After painting Geralt I wanted to paint something quickly.
To make a speedpainting. To force all the knowledge I acquired during painting him out of my head.
Basically I wanted to put my skill to the test - not to hard, but still a test.
I'm not the fastest man alive when it comes to rendering, so I limited myself to 3 hours.
Technically it's not a real speedpainting (real one goes on for like 30 to 120 minutes), but it's fast enough for me.
Of course it wouldn't be challenging enough, so I decided to make it in a way I've never tried before.
Cell-shading or Cel-shading it is.
I'm no quite sure which name is proper, 'cause both has some kind of logic behind them...
Cell - because shadow and lights are formed in some kind of cells;
Cel - because that kind of colouring is frequently used in animation, and cel itself is a semi-transparent sheet of paper used by animators (not exclusively), for redrawing frames in traditional animation (at least from what I know).
Any ways here's the end result:
And here you got entire process:
Entire process is like:
-sketch,
-flat colours,
-shadows,
-main light,
-skylight,
-speculars,
-some smearing and soft round brush edge work,
-blur on the edges of the paining (to keep the focus just on her/his (didn't decide yet) face).
Things I like:
-shininess of her (already decided) jacket,
-colours,
-composition (simple shapes),
-process (relatively fast and simple).
Things I don't like:
-bottom part of her face,
-hair (too much noise, to low amount of actual details),
-sketchiness (for a given time it could be better),
I ended up roughly after 3,5 hours so I cheated a bit, and even 'tho the effect is not that good.
Speed is not my thing. Yet.
I mean most of the time I spent walking circles in my room and thinking what I want to eat for a dinner :D
Hope it helped (somewhat, I'm not sure how it possibly could :D),
So long
