Making of Halloween Witch by Amber Chen, Georgia Web: www.kagaminoir.com


The effect of adding these random hairs is subtle but helps add to the realism.  Be careful not to overdo it, though, unless your person has really frizzy hair!  Here is a bit at 100%.


The bangs went through the same process, and I added a mask to them as well in order to push them behind her right shoulder.  I also lined and painted the ribbon in her hair going through the same basic steps as before.  And the last part of the witch was the sheer top of her dress.  I did a little image searching on the internet, looking at sheer, tight materials, such as pantyhose and lingerie, to get an idea of how sheer cloth behaves in regards to lighting and value.  Using what I found, I finished up that part of her, including some black trim as places where seams would be.



As for the broom, the stick part of it was straightforward and done with clipping masks as previously.  The process for the straw was very similar to that of the hair.  Straw, though, doesn't flow in strands the way that hair does, so I tried to make the individual bits of straw stand out alone more.



The last unlined part in this piece was the cat.  The main body of the cat was done on a layer under the broom.  The tail was done between the broom and the witch.  Because it's black, only the biggest, brightest highlights show up; there's not too much detail in black.