Coloring Commission - Bokuman - SJD83 - Leon-A

Here we have a coloring commission that was made to me SJD83 by of a lineart that he had commissioned to Bokuman

Original seen here:  Leon-A Lineart

It’s always a pleasure to color Bokuman’s lineart it’s like going back and revisiting a favorite restaurant.

But because I’ll be going to a convention soon, I needed to raise funding for it so I’ve been asking around some of my regulars if they have any new linearts that they’d like colored and SJD83 had one that he had overlooked.  It’s another Genderbend of Lion-O.  I know that many of you have reservations even outright hatred of genderbend characters but that’s another issue entirely that I’d rather not get into.

For this picture, it was pretty easy compared to the other stuff I’ve done.  All that was needed was just to color the character and that was that.  So I pretty much had the pallet set up.  The only real trick of this one was coloring the sword but in my experience coloring metal is tricky no matter what.  But thankfully, SJD83 loved what I had done so that’s all that matters.

© Lion-O - Thundercats - RankinBass

Coloring Commission - Leon-A Tentacle Attack

This is a coloring commission made to me by SJD83 with the lineart done by Bokuman

Here’s the original: Leon-A Tentacle Attack Lineart

After doing the last one that I did for SJD83, this one seemed to be a bit of a breeze since no background was required in the coloring process.  But then after I finished coloring Leon-a, next came the really difficult part: Coloring the tentacles.  In the process of it, I couldn’t help but think about the people who animate and color tentacles in both anime and hentai.  I started to really sympathize with them because of how much of a pain in the ass it was to get my polygon lasso tool into the lines of the tentacles and to get it into the right one.  Becuase just when you’ve finished clicking the right area, you soon find out that you did the wrong area.

I will say this, it was a good thing that it wasn’t asked that each tentacle be a different color.  Otherwise that would have raised the difficulty rating quite a lot.

© Leon-a - Genderend of Lion-O - Thundercats - Rankin-Bass

Coloring Commission - Leon-a versus the Void (Colored)

This is a coloring commission made to me by SJD83 with the lineart done by CallMePo

Here’s the original: Leon-a Versus the Void Lineart

At first I thought I was just going to color Leon-a and the void creature but then I was asked to color a background with some line work that SJD83 had drawn up.  In comparison, both were rather intricate.  Such as with Leon-a, there was the need to lock the layers and add some extra color, like the dark blue trim on her outfit, the white edging on the boots, and so on.  Next was coloring the void creature.  Using the polygon lasso tool on all those curves and such took quite a while to get done.  So, all in all, Leon-a and the Void Creature took about a full day to color.

The next part came with the background where, thankfully, there wasn’t as much guess work when it came to making the background.  But in the course of laying down the colors for the trees, the leaves and the bushes, it made me feel like a digital version of Bob Ross.  "We’re just painting some happy trees here, some bushes aaaaaaand some light beams.“

Thanks to some techniques I had learned over time I was able to throw in some diffused light that looks like it’s coming through the tops of the trees and add in a few dots and blur them and they look like dust particles.

Two days worth of work and I’m rather proud of how it turned out.

© Leon-a - Genderend of Lion-O - Thundercats - Rankin-Bass