#pashera shepard

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Pashera Shepard. My angry biotic babe. ♡♡♡

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Pashera R. Shepard from Protector

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(Next in line is finishing up gift work for Jedi ^.~ and then redoing Kaidan’s image from chapter 3)

Yatterings about the process and whatnot under the cut.

Okay, so this has been in the work queue for... four months? Maybe five? Anyhow It’s had a lot of adjustments. I redid her lips and then her eyes. the hair took forever. (I swear to god, from now on I’m only drawing her with her headscarf.)

For the eyes... I’m actually still not super happy with them. they’re too dark and I WAY overdid the lashes. (oops) but I don’t feel like attempting to fix it because I did it all on the same layer. (yikes) 

The background is super lazy. I took a smoke brush (typical for me) and just hazed on a cloudy background and then added stars. 

I’m so very pleased to be done. So very very pleased.

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Today’s work progress shot.Have to call it a day because I can no longer flex my fingers and this is hell.

Hair hell.

Why curly? Why did I want curly? Painting curly hair makes me want to sob. Make it stop. T_T TOO MUCH HAIR.

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Did some more work on Pashera’s portrait. Figured I’d show the steps (and maybe horrify you a little? Maybe it’s just me but Stage 2 is always a little scary in the beginning.) It’s not really a tutorial- just a look into the ‘process’

Step 1 - base work. Sometimes I have a sketch and sometimes I have nothing but a series of reference images.

Step 2- block out the light/dark sections and get the base form in.

Step 3- blend... blend... blend

Step 4- blend and begin details.

Step 5- more of the same. 

Step 6- details and adjustments. Now If something is ‘off’ I will use the liquify tool to carefully and slowly adjust and reposition it OR I will simply repaint it. Like I did for the lips because I wasn’t loving the first try.... they still need some tweaking but I am much happier with them.) So... it’s not done obviously but it’s getting there. Slowly. My biggest secret is just stepping back from it for a while. A lot of ‘errors’ can be seen if you stop staring intently at it for a while. (^.~ sort of like watching water boil. right?)