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Color commission I did for of Calie from Zenescope.I digitally inked this for her because I felt it would help out with the somewhat toony style in which she drew it in (I like the eyes!). When I digitally ink, I try to ink it as though it was inked traditionally--I freehand most of the lines, but for the longer curves and lines I do use the pen tool (not intended as a crutch). Even though I use the pen tool, I try to plan out each line in order to get my weights placed where I want them. As always, I made sure I had her approval before I continued on to the colors.
When discussing this beforehand, we were originally talking about making this a bit more simple by having the background white, and just having the shadows of the figures to delineate the perspective. During coloring, I realized that just wouldn't be enough, so I made a marble checkerboard floor that would appear to extend into infinity (thank you, Photoshop, for making that simple to do!). Plus, for a bit of coolness to help to figure pop a bit more, I added a pale texture behind her that faded to white. I didn't want an overwhelming texture or oversaturated color for fear of de-emphasizing Calie, the main figure.
I think the shine on the shoes came out cool. I'd like to think I'm getting the hang of the patent leather effect.
If you have any questions about something I did, let me know and I'll try to answer. If you have any comments, let them rip!
For those who took the time to check out Cindy's gallery, thank you! For those that haven't yet, she has the pencilled piece posted here and the colored piece posted here . Go give her some dA love!
5-7-2020 Doing some cleaning up on the gallery, decided to change this one to just the finished page instead of the pencils-inks-colors.
Pencils: Cindy Mehrlich
Digi Inks/colors: me
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This is so cool thankz or sharing the process with us!
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Very nice - do you mind if I ask how you do your highlights and shadows? I'm experimenting a lot around my own style at the moment with just using normal modes and changing the colours more to paint the transitions or then using screen and multiply modes with low opacity to build up more depth into the highlights and shadows.
I'm a particular fan of yourself and Bakanekoni - I think you're both excellent colourists and would love to know a bit more about your methods.
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I think Nei and myself are fairly similar in approach... And what you are saying that do is really all I do. LOL
I start off with a dark base color. Usually I choose a predominate color from the background for this. I used a greyish purple for this one. Then, like for the skin, I choose my base skin color, use a soft brush I've created that keeps from getting too pointy at the ends of the strokes, and start forming the muscles. I keep the opacity low, 8-14%. Then I'll set the brush to screen and start adding highlights, opacity around 25%. If I need hard shadows, I can use my lasso tool (for this I like to leave the alias checked) and make my selections. Then I use the first base color, brush on multiply, opacity low, and brush in the shadows.
If I need a hard edge here or there I either fake it by making the brush smaller in size or use the lasso tool to isolate the area. If I use the lasso tool, I try to feather it a few pixels where I don't want a very hard line.
I do things a bit different depending on what I'm trying to accomplish, but that's the gist.
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I really dig this one. I helped Cindy a but with the pencils (advise-wise) so it was really cool to see you ended up coloring it. Your colors and her pencils make a pretty good pair.
I like how you managed to fill in some negative space with the floor and sky without overpowering Cindy's original art. It looks complete with and without colors which is kinda cool.
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Thanks, man, I appreciate that.
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