banana bonanza

Sorry for the continuous AU dumps, I'm moreso just trying to get all my finished works out there before i forget😭😭😭

Of course, I'll still go back to them later (hopefully)! My mind keeps thinking of new things before I get to develop a previous idea💧💧💧There's still one more au that's been collecting dust in my files for a few months that I'm starting to feel bad for it...(I'll post that one eventually soon...)

That aside, I came up with this recently after reading the wha manga, the worldbuilding in this is super fun to work around! As much as I love working with the seals, I wish there was a way to know if they worked properly...

some poor redraws of certain scenes in the anime~ this is Kaito and Ayumi!

since this was a rather recent idea I had, I don't have much on it, but here are some stuff I thought about (and might draw in the future?)

You can probably guess, but Kaito's apprentinces are the detective boys!

As for Shinichi... I thought about him being their watchful eye + a secret brimhat... as for what forbidden spells he practices then ..? I haven't thought that far ahead yet💧💧

I sorta made up the seal on Kaito's umbrella myself... So I'm not sure how well it works or if it makes sense... but if it does, it's supposed to act similar to a propeller!

I think Shinichi should also have a seal inside of his lamp that creates the bird? but I haven't gotten around to drawing that yet... Probably a mixture of agott's fire bird and the floating light/fire spell?

Kaishin knew eachother prior to becoming full fledged witches... you could probably tell but Shinichi's hat has Kaito's clover insignia as the charm!

some progress screenshots I took of the coloring process (the sunflowers were very blarghgblargh in the bg until I sat down to lock in and blahblargh)

post-editing, I kept scrolling through different layer settings (gradient map grayscale -> darken) and saw this one and was like, wow so grungy... but vibrant color was the main point so I scrapped this version lolol.

nevertheless, fun!! I feel like I finally figured out how to use the RGB slider--- I changed it to CMYK, bc it adds luminosity (with the K). I had a lot of fun picking colors by sliding the scales in relative to the main color!

Color is all about how they look relative to each other...

here's uh... an attempt at an explanation. I have the main color dropped as beige, and within the slider I can choose colors from CMY (K can toggle shade, but let's not deal with that rn)

I chose magenta from M; as I slide the M arrow along the bar, the other colors change.

I want smth that vaguely looks like brown hair, so I went for orange from Y.

adding complimentary colors can give that sort of... contrast, so I plopped some green from C.

eyedrop tool is your friend, so referencing your own colors and using the sliders to find other colors... until your eyeballs look at it and say, Mhm, yes this is pleasing to my eyeballs.