科幻的瞭望塔。

这一次，我将分享一个新的工具，帮助您快速启动您的绘画，创建缩略图和复杂的对象，添加颜色和纹理以及整个绘画过程。

This time I will share a new tool that will help you to quickly kickstart your painting and creating thumbnails and complex objects, adding colors and textures and the whole painting process.

快速缩略图

与我上一个教程类似，我将开始涂鸦，并在素描本中创建一些快速缩略图。我并不是想要确切地定义我想要的，但是这些快速的缩略图会给我一个我必须做的事情的总体思路。我并不是真的想把这么多的时间花在这些草图上，我也不在乎它们是不是很杂乱或者不那么干净，这些东西很有价值，因为它们包含了构图，价值等信息。这就是我真正想从他们身上实现的。

Quick thumbnails

Similar to my last tutorial, I will start doodling and create some quick thumbnails in my sketchbook. I'm not trying to define exactly what I want but these quick thumbnails will give me an overall idea of what I have to do. I'm not really trying to spend so much time on these sketches, and I don't really care if they are messy or not that clean, these are valuable because they contain information like composition, values and so on. And that's what I really want to achieve from them.

涂抹！

在开始绘画之前，我将分享一种使用“涂抹工具”快速开始绘画的新方法。这种技术在速度绘画过程中非常方便，而且非常快速和实用。

所有你需要做的是使涂抹工具强度100％，并开始移动你的图像或你的画笔！正如您在下面的第一张图片中看到的，我绘制了一个示例形状并将其设置为我的画笔，然后从“Smudge工具”中选择相同的画笔并使用它移动它。我也用相同的画笔和技术制作一些快速的数字缩略图 - 这是一个非常快速和有效的技术。

Smudge!

Now before I start this painting I'm going to share a new way to quickly start a painting using the "Smudge Tool." This technique is really handy in the speed painting process and it's extremely fast and practical.

All you need to do is make the Smudge tool strength 100% and start moving your image or your brush! As you can see in the first image below, I paint a sample shape and set it as my brush, then choose the same brush from my "Smudge tool" and use it to move it around. I also make some quick digital thumbnails with the same brush and technique - it's a very fast and effective technique.

空白页

现在，我对我的作品有了一些快速思考，现在是开始我的插图的时候了，使用“渐变工具”填充空白页面，并使用我的“涂抹工具”快速绘制我的塔。我正在研究灰度色调，首先关注整个构图，然后再添加颜色。

Blank page

Now that I have some quick thoughts about my composition it's time to start my illustration, filling the blank page using the "Gradient Tool" and using my "Smudge Tool" to quickly paint my tower. I'm working on a grayscale tone, focusing on the whole composition first and adding the color to it later on.

塑造构图

在速度绘画过程中，我会一直使用我的绘画资产。我这并不是我画的每一个元素都是被画出来的，也不意味着它们也来自外包!我已经绘制了我的塔形，所以这是一个聪明的举动，复制粘贴，并迅速缩放，以我想要的方式来组成我的构图。在速度绘画过程中，我总是这样做。我迅速用“套索工具”和一个快速的“渐变”来绘制山峰，并在前面的塔上多做点工作。另外，正如你所看到的，我继续前进，而不是过多地关注单个部分，而是关注整体构成。这是我已经说过的东西，但总是值得一提的。

Shaping up the composition

In a speed painting process, I will always use my in-painting assets. It's not like every element of my painting is actually being painted and doesn't mean that they are coming from an outsource too! I already painted my tower shape so it's a smart move to copy-paste it and scale it quickly to shape up my composition the way I want it. This is something that I always do during the speed painting process. I quickly paint the mountains using "Lasso Tool" and a quick "Gradient," and work a bit more on the front tower. Also, as you can see, I keep moving forward not focusing too much on a single part, but focus on the overall composition. It's something that I already said but it's always worth mentioning.

细节和颜色

在这一步中，我会给天空和地面增加一些细节，并在前面的塔上增加一个图形来检查比例尺，最后使用相同的涂抹工具技术来填补我的背景。这是很好的提及，我把我的所有层分开，直到现在，所以我有背景，中间和前景分开，我很容易在它们之间切换，以添加细节。

Details and color

In this step I will add some more details to the sky and ground, as well as adding a figure on the front tower just to check the scale, and lastly using the same smudge tool technique to fill my mountain in the background. It's good to mention that I kept all my layers separate until now, so I have the background, mid-ground and foreground separated, and it's easy for me to switch between them to add details.

在将图层放在“叠加模式”之前，现在可以使用渐变快速添加第一种颜色和色调，以将页面填充到单独的图层中。从下图中的结果可以看出，我已经为整个绘画带来了一些绿色的色调。

It's time to add the very first colors and tones quickly using gradient to fill my page in a separate layer, before putting that layer on "Overlay Mode.' As you can see from the result in the image below, I've managed to bring some green tone to the overall painting.

色彩的变换

现在我将使用调整菜单中的“颜色平衡”功能。有了这个调整，你可以快速添加一个音调。你可以控制你的阴影/中音和高光。我要让阴影变得更绿，让光线变得更黄。结果如下所示。与此同时，我将重新调整我的身材，并向前塔添加一些细节。

Shifting the color mood

Now 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. I'm going to make the shadows greener and add more yellow to the light. The result can be seen below. Meanwhile I will re-scale my figure and add some details to the front tower.

现在我仍然需要根据自己的色调做出最终决定，并把我的图像气氛设置为高对比度的日落。你知道的，也许那个时候警卫换班会改变，他们今天就会改过来!为了做到这一点，我会在我的图像上创建一个图层，并使用渐变工具或软圈画笔将其放在“叠加”模式（如第5步）。你可以很容易地把你的二级色调混合起来，达到一个新的颜色组合。

Now I still need to work on my tone to make it final and set my image mood to a high contrast sunset. You know maybe a time that the guard shift will change and they will call it a day! In order to do that I would create a layer on top of my image and put it on "Overlay" mode (like step 5) using the gradient tool or soft circle brushes. You can easily bring in your secondary tone to mix it up and reach a new composition with colors.

添加纹理和细节

现在，我的画作和我的基本作品有了一些温暖和大气的光芒，

现在是时候添加一些纹理，添加一些灯光，并迅速填补天空。我现在要做的是用一些照片从城市中提取灯光。你基本上可以使用自己的照片或从cgtextures.com找到一些。

我采取了一些广阔的城市景观。我不会直接在画中使用这些照片。我只需要灯光和气氛。另外，请确保您在前视图中以一点透视的方式使用照片。添加纹理之后，我会将他们的图层模式设置为“Color Dodge”，它将打开您的纹理的所有灯光部分，即城市灯光。

您还可以更改导入的图像对比度：颜色越深，它看起来越好。我们只需要那些窗户灯！正如你所看到的，我已经把这个过程分成了三个图像：（A）是我现在的绘画，（B）显示了我如何在正常图层模式下将我的纹理贴在绘画上，（C）是我放置“颜色减淡”模式中的图层。我已经设法添加一些更多的细节塔，增加二级数字等。

Adding textures & details

Now that I have some warmth and atmospheric lights over my painting and my base artwork,

it's time to add some texture, add some lights, and quickly fill the sky. 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.

I took some wide city landscapes. I'm not going to use the photos directly in my painting. I only need the lights and its atmosphere. Also make sure that you use the photos with one-point perspective in front view. After adding the textures, I will put their layer mode to "Color Dodge" which is going to bring up all the light part of your textures which is the city lights.

You can also change the imported image contrast as well: the darker it becomes the better it looks. We only need those window lights! As you can see, I have separated the process into 3 images: (A) is my current painting, (B) shows how I fit my textures in the painting in Normal layer mode, and (C) is the final result when I put the layer on "Color Dodge" mode. I've managed to add a few more details to the towers, adding secondary figure and so on.

扩大构图

经常发生，我觉得我想添加更多的元素，为此我必须扩大我的绘画框架，以实现新的元素更好的构图。在这种情况下，我已经设法使我的图层变平，然后使用裁切工具（红色显示空白区域）简单地增加框架。现在我可以使用魔法工具快速选择空白区域，然后按删除，它会弹出“填充”窗口！

正如您在下面的图片中看到的那样，调整内容感知缩放并按下确定。 Photoshop使用自己的艺术品的表面色调和纹理以一种聪明的方式填充空白区域，但它也有一些变形的区域。但是，快速覆盖这些区域很容易。有时会有一些副作用，你可能会发现有用的保留。

Expanding the composition

It often happens that I feel like I want to add more elements and for that purpose I have to expand my painting frame to achieve a better composition for the new elements. In this case I've managed to flatten my layer and then I increase my frame simply by using the crop tool (the red color shows the blank areas). Now I can quickly select the blank areas using the Magic tool, then press delete and it will pop the "Fill" window up!

Exactly as you can see in the image below, adjust the content aware scaling and press ok. Photoshop fills the blank areas in a smart way using your own artwork's surface tones and textures, but it does have some deformed areas as well. However, it's easy to overpaint those areas in a quick way. Sometimes there are some side-effects that you may find useful to keep.

改进

在这个步骤中，我会快速覆盖一些由于扩大框架而变形的区域，并且在山边做一些改进，使其更加自然而不是简单的形状。提到我经常使用套索工具创建我的形状，如山和岩石，这是很好的。最后，我将使用我的形状技术添加一些形状，以便在前景中快速添加一些自定义形状环境，并为最后一组元素做好准备。

Refinements

In this step, I will quickly overpaint some areas that got deformed due to expanding the frame, and do some refinements on the mountain edges to make it a bit more natural rather than a simple shape. It's good to mention that I frequently use the Lasso tool for creating my shapes such as mountain and rocks. Lastly, I will add some shapes using my shape technique, to quickly add some custom shape environment in the foreground, and prepare it for the final set of elements。

最后的接触/渲染

现在是最后一步。我添加了最后一组元素，并确定了前景和整体构图。编辑一些东西，比如让守卫变小一些，在左边的塔上增加警卫，在远处增加另一个守卫，远处有更多的塔，这样才能更好地感受我的构图。

Final touches/rendering

Now for the final step. I add the last set of elements and finalize the foreground and the overall composition. Edit things like making the guards a bit smaller, adding the guard on the left tower and another in the foreground alongside more towers in the distance, just to get a better sense of depth in my composition.

最后，我想提一下，我保持100％的缩放比例，只是跟踪我的整体绘画。而且在绘画的过程中，我也不断地翻转自己的形象，使我的眼睛焕然一新，从新的角度看待它，并修复需要修正的部分。最后的图像呈现出一点清晰度和噪音的效果，艺术品花费了2个半小时才完成，在步骤9和10上花了近一个小时。

Lastly, I want to mention that I keep my zoom at 100% and just keep track of my overall painting. And also I keep flipping my image horizontally during the painting process to refresh my eyes, to see it from a new perspective, and to fix the parts that need corrections. The final image been rendered with a bit of sharpness and noise effect, and the artwork took 2-and-a-half hours to finish, with almost an hour on the step 9 and 10.

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