Not a ton of overall progress here between the last version and this one. Might have something to do with getting a little absorbed into watching the Good Place while I was working on this.
But that wasn’t what really killed the time. No, that was Mina’s hair. Damn but that was a lot of work. I had to redo the whole thing three times to try and work my way into a technique that kind of sorta of worked, but it was really just trial and error and going into the undo and trying to fix what I messed up in the last five minutes. More than once I thought to myself the it might be better for me to just abandon this and do something else, but I kept going back to it. In the end it was really just a matter of a thousand small steps culminating into one thing. Medium curls laying out the shape, don’t worry if it doesn’t make sense. Then the low highlights to give them curve. Darker lights to show where the curls emerge and disappear from the mass, brighter highlights to signal where the most light is hitting.
Once I had the shape done it was just about color burning and highlighting the whole mass with color dodge to give the whole thing a shape from a lighting perspective. I still have to play with it because the level of shine is a little unreal and I think i want it to contrast to her skin it’s a little more. Right now, it looks washed out in context, but I’m happy with where it is as this point.
Happy enough that I can move on to doing the basic silhouette for the costume anyway. So far, I haven’t messed with Momo’s too much, I just wanted to get a feel for how her original costume works on this frame. Might keep it for a variant. But I’m set on doing a different version of the costume. Her costume doesn’t have much in the way of leg covering so i might work with that. In her case, I know costume design follows function, as sexy as it is, Momo’s power requires skin to be showing. But I think we can do something that’s a little more covering and sexier at the same time. Maybe be little pseudo garter belt situation. I’m also going to be changing the belt. I love the idea of the Yaoyorictionary but I don’t buy for a second that she wouldn’t have upgraded that into some kind of digital format. Maybe I’ll do a wrist device for her to act as the Yaoyorictionary.
Mina is going to be simpler. I’ve decided to simplify her costume down into a one piece unitarded that covers most of her body. That can appear to be really simple but I’m going to be overlaying her classic camo pattern on the outfit and lining it in such a way as to create the feel and look of high shine latex with ribbing at the right places. I want to do as much as i can to get interesting textures.
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