06-23-2024, 01:24 AM
one_two: Glad you agree! Great suggestions too, will do!
darktiste: Great point! A lot of the armor and metallic design is in shadows so I didn't want to go too crazy with the contrast since shadowed areas don't require too much amount of detail. Love what you did with the eye sockets, nose, and drop shadow. Just implemented those based on your excellent paintover, thank you for that! Glad you enjoy the skull texture - that was done mostly with custom textured brushes as well as some slight photo textures to speeed things up a bit which is pretty much how I handle all my texture work.
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I did some final refining and a bit more detail work to the image. I think I'm gonna call it final for now unless there is something majorly off with this one. Will take another short break and focus more on my lighting studies before tackling another big painting. Thanks again to everyone who posted with their support and suggestions as always!
Edit: Just posted a slightly updated version!
darktiste: Great point! A lot of the armor and metallic design is in shadows so I didn't want to go too crazy with the contrast since shadowed areas don't require too much amount of detail. Love what you did with the eye sockets, nose, and drop shadow. Just implemented those based on your excellent paintover, thank you for that! Glad you enjoy the skull texture - that was done mostly with custom textured brushes as well as some slight photo textures to speeed things up a bit which is pretty much how I handle all my texture work.
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I did some final refining and a bit more detail work to the image. I think I'm gonna call it final for now unless there is something majorly off with this one. Will take another short break and focus more on my lighting studies before tackling another big painting. Thanks again to everyone who posted with their support and suggestions as always!
Edit: Just posted a slightly updated version!