I realized the last time I scribbled Kamina, due to Epic BackShot, I didn't add his awesome cape and GAR shades. = *FIX'D.
Also, I'm pretty messy/sketchy when I draw, therefore I'm not
the least bit of a clean lineart sort of person, so... this took me
ALL DAYYY ffffff. Colouring is my Achilles Heel, so I'm working on it...Jared needs to let me suck his mad colouring skillz out of his brain.
Kamina,
I did this for you 
you were like my bro
(5/20)
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For previous Kamina scribble of EPIC, clicku here:[link]and a curvy pin-up Yoko doodle fer ya:[link]Tools: Photoshop CS5.1
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You've drawn him beautifully, I love his smirk and his nose!
Now I definitely have to check out your gallery.
And I am flattered that you think so highly of my colorang, but lole if you could see my process it's just like "WHAT AM I DOING" the entire way through.
Textures are cool! I have been experimenting a lot with them lately. I find just making an overlay top texture layer, tuning down the opacity and erasing around the areas you don't want it on works really well. And you can layer them and all kinds of junk. I did it on my recent "Any Kinda Touch" submission and I think it added a real depth to the surfaces SOMEHOW.
Um you might try to condition your mind into regarding colors differently. Kind of like light filaments. As a rule, as soon as I think I have something colored nicely in some varying shades, I will then overlay another layer on top of it and sometimes pick a random color (torquwasss for example) and then drop it on top of my existing color layer, turn down the opacity and then take a larger brush eraser (also tuned down to a low opacity) and start buffing away the torquoise around certain areas where I want the underlying colors to peak through. And then sometimes your whole perspective on the color scheme changes and you take it in another direction. (Also, I find if my coloring job is just really looking like shit, go ahead and and find the add grain in the artistic effects and play around with the settings. It will sometimes bring things together so you can resume coloring on top without having to worry about working on crap already.
Ok, I'll shut up now. Paragraph assuming memoir length.
How 'bout we trade? I'll siphon a little of your aesome-sauce drawing skills and you can leech some highly overblown non-existent coloring skrills?
Plus/Anyway, this coloring approach is totally different than mine. It's kind of natural lighting meets cell-shading. And when I look really closely I see a lot of extra subtleties you went for especially in the skin (extra mark-making and additional tones). My favorite bits are around his neck-region, the shading underneath the glasses and the dark red contrasting shades of the cloak. (combined with the oh-so-subtle fabric texture!)
The only thing that only-sort-of-kind-of bugs me is the inconsistent white/highlite brush strokes on his red glasses. I feel like they could be crisper, especially being a reflective surface annnnd I like his fuzzy eyebrows! My only preference is that they were a bit thicker '_< eheh.
Otherwise it's an awesome fanart-portait with perfect cropping and I'm sure many other people will agree with that point.
I'd LOVE to colour stuff like you, but I'm a n00b. Cell-shading seemed waaaay easier at the stage I'm at right now (but I added a bunch of textures so end-result isn't boring as heck). So it's another fusion of stuff because I'm weird
thank yeee thank yeee! I agreed with what bugged you too, so VOILA. I edited it somehow even though I had already flattened my layers. Honestly, something was nagging at me when I first submitted this, so you're a superstah for noticing it!
thanks so much
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