Thanks Anonymous, it was the first real time I've painted in that style, if you're interested, I essentially just started by doing the following in Photoshop;
- Opening up several images of antlions, the original antlion art, and vrt's Werewolf pic for a little mimicry-inspiration style wise
- With the paintbrush (extremely low opacity and flow), picked a dark brown and green, began outlining a general shape
- Repeat process one or two more times with a sharper and smaller paintbrush and higher opacity/flow, strengthening the shape
- Use the sharpen tool to add some definition/simulated detail
- Use the burn/dodge tools to begin adding shading/highlights, repeating a few times each time focusing the brush you use to make it tighter on detail
- Lastly add final details, shadows in the landscape that the creature lives in, tweak colors.
It was actually pretty easy, and I can't really draw. I'm going to try again, tweaking the technique. Oh, and I also did all of this at ~500% zoom.
Here's actually a little progression of what it looked like as I worked on it (for laughs)
(the quality obviously is deteriorated in .gif format)
Thanks OdinVanguard, I don't know if you were around back then, but I used to make a lot of art for my cards, in a much different style like my
gem series for example. I'm much better at photo-manipulation like these and Fallen Angel than I am at straight drawing.
@moomoose This is as big as I made it, under the assumption that the smaller the image, the easier it would be. It took quite a while for a tiny 125x125 image, didn't want to attempt a 256x256 image. But next time perhaps I will. Thank you
