Chongyun || Genshin Impact Art

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Click to zoom, space/arrow keys to switch slides. Happy Birthday, @-ShatteredSilence- ! Since your icon is Chongyun, I decided to draw him for you as a present :) Hope you enjoy! ============ ↓ Art process below ↓ ============ #1: Basic Sketch in blue (made transparent for easier sketching process on upper layers) #2: Slightly more detailed sketch, please excuse the ugliness :') #3: Lineart (Hair in different color for easy identification) #4: Basic colors on shirt and shoes, including patterns #5: Filling in the rest of the basic colors, changed background color #6 & 7: Shading on shirt and pants #8: Added pattern to side of pants, continued shading on pant cuffs and cloth #9: Gold cuffs, black undershirt, outer shirt fasteners, and bandages #10: Skin, tassel, braided rope, shoes, and belt. (Along with beginning the monstrous face process) #11: Soulless, mud-caked eyes. : Some humanity is discovered. Half the face remains vacant and soulless. : Faceless Chongyun has a few holes. *Temporarily hid the demonic layer to work on hair and adjusted its size* : Working on hair and face, adjustments to skin tone : Began adding purple shadow and warm highlights for more consistent lighting. Painted ‘vision’ gem on the belt and worked on the popsicle. : Continued adding shadows and lighting on Multiply and normal layers. Made areas lighter with orange, magenta, and gold hues. Brightened the gold embroidery in the cloth. : Depth shading on separate ‘Multiply’ layer : Rough painting for background, used darker shades of mostly red, orange, and purple : Added rough paint for golden arches : Detailing background : More detail, adding shadows to background for a better sense of depth. : Added vignette, faint color adjustments, and chromatic aberration ============ ↓ Canvas & Brushes ↓ ============ Canvas size: 4800 by 3600 Brushes used (All Default Brushes): Opaque Watercolor (Used for the majority of the piece), Watercolor brush (Used for later highlights and shadows), Dense Watercolor (Some Background Work), Blender, Mapping Pen (Lineart), Darker Pencil (Sketching), Airbrush (Wide shadow and vignette) Disclaimer: I do not play Genshin Impact, so I may have portrayed Chongyun incorrectly...but I saw a lot of pictures with ice pops, so I decided to give him one :)