Just call me Lia - Multimedia artist - Will reblog whatever brings joy - ABP (always be posting) - FFXIV WOL tag: #WOL posting / #Arsay Nun - WOL ship: #graharshtola / #graharsay / #arshtola
Hello! This might be a silly question, but yknow that wedding commission you did? (https://www.tumblr.com/sergle/748659165732454400/everyone-pls-direct-your-attention-to-these-tags).
The foliage in the background has that really nice yellow glow, and I was just wondering how you did that. Is it a layer effect or done by hand? It's a lovely touch and adds such warmth for being so subtle, I like it a lot. :^)
Have a nice day!
Ooh!! okay, I definitely remember this and didn't just go back and look through the layers to see what I did on the piece.
it's basically just a couple of overlays!! in various shades of beige and yellow.
The foliage bg on its own, with nothing on top of it, just looks like this:
I have one layer of beige overlaid, which does this:
plus another layer of yellow, smudgy this time to make it look softer:
then just super loose yellow lineart overlaid on the edges of the leaves, and a noise filter to go on top of it.
it's super duper quick! the rest of the lighting comes from a super low opacity orange tint and a super low opacity watercolor scan that I keep on deck. but yeah basically just a few layers of yellow on top of shades of blue!-- I was originally gonna do a plain color bg for this portrait, but it didn't look right until I did the foliage thing!