Valley Scene Outside The Carriage Window WIP

This is how the valley looks on the reflection of the carriage window in the 'Carriage Trip' post. I thought I would complete it as an individual painting, then intergrate it onto the reflection. But of course when I am done I will flip it to its right-way-round.

Here's the progress:

Basic colouring.

Playing around n did some random scribbles on the left side mountains.

Did some lights.

Sky and a bit of distant mountains.

The Carriage Trip WIP

This is the illustration I am working on, based on my own novel.



Extract from the novel in Chinese

黎希望著映照在窗外飛逝的森林之上，自己那淡薄的倒影，瘦骨嶙峋、臉頰凹陷，垂下雙頰的淡色髮絲猶如枯草，一雙棕灰的眼，儼然是張陌生面貌。他從來沒有那麼清楚地看過自己的面目，那潔淨使他感到裸露、脆弱、不習慣。他伸手碰觸那冰冷的玻璃，彷彿這樣就能觸及那陌生的自己。在過去，他的臉總是蓋著塵土污垢，頭髮糾結雜亂，衣著破爛不整，就像是套完美的偽裝，使他的存在好似空氣。有時，甚至連他都遺忘了自己可悲的存在。

I use Photoshop and the mini Intuos3.

Here we go the progress:

1 - some colour sketch

3 - a bit of outline
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7 - paint an eye
9- paint another eye10
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12 - define the mouth a little
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14- some highlights, just for motivation
16 - do the curves
17- hair
18 - I believe I did something to the jaw
19 - here we go hand-painted hair
20 - I liquified the nose
21 - I did something to the jaw again
22- little adjustments

23 - 1 min bush sketch + one whole night on eyelashes that can't be seen on this resol.

25 - lights......

27 - detail adjustments & colour adjustments