Pink Medusa

I wrote this song which is called Pink Medusa last year for my band; more or less it's about how lust and promiscuity look appetizing but are horrible monsters and can consume you in the end. I always had the idea for an image in my head but I've just now decided to begin it's fabrication. There are some nudsies, so click responsibly. Here is the initial sketch.

Update 1: Cleaned up the linework. Evidently this is what adonihs does before he starts painting, and he is a beast, so I'm going to give it a go. The lack of snakes is due to Photoshop pooping itself after I was close to finishing them...Once again, be prepared for a bit of nudity. BAM.

Update 2: Trying out some different color schemes and I think I've settled on this one; the background obviously isn't done so the color is just so I can better see what I'm working with. Snakes are back, but not very colored. I feel like the texture for the snakes is going to be mind numbingly frustrating, but we'll see if we can make it work. And yep, she's still nude. SHIMMY.

Update 3:Darkened some areas and started to block in some colors for the snakes. I'm thinking I definitely like doing precise lineart first, it helps a lot with detail, and soon I'll be making the lineart invisible and cleaning up just the colors. I kind of like the smoke blowing around her, but I might end up doing something a little more graphic 2D. SHWAMMY.

Update 4: I don't know why I didn't keep it to one post all along...Hid the lineart and cleaned up the color. Still putting off the snakes. Also, does anyone actually read this blog? BOOMP.

Break 1: Took a break from Ms. Medusa to play with the new tablets wrought from the hands of the gods and so graciously given to the Becker lab. These are also known as Cintiqs and are incredible. Quick sketch I did on one.

Update 5: Never again will I color a Medusa....at least not in the next ten years. These snakes are so irritating, and it doesn't help that I've never really drawn snakes before. I tried to do the hair as all one piece of color and make the different snakes by darkening areas...not so much, just didn't look contrasty enough. I've now separated each of the snakes into a different layer so I can manage each of the shadows individually, which is working a bit better. I'm working with 43 layers currently with a handful hidden for various uses.

Update 6: So close to being done! After this I just need to do a little edge cleaning, fix a couple light issues, and add a couple more textures. SHWORP.