Character art
Feeling like maybe I was hijacking the ad design for hire thread too much, I decided to start a fresh one and delete from there. Here's some of my character art:
Philosopher in Arms cover graphic
Another shot of Chevenga
His shadow-father Esora-e
His personal physician, Kaninjer
I did a sketch of Chevenga that the cover artist who was working for Baen clipped to his easel and faithfully copied for Lion's Heart. I then scanned a reproduction of that and sampled it into FaceGen, to make a template of the face that I now edit and manipulate in different ways using both FaceGen and Corel PhotoPaint (Corel's version of PhotoShop). So I can't say I did any image of Chevenga totally myself.
The others are all mine, however, created using FaceGen -- either from its random face generator (I keep clicking until I spot one that looks almost like a character, then tweak it until it's more exact a resemblance) or by sampling in and then altering a photo. (The one I'm working on of female lead Niku, for instance, is based on Halle Berry.) I then embellish them with photos gleaned from the Internet and altered beyond actionability (I hope) plus just straight painting using PhotoPaint.
Do you make your own character art? Or did you commission it from someone? I do pencil sketches of my characters and then buy color pretties from others.
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