Works in Progress (Part 2)
Console General reporting in from the rear-line infirmary.
Hello boyos. I haven’t been feeling well, and I’m don’t really feel sick or anything but I’ve been overly drained pretty much every day since last Friday. Unfortunately my poor health has totally affected my inspiration to do much of anything else this week besides go to work, sit at my desk, and fumble with the occasional Playstation 3 game. Excuses aside, I was working on a project that I was playing around with last week. It was the model laying on the bed.
Originally I wanted to focus on finishing the piece solely in Illustrator. That didn’t happen if you notice the screenshot above. That’s the Photoshop CS4 UI. :: Sadface ::
So what I tried to do this time around, if I wasn’t sleeping or zoning out at work was to play around with simple color schemes and super duper basic cel-shading. Which I don’t feel turned out well at all.
Here’s a quick look at one of the directions I was taking the colors at first:
I was sort of shooting for an elegant, yet sexy mood, but the black (Which was REALLY DARK on my CRT at home) I figured didn’t really convey that properly. I sort of liked where it was going, but I was having a hard time finding decent colors to use for highlights and shadows that would compliment each other. (Heh, I know my color wheel rules by the way, but the black felt too stifling.)
Afterwards I tried another set of colors, and it immediately reminded me Valentines day, so I quickly scrapped it:
Instead of shooting for warmer colors, I decided to go with cooler colors instead. Night-time in a low-lit room with a hot chick on the bed. This was another one of the schemes I came up with and pretty much settled on for now, which I’m sure I’ll work on later:
I was thinking about changing the color of the model to a darker color, maybe a blue and trying a different set of background colors altogether. Either that or just simply swapping around some of the colors here instead. I’ll see where it goes, but the motivation to continue working on this is fleeting by the minute.
Ugh…I gotta get some rest. I’m wiped. Hopefully I’ll feel better next week.
Next week: “inFamously living slightly larger…”
Console General, out.
The final pic is great man. The coloring is rockin – reminds me of the GTA box artwork and all that. Really cool
I think your coloring is great in the latest version. Maybe you can darken the BG even more and use the blue as highlights from the moonlight or something. It’s lookin prettay prettaay sexy though. Can’t really tell it’s Azn though. I’d like to see a series of these erotic cell shaded renderings too.
This is a really cool line drawing. What was the motivation to draw this though? I get the impression you drew it for no reason other than that it’s some half-naked girl.
I’d like to see you apply your skills to something more personal. Something that holds meaning to you.