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it's essentially the first thing, yeah! this is legit my first time coloring in full a piece inked this way, so I was muddling through a lot of figuring stuff out. the way I colored this is basically a mix between my usual coloring process and things I did kinda by accident and found fun to look at haha. for example the base step was to block out the main chunk with an undertone, which I did by selecting the negative area and paint bucketing the rest basically, and then make a clip folder on that to color details. you can see it didn't work super cleanly for this type of lineart: the outward lines look a lot messier in the final piece

the rest of it is me manually blocking out colors, and a fun thing I've found with "transparent" ink-wash-style lineart is the fact that the colors show through! and in my experience this means you should prioritize darker colors underneath it to help it blend well with the surrounding. like here with sonia's hand on the table - I made a bad choice with coloring under the lineart in her skintone, and it looks way off in the surrounding tones.

however! if you have some time to spend on it the line transition is really fun with some colors in play. I've found you can blend out the seam between color blocks to even out the transition, or! with some parts where darker color blocks meet lighter color blocks, you can extend the darker color into the lighter block's lineart a bit, and it makes the whole thing more coherent and also fun to look at imo.

and! with the shading, you can extend the color from the object you're coloring and blend it out, and that'll make for fun colorful shading.

this all is a lot of legwork I will not deny that, I was practically asleep in my seat when this piece was finally finished up, but! I do hope to figure out easier ways to do things from here on. or at least do this enough that the motion comes to me easier. and when zoomed in you can see that my coloring under the lineart isn't that neat at all! the advantage of a lot of details on a decent sized canvas is nobody can really tell you went over the line here and there when looking at it as a whole. and it is a professed value of this style of inking for me, being able to do it in a more... colloquial gesture instead of being precise all the time, like with my more signature ink brush; that's how I've been approaching this brush, and I think that's also how I'm going to approach coloring with it. tl;dr:

Finally got finished enough with this, dem bones were time consuming!

Think the next drawing of them will be in a sweater for unrelated reasons haha

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