So far this is working out relatively well. Don’t want to Jinx it but so far I like it. We’ll see where we are when I remove the saturation layers and I can see what they look like underneath. The forms of their bodies and their anatomy are working so far even though I wish I knew how to add al little more complexity and depth to them. But that might just be me dealing with my instinct to make them ripped.
One thing I know I messed up already with the anatomy is the heights. Momo is supposed to be the tallest girl in class by a significant margin, but here it looks like Mina is taller. Part of that could be the hair but she’s not quite on model. The thing is I don’t know if I can or should even try to fix it at this point. My instincts say don’t mess with it or you might ruin the whole thing. I could give it a try in a copy file but that feels a lot like temping the gods of digital destruction.
It’s always really interesting to work on a multiple character piece because of just how much trickery goes into fooling the eye into seeing what isn’t there. These two characters are on entirely separate layers but in order to make you think they’re together I have to control where the shadows and interactions are so that it looks like they’re a single continuous element. It’s not orders of magnitude greater than what I have to do in order to make you believe that Momo’s legs are crossed or that her hand is resting on her hip, but there’s a lot more of it and it all has to work out or the viewer flat out won’t believe it. The human eye is built to pick out these discrepancies and it could easily ruin the piece if I’m not careful.
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