AO Painting!

One interesting digital painting technique that I came across is called AO painting. Or in other words ambient occlusion painting. I haven't actually looked into it too much but THIS person here is onto something. With just AO painting it would seem pretty limited in terms of the lighting but when its done right it really does look amazing. A lot of the time the style is more used for stylized characters but Jiyu-Kaze's works proves otherwise. It is definitely an interesting technique to use that I would like to try but for now I think I'll learn more trying to paint normally. I'll give it a shot one day... one day...

Noctis - FFXIV by Jiyu Kaze

That is a painting! looks like the game itself!