this is the image i actually used for my final image, i went through colours i wanted to use and put them to the side of the image using the brush tool in a seperate layer under the line art so i wouldnt mess up the line art. i chose red as the base body colour, because i thought it looked right, to put the colour down i just enlarged the brush size and went along colouring the entire body and after any bits that went over the lines went along the edges of the line art with the rubber tool and rubbed them out. after colouring the body i coloured the hair with a smaller brush and carefully put the colour in trying not to go over the lines, after which i put in the under body colour with a slightly larger brush, first outlining where the under belly stopped. after getting the basic colours in i started going around the areas with a slight darker version of the original colours and showing where the shadows were with the brush tool but on a very small setting and also did the same with the hair choosing where the hair would be darker. after doing all of this i went over the line art layer with the rubber tool just touching up the lines and doing the same with the colour layer.
After finishing the colouring, i looked at it and felt that it could do with something more so i decided to put some different coloured tattoos on the character in a seperate layer inbetween the colour and line art, the tattoo designs are just completly random and i just sketched out one part of each one and kept going till i liked it.
this is the image i actually used for my final image, i went through colours i wanted to use and put them to the side of the image using the brush tool in a seperate layer under the line art so i wouldnt mess up the line art. i chose red as the base body colour, because i thought it looked right, to put the colour down i just enlarged the brush size and went along colouring the entire body and after any bits that went over the lines went along the edges of the line art with the rubber tool and rubbed them out. after colouring the body i coloured the hair with a smaller brush and carefully put the colour in trying not to go over the lines, after which i put in the under body colour with a slightly larger brush, first outlining where the under belly stopped. after getting the basic colours in i started going around the areas with a slight darker version of the original colours and showing where the shadows were with the brush tool but on a very small setting and also did the same with the hair choosing where the hair would be darker. after doing all of this i went over the line art layer with the rubber tool just touching up the lines and doing the same with the colour layer.
this is another experiment for my final image. i was just basically doing different coloring styles mainly cell shading or anime style colouring and trying different colours together. i drew out the image twice using two different ways of drawing. the image above was done using the brush tool and the second image was done using the pen tool after i had colored with the first line work so i had a basic outline. during the whole of the drawing and colouring process i was using a tablet as i feel it is easier to do this sort of thing with than a mouse, i decided against using this image in the final piece due to seeing to many errors in it and also feel that its not good enough.
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