Serene Meadows [C] by StudioMaverick on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Another scene, this time for Sol.r0ck! It's been a while since I've drawn a piece featuring a Solei, I'm super happy to have had this opportunity. Backgrounds certainly aren't my strong suit, and the dappled light on this one feels especially like a weakness, but I think I got pretty close to my vision. A really nice thing I've learned to do is just apply color quickly at the beginning of the sketch, and then work around it. I'll often get a little too caught up in color and forget value, which really makes my scenes look elementary. Recently I've instead been creating a greyscale background and running a gradient map over it, and then adding some more colors manually, and then I paint over it at the end (I used this same technique a little less successfully with the underwater scene as well). I'm all scene-d out from these two pieces but I'll definitely be applying these techniques in the future!

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Materials: FireAlpaca on an ASUS ROG Flow. Please do not trace, copy, or repost.