I did more of this one – initially, at least – in Illustrator than any of the others, having done all of the coloring and shading there rather than bringing the image into Photoshop for that.
After finishing it in Illustrator, I brought it into Photoshop to add some effects.
Then I posted the finished image to Facebook, but while I was reasonably happy with it – I think it looks pretty damn cool – I noticed that I had missed something: one of the lightning bolt brushes left a weird hard edge that kind of sticks out.
After brining it back into Photoshop to fix that before posting it here, I decided to apply some blurring and smudging to soften it up a little, then did some more layer blending to make the blacks a little blacker. This is Black Adam, after all.
I also thought that there might be some people interested in seeing what the initial rough sketch looked like, so I decided to post three images here:
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| The rough sketch. |
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| The version posted to Facebook. |
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| The retouched version. |
3 comments:
He turned out really cool. I hope you'll forgive me for my untrained eye, but the only difference I see in second and third versions is that his lightning bolt is a bit more glowy in the second.
The edges of the highlights and shading are smoothed out. It's fairly subtle.
Adam is good. Your Darseid needs more rocky goodness tho.
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