Thank you :>
Oh wow, cool! Thanks so much for the info. You use the white ink well--it's not overkill or underutilized with your style of color.
Today I practiced my inking and colouring.
Here is the sketch from yesterday:
After the sketch comes the ink:
I use a size 1 paint brush to do the inking, it gives me good control when I want to make lines thicker or thinner.
After the inking the lines, I start on the hair!:
I always enjoy inking the hair, it's always a therapeutic process just watching the brush paint over the blank spaces.
After that I start on the undertones:
After the undertones, I finally move onto the colour:
The skin is a mixture of Burnt Sienna and Vermilion. The Burnt Sienna is the brown. However it isn't enough to just have brown. Since Nani has red undertones, the Vermilion is added to give her the slightly red tone in her skin.
@LCT_m_a_d they have so many characters, sometimes it can be hard to pick just one! And thank you, I personally like the absence of sharp lines in the lilo&stitch art work.
@Black_Conscious I look forward to seeing what Disney characters your draw next! That mulan is brilliant, you really captured the colours well. Did you use a reference like a still (a paused image) from one of the films? Did you know Nani has a post of Mulan in her bedroom in the first lilo and stitch movie
@migxmeg & @Kelheor OMG, Stormlight fans 
I just finished Rhythm of War end of last year. Do you have any favourite characters?
@Calculus_Homework thank you, i'm still get use to placing highlights. When it comes to watercolours, it's also a good habit to forward plan and leave areas white as well as using white ink for highlights 
bit that's a bit hard for me atm
@migxmeg yep theyr'e cool indeed mayb for nex Halloween or a cosplay I'm sure you'll come up with an idea 
The girl with paper and cat look awesome too 
Love the one with the guy grooving on his guitar, the angle of his left hand also adds that natural, motion feel too 
@Kelheor is that an OC or Tifa (one of my fave characters) looks awesome either way and sweet layout on the piercings for the bald guy, his expression looks awesome gives me a mix between a stern and wise character 
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@AfroAtelier nice seeing traditional painting art, never thought about it b4 but totally agree, very therapeutic seeing the paint brush painting over 
XD Awesome linework and the undertones were neatly done Nice seeing the process and paintjob, keep it up
Did this sketch while on lunchbreak - I'm clearly hooked on Issandro atm:
His powers are gravity/anti gravity manipulation and his fighting style inspired by Capoeira, there's some time b4 he appears in the comic but continue to work on him meantime, have to work on the bodypaint for his back, superpower effects.
His design is supposed to be layered especially with the bodypaint placement. -his body paint covers tattoos that reveal his true identity. Also have to do some battleworn textures too where the bodypaint starts to wash off.
His shirt and shirtless looks for comparison:
@Kelheor amazing...ly stubborn 
aww but thanks always for the support.
@nathanKmcwilliams see Erick, want to punch Erick 
@stiatent thank you!! Wow these 3d models are just wicked - the clothes and texture 
I wouldn't even know where to start.
How long does it take you to create a 3d model, they look like a lot of hard work has gone into them!
Tell me about it, documenting each stage of the process is so rewarding. Especially if I want to come back in the future to examine how I did something. I still forget the combination of colours to make nani's skin colour, so I always have to refer to my cheat sheet or go back to my previous studies and figure it out 
And great traditional work, I really like the anatomy and dynamic angles!
Must be that I'm so jealous of how amazing and cool he is.
@AfroAtelier Undertones!! I love seeing your process - thank you for posting. I'm never satisfied with my watercolors, going to grab that from you next time I try them <3. As for Stormlight, I haven't read that series (though I believe Mig is reading it now, so it's probably somewhere around the house). I used to read a lot of novels and for better or worse now it's 98% comics 
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I've reference one of the Covers from the Movie Mulan, such as this and then added small/noticeable details to it like the Blossoms, since her father used that as an example at the end of the story I believe.
Actually I was gonna draw the other version of Mulan where she is wearing the armor she took from her father. You know I might draw that as well I just wanted to get down with this one first
And OMG HOW COULD I FORGET THAT EASTER EGG IN LILO AND STITCH!!!
I saw it one time like a long time ago lol, It actually took me a minute to see what you where talking about and then BAM
(reference photo)
@migxmeg OMG does migxmeg = Mig & Meg 🤯 I always thought it was just your artist moniker and not two names in one, mindblown.
And YES, i remember you mentioning that you do watercolour art as well! Would you be willing to share some of your watercolour sketches and paintings (or make new ones 
) we'll be watercolour buddies 
What genre of comics are you into at the moment? mine's always chopping and changing but at this moment of time its supernatural horror
@Black_Conscious wait a sec... I've got ot here somewhere... rummages through screenshots... Chris Sanders, the designer and director of lilo and stitch actually worked as an animator for Mulan and Aladdin.
Here are some of his storyboards for Mulan when I was doing a deep dive into his artistic style:
I'm totally nerding out but I find these so fun to share because, they're kind of like a piece of animating history as well as a brilliant way to study art styles.
Go for it and draw her with the armour, that'll look amazing!
OMG I NEVER KNEW actually when I see those two movies side by side I actually can see the similar qualities thats so fascinating and its also intriguing to see the story boards as well
and lol yessss I've been wanting to draw her with the armor as well 
Today I'm back to work, on my way into work I picked up new Faber-castell polychromos colour pencils. I've wanted Burnt Sienna 283 for a while but then I stumbled across and colour I quickly tested and think it will come in handy, called India Red 192.
Both these colours will be brilliant for some of my characters with brown skin tones. Burnt sienna is important because that is a base colour in the watercolour mixture for characters like Nani that I draw and paint. After the paint dries i usually go over areas in pencil to smooth the transition between light and dark areas. Being able to touch up areas with the right pencil colour will help. Especially since I was using burnt orche which is lighter than burnt sienna.
@LCT_m_a_d definitely go for colour I remember your pieces "Control your inner-actions..." and "The key to a spirited mind..." which had colour, that was so eye catching and had this really nice pop to them. The shades of purple and dark reds in the clothing were certainly tantalising and I liked the use of fuchsia in the tree in "The key to a spirited mind...". The use of orange and grey scaling in "Control your inner-actions..." would definitely be something I would really like to see, especially in different colours.
And I'm curious to see how you would use browns and darker shades of colour
You experimenting and using more colours will be so interesting especially in observing how your work develops
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@Chita LOOK AT ALL those curves and curls in the horns and hair! The hollow eyes really add to the eerieness of your character! Will you draw more of her?