09-13-2014, 06:44 AM
(09-13-2014, 02:57 AM)JyonnyNovice Wrote: Hey man, for a quick and straightforward way to give depth to this kind of illustration you could try cell shading - basically just choose a bluey colour on a layer set to multiply and paint on the shadows (can knock the opacity of the layer down to get the desired look), leaving hard edges is fine don't need to sculpt it too much, then for highlights set another new layer to colour dodge and paint the highlights sampling the colour underneath (i.e. highlights on the trousers, sample the red colour, on the jacket sample the brown colour etc.) It's a nice and simple approach with just three colours for each part.
This was exactly what I had in mind since I highly doubt I could tackle it in a painterly style right now. However I know a person that has a style that is sort of in between that I really like. I sorta tried to mimic her style. OF course I couldn't ... but I think it turned out much better then I expected it to.
Side note: I'm starting to see what most of the tools of MS5 can do ... and honestly I think they are awesome and quite straight forward. It was nice to play with them in this piece.
At the moment I don't really think I can do much else to it.