The Nexus Coloring Book

Brightness....bah....I'm going to keep calling it blackness....lol..

I just started trying this out a couple days ago so I wanted to try my own. This was just some random person I found on an image search that I used for a study.

So, here's my value sketch (the values were off a bit but not a whole lot so I was able to fix that at the end.



These are the colors I used in the multiply layer above my value sketch ( I did a few color comps before this just trying out different colors to see what worked) All colors at 100% brightness(Thanks Charlotte )



This is the color layer on top of the value layer and set to multiply



This is the adjusted final image I only made two adjustments. I used color balance to shift all the colors a bit towards purple and add a bit of harmony. Then I did auto levels command and that was it. This is what I ended up with.

Phew, that facial anatomy is ......... int ......... well .............. creative.

Lol. Nice job colouring though.

lol....hey....it was late....er...she got hit by a car....lol.....eh, it was quick sketch just wanted to try out the coloring.

Had a quick crack a colouring this. Nothing sustain, skillful etc. Just numerous overlay layers and then a bit of tweaking here and there. Here's the link:

Link

Will try to edit it now, although the reason I uploaded it here was so it wasn't in 'My Gallery' (as it's just a rough thing based on kynamh's drawing I figured since he asked for it to be coloured then I'd just put a generic title). I can't find out how to direct link to the image from the cgart gallery, it just gives me a php script instruction in my address bar. Any ideas?

I used to do this kind of thing a lot before I got fed up of painting things twice (once in greyscale then again in colour) but there are stil ways to do it. The key is getting the values right. After you've applied colours it's very easy to get frustrated by the way that everything looks muddy but the drab darker midtones are not a result of the colour you're applying, it's because the initial values are wrong. So it's really important that the first sketch is not too contrasty and that it also has some smooth transitions. I used to suffer terribly with this until someone helpfully pointed it out (in fact that someone was markdraws, who has also migrated to this site. Yay!)

Anyhoo I've had a go at that previous post and combined everything into a single image to try and explain my way of doing it. Not necessarily the best way and not necessarily reccomended but all information is good, I suppose.

The first image (TopLeft) is the original greyscale but with the values adjusted to boost the midtones. I used Levels but Curves do the job just as well.

The TopRight image is the next layer set to Color mode and painted in with some generic , unimaginative skin tones... (and did I do blue hair?!)

The BottomLeft image is the next layer and is set to SoftLight mode. This just boosts the highlights where necessary and darkens and saturates some of the drab shadow areas.

The BottomRight is all those layers flattened. I then did an Auto Colour Balance (Control-Shift-B on my CS2) to get rid of the horrible colour cast that I always seem to leave on my skin tones, and I then darkened the background and put a bit of a rim-light effect to give a sense of depth to the surrounding space.

This is what happens if I try the link that the gallery gives me:



It's a .php (a web server script) instruction to retrieve the file, not a direct link to the image itself. I can't direct link to the image as I have no direct address to where the file is stored on the server - I only have a piece of text that tells the script how to retrieve the file. If I try to embed it in the post I will keep getting the link show up, as it's not an image. Don't know if we'll be speaking the same language on this one.

As for gallery talk, I didn't consider my gallery here as a gallery, as it only has one (quick, rough) image in it, hence I described my image as not being in 'my gallery'.