October 19, 2023

The Barghest (🇫🇷 Le Barghest)

This illustration was made as a commission for a french Brewery. You can see the creatures on display on their beer bottles on their website http://brasserieautremonde.fr/ The brewery only displays the illustrations in black and white, and the colored version are more a proof of concept of coloring my own digital art.

Technique

The technique used was, as i like to call it “Digital carving " technique. This consists in several succssive steps

  1. Sketching using a pencil brush
  2. Put a black layer on top, in high opacity to distinguish the sketch through the canvas
  3. With a white brush, or on erasing mode, withdraw the black from the canvas to create the whites.
  4. The colors were added on a separate layer on top, with the multiply blending mode on