Mindfull 3

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3rd image of the series is complete and onto working on Raven and Yang! I had a blast with the colors for this one honestly, however there was an over-use of layer sets to this. Usually I would merge the effects and just work with that but I was quite unsure of the color choices of each lighting intensity to use such as the stark glows or the soft glows. Started off with blues to contrast the pinkish gem glow but looking at it as a thumbnail didn’t quite make sense so I made the overall lighting a reddish tint and used the backgrounds coloration as the counterweight to the color instead as it goes further out the canvas to counterweight the red instead of Pearl’s body itself with the radial gradience from the Gem. Also since there was a heavy amount of read and pink, I thought I shouldn’t just use blue but also just a tiny tiny bit of green from the glare above and the subtle color fade below having just a hint of green to compliment the red vertically. As for the liquids, I know this is a “refined-sketch” but the liquids feel “lost” in what stylization it was trying to form.

I couldn’t decide to make it semi rendered or a solidified cel-shade style. I was curious as to why this was messing me up badly, I assumed it was the splattering form I wanted but now I’m starting to assume it may be the coloration as well since it’s with lighting I don’t normally work with. Unsatisfying stylization, but I suppose it does grant the “messy” visualization due to it. or at least I hope it does. For the liquids on the bottom, I always was aimless with it came to the puddles of liquids that didn’t have any viscosity to them or very little viscosity so I tried attempting some studies on water droplets and splatters to hopefully get at least the “impression” of it a little more. Lastly, I wasn’t entirely sure on how intense I wanted her gem glow to be here. I knew I wanted this kind of lighting but I wasn’t sure if I wanted the Gem itself to look completely white or show it’s reflective sheen. I went about the halfway mark so that way it gives itself just a tiny bit of form on its surface but has the intense glow to show that it’s kind of “gaping” in a sense. That’s all to say for part 3, hope you like!