This is a remake from an old image that I didn’t like the result too much, but still think was a good idea so I decided to try again recently.
It was made using mainly Blender, Substance Painter for the face, hands and clothes textures. Render was done in Cycles and post production in Blender’s compositor.
I still love this! maybe leave a link to the old one- Also I’d like to request a one to one comparison between the two— then like a 4k wallpaper one ^-^
To be honest though, I prefer the old one.
The old one had more of a weirdly happy feeling to it, almost a bit like a good old comic strip.
The new one, feels cooler, more straight to the point. It is really well made, don’t get me wrong, but something is missing. I got the old one in my desktop-wallpapers switcher by the way. The new one will probably join soon.
Sooo, tipps: Hm. Not much really. Give Steve a background - complete black doesn’t really work. Personally I’d go for some medium bright to light colour, maybe some 70s tapestry, but if you want a dark theme, put up a poster behind Steve. If you really don’t want a background, but focus only on him, make a slight gradient, so it is a bit brighter around Steve. Other than that, not much to say, except “Awesome artwork!”.