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In the last part, I had done some preliminary painting that established the color.
I just continue work on it and clean up the different areas.
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In the last part, the concept was created as a line art and some amount of shading. In this part, I explore a bit of the color value. Separating color and value before adding the details helps a lot in terms of composition. This is a technique I have rather used repeatedly after my earlier study – Separate Light and Color.
I still am working on this in GIMP. I scale up the image before adding any more detail to A4 size at 300 dpi.
Using the path tool, I create the flats.
Earlier, using the thumbnails of the silhouette two characters, Slug and Slice were created. Here is the progress on the third one.
The silhouette is scaled up to 25% of A4 landscape at 300 dpi (the target size) and distorted a bit to get the perspective and rough composition.
I detailed the head a bit so that I get a better grasp at the character as I start putting in brush strokes that define the concept.
When I was working on the Demon Trio – Slice project, I had shifted from working in GIMP to Photoshop along the workflow at the time when I wanted to create flat color layer. That was because, I could not find a Polygon Select tool in GIMP. After some poking around at some GIMP forums, mailing lists, and the program itself, I found that we can do a polygon select in GIMP.
Here is a video that walks through the process of using Path tool in GIMP to have a similar approach as you would do with a Polygon select tool in Adobe Photoshop.
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