...Liam Ends.

My version of Liam Neeson with his superb nose structure. This took forever to complete, but I've learned a lot of new ways to render certain things. Especially from working on his HAIR...

Liam's hair has GREATLY humbled me!

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Here's a quick little process anim.

Liam Begins...

Just doing a quick block in of the colors for my sketch of ordinary Liam Neeson. His hair is pretty crazy and all over the place in this one!

Jedi Liam: Chin Beard Hair Test

Quick hair rendering test.

Jedi Liam: Values and Composition Test

Just a really rough values placement/composition test. It's far from finished, but doing a really rough painting like this helps you TREMENDOUSLY when you're trying to visualize the final piece.  I also put down some really quick colors above my black & white layer just to test things out. 

Liam the Jedi: Likeness Sketches

Just a few sketches of a Liam Neeson caricature that I'm working on. He has acted in Batman Begins, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Schindler's List, The Chronicles of Narnia as Aslan's voice, and MANY other films. He has a great nose structure, so I'll probably go that route when exaggerating his features. I'm going to work on both of these sketches, but the Jedi version is tugging at me the hardest. This should be FUN...

Bruce Willis Process

Here's a quick animation showing the creation of my Bruce Willis painting. I do wish that I would have kept the layers for his jacket instead of FLATTENING ALL OF THE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS. *sigh* Oh well, maybe next time!