I wanted to take a break from all the things I'm working on so I drew this. My goal was to take it from first sketch to colors in 2 hours. I think it took me a little bit more than that, but the experiment was fun and I think I'll do more of that. As usual when I try something, I used Marine as my test subject
Have you tried working in grayscale first (Sketch, lines and value) then adding a color layer on top, tweak the saturation, levels, curves, and touch up on a normal layer after all that? It's a very fast way of working.
BTW is there a texture on the image, or is my monitor just messing with me?
There is a texture indeed
Constructive comments are great, but sometime it's encouraging hearing people like my art
I love the magic effects, and the color palette you used here.