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DigiFlohw — Artgerm Sailor Moon Coloring Contest (Process)

Published: 2016-01-26 04:18:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1519; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 54
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Process for: 

Time-lapse video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZL3xV…

Contest info here: 

Contest held by , and lines drawn and provided by him.


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As usual, I used both Painter and Photoshop for this, bouncing back and forth between the two.

1. Flats and Skin Shading

  • Flats done in Photoshop.
  • Lots of indecisiveness caused this part to take longer than it should have, but no big deal.

2. Hair Shading
  • Blonde is still a little tricky for me, but I feel I'm getting better at it and hair in general.
  • So much hair!

3. Finish General Coloring.
  • The rest was pretty simple.
  • The white took me longer than the rest because I wasn't sure how I wanted the material to look; obviously i went with super white and shiny.  I felt that would help bring out the background the way I wanted it to.

4. Background Work
  • Inspired by the first half of this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qImUih…
  • Moon:
    • I could have used a stock image of the moon, but that wouldn't have been fun.
    • It wasn't as tedious as I thought it would be, since Sailor Moon would be covering up most of it.
    • Did basic values in Painter and the rest in Photoshop, including textures, some warping, and overlay/color layers.
  • Laces:
    • I hadn't done laces since Weiss .
    • I did a google image search on "wedding laces" to avoid getting shoe laces as part of the search results.
    • The design was simple, and I kept in mind that I did not need to spend too much time on getting it "perfect", since I would be blurring them and adding some opacity.


5. Post Work

  • Add some overlays, color tweaks, and some filters/effects to the background.
  • Add some secondary lighting and filters/effects on the character based on finished background.




Original working image size: 2769x4000

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Comments: 3

soulSmith1 [2016-01-26 19:36:29 +0000 UTC]

this look amaziong

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SeanE [2016-01-26 04:46:32 +0000 UTC]

What did you use the lace for...?

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DigiFlohw In reply to SeanE [2016-01-26 04:51:32 +0000 UTC]

Background; bottom half.

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