my asorted art

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Inking work.
As the title indicates, work in progress. I sorta told myself I'd stop after an hour no matter where I was... and yeah, that's about as far as I got. The faces and hair are reasonably complete, but a lot of the other black lines are just roughs, they need another couple passes to nail down. I expect to spend considerably more time getting the hands/feet right, though. Probably will redraw the sofa a little as well. You can sorta see I've been hacking at the armrest there. I suspect pulling the curve out towards the left and making it more rounded might do the trick.
I'll strip out DS' original pencil lineart layer when I'm done...maybe over the weekend, I dunno. But I've left it here so you can see what it is I'm doing.
I use a white background layer, put the lineart on top of that...adjust colours to blue and turn down opacity. I ink over it (in pure black, antialiased brush) on a separate layer. So long as the ink layer remains on top, it makes it easy to add colour beneath. Once the flats are down, I usually add shades and highlights over the flats in individual layers - and can hover the pencils over that as a shading guideline if necessary.
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