Doodles and Finished Pieces

[LeleleleMAXIMUM]

thanks guys, i might have to redo the colors and shading. good thing the colors are all on different layers. ;D

I'm working on something but it's just a piece of shit.
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I'm trying to go for a painting style in photoshop ala Murderbeard but I just have no clue how to do it. I'm using a soft brush with opacity set on pen pressure and it just ain't working, help?

it's not half bad, and you've got the right idea.

this is how i do it, you can shange things to your liking:
1. underneath the sketch layer, what i do is i use a 100% opacity, no opacity jitter brush to make a palette of colors (you can see it in my last image).
2. and then i use that same brush to cel-shade the whole thing, like i'm just spriting on a large canvas (this is important, you can see the cel-shaded bits in my last image).
3. and then i blend the colors together, using a 50% opacity, no opacity jitter, size pressure brush. if you want to blend INTO the lighter areas, ie pushing shadows, use ALT to color pick the darker color and blend it towards the lighter color. don't overdo it, and remember that you can color-pick the resulting halftone, and push the shadows further. if you want to push the highlights, then color pick the lighter color and shade towards the darker areas.
4. ZOOM INTO YOUR IMAGE, and use 50% opacity, opacity jitter, size jitter brush to fill in the details. wrinkles, fur, etc. all my attempts at fur sucked, so this step isn't much help.

a little note on shadows:
don't blend and blend just anywhere. think about the cast shadows, or shadows created by something else in the image obstructing the light. these are usually hard shadows, and you won't need too many transitions or blending for these kinds of shadows (this you won't see in my previous image, i actually forgot about this little fyi i read about)

basically, hard shadows for cast shadows, soft shadows for shading volume.

wow, that got a bit long. sorry. i'm just learning stuff myself, so. >__<