Lunar Halberdier

Illustration of a lunar halberdier in a gothic style.
In this piece, I focused on sharpening my skills with color and a limited palette, while still preserving strong colour vibration.
I was also refining my approach to dramatic lighting and illuminated areas in general, basically learning how to make light feel intense without being pure white, letting it shift into richer saturation with just a hint of gray.
I also discovered how to mute overly bright white areas using the Darken Color blending mode, you can see the effect clearly in the video when the face transforms.