Were-Raccoon Pirate WIP

ajillustrates

@von_Nimmermehr Well, I haven't done any work on the water or background (aside from putting in the base colors), so once that's done, hopefully it will fit in more. The pirate is kneeling in about 6" of water, and that will be painted as a separate layer over his legs (and the foreground rocks) once they are complete. My plan is to go pretty watercolor painterly on the background, so some stuff will probably shift a bit, and I may even remove all the ink lines back there in the process. At that point, that's when I'll paint in some distant folliage for the jungle at the base of the volcano.

von_Nimmermehr

@ajillustrates well when i was looking at it earlier, the writing for the post was different the break of the writing. i guess because of my screen. don't know how to explain it

to the left of the picture is said finished,
And under the picture it said value added, i think thats what left me confused. XD

so maybe just forget what i said

ajillustrates

@von_Nimmermehr Haha- okay! Oh man, I’ve been a sitting here looking at the background trying to find things wrong with it. But it’s all good - I’ve got tons left to work on it!

ArtistErin

Interesting to watch your process! I would love to see how you update, with the painterly look. Great rendering however! Very cool storytelling too... Curious if the parrot holds the other half of his vision? If someone else mentioned this in the thread my apologies if I missed it...

ajillustrates

@ArtistErin I'm guessing the parrot's lost a bit of his peripheral vision, and all of his depth perception, but his night vision is now off the charts!

ajillustrates

Project Day 10: After vacation/holidays and some more urgent projects, finally able to return and continue work on the lighter values (mostly fur and leather tonight).

ajillustrates

Project Day 11: I'd love to have this wrapped up by the end of this weekend, so I really pushed hard today, finishing the lighter values, shadows, and magic effects. If the background, water, and reflections rendering plays nice, I might be able to move onto a new project next week

ajillustrates

Project Day 12: A lot of waver, cave, and sand rendering today, but now that that's out of the way, I can push through, finish the background, and add the final textures and value adjustments to call this done tomorrow.

ajillustrates

Project Day Lucky Number 13: And with the background painting and texture additions, we're finally done!

von_Nimmermehr

I really like the progress

Chantal Goetheer

@ajillustrates it looks great! Loved to see how it developed layer by layer.

ajillustrates

@Chantal-Goetheer Thanks!

ajillustrates

One of my goals is to write more this year, so I put the (mostly) whole Photoshop process for the creation of this piece on my website's blog. If you're interested, you can read about it here.