Aloy (Horizon: Zero Dawn) WIP 5
So, I finally got her hair done. Lol. Dang, but I’m liking where this thing is going. Somewhat similar to what I had to do for Mina in my last piece this piece has a lot of trial and error. Mostly the problem was getting the forms of the hair right. Aloy has this particular hair style where she’s got what amount to three large rows in her hair and then then sides are tied and then the back falls down. It looks cool, its more practical than it seems and it’s hella hard to draw. Getting the angels size and shape down are just the start of it. Then you have to make it seem like hair supports it.
On top of all that I then have to go over the top of all that and do the braid in her hair. Which turned out to be the easiest part because I made a brush superficially to do braids. All I have to do is lay down the form with the brush and then highlight and low light. Simple, fast, and for sale in my gumroad.
With the body pretty much done I can now turn to the clothing. Aloy has a lot of really interesting armors and styles but I didn’t want to just ape one of another of them. Instead I’m going to be going with a kind of half armor thing and no boots. The whole idea is that this is a day off. She’s not fighting she’s not running around so she’s taking some time to chill out. In this case that means she’s stripped off most of the top layers of her armor and is sitting around in what amounts to her under clothes. A wrap top and some soft pants tied around the waist. What I like about it is that it’s going to be Carja in style and color so it can be a gift from the Sun-King. One of his kind-of-sort-of woo Aloy things. Which she took because it’s damn comfortable. And then ran off into the woods with it.
I don’t normally talk about this stuff, but I’m loving where the color values are right now. There’s a lot of harmonization going on right now with the sky and her. It looks like a bright open piece and I’m really digging that right now. May change when I get to the background but we’ll see.
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