Niall Byrne: Photoshop

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Saturday, 23 September 2017

It's just a Flesh Wound!

Hey guys and gals. Here is another illustration from Dublin Comic Con 2017. This is a mash up of BloodBourne and Monty Python. This was by far the most difficulty image of them all and I owe alot of credit to my girl friend Erin, She really helped me come up with ideas and get it the illustration looking right. I really love Blood Bourne and wanted to do a funny mash up with Monty Python and something I always found myself saying when I was a pinch away from dieing, I would say ha its just a flesh wound. It happened one to many times when playing through the game.

1. Rough

The Rough took a very long time. I was really struggling on whats the best way to make a mash up between Bloodbourne and Monty Python. I had alot of help from my girlfriend, I hadn't seen it fully before and only saw clips, so we watched the full Monty Python film together to come up with ideas. Watching the full movie gave us a much better understanding of the film. I wanted desperately to use the evil rabbit but also wanted a reference to the Black Knight so I have the default character from Bloodbourne fighting the Rabbit. The Bloodbourne character looses an arm from the Rabbit and is recovering ready to go again because hunters can regenerate health if the attack quick enough so the title is 'Its just a flecsh wound' which is a quote from the Black Knight. I also include his helmet in the forground.

2. Line

After working out the rough I started working on the line art. each of the parts are broken in seperated parts. The hunter, the rabbit, and the background is broken into multiple parts too. The background is the cave the rabbit gaurds in there film and the gorund is covered on bones and skulls. It took a long time to get the skulls finished and tried to make the ground look like there are distant bones.

3. Color

Once the line art was done I moved onto adding the color. I tried sticking to the base colors and adding little batches for color in the grass and bones.

Lighting/ Background

Once all the color was done I worked on the knight sky and I tinted the rest of the characters and added the subtle lighting and texture like the blood stains and different textures for the clothing. I also added the life bars as if the rabbit is a boss battle. After that was done I adding extra lighting from the moon and the characters lantern as see in the final version.

Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this break down, if you like please share it around with friends and check out my other sites.

Erin twitter

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My other accounts

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Other Merch sites

Thanks so much again for checking out the break down, I'll be posting more soon so keep a look out.

Friday, 8 September 2017

Run, Run, Run you clever Smeghead!

Hey Guys and Gals. Here is another Illustration I debuted as Dublin Comic Con 2017. This is Called 'Run, Run, Run you clever Smeghead!' This is something I've wanted to make for ages. I love Red dwarf and DR Who. So I wanted to make a cross over image with the Red Dwarf crew and the Doctor running away from the Vindaloovian. Its not really a real alien in red dwarf but in this I decided to make it a real species for fun. I also used Matt Smith version of the doctor becuase he my favorite version and this was made before the announcement of the newest DR. I think the best thing that happened with this was when me and my girlfirend were promoting the image before the con and my gf linked it to all the actors in the picture! and Danny John-Jules responded on twitter saying he loved it! He also wanted the female dr in there lol it was amazing! He is one of my favorite characters in Red Dwarf. It was very overwelming in a good way.

Anyway Lets get into the Breakdown!

1. Rough

So for the Rough drawing it took alot of time, I wanted to make it big and exciting and have a little forced perspective. So I made the character running to wards the camera and made it a one point perspective. This is probably the fifth version of the rough that I liked the perspective.

2. Line

After finishing the character rough and getting the faces looking right. I usually break up the the characters into seperate layers on line art. I showing the under line for all the character. Its broken up from matt, the red dwarf crew, the Vindaloovian and the background.

3. Flat Color

After all the line art was done I moved onto making the shape layers for the color. It took a while to set up all the color and choosing the background color. I tried to make the background a little darker than the main characters so they pop a little more from the background.

4. Final Lighting and shading

After the color was finished I started texturing the characters clothing and adding the lighting and shading. I wanted to make the coloring the main colors of each of the series main color. So Red for red darf and a dark blue in the background and then the green light from the Sonic Screwdriver. I was really happy with the way it turned out.

Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this break down, if you like please share it around with friends and check out my other sites.

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Other Merch sites

https://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/27466053-coco-left-behind?asc=u

Thanks so much again for checking out the break down, I'll be posting more soon so keep a look out.

Saturday, 2 September 2017

The Crash of Us : Coco Left Behind

Hey Guys and Gals. I finally have some spare time so I'm gonna be putting up more of the new Illustrations I debuted at Dublin Comic Con 2017. The Con was fantastic the best part was meeting some fans of my work. I specifically remember an awesome Cosplayer dressed as classic Harley Quinn comming up with friends and saying hey thats Madmanwithagraphicstablet on tumblr. Never did I think people would recognise me by my Tumblr name, its the best feeling ever.

Anyways here is an illustration that I've wanted to do since I did the First one. The Crash of Us : Coco Left behind. Its another Crash of us illustration, I honestly want to create a series of illustrations with this concept. I was gonna call it the Crash of Us 2 but its based on the first last of us game. Where Ellie meets David so I have Coco meeting N Brio and there talking about the gems from Crash 2. So its a big massive mash up of the 2 franchises.

If you like it and want it for yourself? check out the links below :)

Redbubble

Teepublic

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1789246-coco-left-behind?store_id=34514

Now lets get into the Breakdown.

1. Rough

Okay so I started with a light rough sketch and put thought into the overall look and what the illustration should be. Orginally I was going to use the reference from the Ice lvls in Crash two, so I made the BG Look like they're in an Ice Cave. but it didn't quite look right.

2. Rough 2

After afew alterations I made a mix of the snowy forest areas in crash 2 where you are chased by the polor bear and the area you meet David in "The Last of Us". So you in a delapidated building in a snowy forest. I also want to make the theme of the picture the Gem so I have made a suttle guide for the Gem Silhoutte.

3. Line and Charcater flat color

After that I moved on to doing the line art and color for just the characters in the Illustration.

4. Background and Flat color

After the characters were done I Spent the rest of the time working of the building and the broken roof showing the sky. The background is broken into 4 different sections, the boxes in the foreground, 2 layers the are the wooden walls of the building and the fallen roof and rubble in the back of the Building. I also broke it up to different colors to give it more depth and that there is palce between the planks of wood.

5. Lighting and Texture

After that I added the Snow Texture using gouche brushes I bought at christmas, the snow helps the lighting of the image and give makes it look more like the dark gritty look of "The Last of Us" and the Crash Level. I also you made the sky and put an abondoned version of the cortex building into the background. The Text is also a joke, and the font I dont think you can make online so I made it, masked and textured parts of it too look as close the Real Last of us text as possible, I tried my hardest lol.

Anyway thanks so much for all the love and support. if you want to see more follow me here :

http://aaniallbyrne.blogspot.ie/

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if you want any of my stuff as tshirts or other merch follow me here. It really helps me out alot. Also if you want me to do any commisions drop me a msg and I'll get back to you ;)

thanks so much again for all the support. keep an eye out for more very soon, theres more new illustrations comming!

Friday, 18 August 2017

Adam West Tribute

Hello Guys and Gals. This my tribute to Adam West who sadly passed away in June. I Liked Adam as Batman. He gave the Roll a very distinct feel and personality. Everyone know Adam West by now as "ADAM WEST". He has popped up in many different roles over the years for me my favorites are Batman, The Gray Ghost in the batman animated series, Catman, and himself in family guy. I am sorry I put off uploading it but I have been busy and wanted to show a little respect to his memory. I decided to do the scene where he's carrying the bomb in a more comic style. Now lets get to the break down.

1. ROUGH

For a while now I've been sketching with a pen in a little A5 sketch book to practice instead of computer all the time so I did the original sketch on paper and put it into photoshop. After that a added more smoke and anything out side the square to make it more dynamic.

2. LINE WORK

After I was happy with the rough sketch I mover onto doing the line work and putting everything on a seperate layer to get it right. In the pic Im gonna show the under side so it looks more like a work in progress.

3.COLOR

After that I moved onto creating the shape layers. Adam, the smoke behind and the smoke in the foreground are all seperate. once I have all the shapes done I used extra layers and clip them to the individual shapes and started adding color. Each color has its own seperate layer so if I need to change anything I can go back.

4. FINAL RENDER.

Once the base color was done I added shading and afew highlights to make the blue on batman pop a little more. I also made a circle gradient of dots to give it more or a comic book look and more depth to the image. So Adam looks like hes running towards you.

Hope you all enjoyed this little tribute and breakdown. I will be posting breakdowns of the images I did for Dublin Comic Con very soon so stay tuned :)

Sunday, 23 April 2017

Gothams Finest 2017

Hey guys and gals. Its been way too long, I have been working on a few projects, one is a tv series and the others are personal secret projects that will hopefully will come out near the end of summer time this year of next year. While I've been working I have been doing this Illustration in my spare time. I will also be selling prints at this years Dublin Comic Con. This one will probably be on sale and will hopefully do a little mini collection of batman characters if I can come up with something original. And be putting up more and more prints that will be for Dublin Comic.

Gothams Finest 2017

This is a parody and social comentary on Suicide Squad winning the Oscar for "Best Make-Up". its not the versions that were in the movie, these are my interpretations of the characters. Its mostly for fun. I am mad about batman character since the arkham knight game came out a couple years ago. Essentialy Joker swipes the Oscar out of harleys hand stealing the spot light from all the other character. The other characters costumes and make up were great but joker was not well recieved and will always be the negative focus on them winning the award. I still believe there were other films more worthy for the award and honestly its shocking that suicide squad was nominated considering all the negativity the film recieved.

Anyway lets get to the breakdown.

Rough 1.

I started after the Oscars had happen and saw that Suicide Squad had once best make up. I thought that would be funny as a gag of having Joker holding up the award, there were alot of people hating on that version of Joker and as if he was the only reason the won the award. Which I think is untrue. there were lots of great character designs in the film, alot of the very appealing. Joker was probably the weekest one. So to rub salt in the wound I have joker holding the trophy with a big grin on his face while the suicide squad look on displeased at joker.

Rough 2.

After the first rough I worked more on the characters designs and tried my hand at making my own version of the characters. It took quite a while to get harleys proportions right, but it worked out in the end.

Line.

Once I was happy with the rough I worked on the line work. I spent alot of time making the line work look right. Thining and thicking the lines were there is a strong crease or a but of shadow too.

Color.

After line work I worked on colour. taking inspiration from the Suicide Squad film. I really loved Joker and Harleys gold and Silver costumes they had in the film. Really loved the creativity from what you usually see in the comics, tv, or animated stuff. I did change it a little bit by making the Jokers blazer more in the style of a bomber jacket. Just to make him look a bit more gangster/ mobster feel to it and taking away the tattoo's because I felt it was a little to much.

Detail.

Once that was done. I worked on adding as many of the sucide character as I could. I couldnt get everyone in but I chose Killer Croc, EL Diablo and Deadshot because I like there costumes, make up and over all appearance. I did do my own twist on the character too, mainly Killer Croc. I also added my own home made textures and used my amazing texture brushes I bought around christmas for the small bit of texture around Croc's face. I also used those brushes to make Harley pink and blue hair and make up.

Final Version.

And finally I added more shading, highlights and little extra detail to the characters to make them pop plus the background too.

anyway I hope you all enjoyed this break down, if you like please share it around with friends and check out my other sites.

Other Merch sites

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/

https://www.kylebrush.com/#brushes

If you like the brush and want really good texture brushes for your own buy the here! I never usually buy brushes but I though I might give it a try and (lazyness and frustration on making my own) I will probably buy more cause there really good and really cheap. the ones I bought were the Gouche Brushes, hope this helps.

Thanks so much again for checking out my work :)

Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Christmas Beard

English

Nollaig Beard
Irish

Hey Guys and Gals!

Here is a brand new Illustration for christmas! I wanted to make a Christmas Card and test out some new brushes I bought for the first time online and I love them! Link to the brushes down below! I wanted to do something different, something more classical with a twist on it. So I have seen the christmas decorated beards and thought it would be cute to see a sleepy grampa and his gran kids decorating him with stuff from the tree while he sleeps.

so If you like the illustrations or christmas beards buy one or share it with friends :)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/23960040-christmas-beard?asc=u

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/845601-christmas-beard?store_id=34514

anyway lets get into the breakdown!

1. Rough

I started off with rough and used default brush, and just worked out the basic shapes.

2. Line and shape

After I finished the rough I started using the new gouche brushes to make the shapes and a small bit of line art for extra detail. I also made a couple custome brushes for the tinsel on the tree and for the candy cane to make it look more like real tinsel.

4. Texture and Shading

Once the shapes and line were done I worked on texturing the grampa's beard, the tinsel and the tree leaves etc. I added a little blush to the characters skin to very the skin color and finally added some shading and little highlights . After that I added a tinsel boarder and a merry christmas text I also made an english and Irish version just for the sake of it :)

anyway I hope you all enjoyed this break down, if you like please share it around with friends and check out my other sites.

Other Merch sites

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/

https://www.kylebrush.com/#brushes

If you like the brush and want really good texture brushes for your own buy the here! I nver usually buy brushes but I though I might give it a try and (lazyness and frustration on making my own) I will probably buy more cause there really good and really cheap. the ones I bought were the Gouche Brushes, hope this helps.

Thanks so much again for checking out my work :)

Thursday, 10 November 2016

They call me Daddy

Hey Guys and Gals.

Hope you all getting on well. Eirtakon is over and I am still recovering lol It was a very long week but I was so happy to see so many of you and I selling a fair few posters. I will be looking into being at more cons so if there are any in your area let me know. Anyway this is one of my favorite illustrations I did for the con. Its "Daddy 76"!! Now I have played alot of overwatch, almost religiously since it came out. I love the characters and there personalities, the jokes and memes and the beautiful fan art I see online. So I chose to do the Daddy 76, if you listen to soldier 76 audio clips he's a really dad or grumpy old man. I wanted to illustrate the idea that he is the a stone cold serious character but also the best dad ever so under his Jacket I gave him a number one dad shirt and his kids all over him, including a baby gremlin D.VA and a nuaghty Junkrat toldler. I think is cute and hilarious but anyway here is a quick break down of how I made the illustration.

1. Rough

So I started off by doing alot of different roughs of the character but the one here I though turned out the best. Some of the other angles I had didn't display the shirt big enough so I stuck with this one. I used a default brush and just tried to may a rough guide and ad as much detail as I could for later on.

2. Line Art

After the rough I worked on the line art and added all the tiny details. I also did the line with for the baby D.VA and kid Junkrat later on but added them in here si you can see what it looks like. Hardest Part was making baby diva look like herself , cute and not too cartoony.

3. Color Art

After finishing the line work I made a base shape for the three characters. After making the shapes, I clipped layers to add all the color, each color has a different layer to keep it clean. It really started looking great and after this i started added shading and highlights to create more volume.

4. Shading and Highlights

Once I started adding the shading it really started to pop. I kepts it very simply with a white highlight to the left and a pink tint to the right. Also the shading was a dark blue color. I wanted to make it change. I really think it turned out great and will hopefully do more like this. Just for fun.

Anyway thanks so much for all the love and support. if you want to see more follow me here :

http://aaniallbyrne.blogspot.ie/

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne

if you want any of my stuff as tshirts or other merch follow me here. It really helps me out alot. Also if you want me to do any commisions drop me a msg and I'll get back to you ;)