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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 1264318" data-attributes="member: 380">Wow, wednesday rolls around fast when you're on vacation and not paying any attention to the time.  And all the more shame on me for not being all the way done, me being on break.  No finished piece this time, just a WIP since I don't want to rush this one.  In fact not being all the way done I thought this would be a fine and hopefully interesting time to take a peek at part of the process I go though.  Feral was a very different situation than the last one.  Instead of a multitude of ideas I had a singular vision of what I wanted to do from almost the very second I read this past week's word.  This has so far been a very challenging piece, not in coming up with what to do, but in correctly executing what I wanted.  Getting the pose to look right was troublesome with out having someone around to model it for me, and a lack of any decent kind of photo reference (these things are your friends if you want to create strong and believable pictures).  First came a few pages of doodles and quasi thumbnails, trying to get the basics of individual parts of what I wanted to do, mostly the face, but they mostly look like my pencil puked on the page.  I'll not post that though, as there isn't any reason to waste message board space doing so and the only real lesson to be learned is that my pictures have humble beginnings. Next came the rough, I find doing a rough drawing or two before getting on to the finished piece can really help, it lets me know what kind of problems I'm likely to run into so that I can solve them (hopefully) before starting on the final piece (this can often save a lot of time in the long run).  This is the stage where the composition really comes into focus from the rather bleary and vague vision of the thumbnails and where I often try to tackle the basics of lighting.  Anyway, here's the rough.</blockquote>

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