#progress shots

Specifically all the wip photos

Because tell me how I went from the crappy layout sketch to the cool clean sketch, and then from that to lineart to the colored/rendered version

I may have been tagged recently. Can't recall nor find any hits in my activity feed. But I feel like showing off.

So, remember that sketch I posted a while back, that then prompted me to show off the video of the sketch process and also turn it into the Messy Middles challenge? Well, I worked on it a bit more today, and now I want to show off the piece inked.

To do this, I faded out the sketch layer from the previous session, made a new layer above it, and broke out the "dirty ink" brush in black. Separate layers for the ripples in the blood pool and the background, which was, itself, drawn quickly in a few layers, copied and flipped and merged together, and then perspective-warped to suit the perspective of the main image. Is it perfect? Probably not. But I'm pleased regardless.

Working at what will be a final size of 11" x 17" actually seems to be a good size for the dirty ink brush's default size. Seriously can't get over how happy I am with this brush pack. (These ones over here, by Jazza. Totally worth it if you ask me.)

Still trying to decide what color palette to use. I may have to do some thumbnail painting for this (shrink it tiny, blob in color, find something that looks good). Also making sure I've got good blood splatter brushes for the paint job. 😏

painting i made for a baby shower event. i havent painted in years and this was done on plastic material (not ideal) but i did alright, everyone loved it