Rather than just put it here and shut up, I enjoy yabbering too much. So I started with this. (Again, the blue is mine – I just don’t like white backgrounds) This is the sketch Kaz drew for me.
So the first step was to turn it into lineart that I could work the colors around. After Kaz’s suggestion of using a tapered stroke on paths for lines that end, I came up with this improvement:
Now I did screw up a bit and put some shading on the line layer, but owell. Notice the lines around the nose for instance that fade, or the breastbone line. Anyway, once I did that, it really did improve the overall look. However, I suspect that drawing such lines is easier in GraphicsGale than Photoshop. So then time to flat-color:
Again, this had a bit of highlighting that I improperly put on the line layer, but so goes it. The only color I had to improvise was the tongue here really. The head does look a bit large to me, but I was worried about shading since I really didn’t know how I’d be able to shade the snout/forehead. But I think I ended up doing okay anyway:
I watched a tutorial on eye shading and think I got a pretty interesting look for her eyes here, Spent an inordinate amount of time on her legs and belly, but that’s okay because I LIKE legs and bellies! And boob shading of course. Can never forget the boob shading. Considered shading for the mic stand, but then I decided that based on the light source, it probably wouldn’t shade here. Like my mic stand gradient? I sorta do!
And then, of course, throwing in the background. Definitely looks nice if I do say so myself! Off to post it all over the place and get all the loves. (ok, ok, it’s Kaz that drew it. But hey, I’m improving too!)
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