You’re happy with the colour combination
you’ve picked, you’ve shaded your
character up, and you’ve coloured his
lines. The individual finishing touches you
add will be dependant entirely on the nature
of your design, but for this example I’m
going to add some highlights to the boots and
to the silver pieces.
For the boot highlighting, I’ve added
another Hue/Saturation layer to my Shadows set,
except I’ve dragged the lightness up and
increased the saturation only slightly. I found
this to produce a fairly nice shiny-boot effect.
Then I created a layer above the Line Colouring
layer – at the very top of the layer stack
– and set its blending mode to Screen.
I grabbed a very gentle, soft brush (similar
to the one used for the shadow-tempering technique
above) and picked a rich, bright violet colour.
I went into the highlights layer and started
laying down some subtle highlights where the
silver should probably have highlights. Using
violet (or any other highly-saturated colour,
for that matter) results in a much more interesting,
colourful glow effect than if plain old white
were used.
I added some small dabs of highlight to her
nose and her lips, walked to the fridge, grabbed
a Cold One, and called it a day.
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