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I had an assignment revolving around a space-ship in a solar-system. Since I am not used to painting something like that, I wanted to get some head-start. I love John Berkey's work, that guy was such a beast. So I did some composition-deconstructions and studied his color-relationships.   This is more of an exercise in how-to-paint something like a space-cloud evolving around a singularity (a black hole for instance). This taught me what brush to use in the final painting.
I did get an assignment, where I had to paint 3 characters in a lineup. I want to show some of the sketches and preliminary work, that went into this piece.  The character descriptions were pretty direct, but still I did some sketches in pencil to decide on the design. After deciding on a design for the characters, I wanted to get to poses. I used ClipStudioPaint for this.  We decided on pose nr 6 and I went on to a light / color sketch.  After that I draw the lineart above the poses.  I then fill in the layers, lay down local colors, add a shadow-layer (layermode "multiply") to adjust the overall ambient light and paint in the light with an "overlay"-layer. As quick and dirty this is, it helps me to get a feel for the materials and the forms.  After this I used every trick in my book and asked for advice to make the piece better.  This was a lot of fun and I hope you learned something.
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