Star Guardian Rakan
Blair Armitage and i talk character art with Gnomon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-S-wUOm1PI
Podcast with ZugZug! https://youtu.be/XEsgeqprR3U?si=ba27SCYYeNINyvl5
my ArtStation Learning tutorials on here, they're from 2019, so they're a bit old https://www.artstation.com/ybourykina/learning
Gradient maps are not plug and play, sometimes they are when you have a good range in values, but often times you need to adjust things to make sure you place the right color into the right value
i use Proof Colors to check the values that i painted vs the values that are appearing from my gradients
you can see whenever the sliders are spread evenly, the gradient is not working with the values that i painted because they're mostly on 1 side
Blending Options (didn't use this for her, just wanted to show)
use "Alt" to break the sliders to smooth the blending, great way to add more color
working on a Hue/Sat layer, at the end just adjusting the sliders on it
Median Filter, it helps & blends the surrounding pixels based on brightness
helps & cleans up some of the edges around the masks & harmonizes my colors when i get a bit over detailed & too contrasted
i recorded my process, this is 8 hours condensed into 30 minutes (you can slow it down to see it better)!
still super WIP! started with an AO bake & flat colors!
textures: 3dcoat and photoshop
hello! i made a blog that i used to update, but it's gotten very buried, so i'm just going to make a post here on the front :)
i'll be updating this as i go!
(i have not published the newest ones up top as projects yet)
