2.5 years after first starting this piece…I’m finally skilled enough to pull off my ori

2.5 years after first starting this piece…I’m finally skilled enough to pull off my original vision! AND it’s desktop wallpaper sized - drop a comment/tag if you use it :)

In this series:  Rin  |  Sakura  |  Hinata  |  Kurenai .  Follow for more!

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My old WIPs…do you see progress :P

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2019

Things I needed to git gud at in order to pull this piece off -

• anatomy
• figure out my digital brushes. When I first started I only had 1-2 brushes I really used. Starting to build a library of them now.
• Composition. I started this as a square, wtf was I thinking?
  
• Iighting and shadows, esp. at twilight. Very different affect than say noon.
• The power of simplifying your rendering into shapes
• My workflow…I started it all on one layer, which is great for rendering, not good for simplifying!
  
• subsurface scattering and how to do it digitally
• color palette of skies at different times of day/night
• light at different times of day - did you know there’s very little green light at twilight? There’s more green at dawn.
  
• How to draw epic clouds. I used to fake it by putting in a photo off the internet. Now I can actually draw them myself!

If folks are interested, I can try to turn some of the bullets into tutorials. Lmk which ones you’re most interested in!