Entry 11 - Monster Painting

This lesson I worked on creating the transaction scene of the painting on Photoshop CS6. Apparently, my app, Medibang Paint, can actually send files as a Photoshop file. This really helped me, as I wanted to create layers behind her, not just in front of her. 

First, I created a layer behind her called Monster. I then used Kaneki’s Kagune as a reference guide to draw the monstrous thing behind her back. I started off by using a sharp paint brush with the size of 10 to draw the shape of the Kagune. I then used the pain bucket tool to fill it in with red. After that, I turned my opacity lower for the brush and made the brush bigger. I selected a darker shade of red, maroon, to help me shade the parts I wanted to be shaded with. I added more contrast with the lightness and darkness by deepening the colour each time I wanted more shadows on a part. 

For the face, I searched for an image of Dorian Gray’s portrait, as that’s where I got all the ideas from. In the book, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the protagonist/antagonist’s portrait turns uglier and uglier every time he commits something that is seen to be “ugly”, such as ageing, lying and committing murder. I wanted the same for my portrait. I wanted it to show the monstrous side of her. 

After finding the photo that I wanted, I dragged and dropped it into photoshop. I then copied and pasted it into my drawing. Turning the opacity down, I used the transform tool to mask it perfectly onto her face. Instead of masking it, I just went straight into erasing it. 

That’s all that I did this lesson.