5/5/15 - Radiance Start

So I started up my next big-ish Illustration after Olivia:

I started using a lot more reference for poses, which I think has been extraordinarily helpful. It also gives me a head start on the lighting. There's a lot of linework this time around because I learned my lesson last time - any problems I don't solve early will come back to haunt me later, and for longer and harder when I get to the later stages of the painting. So I'm trying to solve all of the perspective and surface problems now.

As for the subject itself, well, it's Destiny! That new chestpiece, Purifier Robes, looks amazing, so I had to try my hand at it. And if you play Destiny a bit, you might realize I'm cheating here: I have two exotics equipped: the Purifier Robes and Light Beyond Nemesis. This wouldn't be possible in game, but I thought the feathers on LBN (the helm) matched the robes well and I couldn't think of a better helmet to match. And if you're really curious, the gloves are Tengu Operant I, which is from a really cool early blue armor set. So yeah, in game, this wouldn't make any sense but I thought it looked cool, so it stays. There's gonna be a lot of fire too, because this would be a moment after the Warlock here has cast Radiance, so there's bound to be flames everywhere, such as the that composing wings that I've lightly sketched out or fire coming from the hand in the foreground, which I have not yet drawn in.

So yeah, that's all for today. Be back tomorrow!