Skyknight colors from start to finish.

you guys may remember this from an old post. I decided to revisit with my cintiq. I was able to clean up the black and whites nice for a proper digital painting.  I originally tried to water color this, it looked horrible decided to digitally paint it. roommates dog ate the original.
 

can't wait for this to get completed... its a pity the original got eaten... literally!

I 'm pretty sure it was the dog, I used some shitty water color kit from michaels arts and crafts instead of buying the good stuff and plus something about  recycled watercolor paper dogs really love. it's not the only one the little fucker ate. That's just the only one I caught them eating.

" I 'm pretty sure it was the dog, I used some shitty water color kit from michaels arts and crafts instead of buying the good stuff and plus something about  recycled watercolor paper dogs really love. it's not the only one the little fucker ate. That's just the only one I caught them eating. "

some more progress, I'm dead tired. 

The flats are just a way for me to set a mood, other colorists use it as a tool to easily select area's to paint using the marquee tool. I just don't know what I'm doing yet.

" The flats are just a way for me to set a mood, other colorists use it as a tool to easily select area's to paint using the marquee tool. I just don't know what I'm doing yet. "

yeah there are many different ways to key out whites, one copy of line art is fine for me because I don't want to confuse myself even more. Less layers the better. 
 
For instance I had a flats layer for the right background which you see in the earlier pics is a pale yellow for the left, and a dark blue for the right. of course not realizing it I started to fill in colors on what I thought was the tree layer on my bg layer. And turns out the cyan/green I was laying down was on top of a dark blue to give the leafs their color. So I had to crop the leafs and banana's erase everything on the right bg flats layer and then merge the original "tree" layer with the bg layer hence why the dark blue is now missing. Don't need it, we'll work around that mishap.  
 
I have tons more work to do on the tree trunks but I think I'm pretty happy with the leaves and banana's this time around. I'll also edit the solid blacks on the original ink layer to allow me to run a gradient blue to soften that background and hopefully some how blend the left and right backgrounds together in a way that doesn't conflict color wise and such.  
 

 worked a bit more on the background on the right side of the image tonight, added moon color, slight glow to it, stars slight glow. erased solid inks and made a blue gradient to black on the right background piece. All in all I think I'm happy with the progress so far, still lots to be done.

It looks incredible, man.

yup, looking fantastic, left came out incredible and right is looking on path to same goal. 
I think you confused my advice with keying out colors, I wasn't suggesting it for that, I was suggesting it because it sounds like your making masks and selections to get your color areas and that separated white layer is essentially those selections your trying to make ready to magic wand when you prep it right. 
 
I agree, less layers is better, to some extent. This isn't a layer that sits out there visible with the rest, you tuck it in a folder called MASTERS and go to it for quick selecting :) 
It's just about time efficiency however selecting parts, produces same results as the long way so there's no wrong way to get the cat skinless.

haven't touched this one in a bit, just started going to the gym again, and getting my car ready for a trip up to northern california for a car show. If anyone is into that type of thing it's called wekfest. If you want to attend you can go to sfwekfest.com for more information. I am also into cars as well as drawing, video games, etc.  
 
Here is my other work of art which I have rebuilt from the ground up.  
 

" Cool beans om1kron, you have a lot of detail going into the background, nice bananas lol.   Bad dog though, eating art, although I guess even the dog thought it was so good he/she ate it. "

" @EGoD said:

" Cool beans om1kron, you have a lot of detail going into the background, nice bananas lol.   Bad dog though, eating art, although I guess even the dog thought it was so good he/she ate it. "

hehe, the only thing worse is when they eat your stash :) "

I need an adjective that will describe this correctly... and since I can't find one I'll use this one for the time being: "Awesome!"