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Step 13: Big Robot!

- Base lighting
- Tighter highlights.
- Dodging and levels adjust because the lighting contrast wasn't strong enough.
- Missiles!

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Step 13: Soldiers

- Base lighting
- Then brighter defining highlights to call attention to brighter or more important areas.
- Secondary high-contrast back-lighting to separate the fore figure from the background.

Broken Pieces #3 Cover colors...LIVE! Step 12

Step 12: skin and hair/secondary light
In an effort to condense things, I'll lump the screen shots into steps. I'll render the skin in several stages.

- Base lighting
- Then brighter defining highlights to call attention to brighter or more important areas.
- Secondary high-contrast back-lighting to separate the fore figure from the background.
- Colorize the line art in the necessary areas.
- Carry the back lighting through into the other items of clothing and do the smaller elements.

Next... background troopers!

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Step 7-11: primary figures
Moving away from the background for now,  Beginning the rendering on the primary figure(s) to give myself a better idea of where I'm going on the piece as a whole.

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Step 6: Background
Trying to create a general sense of movement with the background.

Broken Pieces #3 Cover colors...LIVE! Step 5

Base colors

Step 5: Base colors
Flat colors are adjusted to reflect the darker tones of what I plan the final render to be. The background is roughed in.

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Flat colors

Step 4: Flat colors
Colors are added to assist the colorist in separating the major elements of the artwork.

Broken Pieces #3 Cover from pencils to colors to finished...LIVE!

Step 1: Thumbnail options!
(Layout B was picked with elements of cover A to be combined into the final.)

Step 2: Layout!
(Corrections incorporated, Cory moved onto the final!)

Broken Pieces #3 Cover A Pencils by Cory Smith

Step 3: Finished Pencils!
(Line art cleaned up and darkened by multi-talented series creator and writer Mark Roslan.)

Now, follow along as Peter Steigerwald colors the Broken Pieces A cover. (New updates every 20 minutes or so.)