Sitting Down

This is the colored version of the inked picture that I posted a while back. It took a bit longer than I was hoping, but at least I had way less than a hundred layers this time. -_-;

It was hard to find the right balance of color for this picture. The girl is very light, and so the background had to be even lighter than her, but if it were too light, it would be blinding. I ended up getting it alright, but I'm not entirely happy with it.

The pattern tiled in the background was hand drawn, and I have to say that I like how it turned out.

The girl herself looks pretty good, and I used a few new techniques for the coloring. For instance, I made an under painting for the skin tone, using bright green, red, blue, and yellow. Then I painted in the peach color on a layer above that, and make the master opacity something like 96%, so the under painting showed through just a bit. After that I added the shadows and highlights. I like the look of her skin, it has a certain realistic edge to it, as if there are muscles and veins and stuff underneath.