Nail (Public art 2023-02-12)
Added 2023-02-13 03:01:02 +0000 UTCTimelapse attached to the post and at the following url: https://youtu.be/YdDIGh01IM8
This one was interesting cause it helped me figure out a new way of coloring that works kinda well (although it needs a little improvement I'd say). Basically I do some simple grayscale where I separate the light parts from the dark ones, and then separate a little more the different values. Then I just paint on top with multiple overlay layers. Overlay is probably the most useful blending mode for layers together with multiply and divide, cause it allows to color grayscale in a very rich and interesting manner. You still have to kinda guess the right color and value, but it is so much easier to fill the coloring and especially controlling warmth and saturation, so that it is much easier to control where the eyes go. Doing multiple layer allows to create more layered coloring that is then more interesting to look at than just the same flat colors.
Here I used an overlay layer for the base colors, one for temperature and one for controlling the values more, but I feel like I need to experiment more.
I ended up being a little short on time, so the rendering isn't exactly top notch, but i feel like the stronger contours I pushed here help a ton in creating a more solid feeling for the illustration.
It got late, so Shantae's pic will be posted tomorrow, it's basically done I just wanted to fix a couple of things I wasn't too hot about with the face.
