Dema The Warrior:: Stage by Stage

This piece started with a sketch on photoshop, my first followed through attempt at sketching straight onto the computer. I had a pic from the FFXI model viewer for reference.




Using my sketch for guidelines, areas of colour are blocked in, and some testing of shading techniques is begun.


I pretty much discarded the sketch from here on in, only checking back on it every now and again. I felt it was too distracting and the lines weren't clean enough to use my normal painting techniques, so I just turned the layer off and worked from memory. Things still looking pretty scrappy, but coming together.


Here I've painted most of the torse, thighs and the one visible arm. But its missing something.


Ah yes: what would a Warrior be without her weapon! I looked for a while till I found one I liked the look of, grabbed it from the model viewer again, then painted it in. We're still missing something though...


Now with most of the detail done, including the axe, I decided to add the lower legs back in so that whatever background I decided to do, I didn't have to cheat and have her standing in water or snow or something.


Here's the "finished" piece, though I'm really unhappy with the background and will revisit it as soon as my hands start working again!

There will be a wallpaper up soon as well as a higher resolution version of the finished pic.

~Dema

PS. This pic is dedicated to Kim, who is playing with her art digitally too now! :)