Here comes a painting that I have done recently. A friend inspired me to do this.
I have started with a quick scribble with some ideas that came upin my mind then I have drawn a refined version and filled it with color.
After I did the 3D sculpture I felt that it will be nice to finish the illustration with 2D digital paint.
Here it is:
If you want to listen to Anbuley, check out her myspace area here.
All right friends. The futuristic artwork of Anbuley is not finished yet, but at least the 3D step, so I am happy to share a short making of with you. Especially for the technical interested:
The Head was first modeled in Maya from a low poly base mesh thatI have created some time ago. So a flexible and solid foundation. I have imported this head into Z-Brush and sculpt i by using a hand full of brushes (Move, Inflat, Standart, Smooth, Flatten). I have subdived it to more then one million Polygons and exported a lower res version back into maya, where I have set up the lighting and shaders. A hdri plus a area light and a couple of layers to be flexible during compositing (Specular, Diffuse, Subsurface Scattering, Ambient Occlusion…).
In Z-Brush I have created a 8K displacement map plus some 2K - 4K maps for the specular and diffuse channels. Some photoshop work for minor touch ups and modifications of the maps.
You can find a turntable animation of the head here: TURNTABLE ANIMATION
The leashes and eye brows have been created as poligon objects, using paint effects as a base for the brows.
A couple of days of work and soon I gonna start the 2D digital paint session - That will be fun 
Here is a 3D character that I am working on at the moment. I gonna embed the Sculpture into an digital painting soon. I don’t know where this will lead exactly but there is something deep in my mind that wants to hop onto the paper and screen.
I was inspired by a singer and friend. Her name is Anbuley by the way…
I will publish some step by step infos for the creation of the 3D model soon, too.
So hold on!