#AnnTakamaki (#Persona5) #WIP 4
Going from grayscale to full color on this one makes a world of difference, not that it was necessarily easy to get there.
When I took off the greyscale the skin tone was off. Too tanned to be on model for Ann. So, I had to make adjustments. Desaturating the skin just a bit and raising the brightness helped with how dark her skin was feeling but it left her looking waxy. Fortunately, that’s why the next step is playing with an overlay layer in order to add in some saturation to her skin. Why desaturate her skin just to add saturation back in one step later? Because the new overlay layer is in a different hue value. I add in reds for areas that have more blood flow like around her hears, eyes and nose her hands and breasts and knees. I add in touches of light blue to cool shadows. Re result is a much more balanced effect than the mono hue that I get when the saturation layer is first taken off.
The hair and eyes here were very important. I want to make sure that Ann, has a look of danger and invitation as well so her expression was a class in subtlety. There is the crinkling of the bridge of her nose, the narrowness of her eyes and still there is the small touch of just the slightest of smirks on her lips. Hopefully, I got it right and it reads. The hair was just its own thing. Hair with big structures in it like this was kind of a trip to work on because you have to do a lot of it with selections and working in stages. This required about six stages and three hours to get to where it is. That said, I’m satisfied that I got across Ann’s platinum blond locks and pigtails.
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