A rework of my really old Little Red Riding Hood piece from 2011 that I wanted to do a remastered version of to bring it up to my current skill level. Still some areas that bug me but as this is easily something I could just keep on adding to forever I'll have to call it done and move on. Spent many hours in Photoshop CC with my Wacom intuos pro (medium) tablet rendering up the details, looking at reference photos, trying to get a better sense of form, lighting and accuracy in the piece. 

Keen to hear what you think of this version vs. the old one - it's interesting that as the artist myself I hands down prefers this new version as now I'm relatively more happy with it; but some people I've talked to about it prefer the original as although it's less accurate in fleshing out the details - in doing so I may have lost some of the dark horror mood that make it work so well. Oh well, guess this is why you shouldn't do this for every piece as you really do open up a whole can of worms when you go back to update an old work! Overall it was an interesting process though and I'm glad to have it as a piece I'm proud of showing off again in my portfolio.

Speaking of my portfolio I'm in the middle of getting it ready for a huge update so stay tuned as I'll let you know once the deed is done. Also got some exciting announcements comin' soon regarding Patreon, some sketchbooks I'll be having available to order online as well as way more in depth YouTube videos and tutorials coming soon.

Thanks for looking!
- Austen Mengler
www.austenmengler.com

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