Illustration - "C'than"

I would like to introduce this drawing with the credits. This drawing is made by my dear friend Anouk Donkers. While she doesn't like coloring at all I asked her if she would mind me to color it for her. She agreed and thus here is my Work In Progress. Enjoy

If you wish to look at her project click the link below:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/45349255/Cthan-waarnemend-tekenen-progress

sea monster dive deep sea Ocean power submarine

The line art for the drawing.

I immediately knew which colors I wanted to use and started to fill the piece.

In between the colored bones(if you could see them as bones) I made a layer with a lower opacity to make it look like it has a see through material.

Turned off the line art to see current result.

Started on the coloring

End day 1 Result

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Here I noticed I was coloring wrong

Fixed it

I got at a phase here where I couldn't stand it that I didn't have a background. So I went on and started painting the background. Knowing C'than was under in the ocean it was quite a task since I've never drawn something that's underwater. You have to take a lot of things in account when you work with water.

As soon as I had this result I knew I wanted to keep this. It also helped a lot with the lighting I had already applied

C'than above the water layers

Quick render in between results.

Day 2 result

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C'than but darkened. Showing the light from his bolt.

I wanted to give his sort of charging beam or bolt some life. Like it was actually charging. So I went on and tried something I thought would look good. When I was done I immediately liked it!