Israfel, Shadow of Perfect Bliss - (Detail Phase)
Added 2019-03-22 15:00:02 +0000 UTCTime to bring it all home.
The goal right now is to avoid killing the soft focus of this piece while also cleanly defining all the edges, surface details and minor details.
There are still areas where I'm making a few corrections, but I want to nail down the supporting bits first. Working back to front has always helped me stay focused when I get to this step. That means starting with the background details first and working forwards in the piece, completing the character details last. Part of the reason that helps is because it forces me to eat my vegetables before I have desert, the other part is more practical. Whenever you paint to elements that butt together, if you paint the ones being overlapped first, you can overlapping ones over the top of that work. If you do it the other way around there is a tendency to fiddle back and forth with details that fall close to tight edges.
