WIP

[luco]

Hmmm, so need opinions again. How is it looking so far? The background is still being refined, and I know there are problems with the actual drawing ((which I didn't see until colour was there ^^;))

But it's okay....





Still not sure if I wanna shade it in my normal style, or the 'painter' style I've been playing with...any suggestions?

...

I'm almost tempted to just cut it off under Ace's elbow ;___;

Comments

[ahja-reyn.livejournal.com]

You can't cut it off there!! Cuz then we won't get to see the ocean! ...cuz that's what we'll be looking at (shifty eyes)

I suggest going with a more painter style, because that might help increase the mood overall.

(is suddenly inspired to try and finish one of her many partially-completed Zoro/Sanji pictures within the next few days before her birthday)

[luco-millian.livejournal.com]

The ocean....right.....

Well I am glad you can tell it's water down there ^^;

And yes! You must complete pictures!!! Also....there are a lot of August B-days. . .

[ahja-reyn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I should...(has a bad habit of starting pictures and never finishing them) You should see my sketchbook. It's got everything from basic sketches that were abandoned to partially completed inking TT_TT

If you don't mind my asking, how exactly do you go about coloring your pictures? I mean, do you fill in the background first and then the flat coloring of the characters and then the shading? I'm really bad at coloring (as well as rather clueless) which is probably why I abandon so many pics...And your completed pieces always blow me away (like WOAH!) so I figured I'd attempt to find some advice ^_^''

But yeah, my birthday's Aug. 5th. I'm gonna be home alone too, cuz my family is out of town...and for some reason all my friends have dropped off the face of the earth TT_TT I don't suppose you know of any good cake recipes? (is going to attempt to bake her own cake from scratchl)

[luco-millian.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's no fair being alone on your b-day (but I know what it feels like...) Well, hopefully the day still ends up being nice for you. And I'm sure i have recipes around here somewhere >_>

As for colouring...

I do a layer of one or two main colours I want in the picture and then do a layer on top that is just big brush strokes of all the colours in the background, in the general areas I want them (like grass, a rock, water, building, lights, etc....) and then once I have that down, I can choose the colours(or shades for already established colours) I want my characters to have. And as you can see above, I block in all those colours on their own layer and afterwards it's just a matter of shading. But by having the background colours there, you can see where your light source is and what colours would reflect on what.

Hope that helps a bit?