Rite of Bloodlet: Illustration Process Part 3

2nd work in progress image image for the rite of bloodlet illustration

Portrait sketch

Part 3 is here! And this is where I’m up to…

Since he’s the most important part, I’ve blocked out and painted Gin on a new layer in Corel Painter. I made a quick sketch of Gin’s face so I had something to work from. Since I’m not yet perfect with muscle structure I used reference pics to base Gin’s chest on. So now the Ork gladiator has the body of an Olympic swimmer! (those pictures do nothing for your self esteem I tell ya)

All the layers from the sketch stage are hidden so they don’t distract me during the painting process. I occasionally turn the line sketch on to see where things go. I’ve made this image an animated gif so you can see exactly what I mean, every 5 seconds it should swtich on/off the sketch layer.

As you can see Gin is nowhere near where he is in the sketch. This doesn’t matter, the sketch is just to give me a rough indication of how the scene will look.

You can see an extremely rough version of  the recently deceased gladiator on the left, he’s in the very early stages of painting at the moment.

Still a lot to go yet. Even Gin isn’t finished, I hate painting hands, so fiddly. But even so he’s going to be covered in scars tattoos and blood when he’s fully painted, so he’s not even near finished…