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A little practice that took way more time than it should have. Almost as if it suffered a case of "feature creep".

Over the course of painting this image, I spent some time looking at things like Mach Diamonds, Coilguns, shockwaves and explosions to help better educate myself and inform the way they should be rendered.
I couldn't understand all of it, but at least gleaned enough to help form a starting point to start painting those elements.

All in all it was fun to do, but it's time to move on to the next thing.

edit: thumbnailed version looks blurry for some reason, view at its original resolution to see it clearly. (If anyone has an explanation for this, please share!)

edit2: I added a colour dodge layer and made a few areas pop a bit more.

edit3: Painted over some of the more problematic areas, namely the finger joints.

Description
A little practice that took way more time than it should have. Almost as if it suffered a case of "feature creep".

Over the course of painting this image, I spent some time looking at things like Mach Diamonds, Coilguns, shockwaves and explosions to help better educate myself and inform the way they should be rendered.
I couldn't understand all of it, but at least gleaned enough to help form a starting point to start painting those elements.

All in all it was fun to do, but it's time to move on to the next thing.

edit: thumbnailed version looks blurry for some reason, view at its original resolution to see it clearly. (If anyone has an explanation for this, please share!)

edit2: I added a colour dodge layer and made a few areas pop a bit more.

edit3: Painted over some of the more problematic areas, namely the finger joints.