Stepped back, and redid the lighting, (or... actually implemented lighting?) and am trying to get away from orc colors. Thought this was interesting from a wip perspective
Erik: I used to work a lot with some of the Barontieri brushes (great for texturing and grime), but nowadays I switched to some of Kolesov's brushes, they seem to blend better. I might post an image of the brushes I use later. Anyways ... final piece (for now:P) with a step by step added for good measure. I wanted to do an…
Moof I love that one, it's got this Masamune Shirow vibe to it :) Here's a blatant cross post of mine, different steps can be found here http://cghub.com/images/view/643643/:
To Veritasx5: Hey I like the direction your drawing is headed. While I was looking at it I felt that her shoulders are a bit too big, her neck is too short, and her arms need to be lengthened. I feel your headed in the right direction, you just have to make that next step. Keep up the drawing.
moof: Thanks man! I'm not really sure what is up with polycount.. is it bad that I am used to it by now? Callesaw: Looking sweet! Redid a sketch from a long time ago(5 years old!), I really enjoyed the shapes of it now, but my 18 year old self had no knowledge where to take it too. Glad I stepped in and changed that :P
@ Sam Yang: I like the white + gold color combination. And she looks more like a crusader now! I think the book and hand holding it could be bigger when I compare it to the size of her hand on the shield and to her face, and taking into account the camera angle and how small her hand must be inside that gauntlet... :) I…