My goal was brush economy... not to overpolish, and interpreting reference, not just a pure copy. It took several hours-- longer than I'd like. But the brushwork came out ok (still want to get more economical), forms look readable. I had awesome reference, the photo below.
ps. transparency lock and guides. any means necessary!
ps. transparency lock and guides. any means necessary!
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| 1. Blobs. |
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| 2. I used vertical downward textured brushstrokes to try to preserve gesture and carve the form in an interesting way |
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| 3a. Rendering. I worked with a grayscale adjustment layer on top to focus strictly on value. That's why there's pink on his forehead.. but it didn't appear that way while adjustment layer was visible ^_^... |
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| 3b. More rendering. The double looking edge on the right of my drawing is cause i had to do major surgery to make his head thinner (copy the layer and transform), and then I merged layers. I'll clean that up later. |
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| 4. I had polished my render and then added color (color layers). Further polish with normal, screen, multiply, whatever I needed in that moment. Needed to repaint some hair, some of it is grey 'cause I went back to grayscale to fix stuff |
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| 5. Surgery to correct hairline and polishing lights and darks. Used lasso to nix that weird edge i talked about in step 3. |
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| 6. Final lighting polish. Done |
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| finish |
