This WIP is WhIPping along hahahahaha ok couldnt resist
Today was a lot of playing around with blending and shading on this octopus head plus some other odds and ends Like his shoe and staff and eyes.
A lot of today revolved in part around seeing what I could do to reset new changes. I had shaded the underside of the head but remembered that animals have lighter colored bellies than tops most of the time. So I blended some ice yellow and normal yellow into the underside of the head to imitate the belly of an octopus. And then lined the meeting of the head and the cloak with soft tone.
I tried putting some “purple tone” on since Vinny V said that purple can look good in yellow shadows. But I think I overdid it and now my octopus is looking kinda sickly. Soft tone wash is the answer to warm it up again? Idk.
I like how I got the look around the eye sockets with a payer of yellow over pure ice yellow. And a bit of off white under the eyes glazed with yellow.
I’m scared to try it on the head ridges because the sculpture detail there is kinda ambiguous which puts the onus on me to pretty it up.
Another thing I did yesterday was the black robe. Painted dark grey and then hit with targeted black wash to darken it down and alas I think I added too much so another highlight step with dark grey could be in order.
#hobbystreak day 33
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