Color Studies

So I'm going a bit out of order here, but I really wanted to get this project up because it's my first attempt at something related to concept art! For color theory we had to create three images that were related, but each image had to have a distinctly different color scheme. I decided to do digital landscape paintings, which was awesome because I could finally practice my photoshop painting skills while working on a school project, rather than trying to do my own digital painting in my very limited free time.

So the first thing I did was draw out a whole page of thumbnails of various ideas:

Then I picked three and went straight into the digital painting. I tried out a different technique during this project too. Rather than doing straight up digital painting, I used the lasso tool to make all the shapes I wanted and then painted within the selection. I was going for more of a graphic look, rather than a highly rendered digital painting, which quite honestly, I just didn't have time for.

There were a few requirements we had to follow for this project. In this first image, I could only use saturated hues and tints.

In this image, I could only use de-saturated hues and shades.

In this last image, I used a color scheme from one of Albert Bierstadt's landscape paintings.

As much as I liked working on this project, I still think each image needs a lot of work. I would have loved to have a lot more time for this project, but I was only able to work on each of these images for about 2 hours. We had less than a week to do this project from start to finish, and there were also some other aspect to the project too that had to be completed. That's why I'm simply calling these color studies rather than digital paintings. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this post!