Folks were commenting on the scales, and I have to say, they were super fun to do. It really is neat to see the texture come through like that. So here's a bit of a closeup of some of the patches of scales on CC.
I would draw the kuvrahk skin like this more often, but it is a HUGE chore and so for the most part, like in the comics, you won't see this level of detail. Also, the scales actually go contrary to what people might think. As I've been telling wolfkidd, they may have scales, but they are very VERY soft, much like normal skin. Except you can at least feel the bumps of the individual scale "plates" if you ran your hand along any surface. But to the overall feel, it's extremely soft and almost feels like velvet.
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Yeah, in SAI it's basically a luminosity layer I made over everything and used the marker tool with a highlight colour selected to just dot in the scales. Change the pressure or repeat the dotting to make the shine more intense. To fade some of them, I use the water colour tool very light, or I make another luminosity layer to go back over the individual scales with a little more intense shine. Gives a bit more control as I can adjust the layer opacities.
For the shadow areas, I made a multiply layer and did the same with a shadow hue. Just have to mess around with it and it's pretty easy to figure out after that.
For the shadow areas, I made a multiply layer and did the same with a shadow hue. Just have to mess around with it and it's pretty easy to figure out after that.
Now that's some really interesting piece of information... I would have never thought of doing that...
No wonder it has such a nice, wonderful finish... And changing the layers' opacity gives you pretty much control over how you want it to end. I'll definitely take this as useful advice...
If you don't mind me asking Noben, do you use the watercolor to 'blend' the highlighted/shaded scales with the base color/additional efects, or do you 'smudge' them instead? I can't really tell...
By the way, I might be redundant here with what the rest have commented, but it looks awesome indeed. The level of detail you give to it really gives it a very high quality to the picture as a whole. Great work.
No wonder it has such a nice, wonderful finish... And changing the layers' opacity gives you pretty much control over how you want it to end. I'll definitely take this as useful advice...
If you don't mind me asking Noben, do you use the watercolor to 'blend' the highlighted/shaded scales with the base color/additional efects, or do you 'smudge' them instead? I can't really tell...
By the way, I might be redundant here with what the rest have commented, but it looks awesome indeed. The level of detail you give to it really gives it a very high quality to the picture as a whole. Great work.
I use the water colour tool to blend them in I reckon. But I equate it to almost smudging, but I strictly use the water colour tool for it. In fact I juggle around between the pencil tool (set to it's hardest settings), the marker and the water colour tool to achieve the effects I get. That way certain hues/shadows can go from a very hard edge to a soft edge very easily. An example would be the vertical dark shadow that goes down her waist to her hip crease, you can see how it fades into a fuzzy edge.
Ahh... I see... *thinks of the settings of the watercolor to achieve the 'almost smudging' effect*
So, in a nutshell, you go on like pencil=hard edge, marker = transition to soft edge; watercolor = blend, smudge & fade right?
(Thanks, BTW, for clearing this out to me. I'm still on my way to learn what things you can do in SAI. I'm still at a loss what markers can do, so that' a bit of a new tool to me; but I think I understood "^^)
So, in a nutshell, you go on like pencil=hard edge, marker = transition to soft edge; watercolor = blend, smudge & fade right?
(Thanks, BTW, for clearing this out to me. I'm still on my way to learn what things you can do in SAI. I'm still at a loss what markers can do, so that' a bit of a new tool to me; but I think I understood "^^)
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