Painting the Interdimensional Traveler - ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games - page 283

4. We will now select the whole sphere layer with Ctrl + A and press Ctrl + J to duplicate the layer up.
Name this layer “Sphere Color copy.” This will increase the power of the glow effect ( Figure 5-58 ) .
5. Set the blending mode for sphere color to Overlay. You may want to adjust the levels on this layer to
get the best glow effect. Leave the sphere glow copy layer blending mode as Linear Dodge (Add). Use the
Smudge tool to drag tendrils off the sphere ( Figure 5-59 ). The Smudge tool is located under the Blur tool.
Figure 5-60 shows the image at this stage of the tutorial.
Figure 5-56: Select a soft round brush and a purple hue from the color picker.
Figure 5-57: Painting the luminescent sphere using a purple hue on a Linear Dodge (Add) layer