TheDinkleyBoy: From Uni's off white color, to venger's pinkish red wings and of course Diana's orangeish red laces. I looked up every single color detail I could from the show and applied it here.
craggle: decent effort, but you still need work on your technique, lots of little white dots, and the grays make it look dirty.
if you use photoshop, copy background layer, set it to multiply, then create layers underneath it, coloring it up layer by layer. your colored-background layer should be the bottommosty layer, and you get rid of the white halos. the greys can sometimes be helped by applying a screen or overlay effect on top of the multiply-layer (using a mask). but removing the whites would help a lot.
TheDinkleyBoy: @craggle: I use gimp, it is usually my bottom most layer. Also are you saying literally multiply as in duplicate? or multiple as in the multiply "blend" mode?
craggle: i don't know exactly how gimp labels thing... but multiply basically... adds the darkness, but not doing anything to whites. like if you have two layers exactly the same, and the top was set to multiply, it would be twice as dark (maybe not exactly twice, but whatever) in the dark spots, but the white would remain uneffected.
having the linework set to multiply, and then you work on coloring in separate layers underneath (i usually use one layer for each discrete thing of a different color... trace around the outer edges of what to form an outline, and then fill-bucket the interior once it becomes a closed loop... but that's more of a personal taste thing there are different ways to do it that still get the results). that way you still get the actual line work no matter what, because it'll always be darker than the surrounding color (unless the surroundings are like, black), and whatever you use for the background automatically fills in any whitespace so you don't have the problem with the white dots (though you do have to be careful to color things like eyes and teeth as real white above the bg layer).
anyway, just my tip, it may cause other problems for you to do it that way since i don't know your exact process but you might want to look into it. i believe there's another way to remove white dots directly that probably works no matter what method you use but i don't know it off hand, or of course you could always do it painstakingly by hand, but my point is, colorings always look better without them.
but i think you're on a good track overall. the only other thing i'd warn about is that, for all it sounds perfectly logical to copy the exact shades from the cartoon and such, for some reason i find it doesn't look as natural or bizarrely, faithful, as when you're not afraid to play around a little for more dramatic contrasts. i don't know why. it's probably related to the differing types of line weights on art vs the actual source.
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if you use photoshop, copy background layer, set it to multiply, then create layers underneath it, coloring it up layer by layer. your colored-background layer should be the bottommosty layer, and you get rid of the white halos. the greys can sometimes be helped by applying a screen or overlay effect on top of the multiply-layer (using a mask). but removing the whites would help a lot.
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having the linework set to multiply, and then you work on coloring in separate layers underneath (i usually use one layer for each discrete thing of a different color... trace around the outer edges of what to form an outline, and then fill-bucket the interior once it becomes a closed loop... but that's more of a personal taste thing there are different ways to do it that still get the results). that way you still get the actual line work no matter what, because it'll always be darker than the surrounding color (unless the surroundings are like, black), and whatever you use for the background automatically fills in any whitespace so you don't have the problem with the white dots (though you do have to be careful to color things like eyes and teeth as real white above the bg layer).
anyway, just my tip, it may cause other problems for you to do it that way since i don't know your exact process but you might want to look into it. i believe there's another way to remove white dots directly that probably works no matter what method you use but i don't know it off hand, or of course you could always do it painstakingly by hand, but my point is, colorings always look better without them.
but i think you're on a good track overall. the only other thing i'd warn about is that, for all it sounds perfectly logical to copy the exact shades from the cartoon and such, for some reason i find it doesn't look as natural or bizarrely, faithful, as when you're not afraid to play around a little for more dramatic contrasts. i don't know why. it's probably related to the differing types of line weights on art vs the actual source.
I wonder what a Uni with a more human-like face would look like.
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