Speritu

[pyraxis]

A scene from the evil chapter 12. Which nobody, including me, can figure out how the hell to get onto paper. Cut the artist some slack, that's not what I look like, but somebody can't paint faces.

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[pyraxis]

If you do, I want to see it. I had a bunch of reference photos for this. Two for the background - one with the tree trunks, and one photo of rocks and sky, looking up a hill, that just happened to be sideways in my image viewer. So I left it that way. They were both daytime shots, so the lighting is my own invention, but inspired by Boris Vallejo backgrounds. Working as a CG lighting artist for a few months really helped because now I automatically break down scenes in my head into their respective light sources, so I can mentally add or subtract them as if I were plunking lights into a Maya scene and have at least some sense of how they'll look.

For Fiona I used my own body, since our body types are really similar. I just googled a bunch of photos of red-haired women to get the skin and freckles right. Her pants are very similar to a pair I own, but I didn't have reference for her shirt (and I think you can tell, it's not quite as realistic). For Sha I googled pics of little boys but I had to do the pose myself and just used the pics for sizing up proportions.

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool.

Thanks for the Photoshop brushes, btw. Helped me finally feel like I could draw in Photoshop more naturally. Currently trying to draw Sh-San, I've never managed to do a decent pic of him. I'll post it when I'm done.