Mayenla's Sketchbook, The Long Hard Road to Mediocrity.

[Mayenla]

Spent a little more time on rendering, ~1hr total:




Also started on another piece that I'm going to spend a good few hours on to practice:




I'm really quite new to rendering in photoshop (trying to bring it up to a finish quality). My method so far is to block the shapes/tone, see that it's looking alright and then I'm slowly rendering piece by piece (only done the front plates on the armor there).

I'm curious if anyone has any other methods, or ways to improve/speed up the process!