Apple of my Eye
November 1st, 2008, 8:57 pm
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
- Begin with a sketch at 8.5×11in 300 dpi.
- 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.
- 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.
- Moving onto the nose.
- Then the lips.
- Once I’m satisfied with the face, I’ll begin to block out the details of the rest of the painting.
- 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 -_-”
- I decided to add a background a bit too late. Otherwise, painting the background to create the atmosphere would have been the second step.
- Finish off by playing with the colour levels.
Filed under Art, Art Gallery
Comments
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Cat (November 10th, 2008, 1:02 pm):
I love that you posted your progress for this one. I always like seeing how things get built up =) I think the end result came out great! I actually really like the red tint you used.
I feel like I do the same with faces. If it isn’t right, I don’t have motivation for the rest of it.
