Comment on Lesson One by Digi-Dolphin

WarSongDeathmark's avatar
If it fits, it ships.
You really have grown as an artist. This is just amazing.
Digi-Dolphin's avatar
Thanks! X3 Your praise is always the best to me. Though I dunno why anyone would wanna ship brothers; oh well, not my kink.

I spent like an entire day on this thing, omg. I didn't get done until about 1am. I'm so glad I wasn't busted by my parents for being on the comp for that long.
WarSongDeathmark's avatar
This took you less than 24 hours? You -have- improved.
Digi-Dolphin's avatar
X3 I started with just the flat colors on the brothers and no background, then about twelve hours later, finished product! Although I forgot to shine up the tops of Caleb's sleeves, so I might go back to fix that later today. :blush:

All the shading was done using a dark green on a layer and playing with filters and highlights were a light blue on another layer, also filter playing, the shadows were gradients and I grabbed new brushes to help me do the windows on the 'buildings' and the trees. The Holy World symbol was an imported vector I had done about a month back, resized (i love how vectors don't lose their clarity) and then put through a vertical grain to make it look like colored metal and embossed to really make it stand out.

I could go on all day about all the little things I did to get that background to work with me, but I dun wanna start rambling. XD though I think I already rambled quite a bit.
WarSongDeathmark's avatar
There is still much to learn but you have come a very long way.