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Here's an illustration I did as a test piece a little while ago, of the Angels appearing to the shepherds in the field on the night of Jesus's birth.
It's a bit different to my normal stuff, a teensy bit more painterly and realistic. I used photo reference for this one, something I don't do much for my more cartoony stuff, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, since it was really tricky to give the impression that it was a dark night-time scene without making things too dark, and at the same time making things really bright because of the angels' aura while not making it look too bright. Tricky, took a few goes.
Every person in this scene is referenced from photos of me dressed as shepherds and angels! I didn't have time to get people to pose for me, so I just got my wife to take shots of me, and then I changed the faces with the awesome power of my imagination, which basically just meant make their noses bigger and give them a beard or something.
Hope you like it!
P.S The sheep were not referenced from photos of me.

Description
Here's an illustration I did as a test piece a little while ago, of the Angels appearing to the shepherds in the field on the night of Jesus's birth.
It's a bit different to my normal stuff, a teensy bit more painterly and realistic. I used photo reference for this one, something I don't do much for my more cartoony stuff, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, since it was really tricky to give the impression that it was a dark night-time scene without making things too dark, and at the same time making things really bright because of the angels' aura while not making it look too bright. Tricky, took a few goes.
Every person in this scene is referenced from photos of me dressed as shepherds and angels! I didn't have time to get people to pose for me, so I just got my wife to take shots of me, and then I changed the faces with the awesome power of my imagination, which basically just meant make their noses bigger and give them a beard or something.
Hope you like it!
P.S The sheep were not referenced from photos of me.