Melancholy

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

for Pool Party Round #2

While working on another painted wall I noticed that my hand is too shaky to do proper lineart, so I decided to vector instead. I did the vector in Photoshop, just cause I was too lazy to switch over to Illustrator xD.

1. Started off doing Nunnally’s skin, since it should be at the bottom. In this case the arrangement was Skin>Dress>Hair>Cage>Ribbon. I just used the Shape layers option on the Pen tool and went around the edge.

2. Dress stage. This was the stage where I was muttering death-threats, for every single frill CLAMP put in there. I also removed the coat, cause it was taking up too much room.

3. Still Dress stage. My method involves making a huge shape that goes over the whole object, then pressing - and removing bits from inside the shape, like taking out pieces from a completed puzzle, or emptying a can of sardines (lolrandom).

3. Hair stage *input more cursing*.

4. Completed base vector. Compositionally, the general rule is to avoid centering stuff unless it’s a mirrored-image-style work. At least, that’s what I was told to do…

5. Since the last pipe organ I saw IRL was around 8 years ago, I just googled for some stock, and then drew straight in Photoshop using the Pen tool.

6. FLIP YOUR WORKKKKK it helps spot a lot of mistakes, wonderful little trick we learned in class.

7. After some time, do something totally unrelated to clear your head. >¦3

8. In short, I just slap on the color I want at high opacity, 90-100% or so, and then blend later with a customized Grainy Water brush in Painter. Painter’s brushes are <333.

9. Comparison: after blending in Painter → after neatening up in Photoshop.

10. Missing the screenshot, but I put a green gradient on a Vivid Light layer in PS to add the greenish side on the left.

11. Patterns from k10k. Warped and transformed, set to Soft Light.

Finished