This painting started off as a Photoshop brush practise piece, the blueish pic is the the raw. “Bristle” brush turned out to be both usable and annoying. It makes a nice watercolorish, rough texture that blends well on low flow and opacity, but at least my drawing tablet didn’t work with small brush size under 8 px, so it was really hard to paint/draw any details with it. The bigger picture is the working size and shows the brush strokes if you’re interested. I admit that I used smudge and the hard round brush for the hair because Bristle made dreadlocks in my unskilled hands.
I can’t say anything in defence of the pose; adding people and a background to a random pose is dumb and it rarely works. Malik has both of his arms because this pic takes place before everything fell apart.
While zooming the guys in the game to get reference pictures (with a digicam from television) I noticed two things: Malik had all of his hidden blade hand fingers intact (all the other top level assassins had the ring finger amputated (at least the ones who surround Altair in the final battles).) and Desmond has a long vertical scar in the back of his neck. I doubt that it’s just some “seam” in the 3D skin (Lucy doesn’t have it), it has to be a sexy scar! I really want to see him naked now. :twisted:
