I think at this stage I'm going to up the res to 2048 x 2048.

I was on my mary way in the painting and started working on the face XD I forgot I said I would save it for later but I'm really exhausted and it slipped my mind. Anyways, here's another WIP shot, much closer to completion than I expected. I desaturated the colors because they're generally more sat on my laptop. I can still bring them back up if I need to. I think I'm going to work on the Yuraganians in the bg and the one in the fg then do some final VFX touch-ups and call it done.

Alrighty, I think I'll stop here. I didn't do much to the Yuraganians because I didn't want them taking over the piece like the last one. I think simplicity tells a better story and leaves it up to the viewers to decide what's going on. I might return to this tomorrow for more edits but if not I wish everyone good luck finishing!

almost forgot, here's a version with close to the earlier/original saturation levels. I'm leaving this here to check. I also have a version with just my initials which I'll upload separately. I'll submit one of the 3 finals.

it appears my files are still not formatting correctly to 2048 even though they are under 5mbs. Will have to troubleshoot later.

ah I see it's gotta be 2 mb or smaller.

again good luck and best wishes everyone who participated!

Jerimiah Adams

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hey peeps, I'm feeling kind of insane for doing this but I've got about 15ish hours of time left and I wanted to see if I could redo this entire thing and have it be the best one I've done XD. I'm crazy but it's worth a shot lol. Anyways, here's my composition. Same idea again but I wanted to make the perspective more intense and put Audrey back on the boat. I'm also looking to utilize my drawing skills a bit more accurately and to also speed up the process of designing through errors, this way I don't have to troubleshoot while painting.

Ah yeah, I understand. I don't think either of the pieces I have will place so I don't really have anything to lose. As far as continuing to work on a piece, I've taken those as far as I can within their weaknesses so I'd have to do massive overhauling anyways. It's better to start from the ground up with a better structure, which then allows for a piece to go farther.

Finished the drawing at least to the level of paintability. I kept the sketch underneath because it provides some good energy. I'll be taking this into ps to work on and hopefully be done with it before the deadline. If all goes wrong I've still got my other piece submitted so it's fine. cheers!

Doing these flats now is going to save me so much time later on. I like to be a little looser and these flats in particular focus on shape rather than local color. I'll do the local color flats next, and then determine a lighting set up to work on top of. From that point, it's just rendering and style.

Here's a screencap of my general lighting set up. Going to render this a bit and see where I get.

So I finished but I don't know how I feel about it. I'm surprised honestly because I kept thinking about going to bed lol. I'm glad I was able to get a better understanding of my process though. XD