こんな悲しい結末でごめんね

you can see me boarding the struggle bus and trusting the driver to take me where I gotta go <_>;;

i have a whole existential dread meltdown before i post anything im embarrassed about but i shant recreate it here bc i already blabbed it elsewhere. but anyways i posted this (👇) as the main image on bsky bc i didnt paint all that shit to NOT post it BUT i think the crop (👆) is better bc thats the ref'd part so to soothe my agonies i just flipflopped it here. easy!

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.

my whole sketch page is finally done yipeeee half a year in the making ...

since i posted them all individually im like tch its cheapo to repost the whole thing BUT im also like it looks fun altogether!!! so heres a little preview idk... thinking ill color them and then repost it as its own thing ... one day....