#There are a couple things I’m not satisfied with and might redraw at one point but i need to stop and get stuff done

[fuumiku]

They’re really interesting foils in many ways. I’ve always thought that Marcille & Mithrun have underrated dynamic potential. Give me the cringefail dungeon lords. Give me the elves with ears-centric metaphorical self-image issues. Give me the academic elites whose deepest strongest desires will always remain unreachable and the only option is to turn to the corrupt forbidden fruit of a demon pact. I am so so normal about Mithrun and Marcille

I wonder if the resemblance between captain Mithrun and general Hagreus aka Marcille’s fave in Dalclan is intentional… They definitely look very alike. It could represent idealization vs reality? Something something the romanticization of elves and their societal drama in their fiction vs a very real and imperfect product of their military system. The canaries certainly aren’t glamorous next to whatever Hagreus is the general of. I feel like she never had the opportunity to notice the resemblance herself bc within seconds of meeting him he was wrestling her on the ground but. If she had… She would so think he should have been his actor in the tallman stage play of Daltian Clan in that new extra comic hehe. I love the little details like Hagreus’ lips being drawn with extra details because they’re full and pretty while Mithrun’s lips are drawn with extra details because they’re chapped lmao.

This art is all silly and surface level but in my head mithrille is like so dramatic and I make up daltian clan level big plots with them gbdgd. I made a spotify playlist for mithrun if y’all interested, rn it’s mostly centered around cravings that consume and losing yourself and illusions inspired from his time as dungeon lord but it’s branching out. Varied vibes, levels of intensity and degrees of confusion and await you ✨ I would emotionally rant about Chainsaw Man ost lyrics and how they tie in with Mithrun and the winged lion’s relationship but this post is already a monster

I want more of these two please please please pleaseee just one or two interactions in the new canon content coming up… All they ever did was debate philosophy on desires and human self-fulfillment and try to murder each other, please… I never get to gush about them and I can’t shut up so if you want more thoughts I talk about them more below

To get a girl to peacefully accept arrest follow these simple steps: in private, ominously stand above her and forcefully interrogate her, while in public, tell her you’ve met before (untrue and also not a pickup line) and interrogate her with a thin veneer of decorum. If all else fails, threaten and follow through on said threat. My guy needs more than just physical therapy I’m afraid

Sorry if most of these were Marcille-centric with Mithrun standing there looking cool, if I were doing these more from Mithrun’s pov things would be like "She’s a bit much but I guess I don’t mind hanging around her." or "Oh you’re a half-elf? -insert elven supremacist rethoric-" or "I have to keep her from becoming demon stew." immediately followed by "Did someone say demon? Kill kill kill kill kill" since these are set prior to like really knowing another. Then things would be more like "huh she has bad tastes in novels but her magic research is pretty interesting" and "I’m lonely and don’t understand myself— Oh she loves talking about feelings? Oh shi-" That last one is an aspect of why I like Marcille and Mithrun’s potential dynamic lol. She’s very… Emotionally intelligent alongside being impulsive. You think you have no feelings because the world has beaten them out of you? Think again!! Marcille be upon ye! -In a therapy sort of way but mostly in a connecting with people and your own self through interpersonal relationships and talking kinda way. I just think a lively, upbeat, annoying friend way too interested in your personal life would do him good, the canaries are nice but like if Marcille went to prison and was a sort of extra new bunkmate I think that’d be interesting and fun to read is what I’m saying

Unlike Kabru she wants all the useless messy filler of his backstory, eating chips while listening. Like two chibi sets side by side, "me and my fellow canaries, name name and name-" "Hold on that’s too much info we have to compact this" vs "Then we were to sleep on the third floor of the dungeon, which had the look of a mausoleum, and name and name got into a fight over the campfire placement." while Marcille is like uh-huh what next what next while kicking her feet. She thinks of pre-dungeon pompous Mithrun and is like omg you went through a character arc and became better as a person- and then he opens his mouth and she’s like nevermind let’s keep working on that. She would also go "ew ur hair is greasy" and give him a full hair care treatment. What I’m saying is I need them to be forced to spend time in a dungeon together and become besties through a life or death roadtrip

Marcille is insecure about her ears, long, like an elf’s pride should be, but rounder, inelegant. Seeing Mithrun though, the epitome of beauty, with his half-cut ears make it a sillier thought. Not sure if Mithrun is the best person to reconnect with ur elven culture with but it sure is an option Marcille would so appreciate being around someone both cool headed and kind, I genuinely think they’d get along, like not that Senshi isn’t that too most of the time but I think Mithrun would be in a way that’s more refreshing to her. I’d be so curious about them discussing Dalclan, I doubt he’d have read it but she could make him read it, maybe post-canon with the excuse that they’re trying to find him a new hobby hah. He’d tear into the writing and everything but it’d be a fun time, I like to think that it’d make him a bit less prejudiced. Marcille @ Mithrun "👉👈 Soo maybe you don’t know these books they’re pretty recent having come out 50 years ago but…"

I’ve been in a Mithrun phase I want to make and read Mithrun-centric fics and angst so baaad. I razz him a lot here but he’s literally a traumatized military man that became obsessed with revenge due to bad coping and neglects himself in the process idk not much for him going on and some of it is because he has to work on himself, but hey no one’s perfect it all comes from a place of love and relating though I prommy. He’s the one ungodly angsty squeaky toy blorbo with brain damage rep I have don’t take him from me

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The Story of One Punch Man Season 3

Aplogies to @gofancyninjaworld this reply was so late, was kinda distracted by the new chapter. Anyway, here is my second response, hope it finds you well!

@gofancyninjaworld (original comment to my original Season 3 post, which in turn was a response to their original Season 3 post) If you’re a punter who got into season 2 enough to fish $300 out of your pocket to own the series, what did you come for?  Garou, most probably. What’s going to happen to Garou if the story ends at chapter 108?  The first three-four episodes, he’s going to get the crap kicked out of him by monsters and left unconscious in a hole in the wall. Forever.  That’s it.  The interesting things the story will have hinted around limiters and explosive growth, no visible relevance to Garou.  You’re probably going to feel a little cheated.  Okay, maybe you’re into the other characters.  Well, Genos spends his time cleaning the apartment, Bang is wandering aimlessly through the Monster Association along with Fubuki and Bomb.  As is King, who you only saw briefly a couple of times at the beginning and then no more.  Suiryu? Oh go whistle – but you were going to have to do that anyway, it’s a shame how much real estate he took up last season. The kid is rescued and the other heroes are doing okay.   Tatsumaki is taking on the real big bad and is also doing okay. You’re arguing that seeing Saitama punch a monster that is posing no imminent threat to anyone, and whom he dismissed with less respect than he did Elder Centipede constitutes a profitable end.  One that will satisfy people enough to buy in and come back for more.  You must be kidding!   The storyline has effectively wandered off in the middle and says nothing and means nothing. It’s the other half of the story that starts to land the second shoe and to show WHY there’s a conflict worth following in the first place.  The concept of growth through near-death experiences, now it will make sense when we see Garou wake up, challenge Darkshine and complete the tantalizing hints we’ve been given since season 2. While giving us yet more to look forward to – can he truly crush both Hero Association and Monster Association? The carelessly-dismissed Orochi comes back in more fearful form.   You want to talk about hype?  Here we see the very first monster to survive one of Saitama’s killing blows.   The support heroes do more than standing around wondering what’s going on, and we get our appetites whetted by the longest-running mystery in OPM.  The other heroes we’ve been following stop cleaning or wandering around aimlessly and do something.   The S-Class heroes who had been so impressive until now are in deep shit that runs beyond their ability to do something, now the cleverness of the Monster Association mastermind becomes manifest. And Tatsumaki – why the Hero Association leans on her and how her existence has led directly to the strategic mistakes they’ve made to date will be really great to see.  There is literally a Tower of Despair that’s been dragged out of the ruins of what was City Z to counter the Tower of Justice built out of the ruins of what was City A.  [ If the production studio is really clever, they might do a little ‘preview’ of what’s coming next season with Metal Bat and the other hospitalised heroes coming out and little snippets of the battle to come.  Or they might not – it won’t matter.]

(A) The Second Rise of Garou

First off, to the claim that Garou will disappear after 3-4 episodes in a shorter Season 3 is complete baloney. The end of Volume 19 is 500 pages past Season 2… and from there to Saitama vs Orochi is 700 more pages. Somehow… a 12 episode Season 3 would cram 125 pages or more into the first 4 episodes… then spread the remaining 8 with 90 pages or less? Garou is making it to episode 5, period. Maybe only the first half, with the S-Class meeting covering the second half. So Garou will be the main character for 35-40% of the season.

Now to his relevance… what happens to Garou?

The offer of 3rd in command at the Monster Association and his mission to kill his first hero

Betrayal of the monsters and fights in defense of Tareo

Dr. Genus’ Limiter monologue during his fight specifically to hype him up as a potential second Saitama

A bloody warpath through the monsters ranks, only stopped by the monster executive

Gyoro Gyoro’s plan to make Garou the new monster King, culminating in a duel between Garou and Orochi himself.

That… that is all irrelevant? People will feel “cheated” by Garou leading his own personal assault on the Monster Association, being singled out by both man and monster as having unlimited potential, and growing far more than he ever did in Season 2? If that is “cheated”.... then adding 12 more episodes just for Garou vs Darkshine is grand larceny.

(B) Season 3 without Garou… who will be watching?

But yes, you do make a crucial point, similar but different to Season 2: Garou will be non-existant for the second half of Season 3 (while he dominated the first and last third of Season 2). So anyone who enjoys Season 3 must care about characters other than Garou, such as Saitama or the other heroes.

Saitama fans?

Many people were drawn to One Punch Man specifically for the revolutionary character of Saitama. Presumably why the Orochi “fight”, the refereeing of the Phoenix Man battle, and Flash and Baldy’s Bizarre Adventure were added at all. So it’s no small thing to end a season on Saitama (Boros/Orochi)…. As opposed to not Saitama (Psykorochi) or barely Saitama (Elder Centipede).

The Dine and Dash, Hotpot, Limiter, Phoenix Man, and Orochi far from reduce Saitama to a gimmick… but even if they did…. does adding 12 episodes, which includes the Flash teamup, magically fulfill his character or give Saitama meaning in the story? No. “Saitama ditching his tab on Blizzard, the source of his power, saving a child hero from despair, and killing the Monster King was quite disappointing.. but Flash and Saitama running around? Finally, the anime is saved!”

Saitama Gang fans?

Of course the Saitama group will be sidelined… no matter what. Even pulling 24 episodes would just give them one fight each. Nobody will ever, ever buy the entire Season 3 blu-ray for them alone. “Aw, sucks they do nothing but eat hotpot in the first 12 episodes… but hey, they get one fight each in the next 12! Worth it!” That individual is a fantasy.

Side Character/Worldbuilding fans?

Who will be enjoying either version of non-Garou Season 3, the Saitama group hardcore fans? After the hotpot, no (two fights < a second cour). The Saitama hardcore fans? Until the hotpot, sure, but after that it’s just Phoenix Man and Orochi (and Flash for 2 cour), solid, but not enough to carry the season. Only one groups is left: the people willing enjoy side characters, just as they did after Season 1.

Amai’s Mask reentering the story and war by force

the support team contrasting the S-Class

Flash’s duel of the fates

The battle for the soul of Child Emperor

Zombieman’s slasher flic

Atomic’s Pupils’ S-Class potential

Tornado’s first onscreen “fight”... against the monsters’ 2nd in command

Those are the Metal Bat/Suiryu/Blizzard/King of the next season. Anyone too narrowminded would have left after Saitama/Genos/Mumen/Tornado/Sonic took a heavy hit in screen time for Season 2.

(C) The Final Battle of Season 3

Now for the finale: Orochi is the second character in series after Boros to both “fight” Saitama… and instantly respect him as a god among men. The Monster King recognizes the bald hero as the world’s strongest hero, the victor over two of Orochi’s strongest warriors, and the mystery monster of City Z… sounds a lot like a certain alien finding Earth’s strongest warrior, the killer of his two generals, and the fulfillment of a prophecy? Yes, of course, Orochi dies in one normal punch, he is but a shadow of Boros… but that shadow is less respectful and threatening than one giant bug who has no character whatsoever? Also a reminder: Murata said he would redraw the fight, so presumably it would be a better finale in the second version.

Yes, I’m not kidding, that is best ending for a season of One Punch Man since Boros… and will be until the end of this saga. Even Elder Centipede or Psykorochi’s defeat are obvious stop gaps (unlike the fakeout ending of Orochi), ending simply after big battles in the middle of a still ongoing war. Is it an ideal ending? No, it’s a worse repeat of Season 1’s ending… but is actually is an ending. Want to know what isn’t an ending? Cutting off at the start of two character facing off…. While other characters are being dragged up in energy bubbles… and while the main character is digging rocks. And you argue that “constitutes a profitable end… One that will satisfy people enough to buy in and come back for more”? That is far closer to “effectively wandered off in the middle and says nothing and means nothing.” It’s not even a bad ending…. Because it’s not an ending.

(D) The Unnecessary Additions to Season 3… that don’t lead anywhere:

Garou’s growth was already addressed with Genus and Orochi, it is merely 100% confirmed with Darkshine. Orochi was the first monster to dodge a punch from Saitama, even Boros never did that (though Boros did survive a direct normal punch to the chest). The Organization, the support team, the Saitama group, they aren’t necessary, the hero vs monster war works fine without them. The S-Class actually losing, Orochi returning, and Tornado nearly dying is great…. but it doesn’t lead to any sufficient result, at least not until after Psykorochi is defeated. Paralleling the monster’s tower to the hero’s tower is just a nice touch… but it adds no impact or conclusion to the story whatsoever.

[evitcani-writes]

College AU

Finally finishing off some more Candlenights dropped requests. Sorry my life and health kinda took a downer and this took so long. This one is for @renvart! I hope you enjoy. 💖✨

UPDATE: This is now on AO3!

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The night started slow, like it always did. Wind lifted what was left of autumn from the trees and swept them across the park path. Despite the wind, it was warm under the last rays of the balmy sunset. The park was nestled right up against one of the frat houses that spilled music and lights on greenery. Taako narrowed his eyes at the pond in front of him and tried not to get distracted by the people chattering as they walked to the party or the the party itself.

That had been the last two hours of his life.

The music didn’t exactly evoke the serene qualities of the moon his spellbook demanded. He hissed in frustration as he ran his finger across the chalk circle. Wrong again.

“Fuck,” he snarled and whipped out his phone, biting the nail of his thumb as he googled another picture of what it was supposed to look like. “Fucking stupid magic art class,” he ranted under his breath. “I’d go to the fucking party, too, if I could use homework files to cheat my way out of it.”

“Frat and friends only party anyway,” someone said behind him. Taako froze and turned. Some guy was standing there, watching him and sipping from a red solo cup. Taako had seen him around the campus a few times. The guy had on one of said frat’s sweaters, Caput Mortuum Water Gold, with the collar of a button-up underneath peeking out the top. He pointed at Taako’s circle. “You need help with the homework?”

Macallister Kravitz, Taako thought and squinted at him suspiciously. That was this guy’s name. A pretty face that always stuck out in the commons. He couldn’t remember where or how he’d learned it. “You even in this class, homie?”

Kravitz cracked a smile and walked forward so he was at least partially in Taako’s lantern light. “No, but I do tutor it,” he offered and swished the contents of his cup.

“I’m broke as shit and I’m sure the department ain’t payin’ for party overtime,” Taako said carefully, glaring at Kravitz in continued suspicion. He did his best to avoid most of the hoity and toity on campus. Kravitz was most certainly both of those things.

Kravitz snorted and sat down cross-legged outside Taako’s wobbly ritual circle. “It’s funny,” he started, setting aside his cup. “It’s almost like I didn’t once mention money when I asked if you needed help.” He leaned over the circle and flipped back a few pages in the spellbook open on Taako’s lap. Pausing, he looked up at Taako from under his lashes, lips parted prettily in a way that reminded Taako exactly why he stuck out in a crowd. “Unless you can do this on your own?”

There was a casual, biting implication that Taako couldn’t.

Taako rolled his eyes and grabbed Kravitz’s hand, lifting it away from his spellbook. “I don’t need sloppy, drunk help by some frat dude’s condescending goodwill, my guy,” he said easily and picked back up his chalk.

“I’m drinking water,” Kravitz laughed and sat back, clearly not going anywhere.

“Well ain’t you a stick in the mud,” Taako sighed, started to try to redraw the complicated lines.

“It’s Mickey Mouse,” Kravitz told him, taking another sip of his water.

“What,” Taako glared up.

“Squint at the text again. The symbol looks like Mickey Mouse,” Kravitz elaborated and tossed his cup in the air. It disappeared in a small flash of light and fairy dust.

Huffing, Taako glanced down at his book. If he kind of turned his head, it—. Oh, there it was. Mickey Mouse in profile with a couple of odd lines around his ears. He shot Kravitz a dirty look for being right, but Kravitz just smirked back at him. A splash of water from the pond with a wave of his hand and fire from his palm to dry it. He started again, tongue poking out of the corner of his mouth.

“You’re Taako, right?”

“Sure thing, bubala,” he answered distractedly.

“We’ve had a couple classes together and—.”

“Mhm,” Taako mumbled and sat back. Damn this guy, but at least he’d finally gotten the last symbol to be servicable.

“Would you want to, I don’t know—. I’m just sort of spit-balling here, hah, I uh—.” Taako saw Kravitz’s hands gesturing wildly out of the corner of his eyes before he closed them. He positioned his hands in meditation and took a deep breath. “If you’re free tomorrow, Taako, would you, I don’t know—.”

“Shh,” he hushed him, not really sure what the guy was saying anyway. “I’m trying to concentrate. Ask me whatever you gotta after.”

“Oh, right.”

Taako sent his magic out and caught on the chalk. He stilled, listening to the music wash away to crickets chirping and frogs croaking and Kravitz breathing so nearby. Breathing, in and out and in and out and—. Something was wrong, missing. It nearly sent Taako out of his trance. He folded his magic inward like kneading dough and listened.

In and out and in and out and in and out. Taako heard his own breathing, his own heart beat slowing as he brought himself out of his own body. The world went silent besides their breathing and Taako’s heartbeat. Taako could only see himself, meditating, the pond, Kravitz watching from the grass. Everything else was void too empty to even name as darkness.

In and out and in and out and in and out.

What was missing? Shaking his head, Taako tried to stop searching for it. He turned his mind back to the spell he’d fixed in his heart. With both silvery hands, he cupped the spell he slowly pulled from his chest and took it to the water. In a moment of weakness, he glanced back at Kravitz.

Kravitz met his eyes.

He nearly dropped the spell right there, but pushed through it, managing to stay standing on the bank with it curled close to his chest. “You can see?”

The spell cried softly, a muted mewl. Kravitz pressed his fingers to his lips and pointed at the water. It lit up as if on command, spirits swarming against the surface as if they might break the tension themselves. They came in all shapes and colors; beautiful maidens swimming backwards, the ghosts that’d formed here from stories of hauntings screaming and thumping their hands against a surface they’d never break with the summer days of picnics and lovers taking shape as brightly colored fish swimming around them soothingly. They didn’t like to wait once someone had their attention. Taako frowned, but knelt by the pond and gently slipped his fingertips past the surface. The spell slid in without a splash and Taako stood, satisfied.

The spell swam among the spirits and stirred them. It grew and grew and grew on their excitement until it flipped out of the water as a mongoose.

Kravitz covered a laugh behind him.

Taako turned and shot him a glare. “Yeah, my dude, you got a better magic guide?”

“Mine’s a raven,” Kravitz grinned and leaned his elbows on his knees. Taako’s mongoose was now running across the surface of the water, scattering light around it. “Yours is cute. It’s surprising, is all.”

Cute, Taako thought to himself and pursed his lips. “Why surprising? What kinda guy didja pin me as, handsome?”

“A songbird,” he smiled back easily in a way that made Taako’s connection to his body start to thrum rapidly in time with his heart. “Free, flashy, a bit adventureous.” He paused and looked over at Taako’s real body. “Pretty.” He flashed Taako an awkward grin that didn’t at all match the confidence he’d said it with.

Yeah, Taako thought he could see this man as a raven. Maybe himself as a songbird, too. He tugged on his heartstring and opened his eyes. The music flooded his senses for a moment and he scowled. Kravitz wasn’t looking at him, he was looking up at whatever had formed across the lake. As were a few people who’d been passing by.

Right.

Taako grabbed his camera and jumped to his feet, spellbook landing awkwardly on the concrete. He turned to snap a picture and paused, jaw slack as he looked up at what his magic had made. Kravitz stood up and walked past him, tapping his foot on the frozen lake. When it held, he stepped onto it more readily and turned with a laugh.

Taako snapped a picture of him. Above him, delicate ice ravens were frozen as they swooped and played with songbirds, shining with an inner glow that colored the ice in pale colors. Beneath his feet, the ice had been dyed to the bottom with a similar motif. The camera caught Kravitz’s smile as if he was suspended in the sky.

After a few more snapshots, Kravitz held out his hands to Taako. Taako – figuring he’d finished his homework anyway – decided the music from the frat was just right for this kind of impromptu dance between the spokes of birds bursting from the ice. They spent as much time falling on their asses as actually skating, but all of it laughing.

At least, that’s how they remembered it the next day over coffee and a shared slice of cake.

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manga coloring tutorial from start to finish

 Thanks so much for 1000 followers! As thanks, I’ll be walking through my manga coloring process from start to finish. I already have a video up of my process here, but I know that some people prefer written tutorials (myself included).

I by no means claim that this is the best method. This is just how I’ve been coloring over the past couple of years.

Today I’ll show you how to get from this:

to this:

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Photoshop OR Clip Studio Paint OR Paint Tool SAI

a drawing tablet

WHAT YOU MIGHT WANT:

Topaz Clean (Photoshop)

I will be using Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint, but I have colored with SAI before using pretty much the same methods. Feel free to ask me about program-specific things! I will not be providing download links and will assume that you have a basic knowledge of Photoshop. Unfortunately, I don’t own a mouse so I will be unable to provide any tips as to how to color without a tablet.

One thing that I like to do is use Topaz Clean in order to turn the screentones into gradients like so:

It’s okay to lose some detail, as you can add it back in during the coloring process. Turning screentones into flat shades will help make redrawing easier. This step is by no means necessary and can easily be skipped, but I figured I should mention it since I’ve received a lot of asks in the past as to how I get rid of screentone patterns.

Now, you can redraw first or render the part that you wish to color first. Personally, I prefer rendering first so as to minimize what I need to redraw. You can use the pen tool or the polygonal lasso tool.

Personally, I prefer the polygonal lasso, as it is present in more programs and you can go chunk by chunk instead of rendering the whole thing in one shot. If you make a mistake with the polygonal lasso tool, you can undo your last click with the backspace key. If you would prefer to use the pen tool a helpful guide can be found here.

Your picture should now look something like this:

Rendering usually takes me five to twenty minutes, depending on how complicated the hair and clothing are.

All screenshots from here forward are taken in Clip Studio Paint. First, create two layers and clip them to your render. The first layer will be for redrawing lines, and the second layer will be for redrawing tones.

You can either redraw using a pen brush or by continuing to fill in areas using the polygonal lasso/pen tool. You can redraw gradients using a soft brush/airbrush if you used Topaz Clean. Otherwise, use clone stamp tool.

Don’t worry if your lines aren’t 100% perfect or if you feel like something isn’t perfectly redrawn! You can compensate for lack of experience/expertise in redrawing during post-processing/effects.

Clip another layer and set it to Screen. Fill it in with a color of your choice to change the color of the lines. This helps your piece appear more vibrant and also allows you to color in the black areas better in your final piece. I usually prefer to use a shade of purple or magenta, but you can use any color you want!

Using a soft airbrush or watercolor brush, change the colors of some areas if wanted. I like to color in the skin with a more reddish tone, color in whites with a more bluish tone, and color in the eyes at this point.

Now, fill in the flats. Again, you can either do this by selecting large areas using polygonal lasso or pen tool or by using a hard brush. Color each color on a separate layer and place them all into one folder and set it to multiply. You can then either clip this folder to your cap (CSP or SAI) or masking it (PS).

Color in areas that are supposed to be white with the color that you intend the shadow to be so that you can see the colored area better. You will later lighten this area during the shading and highlighting process.

Lock transparency on every single color layer. You can skip around on most of the steps from here on out. I usually like to start with shading the skin. Pick a muted red and add some more complex shading.

Switch from the red to a darker, more vibrant magenta and darken some areas even further. At this point, you can also add some white to the screen layer and soften the transition from the original screentones to the original white areas.

I usually like to save skin highlighting for later, so let’s move onto coloring the hair. Select a darker color that’s a little warmer than the original hair color. You can also invert this, but for the majority of my works I go for warmer shadows and cooler highlights.

Add some shading to the hair. I generally don’t like to get too detailed with hair shading because I feel that it takes away too much from the face/eyes, which are generally the main focal point of the image. Now do the same for the skin and choose an even darker magenta to add the darkest shadows and then add white on the screen layer to add in some of the less bright highlights.

Use a brighter, cooler tint to add in some highlights. Add white on top of that to put in the brightest highlights.’

Repeat the same process for the clothing and other details.

I usually go for more simple gradient backgrounds and just kind of throw them into the background and experiment with different colors until I’m satisfied with the result.

At this point I usually save and import the image into photoshop to do some effects and processing. At this point, if you’re already familiar with photoshop and editing, you can just proceed to edit it normally as you would any other cap. My favorite adjustment layers to use are curves and selective color.

I also slapped some text on the background and added a horizontal motion blur (masking out her face and fists as they’re the focal points) to help lend the final coloring a more dynamic air.

This was an extremely basic and broad look into my coloring process. You can also view commentary-less videos of me coloring here and here. If you have any questions about how to do a specific thing or would like me to color a specific panel for you feel free to send me an ask!

Thank you so much for reading!