Here's some "process" breakdown for a piece I recently finished. It's the unlikely tale of how a random doodle gets inadvertently turned into a full-fledged picture, courtesy of a complete lack of foresight.
First, the finished image:
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| Finalized image. |
It started from this little Photoshop doodle.
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| Fore! |
After looking at it, I thought she looked like she was golfing, so I changed it to give her a more active pose.
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| Pose, take two. |
Two months later, I threw down some basic colors.
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| Oh, garish colors! |
But after ignoring this upstart doodle for two months, I decided the pose was still not quite right. She looked like she was resting, and I decided I wanted her to be chopping down with the blade. Perhaps through the neck of a humongous snake?
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| Color block in. |
Next came some more work on the arms and an attempt to bring some of those initial colors under control.
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| Taming the color a bit. |
After another 2 month hiatus, more color tweaking, in an effort to warm up her skin and get some color into the snake.
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| Warmer skin and more color? What the hell? |
Then I decided the colors were too bright. Again.
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| Normalizing the colors. |
Then I left the piece for another 9 months, distracted by other projects. When I came back to it, I made some big changes. I added more details to the armor and hair, added the gloves, changed the motion of her bikini bottom, etc.
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| Details and edits. |
After a couple of months more, I came back to it and finished it up to its final state, as seen above. I used a lot of color overlays to bring consistency into the palette, and added details to the snake.
