I saw people doing ''the fallen angel'' studies using astarion from baldurs gate and I wanted to do that too but it ended up being goosestarion instead, its sparkly, as always ✨
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Here are some of process snapshots of this piece of Astarion in Baldur's Gate.
I am a messy painter and I often adjust and change the designs as I paint. (Mostly because I don't have the patience to do proper line art haha)
I start out with a rough sketch, I usually sketch ideas out on my ipad and move to my cintiq to work with colors.
Next I block in rough color thumbnail. I keep this part messy as I just want to figure out the value structure and the overall mood.
At this point, I have collected a myriad of screenshots and reference images from the game, pinterest, and also from artists work that inspires me.
With the references on one screen, I start to paint the details, I work from foreground to midground to background. (Sometimes I'll bounce between the depth when I get bored from painting one thing for too long)
Sometimes after I block in the colors I'll make adjustments. I didn't like how warped the perspective was getting on the building on the screen right side, so I adjusted the vanishing point and added more tiers to the design. I went back into the game and looked at more how the stairs were designed and figured it out more thoroughly with a sketch on on top.
I think sitting down and doing the details is the most time consuming part. I still want the focus to be on the character despite all the detail going on the background. At this point I'm toggling on black & white filters constantly to check the value, grouping everything in the background together, making sure the lighting frames the subject in focus. At this point I realized, I forgot to paint Astarion's hair LOL, and that the bg was getting a bit too detailed, so I used a more textured brush and painted away some of the edge details of bg buildings.
Last, I make final adjustments, and I make a overall lighting/fx adjustment folder. Adding in some noise, adjusting the contrast, color balance, and lighting over all and call it done!
Link to Print shop!
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just a girl and the 800 potted plants she carries around faerûn
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since some people were interested, I cleaned this up and made it available as a print 🤓❤️🔥 link below for my fellow Wyll enjoyers 🍷
also I saw your tags on the previous version. You're all Correct
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/janedoe297/the-blade-of-frontiers/
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here we go, in my bg3 era (I’ve been playing since august tbh but I’m slow with my art)
Astarion’s expressions 🩸 (I’m working on Wyll’s now)
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