Hello 👋 I have a question:
See this shuake fanart you made? How did you render the middle chess piece in the way you did? I'm curious to know as I'd would love to use this rendering technique in my drawings
oh hi!!!
looking up references is pretty important, specially for reflective surfaces like these, so i chose some reference pictures and tried to break it down in simple parts aka main light source, secondary light source, and the bounce light
every segment of the chess piece is basically a repetition of the same light pattern, but i did end up making some stuff up as i drew it tbh because unfortunately there is no chess piece shaped in that exact way in the world
this is kind of my thought process when looking at references, color coded because we're not animals:
also the textured brush gave it an extra flavor i think
i hope this helps!!!
