Whipped
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“How do I know you’ll honor your word?”
“You don’t.”
Another story panel from my illustrated novel: Caldyra.
A precursor to this image was this crowd piece: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/vQKGA
Finished work
Full 100% resolution. I work in big files (10.000 pixels wide) Then make it smaller for upload. This makes everything sharper looking then I initially paint it.
Old sketch from 2016. Had to redo the idea because the character is suppose to face the bosslady , but was turned away from her in this shot.
New rough sketch
Clean line planning and character masks.
Lighting planning.
Object colour planning, relative to the light (not perfect yet though)
Work in progress rendering. Trying out the idea of a flame whip, but was too much Balrog too little realism.
Nearly done with rendering. Just the need to clean up the small details.
The finished one again.