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For Iceman, the obvious challenge was making him look like he's made of ice, and I had a lot of thinking to do to figure out how to do it. I managed to create his icy look (inspired by the look of his Marvel Legends figure) by adding on blue inks instead of the traditional black, and adding about 4 different layers of brushes to mix and match all those icy features. I initially wanted him to look translucent, but I realized it'll just look dumb because of the white backgrounds I use, so I opted against that in the end.

For his look, I wanted to show his fun and comedic side, hence the laughing facial expression and his pose sliding down his trademark ice slide. The ice slide was something I had a difficult time doing, and what I ended up with is something I just threw on there without putting much into it.

I put the icing (no pun intended) on the cake with some icy manifestations from his hands, which I was able to do with a variety of brushes yet again, and then I added some icy smoke around his whole body to make it look like he's giving off some residue of coldness around him. I hope I was able to do justice to the character with this piece! In my opinion I think it's as cool (pun intended, my bad) as it can get!

UPDATE: I always felt like what i posted was somewhat incomplete so I added a few more details to make him pop some more. He now has more shading to his body to give him more depth and light angles, and I heavily edited his ice slide to make him look like he's sliding down fast on it. Added the extra ice particles on his slide to make it look like it has more texture.
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