Thumbelina Fashion Editorial Spread

[carneaglariel]

I was planning on doing a birthday post along with this one but this one became so image heavy already so I think I'll separate it.

A few months ago, I was approached during Pizzafolio (its an event where students of all majors share their portfolios so we see people we NEVER usually see at any given time) by extremely talented photographer YiFei Gu

Comments

[firnheledien]

These are very beautiful. I am awed by how quickly you work and how you manage not to lose vibrancy going from the values to the colours (something I find very hard to do). Any reason for you to be painting from value first?

[carneaglariel]

Thanks so very much dear <3 Actually, I think I work rather slowly actually. I struggled with the first few because I was so unused to the blending and flow in Photoshop. That took up a great deal of time on the first day

[firnheledien]

I find values easier to do because I started working with pencils first.

I should try mixing overlay with multiply layers because just overlay has this burn and dodge look which I don't really like.

[carneaglariel]

Yeah the same concept works with pencils too : D

Usually if I want to avoid the burn dodge thing I usually put the overlay layer above the multiply but under the normal. It usually works best to kick in the saturation where you need it without it being massively overpowering. : D