Starting to layer in the initial base outfit which goes through several iterations before its ready to be okayed.
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Toned down the musculature some, adjusted the mouths expression, upped the size of the... teets, adjusted the look of the eyes.
3 of the 10 Shewolf ladies are complete! I hope to finish up the dark one in the back and the pale one next to her tonight and if there's time the blond one in the back too.
Is getting very close to completion now! Though I'm still wrestling with the idea of doing a censored variant where they have torn shreds of clothing covering them up. I've no clue how much time that will ultimately add and or if it will take something away from the finished piece or worse, add something that might just not work without with the main piece. Will just have to wait and see. :p Once its complete I'll be getting active with the sketches and contests again as I jump right into the next work. And don't forget! If your a patron and not part of the Crimson Dames Discord or the Livestreams or never even logged into the site once, then your really not getting the full value of your contributions. :p And I'd love to be able to get more involved with you all to ensure I'm delivering the experience your hoping for. With the background textured I started working in the highlights, starting with the cloth at the bottom. Experimented with a lot of different colors for it but found that a purple hue complimented the reds and orangy flesh tones best.
Am now working the highlight into Lady Wolf in the back. Man the reduced scale drawing never feels quite as good as the high res version I'm working on. I need to find a more efficient means of reducing their scale. Has to be a setting I'm missing somewhere. Is looking more and more like I wont be able to reach my personal goal of Halloween for this piece despite my earlier start for it sadly. .o , I'm sure tho that the extra time poured into it will really shine through at the end. ;D What do you think so far? Any thing feel off yet? Any details stand out as needing a touch up or second pass? Send any feedback my way and consider joining the Discord or livestreams to be able to see it worked live and join the conversation. ^_ ^ Rilly loving how little by little the piece becomes more alive!
The highlight layers will make it even more real. I've no clue if I'll be able to get this done before Halloween, but am still digging the project all the same. I'm still debating if I need to do a partial clothed variant just so I can post it without having to worry about censorship rules, and ensure it gets out to more peoples. Would likely add several more days to the project. I for sure need to get this one done up for poster prints of some sort. Been plugging away at these shadow layers trying to get the sense of lighting just right. The base colors will likely wildly change as things move forward, as I'll be giving everything a greenish tinge from above. Will be a lot of back and forth to get all the elements to feel natural to one another.
If anything sticks out as particularly wrong at the moment tho please don't hesitate to bring it up to me so I can correct it before it becomes a major hassle to do so. :p I really get a kick out of drawing these 2, their faces are so much more expressive than some of my other characters. Well I guess Prisoner's is a bit more subdued here but usually, there's a lot going on there. XD I may change the colors for Granny Wolf's attire completely perhaps something more violet? The nice thing with this process is that its relatively easy for me to adjust the base colors without having to radically alter the shadow layers. I can't really tell how much longer this piece will take, but hopefully not too much longer. I'm pretty eager to knock out the Vampire Vs. piece and be able to see the whole set side by side. If the novella can have a dust jacket it might be fun to have it be reversible so that all 4 can be displayed somewhere. Man this ones been taking up so much time and I really have no idea why.
Am I letting too many things distract me on a daily basis?? Whatever the cause I really love how its coming out. I deeply apologize for the lack of new posts, but I have been plugging away at these projects diligently. I just feel that it wastes too much time posting each nights progress every night, especially if the average viewer can't really see the difference. So I had been waiting for better milestones to show off. :p Tell me though if you prefer seeing those progress reports. With September around the corner I really need to start thinking up what this years Halloween project will be. Should I add a couple spooky ladies to the Ladies of Halloween project? Or would peeps prefer more progress on The Shewolf Bride comic? (Now housed under "Projects". I really need to get back to the writing of the novella too. I've been plugging away at these pages trying to get them looking just right! I had decided to break down the muzzle shift stage of the Brides transformation into 3 pages, to help show off the transition better.Sori for the lack of updates! I was kidnapped for the 4th to visit family, then later had kidney stones issues, which I think I managed to treat before it went critical mass. Overall though I need to get better with regular updates. So many apologies! I'm sure you'll like what I've been cooking up during this period though. ^_ ^
Originally I wanted to have it set up that the Dames manage to take down one of the 4 lords themself. Which of course sets the ire of the rest of their forces squarely against them, eventually leading to their having a near miss encounter with White Wolf.
So with that in mind I'm thinking that this should be setting up one of the original 4, or a replacement for one of the Lords lost during the storyline. I'm still brain storming ideas so we'll see where it all goes. ^_ ^ Be sure to tell me what you really like so far and what you think needs a bit of tweaking while there's still time. I hope you all had a great holiday and I'm eager to bring more creations to you soon! Since my Niece is visiting for the weekend things will be rather quiet from me this weekend. But in the meanwhile I thought I'd share my current progress with the Shewolf Brides pages I've been refining. Here's a Side by side of the initial rough pencils with the ones I've been refining. For page 4 the biggest changes were for the 3rd and 4th panel. The 3rd especially fought back for several days before I got an ideal pose pinned down. XD Page 10 is largely the same just more refined now.
I'm not sure yet if I want to finish up all the pages before moving on to my next full color illustration or not. I got 2 more Vs pics to do still too, one for Prisoner and one for Vampire.
Been mostly jumping to the pages that had needed the most work to stand properly on their own for the now. |
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