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

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

Coloring Commission - Great Dude - When Bandages Attack

A while ago, I was contacted by sjd83 who asked me to color this lineart:

Mummy Attack

Initially I was a little wary of it because it was so very different from other linearts that I’ve colored but I decided to take up the challenge.   Already the biggest issue I had with it was how scratchy the lines were.  But it wasn’t really the first time that I had colored anything where the lines looked sketchy.  The extra challenge were the bandages themselves since there were some in the foreground as well as the background.  So that required several different layers to compensate for it.  When it came to the background, I decided to use a more tan/dirty sand color to it similar to what one finds in a lot of old tombs, or at least depictions of them, if you know what I mean.

With the picture done, my commissioner was very happy with it.  

© Lion-O - Thundercats - RankinBass