Multifaceted
For a private art challenge. For the prompt "Facettenreich - Muchas capas en la historia" I was unsure how to start because my need for this type of look was nearly fulfilled after I completed the other prompt "Symmetria", took some time to daydream and come up with a nice enough idea. For illustrations like this, heavy in effects and shapes, I keep most initial elements as channels and re-select them frequently, here, the shape of the figure and the outline. I've been watching lots of stylized animation lately that looks amazing and used some of my inspiration for shape overlays, Divide layer effects, and halftone texture applied to brushes. Many colours came from gradients on overlay layers; I brought back the face and made some more distinct outlines later to address emerging contrast issues. The pose was taken from a fashion photo, the drawing freehanded and turned into a path shape to make all edges supersmooth, then a grayscale figure was created by shading with an airbrush, and that used for Gradient Mapping.
I absent-mindedly complained to my significant other that I missed doing challenges because I hadn't gotten around to any in '23. He was happy to provide me with a multi-lingual list of prompts the likes of which I hadn't seen before and gave me a schedule until the end of year I couldn't possibly keep - who has time for art during the winter holidays when there are games that need playing and way too much food to think creatively? These are my results. I decided before that I wanted to start working with a more reduced and clearer style than my usual paintings; I would love to get into editorial illustrations. I worked in Photoshop, Painter, and Rebelle; leaving out trad tools to speed things up.
