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Shanna by D.Lima (colored) v.0.9

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Uffff... I've been coloring this thing FOR AGES!... Because I've recolored it 3 or 4 times I suppose.

:icondlimaart: Awesome original pencils by David Lima. Original can be found here: dlimaart.deviantart.com/art/Sh…
:iconjakecarver: Coloring and clean-up by me.

When I saw this drawing and understood that so far noone has colored it. I mean "properly" : ) . I decided that I MUST do that.First I decided to make it "classic-style": i.e. inks->flats->colors. And actually I almost did. But I wasn't satisfied with the result. Inking is just "killing" the soul of the original pencils. Ok, I thought. And decided to make "double-colored" inkings (i.e. black and gray). It appeared to be better than the first one, but still not that good. I tried to color pencils directly, but the image come out a bit "messy" and not that "polished". Than I tried just to "paint over" but still not that good (was a bit too "dirty" in colores). Then I tried several technics to color the piece. And after several months (yeah-yeah, you heard it right) I was able to work out smth that  I was a bit satisfied with. That doesn't mean I've been coloring all these month, but I was "thinking" how to most of that time. : )

This is not a final version. I still want to redo some stuff, but I thought that I need to make it public, otherwise I'll never finish it. ))  Next colorings I think (I hope) will take much less time to accomplish. I've learnt quite some things how to make image look nice and "tasty".

The main idea of this coloring was to preserve the "soul" of the original pencils. Though don't leave pencil's strokes. Colored pencils are much easier to make but they are a bit "messy" and don't look that good. So, this was a hard task. I'm not sure I've completed it 100%, but I'm generally satisfied with the result and that's enough for me. So, I called it "coloring and clean-up", because that's basically what I did. Neither pencils, nor inks. Smth in between.
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Shervios's avatar
Nicely done!I really want to recolor her if you dont mind.😀