Burning Hope Final

And here's the final version!

Took a while to tweak it to the point I was pretty satisfied, but I had to endure getting sick earlier this week, and it was very miserable for a while.

Took out the ink outlines in the previous version of the pic, since it was cutting Hope out of her surroundings more than I would have liked. I kept the sketch textures, and just adjusted the opacity a bit, around 45% of the original.

I also added a texture to the rubble and used ripple filters to create some heat haze. I then copied the entire image, and pasted it as a new layer, then added another ripple filter to that. I reduced the opacity of that layer to less than 10% just so that there's a bit of haze for the image.

Pencils with colors on Photoshop CS3 with a Genius G-Pen 450, rock texture from CGTextures.com.

Hope, X-Men, and all related characters tm and (c) Marvel Enterprises.
Original Art by Jon Mallari