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Continuing on with my experimenting over the holidays, I gave ClipStudio another try with this Summery Starfire. Unfortunately, the colors in that program are really giving me a hard time when it comes to shading and highlighting, so I moved the inks back over to Corel Painter to finish this piece up. Overall, I’m happy with how it turned out – especially the inks. I found ClipStudio to move a lot smoother and the inks look cleaner to me, even when the image is a lot larger than you see here.

My Starfire pieces are mostly inspired by the mid-20teens series, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, which I really enjoyed.

Anyway, thank you for taking a look. Any comments, critiques, or tips are welcome and appreciated!

(I’m on most social sites as kmkibble75 , so please tag me if you share this anywhere. )

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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.

Description

Continuing on with my experimenting over the holidays, I gave ClipStudio another try with this Summery Starfire. Unfortunately, the colors in that program are really giving me a hard time when it comes to shading and highlighting, so I moved the inks back over to Corel Painter to finish this piece up. Overall, I’m happy with how it turned out – especially the inks. I found ClipStudio to move a lot smoother and the inks look cleaner to me, even when the image is a lot larger than you see here.

My Starfire pieces are mostly inspired by the mid-20teens series, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, which I really enjoyed.

Anyway, thank you for taking a look. Any comments, critiques, or tips are welcome and appreciated!

(I’m on most social sites as kmkibble75 , so please tag me if you share this anywhere. )

____________________________________________

Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.