Screenshots

For these screenshots I used reference from my character sketch and coloured it in in block colours with clean lineart. I then moved the file (saved as a PNG) to the background images open in photoshop and made a shadow by duplicating the layer, turning it black then using transform > distort to place it behind and to the right and finally setting the layer mode to overlay and lowering the opacity. This still looked a little out of place so I added a new layer with a clipping mask above the troll and made a shadow with the pen tool in black then set it to the same settings I used for the shadow, this made him look a little less out of place.

This was my first version but then I came up with the idea to simplify the background so I used the filter 'cutout' and it looked a lot better.

I really like how these images have turned out as using cutout not only simplify the background but it brought out more browns and darker green's which complimented the colours of the troll and also gave it a darker feel.