| A rough thumbnail is made first to get all the ideas together. |
A second sketch is done with better placement of the tentacles, the woman's pose and the general lighting. |
The perspective is distorted using Photoshop's transform tool, to make it look more dramatic. |
More and more distortion!
It's got to look right. |
I cleaned up the figure and background, in hopes that it will simplify everything. But I think her expression is a bit vacant.. |
I changed her pose, I think she looks more mysterious now. The position of the tentacles are changed to look more balanced too. |
I used Adobe Illustrator's pen tool to trace over the background, now it looks more neat. |
The perspective is distorted even more and the bodies are added in, as well as other miscellaneous things I thought of. |
The general colors are added in. I decided to start with cyan because that's the first thing I think about underwater scenes and I wanted to start light. |
I added a warmer tone to the her skin and the background. The written notes were ideas that I was throwing around at the time and critiques I received. |
I always like to get the face right first before finishing the other parts of the painting. I also knocked back the lineart a little bit. |
The lineart is deleted completely and more details were added. I tried to keep everything soft and vague at the bottom but detailled at the top to keep her focused. |
I started work on the pillars and the tentacles. A lot of research was done on octopuses and their colors. |
Time to start work on the bodies. It was tough keeping them looking like corpses yet giving them color! |
I kept the bodies soft and ghosty, and added more designs on the pillars. i experimented with some frilly skirts on the bride. |
I added some bubbles, seaweed, and miscellaneous schools of fish to fill in the empty space. |
Some highlights were added to the corpses to give them more weight. |
A little bit of color adjustment was done using Photoshop. I think it looks a little too cyan though.. |
..So with Photoshop, I played around with color adjustment and layers to get the right colors I wanted. I also widened the composition to give it more space.. and I think it looks more dramatic now.
Thanks for reading!
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