This time in colour! And this time I seemed to have found a colouring style I like. The larger version looks better than the smaller version. Not as detailed as the greyscale pictures, but perhaps it needn’t be, seeing colour picture requires different balances than b&w pictures. This was done in Corel Painter IX, same as the previous pin-ups, using mostly the airbrush function. The inks was done by hand, as usual, and interestingly enough, this time I seemed to have struck a balance between showing off my inking and showing off the colouring. In my previous efforts, I tend to just “paint” it, utterly obscuring the inking. This has it’s own purpose, such as when I need to achieve a certain effect, but I end up having to re-ink some parts of it anyway, so it’s a big time-waster.

After having given up on the watercolour function, I find the airbrush function much better suits my colouring style than any other function I’ve messed around with. However, I find that this picture, though originally done in CYMK, has the JPEG version of it (the one you’re looking at now) turn out a bit whacked in the colouring. I don’t the heck know what happened, but the colour in Corel Painter looks brighter than this JPEG version. What the heck…? But never mind. I should attempt some more pin-ups in this colouring style first and see what I come up with.