Brighan

Vex in the Shell

Added 2022-05-09 15:40:18 +0000 UTC

Finished this crossover piece for the next Destiny Artist Events' zine!
It'll be posted publicly on the 17th along many other fantastic artworks :DD

I loved working on this one so very much!!! Figuring the camouflage was so so so interesting! It was easier than I expected since I just had to copy the original poster. I kept the background a bit simpler since I drew part of the Garden instead of the city and I didn't want to overcomplicate it too much with a vex pillar structure or something like that.

For this illustration I did the linework for Val and most of the bottom part of the background as I usually do (on a separate layer and then work with the color underneath it) but the rest of the piece was a mix of linework and painting on top of the sketches! It was very interesting to do so and considering the rendering is not very painterly looking I found it a very relaxing process. It also makes the linework look a bit less crisp and more integrated with the colors :)
I did that since the reference is kinda old by now and so all the pictures I found were already very noisy so I didn't want it to look "vectorial" in a way. I also added some extra noise to the piece that I really like :D

Hope you like it as much as I do!!! Part of her story is heavily inspired by GiTs and I love the series very much (I even have the plugs tattooed on my nape!)

Have a wonderful week, I will post the step by step and the timelapse soon :)