Tentacles

Color commission I did for of Calie from Zenescope.

I digitally inked this for her because I felt it would help out with the somewhat toony style in which she drew it in (I like the eyes!). When I digitally ink, I try to ink it as though it was inked traditionally--I freehand most of the lines, but for the longer curves and lines I do use the pen tool (not intended as a crutch). Even though I use the pen tool, I try to plan out each line in order to get my weights placed where I want them. As always, I made sure I had her approval before I continued on to the colors.

When discussing this beforehand, we were originally talking about making this a bit more simple by having the background white, and just having the shadows of the figures to delineate the perspective. During coloring, I realized that just wouldn't be enough, so I made a marble checkerboard floor that would appear to extend into infinity (thank you, Photoshop, for making that simple to do!). Plus, for a bit of coolness to help to figure pop a bit more, I added a pale texture behind her that faded to white. I didn't want an overwhelming texture or oversaturated color for fear of de-emphasizing Calie, the main figure.

I think the shine on the shoes came out cool. I'd like to think I'm getting the hang of the patent leather effect.

If you have any questions about something I did, let me know and I'll try to answer. If you have any comments, let them rip!

For those who took the time to check out Cindy's gallery, thank you! For those that haven't yet, she has the pencilled piece posted here and the colored piece posted here. Go give her some dA love!

5-7-2020 Doing some cleaning up on the gallery, decided to change this one to just the finished page instead of the pencils-inks-colors.

Pencils: Cindy Mehrlich
Digi Inks/colors: me