As you can see, the picture shows a ready to fight Michonne , with a strong and hard look. It is perfect to represent the traits of the character.

We have to take the markest traits before the color. There is no doubt that is the most important step because we take the facial expression and everything else.

Let's choose an attractive color palette. In this case i've used the Blue/ Green analogy with different tones to transmit a different way to see her. Now we will draw brightest forms of the picture with the goal of generate a balanced gradient.

She looks plane. But don't worry about that at the beginning. Keep playing with the gradiant of different tones of the same colors .

We are almost there! This siynthesize has 5 shapes of color, it will change depending of what level of detail you want. Remember to add the shine with something close to the white.

Don't you think that she looks beautiful?

3. Typography

Lets play with the planes now! We have here Michonne on the front, but if we add the text behind her we have 2 planes now creating a cool sensation of a 3D form. The "Walker" is a great touch because it gets darker and more horrifying.

3. Textures

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Adobe Photoshop allows you to play with the opacity of the forms, we do not need all the textures at 100% because they are strong. Just melt them with the draw until you get what you wanted.

Here is a better look of the new texture layer, remember to mix all you think can help you to give her more expression.

And there you go! Michonne is done.

- See how i made it in a quick video! -

All the vectors are made in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and the photography edition in Adobe Photoshop Cs6. Here is a little video of the project.

Enjoy it!

- The Final Result -

Thank you very much for taking your time and
for letting me share my project with you.

Source

This poster is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License