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Original Inktober Prompt: Compass

This is a redux of my original inktober prompt. Some of my more recent pieces taught me a lot about color theory and I learned a few new tricks in photoshop along the way as well. I used this as an opportunity to fix some of the mistakes in my original drawing as well as to add some things and play around with aspects of the drawing the original black and white format wouldn't allow.

The waves are a new approach for me. As stated on the previous post I've done a lot with water and water shaders. I used some of what I learned in 3D modeling and applied it here as well to give the waves more of a water look. I also toyed around with volumetrics for the sky and tried to incorporate the principles of Raleigh Scattering to color it while also giving a slight light bloom radiating out from the sun.

I also did a fair amount of playing around with the fur on the tail and was very pleased with the result as fur and hair have typically been huge weaknesses of mine. There are a few things I probably could have done differently. For example given the angle of the sun, the die of the ship which is showing should have more of a shadow and there should be more of a shadow across the waves as well resulting in a dark spot.

Overall though I really enjoyed creating this and I definitely feel like I picked up some things I'm going to carry with me moving forward.

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Original Inktober Prompt: Compass

This is a redux of my original inktober prompt. Some of my more recent pieces taught me a lot about color theory and I learned a few new tricks in photoshop along the way as well. I used this as an opportunity to fix some of the mistakes in my original drawing as well as to add some things and play around with aspects of the drawing the original black and white format wouldn't allow.

The waves are a new approach for me. As stated on the previous post I've done a lot with water and water shaders. I used some of what I learned in 3D modeling and applied it here as well to give the waves more of a water look. I also toyed around with volumetrics for the sky and tried to incorporate the principles of Raleigh Scattering to color it while also giving a slight light bloom radiating out from the sun.

I also did a fair amount of playing around with the fur on the tail and was very pleased with the result as fur and hair have typically been huge weaknesses of mine. There are a few things I probably could have done differently. For example given the angle of the sun, the die of the ship which is showing should have more of a shadow and there should be more of a shadow across the waves as well resulting in a dark spot.

Overall though I really enjoyed creating this and I definitely feel like I picked up some things I'm going to carry with me moving forward.