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


On several new layers, I gave my cat eyes, whiskers and eyebrows, some extra fur along the visible edges so that he wouldn't look too smooth and glowing eyes.



To finish him out, I did the line art for the wings (one on a layer on top of the cat and one behind) and painted them in. I also decided that he was just a tad too large so I resized him a little.




Final Touches

The original sketch had a trail of light coming from the jack-o'-lantern, and I added that now.  The little stars were done with one of the default brushes that come with Photoshop; I just messed with the scattering, spacing, and size and angle jitters to get the desired effect with minimal effort.  (You don't need to paint each one individually!)  This painting was not intended to have a background, but I didn't think the wand's glow worked with a transparent or white background for display, so I threw in a quick, messy night sky with clouds.  In this case, I used the large default chalk brush and some Gaussian blur.  (I'd actually like to go back and do a more polished background later.)  One final very important thing, since I did this with line art and the painted layers are all under the lines' layers, the lines show in a few areas where they are not supposed to.  In particular, the witch's hair and the scalloped edge of her top should go on top of the lines in places.  I used layer masks to hide the lines where they shouldn't appear.  And with that, I was done!

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