My Captain America Painting

My Captain America Painting

Fan Fic
By Spidersocks - Jul 11, 2011 08:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic
Source: deviantart.com

Josh posted a shot from the Captain America movie a few days ago and I instantly felt the need to paint it since this is the movie I've been looking forward to the most this year. I used rich colors instead of the dull ones from the original, it was also easier to paint because I had the original as a reference.





I posted the above image because some have been doubting its painted. I paint it at huge sizes, the original image is 40 x 45 with 500 dpi, its easier to paint an image at huge sizes so you don't need to smudge and take a lot of time...

Here's a link if you want to see my other paintings on Deviantart, though I don't have much because of the way I paint

http://trpbootan.deviantart.com/
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Spidersocks
Spidersocks - 7/11/2011, 9:03 AM
@ncreb thanks a lot man... Yea Gusto, I knew I seemed like I was wasting everyone's time at first, lol
jallanr
jallanr - 7/11/2011, 9:16 AM
wow thats awesome! great job

woo hoo!
BobGarlen
BobGarlen - 7/11/2011, 9:21 AM
Amazing work, true talent you have
AC1
AC1 - 7/11/2011, 10:06 AM
That's a painting? Seriously? No way... That's too good, how do you even paint something so realistically? Awesome stuff, from the teaser I thought it was just a photo, and the actual image looks like a photo too.
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 7/11/2011, 10:09 AM
WOW!I live at a bloody college and my brother is a studio art major, but this is like the best I've ever seen.
ThreeBigTacos
ThreeBigTacos - 7/11/2011, 10:18 AM
there's no way you painted that, maybe the background or flag, but Cap is extremely detailed...
Stumblin
Stumblin - 7/11/2011, 10:30 AM
I believe you digitally painted over an existing photo.
Spidersocks
Spidersocks - 7/11/2011, 10:40 AM
thanks a lot @jallanr and Superman... @ACira I paint at 500dpi and have some pretty huge images to make it detailed to look realistic, I also used the reference image that JoshWilding uploaded so I could get the lighting, proportions etc. correct.

@Threebigtacos I get that a lot, I painted it, I've been painting as realistic as I could for 5 years now, the trick is to paint it huge so when the image is this size it looks like its very detailed and realistic but in reality its just quick brush strokes and smudging, also never use extremely rich and saturated colors but sort of dull instead for a realistic look. I wanted to post the original size but couldn't because the site doesn't accept more than 2mb and the original is 300mb. The reference image is also the cheat to get it looking like this, lol.. you could also check out my work on DA, I put a link above
Spidersocks
Spidersocks - 7/11/2011, 10:46 AM
@jjmeylar lol, thanks man... I've been doing this for 5 years and art is probably the easiest way to make a good amount of cash and sit at home and do nothing for the entire day besides searching sites like cbm, lol. If your bro continues with this he could make a lot of money in the future if he finds the right people to paint for
JBatesyFilmreviews
JBatesyFilmreviews - 7/11/2011, 11:12 AM
wow your so [frick]ing amazing.... at photoshop.
Stumblin
Stumblin - 7/11/2011, 11:50 AM
Dude, you didn't reference shit, you straight up colored over the actual picture, that's not referencing that's just straight up tracing.

Looking at your work the stuff that you ACTUALLY drew from scratch (because it's very obvious) is no where as detailed or realistic let alone well proportioned. You even have some other obvious trace overs...sigh...

Listen, copying other artists' work is fine, it's a way of learning. But you're actually doing the work yourself not tracing what's already there. Look with your eyes, draw with your eyes.
Stumblin
Stumblin - 7/11/2011, 11:53 AM
If you're charging people for this, that's [frick]ed up.
JBatesyFilmreviews
JBatesyFilmreviews - 7/11/2011, 1:00 PM
@stumblim Totally agree, that would be [frick]ing ridiculous, it's pretty obvious, you didnt paint this from scratch, i'm a graphic designer, I know when photoshop has been used... it's pretty clear.
Stumblin
Stumblin - 7/11/2011, 1:10 PM
Same here JBatesy, I do graphic design and have a BFA in Sequential Art, I'm calling bull shit.
Spidersocks
Spidersocks - 7/11/2011, 4:31 PM
Of course its photoshop.... thats what I use to do digital painting -_- @Stumblin My other work is what I did without any references, the Cap pic looks like this because I had a reference, the original pic from the movie, the reference pic helps me with the lighting, shadows and the right colors, sigh* your not the first to doubt what I do and you certainly aren't the last..

I added a cutout of the original size at the top so you can see how I paint, when it is zoomed out to the amount it is now it clearly would look real and edited. Thats the point of it and its also the way a lot of people paint to make it easier
Spidersocks
Spidersocks - 7/11/2011, 5:26 PM
@Thefire Its done in photoshop but I didn't edit the real picture like they said, people do digital paintings with photoshop too. I did this from scratch... I really didn't want a bitch fit about it, shouldve posted the cutout as well from the start and put in bold "Photoshop digital painting" People have the wrong ideas about photoshop, sigh*
FriendlyNeighborhoodSpidey
FriendlyNeighborhoodSpidey - 7/11/2011, 6:42 PM
I've done two chris evans caps now and one is a portrait of his head and I used a 6B pencil and the other is prismacolor marker and in that one he is running and deflecting bullets.
DDD
DDD - 7/11/2011, 8:32 PM
Nice digital painting!

I use digital painting to make my photo-manips
more seamless.
Never have done much complete digital painting.
I prefer to work in real paints and pen & ink,
then scan 'em in.

I don't have a DEVIANTART account yet so I
don't have any art up except photo-manips of
actors as SUPERHEROES here on CBM.

Keep on painting!
Deadpool13
Deadpool13 - 7/11/2011, 9:59 PM
GREAT JOB
Stumblin
Stumblin - 7/12/2011, 7:31 AM
No, I get you painted it digitally, that's not a problem, the problem is if you overlay the image it's the EXACT same flippin' picture, size and proportion everything. I overlayed the two images yours and the actual photo and it's the EXACT. Meaning, you didn't look at the picture and draw it, you colored over the existing picture.
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