Haven't made any progress to my Lady of the Woods. I still feel like I somehow forgot all about how to paint properly. Darn those cute chibis and pets and stuff...
Anyway, took a break from said cutesy stuff today and tried to work on an idea I have for a Sansa portrait. I usually prefer to make them look like their "own" people rather than the actors, but for this I want a likeness. And can I achieve one? Even with a reference? noooooo.... I'll just blame it on the ref having the wrong lighting shall I?
Just now I feel I've at least reached a point where it doesn't look like complete crap (the first wips do, though... close your eyes if you're the sensitive sort)
Sketch (and some correctional extra sketching on top of the first sketch... I kind of like how the face turned out here even though it's not very Sophie Turner)
Very very flat colors
Greyscale layer to work on values (and then set to overlay on flat colours)
The prevous wip file was pretty much flattened (and up-sized) and I'm painting on top. Been cheating with the ref, enlarging it now and then to get the eyes, mouth and shoulders where they should be... Still doesn't look too much like Sophie Turner. (Colorwise it needs work too, but I want to get the likeness first - I can always work on colour options later... Though I do want it cool and blue-darkish).