Deso Recreation

Using my old graphics tablet and Photoshop, I was able to produce this recreation of Deso's work and am pleased with how it turned out. Previously, I had used a sharpie, paper and a scanner before deciding the lines were too thick, there was too little detail and the lineart itself distracted from the main piece. The layers for the sharpie lineart and respective colour placeholders remain in the Photoshop file, so I may go back, finish those up and document those at some point to show my progression.

 As for the colours themselves, I chose a nice soothing gradient from Photoshop's sample gradients, namely one that started off light at the top and changed both tone and hue as it went down. The eye colours I chose are in reference to one way I drew myself with yellow sclerae with pink blood vessels, dark blue irises increasing in tone as it drew toward the pupil, and, albeit not in this piece, bright pink pupils with an added shine overall. Of course, in this more realistic piece, I did not include that cartoony aspect, although it would be interesting to explore for the other lineart set.