03-07-2004, 05:35 PM
I got a bit lazy and just cleaned off the pixellations on the body so that the shadows and light were in big swathes(after doing that beard about 3 different ways, you don't really wanna have to spend 1/2 an hour painting the Middle-Aged Mutant Sumo Turtle :P FYI, I started with an alternating pattern beard, joined them into brown crosses on ochre backing, then decided to make it a lot darker by linking the horizontals on the crosses) I did in fact free-hand the scepter. I used the Line tool to make a brown bar across his hand, copied and pasted his head to make a sphere, then put in patches of white and pale blue(very hard to notice this latter one against the white) After that, I free-handed the fingers and thumb to approximate a grasp(one gaffe you may notice is that the scepter-hand has one extra finger over the empty one)