It helps to know the correct placement of shadows and highlights because it will give proper form to the object, further more correct dispersion of light can define the surface materials. I decided to place the source light at the back of her body.
Cloth’s foldings are always a challege, for this I started painting randomly until I see some shapes but having reference also will help achieve correct foldings.
I paint the inner dress in green color. The paint process is the same as painting the red dress. Some trick I do when making a rough painting is that I squint my eyes then move a little back, this ways I’ll be able to see the flow of the painting and the overall picture.
I have completed the first round of the character after few hours of painting. The next step is always the fun part of digital painting, atleast for me…the detailing. I added a black strip underwear, paint the feet and hands. It has been my style whenever I do digital painting to leave brush strokes seen because it felt really more like a traditional painting.
I decided to put a golden dragon embroidery in the dress. First I paint in separate layer a dragon in brownish yellow color. Then I change the layer opacity to color dodge. What it does is that it will saturate the color of the brownish dragon when overlaid on to the red dress turning it into golden redish color. I suggest to play with the opacity mode of the layer when overlaying an image onto another image, sometimes you’ll never know what it will produce.
The following process is shaping the dragon on to the foldings of the fabric. To do this, while still on the dragon layer I press Ctrl + t shortcut for Free Transform.
On the top menu in Photoshop find and press the button in red circle. What it does is it switch the Free Transform tool into Warp Mode.
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