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So, how can I make the ones on this pic:
to look more like the one in the attachment? It's hard to get lighting effects while keeping a dark purble+red+blue color on it.
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This is the color theme I want to achieve. (+ the burning red standing out but cannot find the initial betta pic I saw with red too)If you check out photos of dark colored fish, you will notice that they still have specular highlights that are almost white. And so for practice, you should have a full range of tone, from almost black behind and under the fins (occluded areas) to almost white, in bits on the upper surface, even on the tail things.
I'll try but I don't know how it will end up, as the character doesn't have a glossy skin but rather a matte one. Kind of like a lizard / salamander.
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Well yeah that diffuse specular is what I'm after. Like light fading onto the surface because the surface is so dark that it will absorb most of the light.Well that's not really a good reference photo... there's hardly any light on the fish. I honestly can't see any color. This may be too glossy, but I did this in just a couple minutes. You still get the dark color feeling, but there's light and shadow on it too. Even matte surfaces can have some kind of specular, it's just wider and more diffuse.
Kind of like velvet.
^ This is the material I want to make its skin look like.
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Glad you like, am about to move onto the second item in the image, so hopefully I won't ruin it! Haha
Also, not sure if I should add the jaw onto him or not, any opinions?
*Edit* Added the jaw in the end, this looks far darker than in the sketchbook, should stop messing with it in Photoshop so much...lol
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