Mitsuri (Demon Slayer) WIP 4
I’m loving the brightness of this piece. Both I her skin tone and the environment. Have a brightness to them that I don’t’ normally manage to get in my work. It’s not going to stick because of the specific lighting situation I’m going for here, candle light. But it almost makes me want to change the idea and made this a day scene. Although having fireflies in the background floating through a garden sounds really cool too.
Getting the hair right here was a challenge and I had to do something completely different from my usual process. I normally work in full color for the hair but with the transition here from her pink hair to green I needed to do something else. What I did was render the hair in gray scale but clipped a coloring layer above it with the appropriate colors in the right places. That way, when I changed the lighting of the hair the color adjusted automatically depending on the section. This was actually a really interesting process and I may try doing it again. Working with values alone for skin has been really valuable and maybe I can stretch that out. I don’t think I’m ready to go full out grayscale for the whole piece but parts of it may be helpful.
The skin valuations and body here are just excellent. She’s got the right amount of saturation and life in her skin. I can see areas to improve but she’s really good where she is.
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