Coloring Commission - SJD83 - Leon-A vs the Tree Monster

Here is another coloring commission that was made to me by SJD83 of a lineart that he had commissioned to “Boundpretties”. 

I would give the link back to the original artwork unfortunately it isn’t there so the only thing that I can do here is to give credit to the artist and link back to their deviantart page. 

This one wasn’t particularly difficult, except for the part with the vines.  Al those vines in different angles and directions.  It became quite the undertaking when it came to using my polygon lasso tool and marking out the areas for which would be colored.  But once the base area was selected I just held that and went through with  my brush tool and added in the shading.   Thus the uneven look, but I figured that an uneven look would help in the more organic look of the tree branch rather than make it look like some even piece.  That in itself would make the tree branch look a little too artificial. 
After that, it was a matter of coloring the tree and adding in some foreground effects that I had used before in a similar piece. 

I’m thankful that SJD83 liked what I had done with this as I am quite satisfied with how it came out. 

Note:  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older. 

© Lion-O/Lion-A - Thundercats - Rankin-Bass

Coloring Commission - SJD83 - Leo-Na and Nathaira

Here is the newest coloring commission that was made to me by SJD83 this is the second in a pair that he had Bokuman draw for him and that I colored for him.

Original Lineart:  Commission SJD83

I had a feeling that I had my work cut out for me with this one.  The harder one of the two was the Lamia name Nathaira.  It wasn’t just coloring her regular body but it was also an issue of coloring her snake half that would be tricky.  What made this a little trickier was the fact that I did this during the middle of some exams that I’ve been involved with as well as an academic project.  Thankfully, SJD83 was kind enough to not exert too much pressure of time on me with this and so I was able to work at my own pace.

After Nathaira was finished, coloring Leo-Na was the easier part since most of her body was covered up by Nathaira’s tail.

Note:  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

© Leo-Na and Nathaira - Lion-O - Thundercats - RankinBass

Coloring Commission - Leo-Na and Lynxana

Here is the newest piece in a line of coloring commissions that SJD83 has made to me.  This one is from a lineart that was done by Bokuman and features a frequent favorite of SJD83s: the genderbend version of Lion-O from “Thundercats”, or rather “Leo-na” in this case. 

Original Lineart:  Leo-Na and Lynxana Lineart

As for the other character in this picture, her name is “Lynxana”.  From what SJD83 told me, she made a few small appearances in the Thundercats comics.  That made things a little tricky from a coloring standpoint since I didn’t have a lot to base her on since old comics use a pointilation method of coloring where there are dots of varying degrees of different primary colors.  Such as a mixture of red and blue dots to make purple and so on.  So picking out what shade of color to use for her became difficult indeed. 

But eventually it all came together. 

Note:  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

© Leo-na - Lion-O - Thundercats - Rankin-Bass
© Lynxana - Thundercats - Rankin-Bass

Coloring Commission - CallMePo - SJD83 - Lion-A is a Captive of Willa

Here’s a newest piece that was commissioned to me by SJD83 of a lineart that was done for him by callmepo. 

Original Lineart:  Mature Commission for SJD83

And so, we have another romp into the adventures of the genderbent version of Lion-O from “Thundercats”.  I knew that this was going to be a rather large challenge when I saw the lineart.  But as an artist I do need to try to stretch and stretch especially when it comes to backgrounds because backgrounds help to make a picture seem a little more complete. 

After coloring Lion-A and Willa, I went to work on the background.  And I will admit that in coloring the background, I couldn’t help but hear in my mind’s ear, the voice of Bob Ross painting happy little trees and bushes.  Although, I’m not entirely sure how happy these trees are given that they’re in such a dark forest. 

But after coloring the trees, vines, bushes and grass, next came the lighting effects.  A pretty simple technique of putting in black and white triangles to mimic shafts of light coming through the forest canopy.  Then adding a few dots of white and blurring them to give the illusion of dust motes. 

Note:  Al character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older

© Lion-A (Lion-O) and Willa - Thundercats - RankinBass