The color adjustments to this piece have turned out very well Liara’s skin is looking lively without looking oversaturated or rubbery. I don’t know why but working with non-human skin tones is a little easier than human skin tones. It might be the uncanny valley of it all.
Liara’s face has been an exercise in restraint for me on a lot of levels. For one, there is no hair here to play with, and you all know how much I love to play with hair. Liara has the head tentacles things and hey have their own interesting texture and pattern but it’s just not the same. I’ll have to see if I go overboard in the next piece to compensate. Next is her eyes and eyebrows. I don’t think asari have any body hair at all so those eyebrows may well just be marking she put on her head to make her more relatable to human beings. I’ve looked close and she definitely has thing that look like eyelashes but they could be something else so again I have to hold back. The way I’ve compensated for this is b playing with her makeup. Normally I use eye lashes to make the eyes seem bigger but this time I’m leaning way more heavily on the makeup to do that job for me.
One new thing I’m doing is breaking up the eyes so that they’re on separate layers. That way I can shift the positions of the eye’s later on to create different effects. Here Liara looks like she’s looking at Shepard who is walking in from the right. Still a few adjustments to be made but I’m happy with the track it’s on right now.
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