Added 1 new A* page:Tried doing the color thing I did accidentally yesterday, but now more on purpose. I think I should've kept the modelling of the fingers flatter--it got a bit mushy in there with ~3 layers of wash trying to show folds of skin--but I was able to control the lighting effect and the color tint a bit, so that's some progress.
I guess technically A* is a photo comic at the moment :P; the page came from a less processed, more tightly cropped, higher resolution version of this photo (from the "original art" link under the comic):
Layer on some Levels adjustment layers, a Brightness/Contrast layer to pop the latent slight yellow lighting color, a tinted color layer to move the yellow more toward red for this particular shot (it's supposed to be the stubbing out of the Major's cigar, you see), and a Hue/Saturation layer to desaturate it just slightly after all that, and voila. The whitish glow at the end of the cigar is mostly just the natural reflection of my room's ceiling light off the paper as I took the photo; this time I rotated the paper on my drawing board to get the highlight to fall on the right part of the drawing (yesterday's should really have been turned around to get the light to fall on the right hand side of the image rather than the upper left (the ceiling light is above and just over my left shoulder as I sit at my drawing board), but when I took that photo I had no idea the normally very faint highlight from my ceiling light would be playing such a role in the final version).
Hm yeah I'd do the curved shading on the fingers and the inside of the ashtray a bit different now that I've seen how this came out. Ah well, there's always tomorrow!
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