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So, to start, I'm an idiot: because I forgot something basic that would have saved SO much time. I forgot, when I lasso'd the lineart, to use the fill tool to mass a silhouette, and then paint the rest of the silhouette with a brush, That way I don't have to re-lasso the lineart, which is excruciatingly time-intensive, I can just hold CTRL and click over the mass layer and *boom!* the entire mass is selected; meaning I can't color outside of the mass: meaning all I have to do is just make individual layers for the parts of the character I'm coloring, safely, because, again, I can't color outside of the silhouette. Then, if I need to clean up an individual chunk of the character's design, I just have to hold CTRL and click on that layer. Instead, what happened was I lasso'd each chunk of the character individually; layer by layer, locking them as I went. A much longer process.

Like I said: idiot. And even though I realized my screw up halfway through the painting process, I stayed with the slow method: just to punish myself and hammer home why you should always work smarter NOT harder.

It's been a minute since I did a cell shade study so I definitely had to knock the rust off and, uh, re-learn some things. Mostly what I did was just paint flats and shades, with only two highlights: in the eyes, and on dem lips. I had a lot of fun with the air brush--sampling the skin tone, dialing more red, lowering the opacity to 50%, taking a big fat soft brush, and delicately swiping on those extra little details that make the skin pop. I'm not an expert by any stretch, I just know to add red on the cheek bones, the tip of the nose, above the upper lip and on the chin. And on every shadow cast on the skin itself, because our skin is RED, because our blood is RED.

I'm definitely rusty, because I had to toggle the curves, the color balance and the hue and saturation SO much to get everything looking nice. What didn't HELP was me toggling all that shit with Vax BEFORE I'd even touched Vex, so, for twins, who have to be nearly identical, I had to compare her skin and hair against an already doctored sample of her brothers.

Another sign I was out of practice, I was so insecure with all my air brushing on a soft light layer that, after toggling so much, I still tamped down the opacity from 100 to 75. (Ooof!) Hiding your work is a universal sign you did something wrong.

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So, to start, I'm an idiot: because I forgot something basic that would have saved SO much time. I forgot, when I lasso'd the lineart, to use the fill tool to mass a silhouette, and then paint the rest of the silhouette with a brush, That way I don't have to re-lasso the lineart, which is excruciatingly time-intensive, I can just hold CTRL and click over the mass layer and *boom!* the entire mass is selected; meaning I can't color outside of the mass: meaning all I have to do is just make individual layers for the parts of the character I'm coloring, safely, because, again, I can't color outside of the silhouette. Then, if I need to clean up an individual chunk of the character's design, I just have to hold CTRL and click on that layer. Instead, what happened was I lasso'd each chunk of the character individually; layer by layer, locking them as I went. A much longer process.

Like I said: idiot. And even though I realized my screw up halfway through the painting process, I stayed with the slow method: just to punish myself and hammer home why you should always work smarter NOT harder.

It's been a minute since I did a cell shade study so I definitely had to knock the rust off and, uh, re-learn some things. Mostly what I did was just paint flats and shades, with only two highlights: in the eyes, and on dem lips. I had a lot of fun with the air brush--sampling the skin tone, dialing more red, lowering the opacity to 50%, taking a big fat soft brush, and delicately swiping on those extra little details that make the skin pop. I'm not an expert by any stretch, I just know to add red on the cheek bones, the tip of the nose, above the upper lip and on the chin. And on every shadow cast on the skin itself, because our skin is RED, because our blood is RED.

I'm definitely rusty, because I had to toggle the curves, the color balance and the hue and saturation SO much to get everything looking nice. What didn't HELP was me toggling all that shit with Vax BEFORE I'd even touched Vex, so, for twins, who have to be nearly identical, I had to compare her skin and hair against an already doctored sample of her brothers.

Another sign I was out of practice, I was so insecure with all my air brushing on a soft light layer that, after toggling so much, I still tamped down the opacity from 100 to 75. (Ooof!) Hiding your work is a universal sign you did something wrong.