Virtual Best Friends

Today's art is a little different than my usual Splinterlands fanart postings. It is also a bit of an experiment in terms of a mixture between hard, line art and soft shading.

Two best female friends, on a road trip with their boyfriends, have stolen their boyfriends' clothing and decided to get a photo of their mischief.

The small story behind what is going on in the picture, heh. But now, without further ado, the process, which was slightly different from my usual as well.

I started as I normally do, with a rough sketch of what I wanted. From here I would usually jump straight into doing the line art. But I opted to go a different route.

I decided I wanted to clean up the rough sketch a bit first before going any further. Yet instead of going to do the line art as I normally would, I decided that I would first start with the flat colours.

In all honesty, this actually worked better for me and it might be something I stick to doing in future pieces. I can't tell you why it seemed to work better for me, as I really don't know. It just did.

Of course, I then added the line art and began the process of shading. I decided to use softer shading over cell shading, as I wanted to see how it would appear against the harder line art. (Also, bad Sam for forgetting to save more process shots!)

Here you can see the highlights being added. Though they are pretty subtle. I also slightly adjusted the one on the right's nose line art, which was bugging me a bit.

Some more subtle additions of pink to the skin tone, more details to the eyes and lips, highlights in the eyes, or eyelights, hehe, and a reflection off the glasses.

And finally the addition of some textures to both shirts and the background round off the picture overall. This is a very simple piece and I tried not to go too complex with whatever part I was working on.

I think it's quite an interesting effect, the line art and the soft shading. I am not too sure what to make of it overall though. Still, it was a fun experiment!

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