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Production progress report

Three high school girls

　The basic image of the third high school girl that was in production last time has been completed. With this, 3 high school girls have been completed.

　For the sake of comparison, reposting the image posted last time.

new image

　The image I’m working on now is this picture, which is also used as a frontispiece.

　She is an adult woman. 　This image is now complete with her full body nude, but the drawing of her clothing is completely untouched. In the paid article, you can see her whole body.

Drawing procedure

　Recently, my image production begins with taking outlines in black. I gradually shape it up and make it a somewhat well-formed figure. Below is an outline of the process.

　Paint the base in an appropriate place, and color the black layer to the skin color. The original black layer is not just a draft, but itself is used as the texture of the skin. However, until now, the shape of the limbs and the exact contours have been produced by correcting them after coloring. The outline that was modeled in black was only a rough one, not an elaborate one. 　This time, as an experiment, I tried to draw as accurately as possible at the black stage. This is because I thought that drawing as close to completion as possible in the black stage would reduce the subsequent correction work and increase production efficiency. 　Thus, it is the below image that was produced.

　Each hand and foot have five fingers drawn. After that, painting the color underneath and change the black layer to another color. This is a comparison of each stage.

　In conclusion, I found that this method did not work very well. This is because, after all, there will always be correction work after coloring. The depth of color is completely different between black and skin color, and both cannot be treated in the same way. Therefore, in the future, it seems better to finish the black stage with the work of taking the outline and proceed to the coloring stage as soon as possible. 　This is an enlarged comparison of the black stage and the completed face.

　There is a technique called the “Grisaille painting method”, which is a method of drawing the whole in grayscale and then adding color on top of it, but I think my drawing method is different. Because I just replace the grayscale layer with another color as it is.

　In the paid article of Ci-en, you can see the entirety of the latest production images.