Psylocke (8K) (Patreon)

Love doing this pose even though the sculpting for it is quite difficult to get it to look right 😌

Also for anyone interested, I've made some changes to my workflow. The post-processing for this one was done almost entirely in Blender instead of Photoshop (which I still used for a few touch-ups at the end). The problem with my old workflow of doing everything in Photoshop was that you can only push a PNG or TIFF file so far in terms of editing before you start to get banding/detail loss, and OpenEXR files that are supposed to circumvent this are not compatible in PS for some reason.

When editing inside of Blender itself you can take advantage of the full range of data before the view transform (AgX, Filmic, etc.) is applied to the image, much like editing photos in RAW in photography. I'm using the Render Raw addon for this and it's pretty incredible how similar it is to editing in a standalone program like PS or Lightroom, although obviously not as in depth and polished. Also being able to see the edits in realtime in the viewport is a huge benefit. So I think this is what I'll be doing from now on.

At any rate thank you for your continued support despite being slow to put out renders as of late. I appreciate you all 🤍