This is a work-in-progress; it’s something I’ve been working on for the past few days, during my spare time. A while back I made a fan-art drawing of my SW:KOTOR 2 “Jedi Exile” character. I decided to CG-colour the drawing to practice some CG painting in Photoshop, using my Wacom tablet. :D

Looking at how other CG painters do their art, I’m planning on using three layers of shading for skin, clothing, hair, etc. - a starting colour with its corresponding lighter and darker tone. In terms of the character’s hair in the image below, you can see there is a basic underlying “yellow-ish” colour with a few highlights at the top of the character’s head and some darkened parts near the neck, which are not exposed to much light.

I’ll post updates of significant progress; with the amount of spare time I have, this will most likely take me a few weeks. Once I am finished with the work, you can find it at my deviantArt page, though I will post a low-res sample here.

Work-in-progress - KOTOR 2
SW:KOTOR 2 fan-art sample of my

Original CG portrait by Obsidian Entertainment: Jedi Exile female portrait