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Nebulic Process

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Process for this piece.
I didn't have a particularly solid idea when I sat down, but I pretty much blocked out the shapes I wanted with my very first few brushstrokes and went with it from there. I don't work with linework like this that much but it's quite fun!
Though it does sort of throw me off a bit when it comes to the painting stage, just because it can be hard to decide how much rendering I want to do and how much I'm happy to leave the linework show through.
Apologies too, that the first 'colour' stage is all one big jump, this method relies on me saving regularly and sometimes I do a bit too much without pausing so it skips some stuff.

Ended up taking about 7 hours last night, all in photoshop CS4, painted mostly with this square brush. Final file was about 4k px tall, and ended up being 5 paint layers and a couple of adjustments at the end.

Enjoy!
Final is here -
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684x1000px 9.22 MB
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gregor-kari's avatar
can I ask you something? How do you lay the armor of a character over your underdrawing? I often got the problem, I am satisfied with the pose, also know what kind of armor my character should get, but when I go over it, it always feels some kind of inaccurate. then I spend hours to fix that before I finally start over again.. when I look at your designs, it always looks so obvious how it should work, but it just does not. should I maybe just ignore that feeling and continue with my bloody pieces?? I know most of all the time, the answer is ~just more practice~... but maybe you got some advice to speed things a bit up?^^ greets and cheers! and thank you once more for sharing this process piece!