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For those of you interested in the steps I take to produce teh artz

1. Pencil drawing. I never go straight to digital, although some people can do it no sweat. I'm just not to that point yet. For this particular drawing, I used a photo ref from a magazine.

2. Inks, in this case provided by the uber-skilled . I've had the privilege of watching him ink several times, and he uses a sable brush for lines. He also uses Micron pens for straight lines, like that S shield.

3. Colors in Photoshop. I lay out my flat colors first, using the darkest value I'm going to use. Then, to render, I just add highlights. A lot of people start with the middle value and add both highlights and shadows, but I've found that I get better results this way.

4. At this point, I add all the glowy shiny stuff on a "screen" layer above the line work. Also, I added a blue radial gradient overlay set to "hue". I also like to tweak my highlight and shadow colors at this point using the color balance option. I usually go for warmer highlights and cool shadows, but that can change depending on the palette.

Well, that's about it. My methods are constantly changing as I learn new techniques, so I never really color the same way twice, but this is the approach that I took for this piece. I hope this helps some of you guys!

Description
For those of you interested in the steps I take to produce teh artz

1. Pencil drawing. I never go straight to digital, although some people can do it no sweat. I'm just not to that point yet. For this particular drawing, I used a photo ref from a magazine.

2. Inks, in this case provided by the uber-skilled . I've had the privilege of watching him ink several times, and he uses a sable brush for lines. He also uses Micron pens for straight lines, like that S shield.

3. Colors in Photoshop. I lay out my flat colors first, using the darkest value I'm going to use. Then, to render, I just add highlights. A lot of people start with the middle value and add both highlights and shadows, but I've found that I get better results this way.

4. At this point, I add all the glowy shiny stuff on a "screen" layer above the line work. Also, I added a blue radial gradient overlay set to "hue". I also like to tweak my highlight and shadow colors at this point using the color balance option. I usually go for warmer highlights and cool shadows, but that can change depending on the palette.

Well, that's about it. My methods are constantly changing as I learn new techniques, so I never really color the same way twice, but this is the approach that I took for this piece. I hope this helps some of you guys!