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Sorry for such a late reply! My march had a few stressful events that led me over to the east coast for a couple of weeks after TFconLA. Rest assured, however, that I did see your ask and wanted to answer! I do have a couple of different ways that I color/render so I'll do my most common one that I do!

SO here we go w out victim Getaway. Please bear with me as tutorials are not my strong suit!

After I have my lines I always start with a grey or neutral base, and determine where my light source is going to be coming from! I find that physically drawing it on canvas can be helpful when you're not used to determining it.

By having a set light source it makes it easier to place your shadows and highlights!

Then I do a very messy placement of my shadows and highlights, just enough to start determining value. I typically use a grey-blue for my shadows vs purple as I find it doesn't muddy the colors as much, though I also clip and lock a duplicate of my flats to my multiply/shadow layer. I then hide my highlight layer and begin to define my shadows.

During this time I spend a lot of time zoomed out and squinting at my canvas. Being too zoomed in can lead to over rendering/detailing when you dont need to! I try to be particularly mindful of hard vs soft lines with my shadows particularly in areas where my light is hitting head on.

I then put my highlight layer back to visible and begin to do the same to my light! I keep the same things in mind and try not to over render. Metal is hard so I kinda just bs some of the metal bits and how they reflect and interact....

But after I am happy with shading I add my flats.

Then I merge everything to one layer and begin to render on top of my drawing. I still keep in mind to not over render as even art needs room to breathe and cant all be details. Mostly my rendering is focused on the focal point and continuing to push my values to where it makes sense. I also add a bit more visual interest during this time and make small adjustments to my color via color gradients.

Its not perfect and I am still learning new stuff every time I render since prior to last year I just did not color things... I always recommend references and looking up to artists that you admire and doing studies of their work!

So I've been dragged kicking and screaming back into this fandom by a VERY good fic by @teasnarker92 and @bonesgalore called Sins Aplenty

https://twitter.com/Licollis_a/status/1657703869068234754 https://twitter.com/Licollis_a/status/1657631596198125569

(dm wouldnt send on twitter so I'll send it here!)

Be not afraid, for I will reveal my secrets in rendering step by step.

1. After I'm finished with lineart, I added the base color. It's faint, but putting in gradient will make it pop.

2. In order for the whole thing to look harmonious with each other, on top of the base color I added a multiply and overlay layer. The color I use for multiply is usually desaturated, kinda pastel-y. The overlay one is more saturated (see alternative colors below).

3. The result should be kind of dark. Which is what I'm after, because what you're seeing is already shadowed. So instead of adding the shadow to the base color, I'm adding the light.

On top of the multiply layer, I added an overlay layer. I keep in mind where the light source is coming from (see the blue arrows). The color of the overlay can be whatever -- it depends on the vibe you're trying to make (e.g if they're in waterfall, I'd use light cyan).

Also, see that normal layer clipped onto my overlay? It's how I added my "fringe" (aka subsurface scattering). I often use pink. Just line it on the edges of the light.

4. Now I added a multiply layer again, just to give the piece more depth and details (like the skin)

5. Now I'm adding what's called reflective light (google to see examples irl). Basically, I covered the darkest parts of the drawing with something lighter. For this one I just added pastel purple in the normal layer, but there are other layer types to lighten it up!

6. Now, I colored the lineart through clipping. I usually just matched the surrounding colors by adding a darker one (e.g dark red for skin).

Optional: I like to make 2 copies of the lineart, make one red and another cyan, and respectively slide it to left and to right. Sometimes it doesn't even look good tho....

7. Highlights time! To do this I disable the background so it's transparent, click right and choose 'merge visible to new layer'. Which flattens the visible image onto a new layer. Now I can add in these white lights by clipping on top of it!

(It's a lil tricky to do this right with a brush, so I used the lasso fill tool.)

To top it off, I add some sparkes. My simp art is done <33

Edit: I forgot!! By the end of it all you can add a texture by setting said texture into overlay with low opacity (on top of the finished art). In CSP you can add a perlin noise, one of these:

https://twitter.com/Licollis_a/status/1657703869068234754 https://twitter.com/Licollis_a/status/1657631596198125569

(dm wouldnt send on twitter so I'll send it here!)

Be not afraid, for I will reveal my secrets in rendering step by step.

1. After I'm finished with lineart, I added the base color. It's faint, but putting in gradient will make it pop.

2. In order for the whole thing to look harmonious with each other, on top of the base color I added a multiply and overlay layer. The color I use for multiply is usually desaturated, kinda pastel-y. The overlay one is more saturated (see alternative colors below).

3. The result should be kind of dark. Which is what I'm after, because what you're seeing is already shadowed. So instead of adding the shadow to the base color, I'm adding the light.

On top of the multiply layer, I added an overlay layer. I keep in mind where the light source is coming from (see the blue arrows). The color of the overlay can be whatever -- it depends on the vibe you're trying to make (e.g if they're in waterfall, I'd use light cyan).

Also, see that normal layer clipped onto my overlay? It's how I added my "fringe" (aka subsurface scattering). I often use pink. Just line it on the edges of the light.

4. Now I added a multiply layer again, just to give the piece more depth and details (like the skin)

5. Now I'm adding what's called reflective light (google to see examples irl). Basically, I covered the darkest parts of the drawing with something lighter. For this one I just added pastel purple in the normal layer, but there are other layer types to lighten it up!

6. Now, I colored the lineart through clipping. I usually just matched the surrounding colors by adding a darker one (e.g dark red for skin).

Optional: I like to make 2 copies of the lineart, make one red and another cyan, and respectively slide it to left and to right. Sometimes it doesn't even look good tho....

7. Highlights time! To do this I disable the background so it's transparent, click right and choose 'merge visible to new layer'. Which flattens the visible image onto a new layer. Now I can add in these white lights by clipping on top of it!

(It's a lil tricky to do this right with a brush, so I used the lasso fill tool.)

To top it off, I add some sparkes. My simp art is done <33

Edit: I forgot!! By the end of it all you can add a texture by setting said texture into overlay with low opacity (on top of the finished art). In CSP you can add a perlin noise, one of these:

Drew some funny emotes today in a mass magma for the Sins Aplenty server. Just some funny lil guys!

Doodled a few more, but dunno if I'll finish em. Maybe the Sinner and Killer ones haha!

Sketchbook Sunday v19-

This time with a digital sketch page featuring demon au Sparks- and a cameo of butcher

This version of her was made for the demon au by @bonesgalore and @teasnarker92 for their fic Sins Aplenty!

I have some ideas about her origins/behaviours in this setting, but I’ll pop them below the cut-

shit is still sucks, but slowly getting better! i've been hard at work (maybe too hard, i've made myself sick again) trying to get caught up on everything, but also in the meantime i've been working on baby's first 3d model that i can actually sell — and i think it's finally ready!

thank you so, so much to everyone who's been supporting me (and been extremely patient with me while i sludge through this crisis). i don't know if this is me truly being "back" yet, but it's a step in that direction — and i'm glad that i can finally offer something in return!

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The Missing Scarf IX - part 14

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