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These were the questions I needed to answer before I started refining him further. So I thought that maybe he could be a sword master. He collected all sorts of blades and swords from around his world, and just kept adding them to his costume. I wanted the setting to be a Mad Max-like fantasy world. So the costume was crafted in a similar way, out of different materials and parts he has found along the way.
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Rough colors: I then multiplied the line art over the thumbnail and, using a combination of Overlay layers and Color Balance adjustment layers, I started to lay in the color. Using some textured brushes I started to add paint opaquely and also started to work on the image’s background.
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Rim light: Upon looking at the image, I noticed I was going to need a justification for that rim light. I experimented a bit with a sunset in the sky, but ended up deciding that maybe some spread out fires on the ground would make for a cooler visual. The fires would also help reinforce the “victorious after a long battle” idea. So I added some textures, as well as using some textured brushes to lay the foundation for the fires.
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Reference: I took a picture of my anatomy tools busts, for reference. These
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