Fanart

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

I come bearing Russia/China! It's not much, compared to the amazing art here--but perhaps someone will like it?

Artist: gileonnen
Rating: G (snuggling)
Characters: Russia/China

Comments

[polandlithuania.livejournal.com]

Hand-wavey things? Sounds interesting!
I usually have general colours set to Multiply on top, then outline-colours set to Screen in the middle and the plain lineart on the bottom.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I always do lineart on top, colors in various layers on the bottom, and shady bits in the middle. I'll try your order next time, and see how it goes! (And I'm poking my way through your draft, swear it.)

[polandlithuania.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I see! I guess it really wouldn't work in that order - unless you coloured the outlines first, then combined it into one layer and then started adding the colours underneath that layer? But that's probably too much trouble.

I used to do shadows on a separate layer too until I found out that in Corel Painter it works out better to paint them directly onto the colours layer. I guess it'd be different in Photoshop, though.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

It could work! But I'll try your order. ^_~

Doing the shadows as a separate layer only started when I got lazy and decided to cell-shade. Before I was lazy, I'd use dodge and burn for shadows and highlights, so they were on the same layers as the colors. Now that I'm migrating back to my old style, I'll probably start doing that again.

[polandlithuania.livejournal.com]

I wish switching to cel shading counted as getting lazy for me! Unfortunately I cannot draw a straight line, much less a curved one, so me and cel shading do not mix.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

I just use Photoshop's line tool. ^_^;; I get enough of them at angles to one another, and I've got a curve.