060606 Marcella and Bruno

Oh god, it's finished.
*whew* Okay, this took a long time. Like many hours. Probably around eight...sooooo yeah.
This was loads of fun to do, I feel like I'm learning something, or at least trying something new every time I do another CG. This time I did some serious fold shading, on the guy's tunic, and I worked with leather, metal, and texturing, notice the little gashes and cuts in the metal and leather. THat was all fun. Also, this' got two characters in it...more than my usual one per page.
And a serious background! Sand dunes, since Marcella is some sort of merchant character, in the desert. It's the first time I've done sand dunes, so that was fun too.
I also tried to make the shadows deeper, so I chose deeper colors and had more blending between them, not sure if I pulled that off as much as I could've but it's fine I guess...yeah. I'm just so glad it's done. :3 Something got screwed with my layers when I was finalizing things, and I wanted to fix the background because I orignally painted the horizon too low, so that made me waste 30 minutes tossing the layers back and forth between OC and PS...whee.

Overall, I'm quite pleased with this one, I learned some stuff. That's my goal. But don't let that deter you! Critique it to death.

I'd also like to give ~SkeletalWings some credit for the characters, since she inspired me to create them by giving me their names, without her, I probably wouldn't be posting anything. Thanks Red!

Marcella and Bruno (c) Exocentric
Open Canvas 3.0 and Photoshop 7.0