So today is my actual upload day. I upload on my deviantArt over here every Friday https://elrodeon.deviantart.com/art/Crucible-Squad-WIP-717935243
Today I uploaded this picture here.
It's a painting I've made for a friend for some of his original characters. They're a part of the same universe as the character in my previous post: Kaito Kago. These teenagers are all a part of a squad called Crucible squad, which was created to rid the world of 'evil' cultists. However they were manipulated by a rather controlling leader who had very strong world views.
I started off with a rough sketch of the characters. My friend had already run me down on their different personalities, quirks, appearances and mannerisms. Therefore I had a decent idea on what to do for each one. We also spoke about poses for each character so fortunately for me a lot of work was already done for me in terms of coming up with poses, appearances and positioning.
So by now I had already began reworking into the central character Angela and gave her a stronger, cleaner outline. Along with this I wanted to work on my colouring/shading and so I also attempted to colour her. However despite this it was clear I needed more practice and proper teaching/techniques to use.
Therefore I took a break to research a few different shading techniques before moving on.
firstly I changed Angela's hairstyle as my friend told me he'd prefer her to not have the large pony tail as he wasn't too keen on the look, therefore I simply removed it. After that I began to get to work on my colouring and decided on two light sources first. I chose both of them to be coming from below on opposite sides of the canvas and so I tried to reflect this as best as I could with my shading...I am somewhat pleased with the result, I believe I could've done better however by this point I really just wanted to move on with the piece and onto the next character, therefore I left it how it was.
To further this I wasn't entirely happy with the background either so I went ahead and changed that.
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next time I hope to have the character to Angela's left and right completely finished, those two being called Verme and Luca respectively.