Dude post this to your portfolio so it shows up in browse art. We try not to encourage finals being posted in the forums.

As I already said on FB "Wow that is awesome!"

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ha didn't know that ok will do. but to save face heres some WIP images

1. Line drawing
2. quick quick blocking out of light and dark areas.
3. smoothing things out a bit, still working pretty quick and rough
4. smoothing out more
5. on a different layer i set the blending mode to overlay and add different colours where i want them
6. add another layer and begin working with the colours more. I'm trying to make the picture less dull (one of the drawbacks of starting with a black and white painting). I also added special effects like the speed lines and a bit of glow around the eyes. i probably added highlights in some areas and other random little details.
7. the finished image. I added a bit of blur in an attempt to make a depth of field effect. I also added another layer, filled it with a radial white and orange gradient and messed around with blending modes and opacity until i had what i wanted.

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and it's a story that might bore you, but you don't have to listen, because I always knew it was going to be like that.

I see you paint with tonal values first. While I understand the logic behind it, it feels so un painterly to do that.

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not an issue to me if it doesn't feel painterly. i'm just not clever enough to figure out colour and tone and values and everything all at once, so i work black and white first and worry about colour later.

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and it's a story that might bore you, but you don't have to listen, because I always knew it was going to be like that.

gah so good to see behind the scenes sort of stuff on some really great painting work. Great stuff.

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very nice I like how you showed step by step shots as well and the warming effect turned out very good.

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really great work.

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