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I did this as a warmup for my polychromatic project for this year's fine arts cometition... and I am really happy with how it came out! I just wanted something to goof around with, so I pulled out the lineart I had laying around of Mario. I had wanted to CG this like all the others, but it was big, and I was bored, so I tried stuff on it.

I thought of a theme to continue with this... I used Tuscan Red undertoning/shading, just to try something different, and the result is a very dramatic, deep color job. The idea is this - Nintendo characters have dark red undertone, Sega characters have dark blue undertone. Kinda like Sonic Riders having each character's "color" override their shading and outline. Except this is a generalized theme.

Man, I really love the mood this gives. The other night, my youngest sister and I (she's my co-writer) came up with some awesome material for the story. It's gonna make you cry. And no, we're not killing Mario. But you're still gonna cry. We were getting all choked up just talking about it.

It seems like it needs a background, but nothing I did seemed to complement the picture very much. Anybody have ideas for a simple background gradient that would work with it, color-wise?

Description
I did this as a warmup for my polychromatic project for this year's fine arts cometition... and I am really happy with how it came out! I just wanted something to goof around with, so I pulled out the lineart I had laying around of Mario. I had wanted to CG this like all the others, but it was big, and I was bored, so I tried stuff on it.

I thought of a theme to continue with this... I used Tuscan Red undertoning/shading, just to try something different, and the result is a very dramatic, deep color job. The idea is this - Nintendo characters have dark red undertone, Sega characters have dark blue undertone. Kinda like Sonic Riders having each character's "color" override their shading and outline. Except this is a generalized theme.

Man, I really love the mood this gives. The other night, my youngest sister and I (she's my co-writer) came up with some awesome material for the story. It's gonna make you cry. And no, we're not killing Mario. But you're still gonna cry. We were getting all choked up just talking about it.

It seems like it needs a background, but nothing I did seemed to complement the picture very much. Anybody have ideas for a simple background gradient that would work with it, color-wise?