Sensorial’Org

Happy (belated) Halloween! I was going to finish this yesterday but got sidetracked with the night’s plan. (Went to a haunted theme park. It was short of amazing with the long lines and ‘meh’ haunted houses, but it was nonetheless a fun way to spend the night.)

The red makes me sick.
I was so attempted to make this Endou and/or give him an earring.

A bit of a walkthrough

1. Begin with a sketch at 8.5×11in 300 dpi.
2. Lay out the base colours and work out the tentative shadows and lights. I work at 25%. Round brush, opacity and size set to pen pressure.
3. I always begin with the face because I intend it to be my focal point. If I don’t like how the face is coming along, I tend to drop the painting entirely. Zoom in and start with the eyes.
4. Moving onto the nose.
5. Then the lips.
6. Once I’m satisfied with the face, I’ll begin to block out the details of the rest of the painting.
7. The hair. I never got the hang of the speckle brush so I work with large brush strokes to mark lumps of hair. Once I get the form down, I use a finer brush to do individual strands. At this point I realize that Light’s hair is parted at the wrong side -_-”
8. I decided to add a background a bit too late. Otherwise, painting the background to create the atmosphere would have been the second step.
9. Finish off by playing with the colour levels.