Here’s the Bride all inked.
Flats laid in on grey background.
Close up of face.
Hard edge brush, start with shadows, build up to lightest light. Looks horrible!
Large airbrush set to fairly low opacity. Pick the darkest color from the skin, and work the edges. Up to you on how much of the hard edge you want, Once you get started, you want to start selecting the color from the left and right of the hard edge, this will help build the transition. For the light side, pick a lighter color but not the lightest, and do the same to smooth out the edges.
Just the color cuts.
Now with the airbrush
All Done!
Close up. I rendered the eyes, painted over the black outline inside the face and hair, and added lenses to the glasses. I did all these on several separate layers.
That’s my process of getting this piece done. Now this process like comic book coloring in general is basically a method to quickly get something colored. Felicia looked at this, and was immediately able to point out stuff that I SHOULD have done, but for the sake of time and my general laziness, I did not do. Which I should. First off, I colored this piece with no regard to the background. Secondly, I colored this piece with no regard to the color of the light source, and in fact I faked the light source like crazy. I also faked the reflected light, disregarded temperature, and oh so many rules of color theory! I also treated everything as though it was made of the same material. So there you go, a little full disclosure!