Might as well start off with my best foot forward. This is a Digitally painted fan art piece of Calibretto. From Joe Mad's Battle Chasers series.
With out Logo and extended sides.
With Digitally painted in logo repainted by me
early cropped image
Close up of details
Step 1 black and white Concept rendering
Step 2 adding major light source from behind I want to keep thing dark up from so to make the butterfly a focus point that stands out. A bit dark right now for the res but I begin to add more lighting as I go.
Step 3 subtle front lighting
Step 4 Cleaning up the form of the body.
Step 5 adding in details and highlight as well as changing and correct the placement of parts.
Step 6 added in lightning flash glow from behind Calibretto. As well as more body part changes.
Step 7 added in rain element
Step 8 beginning to add massive amounts of water droplets. This takes a while and is tedious.
Step 9 Rain droplets completely added and further rendered. As well added in some soft steam effects come out from the head.
Step 10 further rendering of the rain drops. Again Tedious
Step 11 Rain drops are made to stand out more with a little bit more contrast, I was feeling that they were blending in too much.
Step 12 More subtle lighting added in from the front and cleaning up.