Silas Zee: Kaori & Kousei (Colored sketch)

Kaori & Kousei
(Colored sketch)

2016.06.08

My second pass on this Kaori and Kousei pic, this time ditching the inking and coloring the pencils. :3

I posted the pencil stage again here because it's slightly different than the one used for the cel-shaded version. I cleaned it up a bit and tightened the lines ever so slightly. I've also included the final sketch with the colored pencil lines to show you the not-so-messy version I used to color with. The trick was to see how much of the dirt and stray lines I should keep and how much I should erase to get the look I wanted.

Yeah, I could use the same color techniques in an inked piece but it seems to work better when I color a sketch like this. Maybe I'm stupid and it's all in my head, I dunno. A bunch of fades and blends just seem to work with messy lines. I had fun with this but I did get lazy so the food and the background are recycled from the cel-shaded piece with some extra stuff thrown in to match the aesthetic. XD

It's not as good as my first Kaori piece, but I still dig it. ^_^