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Custom Caricature design for a twitch streamer.
Piece included combining multiple ref photos with his favorite armor set!
That beard detail alone had to take a while, and the armor callbacks make it feel like a proper mashup instead of a generic vector portrait. When you're merging multiple ref photos like this, do you nail the likeness first and layer the gear on after, or block the whole scene in together?
That beard alone looks like it took a while to get the flow right. With multiple ref photos to combine, was the tricky part nailing his likeness or getting the armor details accurate to the game?
That beard detail alone had to take a while, and the armor callbacks make it feel like a proper mashup instead of a generic vector portrait. When you're merging multiple ref photos like this, do you nail the likeness first and layer the gear on after, or block the whole scene in together?
All my portraits are hand drawn digitally :) I start with a sketch to map out portions and locations then finalize linework, and detial locations, next is laying down base colors before spending a majority of time on details... the beard taking the most of that this time.
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