Coloring Commission - CallMePo - Slim2k6 - ogehS woN msagrO

Here is a new coloring piece that was made to me by a wonderful patron of mine: Slim2k6 a.k.a. DaCommissioner and this one is another from Camp Woody but this one involves Shego from “Kim Possible” and Desiree from ‘Danny Phantom” who had learned a small spell from Zatanna (DC comics). 

The original lineart seen here:  Quick-n-Dirty Sketch of Shego

In the beginning, I was asked to give it a similar background to the Eris/Ann Marie picture where it was the inside of a cabin.  And given the position of Desiree’s hand in the picture and the angle, I already knew what sort of background to set up.  That basically Shego’s back would be to the angled wall and there would be the adjacent wall to that. 

After coloring Shego and Desire, I wanted to make the effects, like the motion lines around Shego to pop a little more.  So, remembering how old school comics looked, motion lines often had a little bit of white coupled with it.  Using that, I went through and added the white to the sweat droplets and the motion lines.  But I still felt that there was more that needed to be done, such as with Desiree’s magic.  With that, I just used the color of the portal, added a little dusting of “magic sparkles” and added an outer glow to them to make them pop. 

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

© Shego - Kim Possible - Disney

© Desiree - Danny Phantom - Nickelodeon

Zet13 - Lacey (Shadows) Is Still Being Racy

This is the colored version of Lacey Shadows that was drawn by Zet13 that I commissioned of him.  It was a while ago when he was running what was called a “Toon Commission sale”.  The premise of which is that anyone wanting to commission him could only choose characters from “western animations”, so anime, video games and live action was out.   And given how lengthy my own list of ideas was, I knew that I had something in there that would fit the bill and here it was:  Lacey Shadows from “The Modifyers”  or rather “The Modifuckers” as was popularized by Zone-archives.

After the drawing was done, I did ask Zet to let me know which clothing items were which becuase it was a little tricky to tell what was what in the lineart.  And thanks to him, he sent me a version of the picture where the items were labeled.
With a guide in mind, I went to coloring her immediately.  With this picture I did a couple of experiments in terms of the coloring process, namely with the clothes, underneath each clothing item I added a unique shadow layer for that one item at a layer opacity level of 25% and filled it with black.  This in turn gave it a transparent shadow appearance but when combined with other shadow layers that had a similar opacity setting it gave that look of shadow layering where things get darker when shadows are laying on top of other shadows.

For the background, I had to refer to both the original and the Zone-archives version for inspiration.  And admittedly I borrowed a design from one of them.  1000 points to whoever can figure out which scene.  But the idea is that I needed it to have that “fabulous” or “swingin’ sixties” look to it and this was the best that could be done given the abilities I have.

Anyway, everyone, hope you like this one.

Note:  All Characters depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

© Lacey Shadows - The Modifyers - Nickelodeon