With that I'm caught up on honorable mentions! At least until the current poll finishes. XD Special thanks to the patron who suggested the Mermaid design for the alt; feel free to take all the credit in the comments! XD
I haven't gotten far enough into Fairy Tail to meet Brandish so I can't really say whether I've captured her personality or not, but I think I did a good job of mimicking her design from the images on the wiki.
Also, I tried some new techniques I learned on youtube:
-Cel Shading Techniques (Marc Brunet)
-Coloring with Gradient Maps (also Marc Brunet)
I find using the Gradient maps to color really interesting.
Instead of using them the specific way that he does in the video, I've been doing a quicker, dirtier version of my usual method and then using the Gradient maps to finetune all the hues and values. They give you a ton of control over some really subtle aspects of the final product, but at the cost of having to fiddle around a lot to get things right. I'll have to get back to you on whether the advantages they provide are worth the extra time or not.
PATRONS:
Voting for the poll end sunday so make sure you get them in! I'll try to remind you tomorrow night, but if I forget, this will have to do!
Fairy Tail and all related characters are © Mashima Hiro and Kodansha LTD.
Art by Max Fullbody, not for public use or AI datasets without permission.
hypershock18
2024-07-13 04:40:33 +0000 UTC