Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Kalij Pheasant

Man this thing is fighting me the entire way through the painting phase :/ I really like the sketch but the colors aren't meshing and the feather details are extremely difficult....

I always flip sketches over in PS to check for glaring errors. Looked OK so started to block in some of the black and work on the face detail. I rapidly found out the crest was going to be a pain so I left it with base colors....

Some more work. The black breast is much too black and I tried the white streaking at least 5 times but it never looked anything other than flimsy barring.. :/ This is going to be a pain. Frustrated break time.

Trying to do the wing and still struggling with the lighting and the feathers... Ugh.



The long tail feathers are looking solid but the primaries and tail coverts need some love. Still unsure how to detail the black underparts :/




Minor update- the red was becoming overbearing so color corrected for that and started on the feet.





Calling it quits for now.



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