\n\t\t\t\t\twolfkidd - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/8095813/Saw it, loved it, spent entirely too long on every step toward coloring it.
Unlike his recent coloring of Jace's sketch, this stayed entirely digital. Cleaning the sketch almost worked, but it proved necessary to reduce it to pure black and white at 4x resolution to convince the computer of certain details that seem obvious to the human eye. I wouldn't call it "inking" so much as "dicking around with filters and then scribbling a few curves."
Still playing with process beyond that. I didn't merge any layers this time. AO came first, then ground shadows, then self-shadows, all atop plain white cutouts of the two characters. After that I dropped each color on a separate multiplicative layer, relying on the thick lines to ignore overlap. Because I had darkening colors atop darkening shadows atop pure white mattes, it was easy to stick ground lighting just above the shadow layers.
Frankly, I'm just glad I remembered to add the fuzzy cuffs back in.
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