Commission Work - Null_Blastio
Added 2020-07-24 11:07:06 +0000 UTCCommission Work for Null_Blastio, featuring their original character, Morag Hettrick!
Man, this was was a toughie when it came to the lighting, seriously.
This commission also presented challenges that were really fun to solve, and raised a lot of questions about how to handle lighting in the future. The character posing was really quick to nail down, as the very first sketch that I did just felt too appropriate to not take on. As we progressed in the rendering, it dawned upon me that the painting wasn't really reading as well as I was expecting.
In order to combat this, we spent some time observing different ways of using colour in the background and trying a few different colours that would give us varying values of light. While some read better than others, none of them really stood out too much. When I realized that the wings should probably glow, it gave a whole new dimension to the painting, and I think it opened some doors.
Really excited for the next couple paintings.
