The Sea Witch.... (Making Mistakes Helps You Grow)

Hi all! Well, this piece gave me a bunch of trouble. I wanted to create a maritime themed piece, so I thought pirates. Last pirate image I did came out, but I wanted something a little darker... A Sea Witch! That was it! Sooo, I set to work. I went to my trusty DAZ Studio and used some DAZ3D models to create a pirate witch using a zombie texture and a ship model. When both were rendered, I then took the images into my image editor (Pixelmator for MAC) and went to work with a few Photoshop brushes from Deviney, (also on DAZ3D).

What came out was a mess.....

The face just looked awful in the way the image was being presented. I couldn't fix no matter how many layers I made or how many adjustments I made to those layers. Sooo, off to DAZ Studio again to create the pirate woman below....

Nope! Again, the colour, the texture, something was way off. By this time we are at around mistake number 54. I thought about scrapping the project, then it hit me! Combine them stupid! Also, I decided to remove some colour, to make the face look like the white powder makeup used in the 16-17th century, or there abouts, with the bright red lips. After several tries.... this is what I got. Here is a gif below to show the process, followed by the full image.... "The Sea Witch"

And here is the final version: See, mistakes can be good.

Thanks for looking, comments are always welcome, and have a great day!

PS:

If for any reason you can't see the breakdown images, please go to this link: The Sea Witch

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