Macula Marius - April 2019's Research Reward (Patreon)

I can't believe i finished this illustration just in one week. Usually thing like this cost nearly 2 week to complete. Well because it's only one week so i don't have much time to elaborate everything but in overall it's pretty good i think.

In this illustration, I tried to use Photoshop brushes to make background detail. There are many awesome brushed that help increase work flow compare to pentool SAI but blend color and go into detail, SAI is best choice.

I tried to add some other persons in pic, it's not cost much time than i expected, beside it make the illust more lively. Maybe i will use it more in future.

I test with making background first, character later. It help me adjust scale and position of main character interact with environment so you can see the MC doesn't become too  separate to background which it my weakness in most of my BG pic.

Damn, if only i have more time to go detail on foreground. Drawing flower still a big trouble to me. Maybe i will test it with other ideas.

I failed on using beta sketches as line to color character. In the end, it's best to line important part of character before coloring, it's inevitable. If i could solve this lineart problem, my art will leap to new level.

I still haven't tested making dynamic value on illust, it would decrease BG detail and boost character impact but it require really much time on rendering if you make big BG behind. hm... I will think about this matter later. Atmosphere and value...

Well, that is mostly what i learn from testing this illustration. It's not good as my expect but still it's lovely illustration. It has been a while that i could really love my painting and making some progress on improving my art skill.  I am pretty happy about it.

Ps: I will put aside illustration research for a while and begin to research single page manga in May. 

Thank you for supporting me !

- Hanada