Portrait of Valerie 2016 CGHQ

This CG started as a digital sketch, Colored and rendered by hand using my custom brush tools, The fur, Feather, Stone, and Steel Textures were drawn by hand and touched up with the smudge tool. Hair Textures and rendering was also done by hand. Valerie's "Pole Sword" was drawn using the Pen tool for the pole and blade, and the Brush Tool for the design of the guard. Background Statue was drawn by hand, duplicated using Cut and Paste, and each rendered and textured by hand with custom brush tool. Same goes for the windows. White Stone Brick wall pattern was drawn and rendered by hand and apply to the background using cut and fill tools. Then textured by hand with a custom brush. The Tree in the background was drawn, rendered, and textured by hand with the brush tools. The Sky background was made using a gradient.

Layers used: 186 (back when I didn't use layers properly)