colouring process

the layers for this piece consisted of a grey base consisting of the skin/hair and the flowers, this makes it easier to select the image as a whole by selecting the background and inverting the selection using ‘ctrl+shift+I’. after the sections have been drawn and coloured in grey I then use the selections to isolate them and then add colour to those selections, this method allows colours to be altered easily without needing to go through a longer selection process even after shading and additional colour has been added.

the colour itself is based on warmer tones for the character and a mix of warm and cold colours for the flowers

this was made by layering various skin tones with more reds around the nose, cheeks, chest and ears

this process was made easier by studying the style of marguerite sauvage in which gradient is used to create tone and lighting rather than painting edited by opacity.