去探索它，做一些工作来最终适应它。因此，尝试为你的工作流创建一些管道，花上几个小时，直到你发现你更有信心开始并使用它们。继续做下去，你会发现这对你来说有多容易。
Find your confidence
As you can see in the image below, I use the same technique and brush work to add more details and make progress. I just quickly add some textured brush work on the buildings to make it look more detailed, as well as some touches on the ship. Lastly I add a soldier on that platform just to bring in some sense of scale.
You may have noticed by now that the way I'm painting is not very detailed and polished, or let's say it's not really clean and it won't be. In the speed painting process I won't bother myself with these things, I take it easy and let my work just flow while I'm doing speed painting. As you do paintings more often, you will find your way of starting a painting, making progress and finishing it, grow with confidence, and it really effects the whole painting process.
I get this question all the time: "What is your brush?" As if the brush is doing the magic, when it doesn't! These are just tools and it's the way we use them that makes the difference. Even if you get some cool new tools and brushes, you still need to make some time for it, explore it and do some work with it to finally get used to it. So try to create some pipeline for your workflow, spend hours until you find out the way you're more confident to start and use them. Keep doing that and you'll see how easy it will get for you.
添加的色调
现在是时候给艺术作品添加一些色彩和色调了，因为我将从调整菜单中使用“色彩平衡”功能。有了这个调整，你可以快速添加一个色调。你可以控制你的阴影/中音和高光。
你可以看到下面图片的结果，我已经设法弄到了一些绿色的中音，并把它和一些黄色的亮点混合在一起。我还需要添加更多的色调，我想在我的构图中加入一些蓝色，使它的单色性变少。
为了做到这一点，我在我的图像上创建了一个图层，并将其放在“叠加”模式下，使用渐变工具或柔圆笔刷，你可以很容易地把你的二级色调混合起来，并达到一个新的颜色组合。
Add tone
It's time for me to add some colors and tone to the artwork, and for that I would use the "Color Balance" feature from the Adjustments menu. With this adjustment you can quickly add a tone. You have control of your Shadows/Mid-tones and highlights.
As you can see the result in the image below, I've managed to bring some green midtone and mix it up with some Yellow highlights. Well I still need to add more tone, I've thought of adding some more blue to my composition to make it less monochromic.
In order to do that I create a layer on top of my image and put it on "Overlay" mode, using gradient tools or soft circle brushes you can easily bring in your secondary tone to mix it up and reach a new composition with colors.
带来视觉效果
现在有趣的部分开始了;这一步有点棘手，但我要解释一下。我现在要做的是用一些照片把城市的灯光从他们身上提取出来。你可以使用自己的照片或者从cgtextures.com找到一些。以开阔的城市景观为主题。我们不会把照片当成我们的城市，也不会把它们放在我们的艺术作品中。我们只需要灯光和它的气氛。也要确保你在前视图中使用了一个点透视的照片。当你有了这个视角的照片时，你可以很容易地改变它，并根据你作品的视角改变它的视角。这很棘手，但是很容易!
现在导入您的照片，使用Ctrl + T来弹出“自由转换”工具或简单地编辑>自由转换。现在你可以自由地变换你的图像，但是在你做任何事情之前，只要在你的图像自由转换模式下右键点击，然后点击扭曲! 扭曲使您有一个优势，可以控制您导入图像的每个角!试着把每个角都对齐到你的建筑物的角，这样它就能符合你的视角，然后按回车键。现在您可以更改图层模式为“颜色减淡”和BAM !在这里，很简单……对吧?
你也可以改变导入的图像对比度，颜色越深，效果就越好。我们只需要那些窗户灯!像这样的聪明的动作可以让你有更多的时间来开发，并且在你做速度绘制的时候更快地完成你的概念。你可以看到，我已经在我的作品中附加了一些照片，然后使用相同的技术，你可以看到左下方的第二张图片的不同是在“正常”图层模式下，右边的是“颜色减淡”模式。
Bring in some visuals
Now the fun part begins; this step is going to be a little tricky but I'm going to explain what's going on. What I'm going to do now is to use some photos to extract the city lights out of them. You can basically use your own photos or find some from cgtextures.com. Take some wide city landscapes. We are not going to use the photos as our city or put them right in our artwork. We only need the lights and its atmosphere. Also make sure that you use the photos with one point perspective in front view. When you have photos with that perspective you can easily transform it and change its perspective based on your artwork's perspectives. It's tricky but so easy!
Now import your photo, use Ctrl+T to bring up the "Free Transform" tool or simply go to Edit > Free Transform. Now you can transform your image freely but before you do anything just right-click on your image while you're in free transform mode and then click on Distort! Distort gives you an advantage to have control of each corner of your imported image! Just try to align each corner to your buildings' corners so it fits the perspective, and then press enter. Now you can change the layer mode to "Color dodge" and BAM! Here it is, so easy... right?
You can also change the imported image contrast as well, the darker it becomes the better it looks. We only need those window lights! Smart moves like this can really buy you more time to develop and do your concepts faster while you're doing speed paints. As you can see I have attached some photos in my artwork and then used the same technique, you can see the difference in the second image below on the left-side is on "Normal" layer mode, and the right one is "Color Dodge" mode.
新的细节
现在，我的结构和基础艺术品上都有一些很酷的氛围灯光，是时候添加新的细节，我已经设法在衣架和建筑物上多用一些技巧，第四步，同时管理我的时间，以达到在一个半小时内完成速度绘画的目标，再用三十分钟渲染最终作品。
所以我在衣架上做了一些细节。 我没有把同样的时间放在远处的另一个衣架上。 我只是复制和粘贴了我在前面做的事情。 我还添加了一些整体细节，如灯光，船舶等。
New set of details
Now that I have some cool atmospheric lights over my structure and my base artwork, it's time for a new set of details, I've managed to work a bit more on the hangers and the buildings, with the same technique that I have shared in step four, while managing my time to reach the goal of doing the speed painting within an hour and a half, and almost another 30 minutes for rendering the final artwork.
So I have worked on the hanger and put some details there. I didn't put the same time for the other hanger which is in the distance. I just copied and pasted what I did in the front. I have also added some overall details such as lights, ships and so on.
叙述
通常情况下，我从某件事开始，到最后完全改变。在你的速度绘画课上最好不要这样做，因为你真的需要管理你的时间。但我们是艺术家，改变一些我们不那么喜欢的东西并不是犯罪。这样的态度甚至可以在非速度绘画上变得非常有用。你总是要坚强面对自己的问题，当你花太多时间在某件事上时，你很难轻易放弃它，但相信我，做这样的事情会让你进步，记住你是为了更大的好处而做的!
现在我不会在这里讲一个丰富的故事，我只想做一个简单的速度画，展示一个未来城市的氛围。这里有一些我认为非常适合的元素，但我真的不想要那种看起来像船的航天飞机!因为对我来说，它更像是一个科幻城市，而不是一个网络朋克城市。
这就是为什么我把它完全拆下来，设计了一艘更类似于直升机的新船。它更适合发生在40年后一个网络朋客城,也许我们还在地球上, 我只是用套索工具快速地改变了一个未来的航天飞机的梭子来创建一个形状在它上面的油漆。当他们值得的时候不要害怕做出牺牲。
Narrative
It often happens that I start with something and I change it completely by the end. Well it's better to not do this while you're on your speed painting session since you really need to manage your time. But we are artists and it's not a crime to change something that we are not that happy with. An attitude like this can even become real handy in non-speed painting sessions. You always have to be strong to face your problems and when you spend so much time on something it's hard to discard it that easily, but believe me, doing stuff like this will improve you and remember that you're doing it for a greater good!
Now I'm not telling a rich story in here, and I merely want to do a simple speed painting that demonstrates a futuristic city atmosphere. There are elements here that I think really fits right in, but I really don't want that shuttle which looks like a ship! Because to me it feels like it's more of a science-fiction city rather than a cyberpunk city.
That's why I completely removed it and designed a new ship which is more similar to a chopper. It fits better in a cyberpunk city that happens maybe in 40 years from now or so, and we are still on earth, so yeah as you can see I just changed the shuttle for a futuristic chopper quickly using the lasso tool to create a shape and over paint on it. Don't be afraid to make sacrifices when they're worth it.
最后
当我达到我的最后一步, 我倾向于使用“Overlay”图层模式添加更多的大气元素，如烟雾，更多的灯光，和一些黄色的雾霾使它看起来更像一个密集的城市肮脏的天气,最重要的是我转变我的灯更多橙色/黄色的颜色有绿色阴影。
诸如“色彩平衡”这样的调整对于这些变化来说是很方便的。最后，我给这些物体添加了更多的细节，比如在远处的航天飞机，更多的电线和一些笔触。您可以看到下面的区别。
成分分解/渲染
最后一步，我想提一些我在画这个图像时用到的技巧。第一件事是我一直在水平旋转我的图像。因为你不停地在你的速度画上工作，这是一个单一的会话绘画，所以你必须完成你在一次运行中开始的东西！旋转图像会帮助你不习惯看到的东西，然后你会开始注意到所有的问题。这就像让你耳目一新!
Final touches
As I reach my final step, I tend to add some more atmospheric elements such as smoke, more lights using "Overlay" layer mode, and some yellow Haze which is making it look more like a populated city with dirty weather, Most importantly I shift my lights to a more orange/yellow looking color with more green on shadows.
Adjustments such as "Color Balance" are handy for these changes. Lastly I add more details to the objects such as the shuttle in the distance and more wires and some brushstrokes here and there. You can see the difference below.
Composition breakdown/rendering
Now for the final step I would like to mention some good techniques that I use while painting this image. First thing is that I keep rotating my image horizontally. Since you're working non-stop on your speed painting, this is a single session painting, so you have to finish what you started in a single run! Rotating the image will help you not to get used to what you see, and then you'll start noticing all the issues. It's like refreshing your eyes and mind!
至于构图，一定要检查你的导航器。我设法改变了平台上的最后守卫让他们看起来更小，也增加了对比帮助我的作品。正如你在下面看到的，正如你可以在下面看到我设法分解我的艺术作品，以展示它的重要性。这是你的艺术作品和观众的眼睛之间的联系。现在我并不是把线条画在我的画上做这些事，但是知道一些构图技巧会帮助你对这些事情有一个清晰的心态，并且通过了解和练习，你会在不知不觉中一直做这件事。
蓝色的圆圈显示了我的兴趣点，黄色的线显示了中心(如警卫的元素)，绿线显示了三分规则(直升机)，红色三角形显示了我的照明。我的赛博朋克城市速度画现在已经准备好签署。
As for the composition, make sure to always check your Navigator. I have managed to change the final guards over the platform to make them look smaller, also adding contrast helped my composition. As you can see in the below I manage to breakdown my artwork composition to show you how important it is. It's the connection between your artwork and the viewer's eyes. Now I'm not really putting lines over my painting to do this stuff, but knowing some composition tricks will help you to have a clear mindset for these things, and by knowing it and practice you will do it unconsciously all the time.
The blue circle shows my point of interest, the yellow lines shows the center (elements such as the guards), the green line shows the rule of thirds (Choppers), and the red triangle shows my lighting. My cyberpunk city speed painting is now ready to be signed.
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