My favorite of this set by far. How can I help it with that expression? Anyway, another Satasha comission by DrawPanther. Then colored by me.
ORIGINAL:
And then after adding flat colors…
A bit of major shading and a background thrown in…
Highlighting doesn’t do quite a much here since the eye-lights were really already in the original (though I added some more anyway!)
That’s it. BTW, at some point I obviously accidentally pulled the shade layer down a few pixels – note the outline at the top of her head. However, I liked the result so I left it.
But one more change. Both Sashimi and the artist had teeth in mind behind Rajirra’s fangs instead of a tongue. I dunno, I kinda like the tongue but…
Oh! I posted this on the wrong blog too! Well, no problem there. A quick Reblog from the other site and PRESTO! Good as new.
Sorry – posted this on the wrong blog the other day. But this does give me a chance to correct the teeth/tongue thing. (I dunno, I still like the blood red tongue myself, but if the artist had teefers in mind, and the commissioner had teefers in mind, then teefers it shall be!)
Another color job. Drawn by DrawPanther, colored by your friendly neighborhood Draggy.
So, we’ll dive right in. Here’s the original from DrawPanther:
Pretty damned good. Sometimes I’m REALLY not convinced me coloring these things is an improvement. But we’ve always got the original I guess regardless so it’s not like I’m RUINING them.
So, first come flats, then shade, then highlights in my method. Flats:
I’d watch that cartoon! Shading time though, and also I threw in an admittedly bad background.
And finally, with highlighting. And I think this is the first one I’ve ever “signed”.
DrawPanther suggested it, so… Color by Bluedraggy.
Now, I did like this one but I gotta be honest, it’s the NEXT one I really really love! You’ll see why when I get it done in a few more days.
If you think you’ve seen this before, you have. I made a stupid and awful mistake on my last posting and deleted it to remove all evidence. (I’d painted over DrawPanther’s signature inadvertently.) He’s been the nicest guy about it which made me even more ashamed to have done that. But now it’s fixed so I’m posting it again.
So Sashimi is working on a fanfiction – a backstory for Rajirra I believe. I also understand it will go NSFW places. But he wants to get some illustrations for it (which I highly agree with! Stories with illustrations are so much easier to read IMHO.) So he was going to get some commissions. I suggested I could color the for free and save him some $ so he can get more too.
Little did I know he was going to commission such GOOD stuff! I didn’t know DrawPanther, but after I saw this I immediately looked at his gallery. He’s so much better at coloring than I am that I was awfully intimidated, but still I was going to give it my best shot. And the first thing to do is always start on flat colors. So here’s that…
I knew the colors for Rajirra from Prequel of course. The other guy (don’t even have his name yet) I didn’t though so I picked some nice relatively neutral colors for him. Next I did the flat colors of everything else of course. I made a mistake here though, I shaded the ground on the same layer. I later regretted that but I made it work anyway. Also I tried a sky and river, but I didn’t like em.
Now the fun stuff starts. Shading. I took a cue from a suggestion at the Prequel fanart booru and added a fullly shaded layer and then REMOVED the shading to add the brighter side to the right. Also from reading some tutorials they suggested a more purplish shade layer than just straight grey: Revised the river again, though it’s still not good. And colored the rocks.
Really that’s more like a highlighting layer. THIS is a shade layer, where not only did I add the darker areas to the left, but also some particularly dark layers where little light would shine:
Next was my very favorite parts. Eyes. I love doing eyes. They’re so friggin EASY but they make the whole picture suddenly pop. Also I added sun-dappling to mimic light through the leaves above. This is really where I regretted having the ground shade in a single layer as I had to paint the dapples differently on the ground than on the characters. It worked but not quite the same.
I thought I was done and this is about where I left it. Then someone suggested I should just remove the lines on the sky and do it without them. Plus I realized that the river NEEDS reflections, and they’re so easy to do! So I got what I thought (wrongly) would be my FINAL final version:
Now the river looks like a river (though probably a bit TOO placid). The leaves help a lot – don;’t know why I hadn’t colored them before. And the sky is MUCH better. (it should be – it’s actually a PICTURE of a sky with just a bit of smudging). Is that cheating? I don’t really care! So that was my FINAL FINAL version, right? WRONG… DrawPanther saw it, complemented me, but pointed out that I effectively erased his signature. AAAAAAA!
So THATS my real final final final version, WITH DrawPanther’s sig. (I inverted it to white – worked better over the river that way.) And that’s it. It was funny, DrawPanther was like SHOCKED that I don’t use a tablet. (Mouse only). It’s really not such a big deal when coloring as it is in drawing.
So that’s it. The first of a few for Sashimi. Some will be NSFW so those I’ll have to put on my NSFW blog. (never done those before! Should be… interesting. I’ll have to look up tutorials on how to color body parts I’ve not done before!)
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