I really need to experiment more with my brush settings - I’ve gotten a little too complacent with my main brushes but I’m sure a little tweaking could make a big difference
Oh hi Adam, listening to you right now :D Yeah I got really into applying basic settings to achieve certain goals, while keeping the brushes as simple as possible
@@waleedcreates4294 Sure, so you use a brush like the X-ray brush to rough out some kind of idea, then use the find edges / detect edges filter in photoshop / affinity photo. It gives you a sketch like image (I have to invert the result in affinity photo) that gives you new ideas.
Using opacity percentage as the percentage of confidence is brilliant and memorable and I thank you so much for this advice. It might actually help me with my brushwork dilemma. Has anyone told you you’re awesome today, Boro? Because you are!
The only way I can explain this feeling is.. I feel like someone just offered to take me for a ride in their Lamborghini and then took a quiet backroad to a coffee shop. I never expected something so beautiful and intimidating to be so chill and simple. It’s the best of both worlds, I love it!
I've seen this techniques beign applied by a lot of asian artists out there, it´s good to see how something that simple can be so satisfying and accurate!
something i noticed while watching you work on the main piece (and this may be unintentional) - when you design a piece you have to choose areas of high detail and areas of low detail, usually adding more detail where you want to guide the eye. this technique makes that happen by making the forms be created out of murky washy brushstrokes and as you continue to build up a painting the important areas grow more detailed.
The option you mentioned at the end actually exists in Krita, mister Boro. When you have any brush tool selected, you can hold Ctrl and click somewhere to quickly pick a visible color from that place OR both Ctrl and Alt to pick a color from the selected layer only. It's a very useful feature. You also mentioned a few times that in Krita it's impossible to make the canvas bigger with a crop tool, but it is. You only have to select the crop tool and mark "grow" in the Option Tools docker and it will work. I have no idea why it isn't automatically marked, there's no reason to ever unmark it. I hope it's helpful to you.
This and the previous video were some of the most helpful I watched . There are so many little things in digital most if not all people never mention them
this, this i needed to know. i come from a traditional art background. and because of lockdown i thought i will try doing digital for the first time. but have found the transition to digital extremely difficult to make it feel more natural for me. so technically x ray construction is exactly what i use to do on a canvas or paper format. cant wait to start trying this out. thanks boro !
Glad it works for you! What tools were you using on paper/canvas for this method? Someone mentioned diluted oil, and I remember Scott Robertson using white markers.
@@BoroCG i use watered down acrylic to start off with then move up the paints opacity as i define the shapes. also similar when i sketch. i start out light and build it up.
Great video! I know Anthony Jones does this as well, but you summed up the idea behind it in a very clear way! Now the next step for me would be doing this plus using materials of different values at the same time, with lighting and all... Oh boy 🤯
Very helpful. I’ve been really struggling to make my brushes do what I want without ANY success and have been getting more and more frustrated. Your setup here changed EVERYTHING for me. In just a couple minutes I now have 2 perfect brushes that work exactly right. I’m still Uber-noob, and I do need to sketch to help visualize, but now my shape searches and shading brushwork actually go on the page the way I intend. Thank you so much!!
I think I've been doing a similar thing, though recently I've felt more confident when searching using very rough sketches with the general idea, then defining the base colours and then rendering. I liked Marc Brunet's method
I always start with a silhouette first when painting without sketch, then lighting and coloring on top. Doing this actually helps with building shapes and values because you're starting light!
I really love this bc i dont have a really high visual library or someone will say i have aphantasia, so is really more easy to me to search for ideias when using this approach, i did something like this in the past, just not the ray-X way, i just put everything in 100% and was "esculping" from there, but i think your way is definitely better
I can certainly say that shape drawing is a good way to train yourself drawing more natural. When you draw with lines you are focused on the lines, not on the shape. And you use only your typical knowledges which are not always correct. You can also see interesting figure in your shapes, it's a really cool way to improve
*guessing* Sooo... basicly its a way of “sculpting“ an idea, just with color flow. So no worry about certain different colors and you can fully concentrate on your idea. May be even of great use, if you have no idea, what it should become in the end. Definetly useful. Thanks Boro ^^
Clip Studio Paint has a similar option (not sure how to hotkey both at the same time but it's probably possible) "Obtain display color" subtool is the default that people are used to. "Pick up color from layer" will get the color before blending modes are applied.
@@BoroCG Also Corel has an option if you click on the eyedropper, photoshop as well I believe. With a bit of practice, it became pretty easy to use in corel (D to swap to dropper tool, swap the type, then B to go back to my brush), I only do it in rare occasions when I am playing with an overlay layer. BTW your work is awesome, keep blessing us with tips and tricks, as well as neat paintings.
Ty it helped alot, I thought it was more like idea sculpting, being ethereal and become corporeal , but I never knew how some brushes did work but others didn't. Now I feel I can try it no matter the default brush
You can actually select a color on the current layer in Photoshop - when you're using the eyedropper, go to the Sample drop down menu at the top and change it to Current Layer. edit: Nevermind, somebody's already told you. (Btw I love your tutorials so much and they've helped me immensely with my own art.)
Thx mate again thats a neat tip ^^ i made a tool like this a few weeks back but here is a few tweeks i appreciate. Also i played Metro Exodus and i meet your dad he is a hard daddy in the game hope he is better in person, also he straight up looks like a old version of you its hard to say hes not your dad ^^ THX Boro for your great tuts! Stay safe and take care of you and yours ;)
I see those Chinese concept artists do this a lot. Personally i think it requires too much knowledge about atmospheric colour matching since often adding colours later doesn’t work well.
Ohhh this is exactly what I want to talk about in the next short video this week. How to colorize a BW painting that has intense aerial perspective and all that.
Two things: 1. this is a nice technique if you don't have a background already, but as soon as you try to draw over a background with less than 100% opacity, you'll see the background show through and you'll have to increase the opacity of the front drawing which might mess up your shapes and blocking out. 2. there is a way to grab a color based on the layer you are on (at least in Krita there is)
I paint traditionally like this, digitally as well, but I could never get my brushes right to do it correctly. THIS is what I NEEDED! Thank You so much, I really think you’re the Best 🤩
Really good technique. I like drawing that way myself. I used to do that with diluted oil paint "back in the day". Thin lines have their place but I always hated trying to define form with a thin pencil-like tool.
Boro, my man, great vid. As for an eyedropper, PS got you covered. There are eyedropper tool settings (top panel while the tool is active) that provide for layer picking options. The only drawback is that you can't really have a hotkey for it (at least I couldn't find any). But I would suggest making a "tool preset" with relevant settings for the eyedropper, have the preset window opened and switch between them pretty smoothly if you need it that much.
Thanks! Yeah the problem is in the lack of the keyboard shortcut for that. Actually switching to the eyedropper tool to change its modes while painting is a nightmare
im using csp but gonna try and mess around with the settings. can't wait for the next video. also you got me laughing with the "idk i just like cylinders" LOL
it reminds me like sketching in multiply brush mode (not layer mode) is kinda like the same effect but here you can actually go to very black if you put many strokes, also changes the saturation as multiply does normally, I used to sketch like this and it was really fun!
I love seeing this process videos, they're so helpful! Also my UA-cam app kinda glitched and it says this video got uploaded 7 minutes ago but I already finished this 15 minutes video. A glitch in the matrix. I know I just need to reload the video, but I thought it was kinda funny
krita has the option of picking the actual color of on the layer using the eyedropper (shortcut P, you need to set the settings to what you need first) or picking the mixed color with ctrl. big time saver.
The only traditional media I can think of which you could use this approach with is watercolours with bleach. It's not quite the same and the bleach often works more like colour dodge than just brightening but you could probably get a similar result with thin dilute layers. Maybe with some gouache mixed in too as it's more opaque. I used to use really complex brushes but within the last year or two I've found them to be more of an obstacle than anything. A basic brick or round brush with a little texture is all I really need. Sometimes a hard texture brush for blocking in if I want something more grungey. Do you have any plans for doing a speed painting sometime soon with this sort of approach or seeing how it transfers to photo studies in a video? Great video as always! edit: oops this comment is a little long
Amazing technique mate! I am moving from traditional pencil on paper to digital, and was wondering if this could be reproduced in Clip Studio Paint or Krita. I am a total noob in digital, hence was wondering if you could (if possible) make a quick video explaining this on these apps, that's exactly how I draw with my pencils, building up from light to dark. Thanks in advance, and keep posting such inspiring wotk
I imagine this has been said already but you can set the eye dropper to only sample the current layer colour, don’t know if that accounts for blending modes or not though.
I find this to be really helpful, and I think I will experiment more on these methods. But then, after finishing the grayscale, I find myself really struggling to colorize it...going from black and white for me often makes the color looks muddy, idk. Perhaps, after this...a method to colorize it? I'll really appreciate it if you did that. Love ya videos as always tho!
Hi Boro. Nice one subject on this video. You videos are so helpful for the community over all. If possible, would you talk more about whats are more important for painting app: GPU or CPU?
Depends on the app, most modern ones use GPU a lot. But as it usually goes with hardware, GPU can get bottlenecked by the CPU (or RAM, or the motherboard) if it's neglected. So, just get a powerful rig :D
Yeah he does! Love his technique, and I can recall many epic artists using specifically the low-opacity brush. One thing to keep in mind though, I'm trying to use low-opacity brush only for construction, and then switching to the low-flow brush for rendering. I try to make more sense out of the available basic digital tools. I'm expecting a lot of potential in this.
I really need to experiment more with my brush settings - I’ve gotten a little too complacent with my main brushes but I’m sure a little tweaking could make a big difference
Oh hi Adam, listening to you right now :D Yeah I got really into applying basic settings to achieve certain goals, while keeping the brushes as simple as possible
After using the X-ray brush you can use the find edges filter to have a cool sketch. I learnt it from a Maxim Verehin tutorial.
@@artjoeywall can you explain please
@@waleedcreates4294 Sure, so you use a brush like the X-ray brush to rough out some kind of idea, then use the find edges / detect edges filter in photoshop / affinity photo. It gives you a sketch like image (I have to invert the result in affinity photo) that gives you new ideas.
@@artjoeywall 😊 thankyou for the contribution ill try it
Using opacity percentage as the percentage of confidence is brilliant and memorable and I thank you so much for this advice. It might actually help me with my brushwork dilemma. Has anyone told you you’re awesome today, Boro? Because you are!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful
He is awesome everyday xD
Looked alot like Eren. Great art!
What a great pose you used here! The caharcter design looks very interesting too
Thank you! I'll try to fix that arm as well
The only way I can explain this feeling is.. I feel like someone just offered to take me for a ride in their Lamborghini and then took a quiet backroad to a coffee shop. I never expected something so beautiful and intimidating to be so chill and simple. It’s the best of both worlds, I love it!
I've seen this techniques beign applied by a lot of asian artists out there, it´s good to see how something that simple can be so satisfying and accurate!
Epic 🔥 can't wait to binge watch all the videos of '' the boro dante painting style '' im learning something new every video
Your gonna be teaching us how to sculpt our town statues at some point, love your work!! Always handing new tips and tricks
something i noticed while watching you work on the main piece (and this may be unintentional) - when you design a piece you have to choose areas of high detail and areas of low detail, usually adding more detail where you want to guide the eye. this technique makes that happen by making the forms be created out of murky washy brushstrokes and as you continue to build up a painting the important areas grow more detailed.
The option you mentioned at the end actually exists in Krita, mister Boro. When you have any brush tool selected, you can hold Ctrl and click somewhere to quickly pick a visible color from that place OR both Ctrl and Alt to pick a color from the selected layer only. It's a very useful feature.
You also mentioned a few times that in Krita it's impossible to make the canvas bigger with a crop tool, but it is. You only have to select the crop tool and mark "grow" in the Option Tools docker and it will work. I have no idea why it isn't automatically marked, there's no reason to ever unmark it.
I hope it's helpful to you.
This and the previous video were some of the most helpful I watched . There are so many little things in digital most if not all people never mention them
With good knowledge of light and planes, this is the most peaceful and effortless way to paint. Specially when you don't know what to do. Nice Boro !
this, this i needed to know. i come from a traditional art background. and because of lockdown i thought i will try doing digital for the first time. but have found the transition to digital extremely difficult to make it feel more natural for me. so technically x ray construction is exactly what i use to do on a canvas or paper format. cant wait to start trying this out. thanks boro !
Glad it works for you! What tools were you using on paper/canvas for this method? Someone mentioned diluted oil, and I remember Scott Robertson using white markers.
@@BoroCG i use watered down acrylic to start off with then move up the paints opacity as i define the shapes. also similar when i sketch. i start out light and build it up.
Great video! I know Anthony Jones does this as well, but you summed up the idea behind it in a very clear way!
Now the next step for me would be doing this plus using materials of different values at the same time, with lighting and all... Oh boy 🤯
Very helpful. I’ve been really struggling to make my brushes do what I want without ANY success and have been getting more and more frustrated. Your setup here changed EVERYTHING for me. In just a couple minutes I now have 2 perfect brushes that work exactly right.
I’m still Uber-noob, and I do need to sketch to help visualize, but now my shape searches and shading brushwork actually go on the page the way I intend.
Thank you so much!!
I think I've been doing a similar thing, though recently I've felt more confident when searching using very rough sketches with the general idea, then defining the base colours and then rendering. I liked Marc Brunet's method
I always start with a silhouette first when painting without sketch, then lighting and coloring on top. Doing this actually helps with building shapes and values because you're starting light!
I really love this bc i dont have a really high visual library or someone will say i have aphantasia, so is really more easy to me to search for ideias when using this approach, i did something like this in the past, just not the ray-X way, i just put everything in 100% and was "esculping" from there, but i think your way is definitely better
I can certainly say that shape drawing is a good way to train yourself drawing more natural. When you draw with lines you are focused on the lines, not on the shape. And you use only your typical knowledges which are not always correct. You can also see interesting figure in your shapes, it's a really cool way to improve
Garret Hanna uses this approach, it really does save so much time
awesome painting!! the msuic in this was so chill too
Loving the constant stream of these REALLY helpful videos!
Mind-blowing!!!! That’s the approach i was not able to find
*guessing* Sooo... basicly its a way of “sculpting“ an idea, just with color flow. So no worry about certain different colors and you can fully concentrate on your idea. May be even of great use, if you have no idea, what it should become in the end. Definetly useful.
Thanks Boro ^^
8:31 The safe net of indecisiveness !
Thank you for this great in[x-ray]sight -]
17:05
JFYI, Krita has the "Sample Current Layer" color picker mode!
It's Ctrl+Alt (instead of Ctrl for "Sample All Visible Layers" mode).
Yeah I thought Krita has something like that, someone mentioned Krita having two eyedroppers last week
Clip Studio Paint has a similar option (not sure how to hotkey both at the same time but it's probably possible)
"Obtain display color" subtool is the default that people are used to.
"Pick up color from layer" will get the color before blending modes are applied.
@@BoroCG Also Corel has an option if you click on the eyedropper, photoshop as well I believe. With a bit of practice, it became pretty easy to use in corel (D to swap to dropper tool, swap the type, then B to go back to my brush), I only do it in rare occasions when I am playing with an overlay layer. BTW your work is awesome, keep blessing us with tips and tricks, as well as neat paintings.
@@BoroCG Photoshop has "Sample current layer" as well.
Omg thanks for this
this is incredibly helpful to help me break my sketching and linework addiction
I love these episodes Boro! They help out a ton, Thank you so much. Can't wait to watch the coloring of greyscale in thursday!!
I'm always scared of venturing into my brush settings but your videos are really inspiring me to do so. This technique is amazing for concepting😱😱
Ty it helped alot, I thought it was more like idea sculpting, being ethereal and become corporeal , but I never knew how some brushes did work but others didn't. Now I feel I can try it no matter the default brush
You can actually select a color on the current layer in Photoshop - when you're using the eyedropper, go to the Sample drop down menu at the top and change it to Current Layer.
edit: Nevermind, somebody's already told you.
(Btw I love your tutorials so much and they've helped me immensely with my own art.)
I thought it was about how to activate this while painting and not being forced to open menues
@@detlefbacker5701 it is. He already mentions the setting in the video, he just would like it to be less clunky
I loved testing this art style, Thank You
I love how you keep adding led hexagons each time
Thx mate again thats a neat tip ^^ i made a tool like this a few weeks back but here is a few tweeks i appreciate. Also i played Metro Exodus and i meet your dad he is a hard daddy in the game hope he is better in person, also he straight up looks like a old version of you its hard to say hes not your dad ^^ THX Boro for your great tuts! Stay safe and take care of you and yours ;)
I see those Chinese concept artists do this a lot. Personally i think it requires too much knowledge about atmospheric colour matching since often adding colours later doesn’t work well.
Ohhh this is exactly what I want to talk about in the next short video this week. How to colorize a BW painting that has intense aerial perspective and all that.
@@BoroCG That sounds great! Looking forward to watching :)
Two things: 1. this is a nice technique if you don't have a background already, but as soon as you try to draw over a background with less than 100% opacity, you'll see the background show through and you'll have to increase the opacity of the front drawing which might mess up your shapes and blocking out. 2. there is a way to grab a color based on the layer you are on (at least in Krita there is)
I'm familiar with constructing works like this. Thumbs up.
Really appreciated this video sir! Also very cool piece
I paint traditionally like this, digitally as well, but I could never get my brushes right to do it correctly. THIS is what I NEEDED! Thank You so much, I really think you’re the Best 🤩
Really good technique. I like drawing that way myself. I used to do that with diluted oil paint "back in the day". Thin lines have their place but I always hated trying to define form with a thin pencil-like tool.
Diluted oil sounds interesting
Boro, my man, great vid.
As for an eyedropper, PS got you covered. There are eyedropper tool settings (top panel while the tool is active) that provide for layer picking options. The only drawback is that you can't really have a hotkey for it (at least I couldn't find any). But I would suggest making a "tool preset" with relevant settings for the eyedropper, have the preset window opened and switch between them pretty smoothly if you need it that much.
Thanks! Yeah the problem is in the lack of the keyboard shortcut for that. Actually switching to the eyedropper tool to change its modes while painting is a nightmare
This was incredible helpful, thank you!
im using csp but gonna try and mess around with the settings. can't wait for the next video. also you got me laughing with the "idk i just like cylinders" LOL
Great video with a cool drawing
Brilliant video. Thank you.
it reminds me like sketching in multiply brush mode (not layer mode) is kinda like the same effect but here you can actually go to very black if you put many strokes, also changes the saturation as multiply does normally, I used to sketch like this and it was really fun!
Really usefull approach, thx a lot for your video man !
I love seeing this process videos, they're so helpful!
Also my UA-cam app kinda glitched and it says this video got uploaded 7 minutes ago but I already finished this 15 minutes video. A glitch in the matrix. I know I just need to reload the video, but I thought it was kinda funny
Thanks! The time will wait
krita has the option of picking the actual color of on the layer using the eyedropper (shortcut P, you need to set the settings to what you need first) or picking the mixed color with ctrl. big time saver.
The only traditional media I can think of which you could use this approach with is watercolours with bleach. It's not quite the same and the bleach often works more like colour dodge than just brightening but you could probably get a similar result with thin dilute layers. Maybe with some gouache mixed in too as it's more opaque.
I used to use really complex brushes but within the last year or two I've found them to be more of an obstacle than anything. A basic brick or round brush with a little texture is all I really need. Sometimes a hard texture brush for blocking in if I want something more grungey.
Do you have any plans for doing a speed painting sometime soon with this sort of approach or seeing how it transfers to photo studies in a video? Great video as always!
edit: oops this comment is a little long
Another great video
just thank u for your videos it's amazing
So low opacity for the insides and structure and full opacity for the skin and details!
Amazing technique mate! I am moving from traditional pencil on paper to digital, and was wondering if this could be reproduced in Clip Studio Paint or Krita. I am a total noob in digital, hence was wondering if you could (if possible) make a quick video explaining this on these apps, that's exactly how I draw with my pencils, building up from light to dark. Thanks in advance, and keep posting such inspiring wotk
Eren is that you?
Would you try heavy paint? It is a strange and simple painting program. Some say this is a good program to learn simplification.
I imagine this has been said already but you can set the eye dropper to only sample the current layer colour, don’t know if that accounts for blending modes or not though.
I wonder how well following this method would work doing this straight from color.
I was painting like this and not even knowing, good to know
Me too ... I feel like sculpting haha
I find this to be really helpful, and I think I will experiment more on these methods. But then, after finishing the grayscale, I find myself really struggling to colorize it...going from black and white for me often makes the color looks muddy, idk. Perhaps, after this...a method to colorize it? I'll really appreciate it if you did that. Love ya videos as always tho!
Hi Boro. Nice one subject on this video. You videos are so helpful for the community over all. If possible, would you talk more about whats are more important for painting app: GPU or CPU?
Depends on the app, most modern ones use GPU a lot. But as it usually goes with hardware, GPU can get bottlenecked by the CPU (or RAM, or the motherboard) if it's neglected. So, just get a powerful rig :D
@@BoroCG Hi Boro, thanks for answer me.
Pssst, the pinky has an extra knuckle.
The video was very helpful thank you!
On clip studio you can select what layer you color pic
Robotpencil also works like this if in not mistaken. Thanks for explaining Boro
Yeah he does! Love his technique, and I can recall many epic artists using specifically the low-opacity brush. One thing to keep in mind though, I'm trying to use low-opacity brush only for construction, and then switching to the low-flow brush for rendering. I try to make more sense out of the available basic digital tools. I'm expecting a lot of potential in this.
Hope you see this. That eyedropper setting is in CSP
So basically it's like aquarelle if you would be able to also go from dark to light with it
I see Nagato, I upvote
Yeah, it's another option. It's a bit like what Scott Robertson does with very light markers.
Boro you want suggestions for next big painting?
Why not
@@BoroCG how about painting different microbes and bacteria?
I could do a giant tardigrade destroying a city
@@BoroCG that sounds epic!
@@BoroCG that would be epic I kinda want to do something similar now lol , A battle for the Tardigrade Terror Trophy 🏆
Turn overlay back to normal then use color picker again. I think that should work.
I dont found the flow in clipstudio android! Somebody know what brush setting is similar?
What are your thoughts on doing this with colour at the same time?
Yeah I was thinking about that a lot after recording this video. No reason for it not to work, but it may be harder to focus on construction then
@@BoroCG Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I had a similar thought
Krita already have this feature you mention in the end ("ctrl + alt " )
Yeah I thought Krita has something like that, someone mentioned Krita having two eyedroppers last week
Brocg is that nagato from naruto shippuden? If not your art looks very similar
Any tips on getting flow control in ibis paint?
Ah never mind won't be able to with such an old ipad
The ability to only go to a certain amount of opacity looks like a DREAM
this is kinda how robotpencil draws right?
hey its jesus
"Boom a weird helmet"
I can only focus on the fourth part of the character's little finger.
I just use borodante Air
_me being stuck between using layers and sketches as I always have and wanting to paint more fluidly:_ ( ◉‿◉✿)
boom ! a weird helmet !
EREN YEAGER
The left hand looks broken
It’s so early in here so few comments
**me knowing my iPad doesn't have a nice drawing app and it's so busted it deletes every 5 strokes I make** yeah I'll try it😎👌
procreate is $10
@@bchoflet8031 I'm Mexican, I really can't afford sth like that at the time with the part time job I have 😢😢
@@bchoflet8031 not everyone uses dollar my guy :’)
@@Gretew1 ah sorry. good luck
Ok all good but i send u mesage on ig coz i have problem with craft pro right now i dont wanna say more answer on ig cya
ATTACK ON TITAN
That's still a sketch tho lol, a sketch can be made without lines.
It almost reminds me of Sculpting. Is there a way to change flow in Procreate?