These are the types of clothing, poses and references that have guided me through the painting process. This is the first time I've drawn properly and I can tell I am rusty, I really have to get painting everyday especially on skin tone.
This is also one of the few times I have drawn my base idea in Photoshop, I normally tend to draw on paper and then scan and clean up the image ... but with the time running out I decided to give drawing using a tablet a go, I still tend to draw really tentatively so I always end up with several lines in the same spot. Getting the colour down was easy enough, just the shading that bothers me.
This is the final image. I am rather pleased with it. I can easily recognise the species of insect and what name it goes by, by the use of colour and imagery. My favourite part I have to say in the cloak, whilst I was painting it I though it looks terrible, but as I added more details and took parts out to look tatty, then I really loved it! Originally there was not going to be a cape but it looks rather bare, and I didn't feel it had enough of the Death's-Head Moth in the image. I didn't add any of the magical vapours around the hand because I really felt like it would ruin the final image, I wanted it to look like it could be real ... If a human witch doctor thing with a floating skull for a head could be real.
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