Another armour study. Another colouring study. This was very informed by the Lae’zel piece I did, with the process mostly being a repeat: blended underpainting, with layers using a watercolour brush to render on top. One difference: in this I used a pencil brush for the lines, making them much softer, and did not colour them in. (Using the pencil brush for final lines was inspired by the work of Ami Thompson)

Capturing lighting on armour is still a battle ⚔️

Another digital colouring study + armour study, this time of Lae’zel. I have so many screenshots of BG3 with dramatic lighting saved, so I’m putting them to use!

I’ve been pushing my digital drawing style and trying to find a go-to way of colouring digitally that I like the result of. I’ve drawn digitally for years but not with much stylistic consistency. Two things I tried that felt good about this one:

• Keeping the original sketch lines. They are faint, but there, adding some roughness. I don’t like when my drawings feel too polished and “perfect” – a reason I tend to like traditional mediums more.
• Creating a layer of base colours, where I aimed to build the values and an underpainting of sorts, which I then blended using the smudge tool. Then on top of that I used a watercolour brush in flat layers – the watercolour brush has some translucency so the underpainting comes through, and adds texture.

On this I painted the linework too, mixed feelings on that.