Illustration #34 (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Here's the illustration I've been working on this month! Once again it took longer than I wanted it to. But I'm not too displeased with how it turned out! I tried to use a more limited color palette than I normally do and I think it worked out pretty well.

Check out the clean version HERE.

I also feel like I learned a few useful things throughout the process. For example, I finally discovered how the Divide layer blend mode works. You know how you can use Multiply to add shadows? Divide is basically Multiply in reverse (which I should have figured out sooner based on their names, haha). You can use Divide to add light into a scene in the same way you would add shadows with Multiply. And if you use the exact same color on Divide as you used on Multiply, it restores the color back to how it was before you used Multiply. I recommend trying it out! Adding light is something I often use Overlay, Color Dodge or Linear Dodge to achieve, but those don't always give the result I want, so it feels nice to have figured out another blend mode that can help with this.

Those of you who get the video in the rewards will also notice I'm playing around a tiny bit with a new color picker plugin in Photoshop. It's called Prisma Palette and it's a plugin that automatically figures out which color you need your lights and shadows to be based on the key light color and ambient light color you set up in the plugin. I'm very impressed with it so far.

The rewards for this picture will be sent out in about a week. Thanks a lot for your support, everyone! :D