Luxray (Pokémon) WIP 4
Ok, so yeah, I’m really happy with where this is right now. I don’t know if it’s the idea coming together well, if I lucked out into picking a really good atmosphere that’s conducive to what I want to do, if Pokémon I just my thing, but this is coming out really well so far. Needless to say, since we’re doing Egyptian monarchy I went with more of bronzed skin tone. I may do a blue as an alternate.
I’m a little sad that since the headdress is there you won’t be able to see most of the hair but I’m really happy with how the headdress has turned out over all.
Initially I had it as one big four-pointed star at the front but par way through rendering it I decided that it would be better if the stars hung down from the golden links of the headdress instead. I went with a four-pointed star with cutouts just because I wanted something different. I may go back in and play with them a little to give them more motion but I don’t think they’re bad as they are. The stone of the headdress was a little tricky. I wanted to render it with a bit of an obsidian shine initially but I needed a bit more blue represented in the NSFW so I decided to make the crown of the headdress this starry blue shiny stone.
The other elements added on top of the skin layer have turned out really well too. The golden inlaid tattoos look almost but not quite contiguous with her skin, which is what they should look like. Or at least what I intended for them to look like. The hair has the right level of shine to look like smooth black hair. I may go back and lay with it some. As nice as it is I want to be a little less neat. Needs more flyaway hairs and randomness.
The eyes were always going to be a little weird on this one I knew that I wanted yellow eyes on red sclera but now that I’m stepping back and looking at it I’m concerned they don’t read well enough the yellow of the eyes might not be bright enough to sell with the eyes in profile. I may have to go back in and either brighten up the yellow or alternatively shift her focus she’s looking so more towards the camera and you can see more of the iris of the eye.
And MAKEUP! Dammit! I just realized if forgot to do her makeup! One of the most iconic aspects of the Cleopatra design and I go and forget it like a dummy. Well, at least I caught it.
Lots of work still to do.
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