Boss monster (process) (Patreon)

For todays pixel daily theme, boss monster! The theme was my suggestion so I have to go all out also its like totally my comfort zone

I'll post design decisions and the making of the pixel version on this post. Stay tuned! At the time of first making this post it's midnight, I'll be working on most it in the morning 

Shrank to around 10% of the original size, ran through the posterize filter in photoshop cc 2017. gonna make the rest by drawing over the filter 

Woke up feeling very unsatisfied with last nights efforts. I will be redrawing the lines and recolouring with a gray(ish) scale then recolouring from there 

Update - trying out hard lighting! i'm starting to see why people like to use greyscale so much- i never really tried it out before but it's pretty dang helpful for figuring out lighting. 

about lines and colouring them. colouring lines does a lot to lighting! 

a wonderful person on a feedback channel pointed out some major mistakes i made- i didn't consider how light meets an obstacle. i didn't think of the way light is blocked by limbs. i also didnt consider that the source is a hard, non-diffusing source, i was colouring with softer colours as a gradient when i should've been using a harder gradient. i admit to feeling uncomfortable using hard lights and shadows, it's just not what i'm using to. 

the light source is the orb and the light goes in every direction. i usually just draw a little sun in the direction where i want light but this time it it's own sun haha 

aaaand, the final! this ended up being a pretty long post huh