warm up and Rotkärtchen

A quick sketch to warm up ca 30 min.

Rotkärtchen: the big bad wolf

Lineart by Lena Kuschke
Colors by me

These are the studies I did for the card art. 2 color- and fur-studies and a lighting study of a side-lighting from James Gurneys book "Color and Light"

This will be the next card: Orza Reckenhauer.

To be honest I had some trouble with the lighting in the Rotkärtchen - piece, so this time wanted to use a different approach. First I put in all the colors I wanted in the piece on seperate layers.

Then I used the Gradient tool with a single color in the circular mode (example of the effect).

With that I dropped in 2 colored lightsources from the sides and another one from the middle like in this image:

This is how I arranged my layers:

This is the result, after masking out planes where the different lights don't fall on.

The next steps will be adding textures and rendering out the forms more. 

I hope this made sense and maybe even helped somebody. :)