TUTORIAL // Finalizing a painting without over-rendering (Patreon)

It’s time for this month’s tutorial! It’s on finalizing a painting without over-rendering it. This is something many of you have requested, and it’s a very common struggle for any digital artist! It can be super tempting to keep rendering your painting for a long time but feel disappointed with the end result despite all the time and effort you put in. This tutorial has some techniques and ideas for your rendering process that can help you tackle this issue.

I mention my free brush set in this tutorial, which you can find here. It contains the hard round brush I use for all of the painting, as well as the speckle brush I use for the freckles at the end!

The other brushes I used (although they are in no way a requirement for rendering, you can do everything with standard brushes if you like!) were:

• The Macalabs HB brush for the sketch.

• The rake brush for the hair and textured brush for highlights on the skin, which were both from Viorie’s set and are called “hair” and “rough”. 

Here are some process videos that show my full rendering process:

• Abundance, part 3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/process-video-3-62417910

• Flow, part 3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/process-video-3-56182992

• Poppies, part 3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/process-video-3-54422439

• Pink fish, part 3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/process-pink-3-48524728

Here are some short reels that show me using these techniques:

• https://www.instagram.com/reel/CNAjvgMgtaz/

• https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRHLjx2AiKP/

• https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRrPdEDgd-8/

• https://www.instagram.com/reel/CTFYLHUgLd5/

This tutorial really focuses on the finalizing stage of a painting, so if you want resources to help you out with earlier stages of creating a painting, here are some other tutorials that can help:

• Constructing a pose: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-video-38377684

• Choosing colors: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-colors-39277902

• Sculpting with color: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-with-53897099

• Simple tricks for lighting & mood: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-video-41372669

I hope this is helpful and as always, please do ask if you have any questions! ❤