ThereIsNoJustice's Sketchbook

[Leo Ki]

Thank you for your process for value to color, I thought I was understanding it until I bumped into the last step: "Paint over the top." With all the adjustments underneath, do you just pick the resulting color and paint in it, or is there more magic going on? The last layer is a normal layer, so it's not like painting just the texture and have it get colored by what's beneath, right?

BTW I think NSFW is OK here, or you can post just fragments of the images that illustrate your technique.

I'm in a drastic layer-reduction phase right now and I might end up going back to paper to be honest, but I'm always on the lookout for layer wizardry.

Hair is hell to get the right amount of detail for the style you're after. On the first page, anime-like, you might have too much detail. If you ink them simpler then add some detail with the coloring, it might be more like it? The long hair on the second page is awesome, but now with the mention of AI on it I'm wondering if it's from the machine, lol. I'm not sure what the "AI development" arrows mean.