Saeko Busujima (HighSchool of the Dead) WIP 3

Posture and positioning are really important in this piece. Since I’m going with an extreme angel getting those things right becomes simultaneously harder and more important. From the point of view of the camera there is a lot of anatomy on display, the musculature of her arm, legs and abs, the weight of her breasts. Getting that right involves using a lot or reference and a lot of redoing things and really trying to think about how light affects the forms of the character. I think it’s come out ok but I’ll have to wait and see what it looks like once I get rid of the saturation layer making it look like it’s a black and white image.

I’ll have to take a look at her hair as well. Long hair like this with bangs does interesting things at this angle, only some of them having anything to do with actual hair, and also, now that I look at the silhouette I realize that I’ve changed the hair. Saeko has bangs and a set of super long bangs that comes down to her waist but she also got her hair up in a ponytail. I’ll either have to explain that as a change in character model over time or I’m going to have to fix it.

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