Learning How to Paint With Colors!

I'm good at sketching but painting in color and applying in lights and shadows is a hard thing for me to do. but don't know how to i will start and looking at YouTube videos doesen't seem to help so i decided to dive right in! I browsed the internet for a painted concept art and found this (look bellow please), have you seen it? Ok good, this painting is from Guillaume Menuel and the painting is called Shoot. Is it just me or the dragon looks like a cross between a dragon and an eagle.

I wonder how everything ended... Did the hero kill the Dragle? Or did the Dreagle killed the hero and? Analysis aside the painting is gorgeous and fits my style of art which would make it more easier to dedicate myself to the painting.

I've been working on this piece particularly for the purpose of giving me more experience on painting/textureing and color scheming. I've used Menuel's concept art and that random dead guy as a reference image to help me paint.

Guillaume Menuel: Shoot Now

Some Random Dead Guy

2013-11-11

I started to paint the largest object which is the dragon of concourse. I didn't know what color to chose so i have randomly chosen my second favorite color. The outcome of it was not how i expected it to be so i tried to changed it from blue to a more greyish color.

Of course i did not want to entirely copy the whole painting so i made some few changes to it. Fist of all i made the Dragle more of a classic dragon and i added a castle in the distance and don't forget the random dead guy.

It was really hard to focus on just one thing when I was painting because i want to jump around and paint all the other parts at the same time. In the I ended up not focusing at anything at all. this is what happened to the my painting below i first focused on making the dragon but i got bored and i did not know what to add more to the dragon.

I focused on one part 

2013-11-12

Then I got bored and painted all the other parts

I colored everything in just to get a look on how its roughly going to look. The problem is i don't know what to focus on, i kinda want to do everything at the same time... i wish i had multiple hands and multiple mouses and tablets... I could be a TABLET GOD!! hahah. 

2013-11-13

After talking to my friend who is the best painter in Photoshop i know -that's you Joel :)- I changed the color of everything and decided to work on the piece as a whole instead of just focusing on one object. Focusing on one object can cause a problem because when you have finished that object then you have the rest of the canvas to paint and the style of the whole painting might change over time. the object might then be the one which is out of place and needs to be repainted to fit the whole piece.

2010-11-14

The painting is shaping up nicely! I have taken out most of the guidelines and applied some of the shadows to the dragon i still have to apply lighting to the painting, not sure where though. I don't know how to apply depth in my painting but i'm sure there is a tutorial in Youtube somewhere :)

2010-11-20

It has been a busy week couldent work on the painting for a while added shadows and some other things focusing mostly on the right of the painting but im actually working on different parts of the painting now. not entierly done with the shadows. still need to ad and tweek some alot of the shadows still need to tweek some of the shadows but its getting there

I think i am done now. I took away the dead guy, it felt too cramped when looking at the painting. I learnt a lot of new techniques and painting this piece was really fun to do even though it was irritating at some times.

I am planing on picking up my old castle and knight concept and paint on it again. While doing this I am also making 3D models, Animations and textures for our school project which is going to be in a game. On the side i am making a more complicated model which is a mythical creature from the Philippines the Manananggal. go ahead Google it and you'll see what kind of creature it is.