Do you know Cosplay? Means when people customize themself as their favourite character from a Video Game, Anime, Manga, Movie, Mythology and so on. One of my friends, is also a cosplayer. She does cosplay for a long time and her costumes are great! Recently she cosplayed Bulma from Dragonball and at the moment I saw the pictures, I knew I’m gonna paint this!
Bulma – Cosplay by Bella-hime
Reference Photo – taken by J Tiffin Photography
For this painting I tried a new workflow or process for lightning and shadows. I used a layer with basecolors, one with ambient occlusion, one multiply layer for the shadows and some more layers for little adjustments. Oh and dont forget the background layer! 🙂
For a better understanding of my attempt, let us have look at the layers.
First every layer for it’s own
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- Outline/Lineart
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- Flat Colours
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- Ambient Occlusion Character
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- Shadows Character
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- Reflected Light
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- Background
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- Ambient Occlusion BG
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- Shadows BG
Let’s assemble everything 🙂
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- Rough Sketch
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- Refined Sketch
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- Line Art
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- Flat Colours
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- Shadows
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- Ambient Occlusion
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- Reflected Light
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- Background
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- Ambient Occlusion for Background
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- Shadows for Background – Finish!
You can also watch the Process!
You know what is also great, I pressed the record button BEFORE I started the painting. So you can watch the whole process in time lapse! YEAH!