Monday, April 14, 2025

Tron: Legacy (2010) - Gem - Digital Quick Paint

Tron: Legacy (2010)
Gem

It's yet another "Tron: Legacy" (2010) Quick Paint, this time for Gem (who may or may not be a hard-light hologram... [Insert "Jem and the Holograms" pun here].  She was another character that compelled my attention when she was on screen--something striking about her appearance... or, maybe it was just the contrast of the white costume with the dark backgrounds of The Arena.  Again, nothing to do with a skin-tight catsuit with glow sticks on it.

I am hesitant to call this one a "Quick Paint", as this one took a bit more time, but here we are (alas, whenever I start with something like this, the first one is a couple-a-few hours, and then the amount of time begins to increment up and almost doubles and doubles again, etc.).  Also, it didn't help that I had to do a lot of back-and-forth to get everything in the correct proportions.  I was guilty of rushing the layout so I could get on with the fun of the painting the character, Gem, but then spent a lot of time just fixing the proportions I should have corrected before I started getting serious on the actual Digital Painting.  Ah, well.

And, yes, I broke out the Light Pen just to use the Light Pen for the sake of it being a "Tron" pic.

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STEP ONE:  Here is the quick layout, done in Procreate on a 2,000px x 3,000px canvas @ 300dpi, done in Procreate with a Conte Brush.

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STEP TWO:  And here it is a little further along.

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STEP THREE:  And the finished pic, for better or worse.  I did some Adjustment Layers in Procreate, and then a slight color correction in Photoshop to warm up the colors a little bit more.  The color looked good in Procreate, but were nearly absolutely blue on my other screen (it's not color calibrated or anything fancy like that).

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Done digitally in Procreate on an iPad (with a slight assist from Photoshop for some minor color correction).

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