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PENCILS by COLORS by

This piece is a collab effort. It features the one and only Jeff ‘CHAMBA’ Cruz on pencils and myself on colors. If you like this version, go check his original drawing at the link below.

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Here is a breakdown of my coloring process:
The background is a watercolor I did by dabbing the paint on Bristol board with paper towels to get a blotchy effect. The stars were created by dipping a toothbrush into white paint and flicking the paint off the bristles. The image was scanned and the haloes and color touch ups were done on Photoshop CS.

The coloring on Surfer was done on CS as well. The biggest thing about rendering chrome is to treat each muscle individually. Of course, knowledge of correct anatomy is an issue as well, so brush up on it- that helps.

All in all, this was a fun project to touch up on my coloring skills. I don’t want to be a victim of my own style and coloring different people’s work helps that. Chamba’s strongest technical ability (IMHO) is his forced perspective, which allows him to draw at angles that keep his work dynamic and full of movement. It was refreshing to work with that!

Description
PENCILS by COLORS by

This piece is a collab effort. It features the one and only Jeff ‘CHAMBA’ Cruz on pencils and myself on colors. If you like this version, go check his original drawing at the link below.

[link]

Here is a breakdown of my coloring process:
The background is a watercolor I did by dabbing the paint on Bristol board with paper towels to get a blotchy effect. The stars were created by dipping a toothbrush into white paint and flicking the paint off the bristles. The image was scanned and the haloes and color touch ups were done on Photoshop CS.

The coloring on Surfer was done on CS as well. The biggest thing about rendering chrome is to treat each muscle individually. Of course, knowledge of correct anatomy is an issue as well, so brush up on it- that helps.

All in all, this was a fun project to touch up on my coloring skills. I don’t want to be a victim of my own style and coloring different people’s work helps that. Chamba’s strongest technical ability (IMHO) is his forced perspective, which allows him to draw at angles that keep his work dynamic and full of movement. It was refreshing to work with that!