When
I had enough of it I did raise the contrast a bit to make the different tones
better visible.
In the next step
I used the smudge tool to soften the edges and remove the cell shading effect.
When
closing the layer with the linework it looked like this. (°__°)
In
the next step I used a soft airbrush tool to give the shadows more depth and correct
some rough looking spots.You can see the steps on the images below.
Step
4 - Advanced Colouring
After
I finished this step I made the layer with the line work invisible because I dont
need it for the next steps. With a fine brush I repaint the eyes and other
details witch are now missing with the invisible line work and add additional
fine shadows.
After finishing the rough shading I did adjust the colors because they look very
unnatural since I only used 1 color. In the next step I did fine color and shadow
tuning,. With a soft brush I did paint over the face with different blue and green
colors on a new layer with a multiply setting. Then I merged both layers to a
single one.
Having
plain black color in my image looks unnatural so I over painted the black areas
using a very soft and fine brush with a low transparency. I used the tones displayed
on the image next to the eye.
Also
I did correct the nose and some other fine shadows I considered as to dark or
to hard (right).
In
the nest step I did raise the contrast a little bit and added some more soft dark
shadows.
Step
5 - The Eyes
I
reduced the transparency of the layer with the skin color and opened a new
layer fort additional details. This way I could see them better..
Then I did set the transparency of the skin layer back to 100% and merged it with
the detail layer and zoomed in to work on the eyes.
In
this step I opened a new layer and set the layer option to multiply then used
a blue color and painted over the eyeball to to get a blue touch on it. I did
use the color displayed next to the eye on the image. In the next step I did add
some brown color to give the eye decent shading. Next steep I opened again
a new layer and painted the highlights with a brush tool over the eyes.