Painting Photo Studies TIPS - and I use Clip Studio Paint

Summary by Krater

An artist demonstrates photo study techniques in Clip Studio Paint Pro, walking through color choices, atmospheric perspective, painting small, and handling reflections and fog to capture the essence of reference photos.

From the video

Answers: How do you do a photo study in Clip Studio Paint?

• photo studies in digital painting
• atmospheric perspective and z-space depth
• color selection and color wheel navigation
• painting small to increase study frequency
• rendering reflections on water
• painting fog and soft transitions

What it concludes

• Painting small reduces the physical labor of painting, allowing more studies to be done in less time and helping avoid the tendency to simply copy everything.
• Using a color chart and mapping colors along z-space depth helps maintain accurate relationships between foreground and background elements.
• Isolating boat shapes and painting them without a rigid frame allows efficient focus on the interaction between water reflections and dark shadows.
• Using selection tools and locking pixel layers allows soft airbrush fog to be applied while keeping castle forms and hard-edged structures intact.