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(and thanks, this was great)
Thanks for posting the step by step!
The only thing that bothered me a little bit, which surprisingly I thought looked -way- stronger in your thumbnail (so I guess you did have the right idea but just polished it out a little) was how when I first looked at the piece, I thought the shaman and the demons were of the same side and that the guy doing the magic was summoning them or rallying them, so to speak. In your thumbnail, it's immediately clear that the magic cast is separating him from the demons, that it has force to it and will blast them away. In the finished piece, it's kind of a gentle flow. Still a clear boundary but it's definitely lost it's force. I though that was a bit of a shame (it may also have to do with the fact that the shaman has the same skin color just with more decorations; I thought he was of a higher rank or something at first). That's pretty much it though, love the composition and how everything leads us to the shaman's mask. Of course it being your art there's a pleasant amount of glowiness and sparkliness to it that really makes it pop
And yeah totally, I see what you mean. The thumbs did have much more punch with the magic that helped describe the scene; I'll see about going back in and boosting some of the glow effects to try and get some of that back. Really feeling the situation and getting the explosiveness and motion of the action is something I'm really focusing on lately, really tough.
And totally, hands can make or break an image, it's crazy how much the quality of an image jumps up just by really working out the hands.
Thanks!
You're welcome!
I usually try to zoom in as little as possible, for the same reason I try to use small brushes as little as possible. I usually try to paint the larger, overall things quite zoomed out so I can see the entire canvas at once. Then when I get down in to detailed rendering, like the Witch Doctor's mask, I'll zoom in between 50 and 100%, further in the finer the detail gets, but it's super super important to every so often zoom back out so you can tell if the details you're adding are actually helping or not. Then with less detailed stuff like the grass I stayed zoomed out most of the time, going in to 50% on rare occasion to clean things up.
I was doing a female monk for this Diablo 3 contest, but not finished on time
Thanks again for the walktrough!