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 - Bokuman - SJD83 - Pumyra

Here we have another coloring commission from the generous SJD83.  He had done a series of lineart commissions to Bokuman which involved the original versions of the Thundercats characters Cheetara and Pumyra.

Original Lineart:  Commission SJD83 Pumyra

I admit that I was pretty young when the original Thundercats aired so a lot of the details about it were pretty fuzzy to me.  And I was reintroduced to Thundercats with the newer 2011 series and I wondered if Pumyra was a hcaracter created for the 2011 series.  So, I went and looked it up and turns out that she was part of the original cast as well.
But from a coloring standpoint, Pumyra was FAR easier to color than Cheetara.  Just a small color pallet and a few tweaks to layers here and there and she was finally finished.
At last it was done and SJD83 loved it.  :-)

© Pumyra - Thundercats - RankinBass

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

Coloring Commission - Bokuman - SJ83 - Cheetara

Here we have another coloring commission from the generous SJ83.  He had done a series of lineart commissions to Bokuman which involved the original versions of the Thundercats characters Cheetara and Pumyra.

Original Lineart:  Commission SJ83 Cheetara

I admit that I was pretty young when the original Thundercats aired so a lot of the details about it were pretty fuzzy to me.  But thankfully SJD83 provided some reference images for a color pallet and I knew that I had my work cut out for me.  Especially when I went looking for other images to help out with the coloring.  And seeing how visually complex the characters were, I had to ask myself, “How in the hell did the colorists on this show do this from episode to episode?”

The real pain of it was the hair because of how much flowing golden curls there were.  But I have plenty of experience coloring the linearts of Bokuman over the years and I know that I had colored far more detailed stuff than this.  So, I just bore through it and continued to whittle away at it.
At last it was done and SJ83 loved it.  :-)

© Cheetara - Thundercats - RankinBass

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

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