This is a colored version of the Seras Victoria Sleeping Beauty lineart done by the artist Darkslover
As by the instructions of his artwork, she asked that anyone wanting to color it should send her a note.
I sent her a note and asked if I could color it.
She answered yes, provided that I follow a few guidelines. Such as have the light come from the right of the picture, put Seras in a white nightgown, put Alucard in the darkness, and have the sigil on his glove glow.
All easy, but then there was the question of what to do with the bedsheets. It was left up to me. Thus I decided to make the bedsheets blue for two symbolic reasons.
The first being that blue is the color of Seras’ uniform within the Hellsing organization.
Second because blue always seems to be in some opposition to the color red. Such as in this case, Seras’ Blue to Alucard’s Red. There is all kinds of symbolism behind red and blue that can be found in all kinds of places if you’d be willing to do the research on it. On top of the fact that red is a warm color while blue is more of a cool color.
All the work that I put into this one took roughly 8 cumulative hours that spanned over a week. The easier parts were coloring Seras’ skin and her hair. Then came the harder parts: her nightgown and the bed sheets since they both had so many folds and wrinkles in them. So I essentially went in with a 200 to 500% magnification in photoshop and began to work at it one area at a time.
Now that it’s done all can enjoy it.
© Hellsing - Seras Victoria - Kouta Hirano
