Anatomy of the Promotional Image

Here's a quick breakdown of how our promo image came to life. First it all started with some thumbnailing from an idea from JB Love
That quickly progressed into a rough pencil drawing colored in photoshop...

Then I printed out a non photo blue version of the pencils and ink them in, and wound up with this, which just didn't do the job that we wanted...so back to square one..
So, to catch the attitude that was necessary for this piece, I went back to drawing that I had done of Amy that really worked well for her character..
And directly in photoshop with the trusty ol' wacom tablet we add her armor and do a quick value painting...
Then add in our frontpage, wall, etc...
On a new layer I do the finished figure painting, notice it changes a lot from that first color study...
A few tweaks and some last additions and we've got a promo piece!

I'll post soon about the new promo...

BRP!