𝕯𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝖒𝖞 𝖙𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘...

[ キノ ・ KINO ]

DARK

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MANIAC

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ECSTASY

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ENDING

[Vampire] [Manservant] [Brute]

HEAVEN

Okay I’ll try to do my best here (:

These are the flat colors you can ignore the rest since this will be about the hair. As you can see this is a really light blonde, this is the lightest color on his hair.

In DiaLovers everyone has a gradient from dark to lighter hair color, so here I added the darker base in the same layer I was working at first.

And this is where I mostly freak out or loose my patience XD. Let’s say Satoi makes three types of details in the hair: Main shadows (Mostly placed instead of highlights like most of us are used to see), actual shadows (placed for the hairs that make a shadow over the hair, for example Shu’s curls over his bangs and the shadows that indicate the hair is behind) and some stronger colors, in Shu’s case it’s an orange.

There I added in multiply and in a new layer clipped to the first one, the “main shadows” and I’m going to work on them first.

Well here is where shit comes real because I made a LOT of experiments from just picking the color or trying to work with effects so I don’t depend that much on a color palette.

I choose the transparent color, it’s that little friend between the color I was using and black.

I lock the layer and using both the marker tool and the airbrush, I ease them quite a lot.

These are the settings if you want them for anything xD.

After that I focus on the actual shadows, for these I make a new layer, set to multiply, still using the same color as for the main shadows. This time I use the marker tool and I add the fringe effect on the layer.

Now it’s time for the stronger colors, picking the color I used for Shu’s darker blonde tone in the first layer, I make a new layer above the first layer and under the main shadow’s layer! I set it to overlay and with the airbrush tool I start to modify the base color again, in Shu’s case this strong color is centered on the right side of his frontal bangs.

Now for the light one I add a layer under the actual shadows and above the main shadows, set to overlay as I did before and add this lighter color.

Now in a new layer set to screen I add a texture which I before colored with Shu’s main shadow color (: after that I ease the texture with the airbrush set with the transparent color. Or you can just reduce the opacity.

Final touches!!!

So after all the steps I go back to the lineart, add some linework to the main shadows, add some detail to the hair, strengthen the lineart of the main bangs and add some random colors (some shadows some lights) so it looks closer to satoi’s style. I normally do a lot of modifications with photoshop on the color balance and stuff but that’s for personal taste.

Satoi also colors the linework but that’s again, personal taste (:

This is the texture! It’s transparent and white because I color it when I use it! I made it so feel free to use it (: