By Mike Thompson

In this tutorial, Mike starts fine tuning by hand painting Spider Gwen using style references in Painter. It is a fine balance, too much detail and she will no longer look painted but, strategically painting fine details to make the illustration pop is what it’s all about! “I want my work to look like it exists in the real world.”

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