This timelapse is a bit messy but my goal was to record some of my rendering process to show the way I paint. It's not a tutorial but it might give an idea of how I push my pixels around.
The video starts after the rough sketch is already in place and then there's a BIG gap somewhere in the middle where I figure out all the trees and tentacles. I thought the face might be the most interesting bit to focus on anyway. The video is little over three minutes but the entire process probably took closer to six hours, not counting the looooong breaks.
There isn't a lot of color in this and I painted almost all of it with a gradient map adjustment layer on top of everything, colorpick set to "current and below". I start painting above that at the very end when working on the eye. Other tricks used in this is a tilt-shift blur filter to add some depth, a final color balance adjustment and a high pass layer for final sharpness.
since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this