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I had to try making the elements work with themselves
so, once again, I doodled here and there but,
this turn, I also attempted to do clear and precise
strokes to help me with the offing renderization, saving
some minutes in this process.
At the same time, the hangover areas in the picture – hands, eagle, feathers and hair – were approaching
to final steps, with only few outstanding things to finish, like smoothing and application of additional details.
Moving to the End
After being happy with the ACE concepts, it was time to clean their messy strokes and orientate the picture
to a closely finalized aspect. To start doing this,
I used a hard round edge brush all the time to paint
and finalize the jewels, taking care about the gemstone’s
shine and color; the same brush also painted
the entire clothing, the sword and the couch, but it
was basically used only to define their shapes and
volumes in a right way, giving me an almost completely
done – although untextured – elements.
TEXTURES, FINAL DETAILS AND BACKGROUND
 A) The first brush I created to do couch’s, jacket’s and background’s adornments. It’s
made of various slim and thick lines, which form, in the end, the entire adornments’ design.
The brush itself is much bigger, but here’s a part of it.
I applied the brush directly on the jacket, making some colors’ variances between red and
pale orange. As for the couch and the background, I painted the texture in an another
layer, picking the Vivid Light mode and setting its opacity to about 50-60%; that gave, in
the end, a shiny look to the brush.
 B) The second one was made to do boots texture and its format
takes after a honeycomb shape. In fact, I used references from snakes’ sloughs to
create it:
The application of this brush was easier than the first: in a separated Normal layer,
I painted all over the boots’ shape, taking care about the lighted and shading parts
and doing some hues variations.
 C) As for the third and last custom brush, it was created to do the blood on her hand
and leg. The shape of this brush is the simplest of the tree and, in the end; I just had
to apply it in the red color:
After the use of textures and custom brushes, the image is basically finished but, to increment some last
things and consider it truly and completely done, I also decided to do few colors’ changes, erase some little
parts and give a smooth look to the piece with an air brush. As is something I did in the very end and only to
give a final workmanship, this was a quick step, which took me not more than 20-30 minutes.
And it’s finished! As yet, I consider this the most labored work I’ve done. The attention to colors and application
of different brushes and textures were something I’ve never tried to take seriously before, so I spent
more time than I expected in this picture but, at the same time, I also learned a lot!
In the end, I really hope you enjoyed this making and it was useful to you in some way. :) If you have some
question, please feel free to send me an e-mail! Thank you very much for reading ! :D
 About the Artist - My name is Karin Y. Schmitt and I live in Brazil, in a city near to São Paulo, called
Guarulhos – same place I was born. I’ve been interested in drawing since my childhood but, in spite of it, I
always wanted to do Medicine when I grew up. Then, few years ago, I discovered digital painting – firstly in
Photoshop – and it changed, totally, my perception and opinion of what should I really do. Today I want to
be an illustrator, and I always try to grow up in the area doing works and paying attention to the critiques I
receive.
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