Grayscale! Screentones! Printing shops?
Jan. 6th, 2024 10:58 am
Happy New Year! One of my resolutions this year is to draw more manga and try making physical copies of it, so I decided to make grayscale guides(?) of the Golden Deer and Shezleth for my own reference.
Referencing this arcle, I tried to stick to 10/30/50/70% gray for base colors and +10 darkness for the shadows. It worked out pretty well so far, but the real challenge is... Shivers Timeskip outfits...
Really the difficult part about grayscale is that you can only use lightness to portray all the different colors instead of hue, saturation, and lightness, and it's not as simple as just converting a colored image to grayscale... For example, the bright yellow on Claude's clothes might technically be darker than his beige timeskip outfit, but I portray it as white in grayscale to reflect the high saturation making it look very bright.
And speaking of his timeskip outfit... (More rambling about printing under the cut)
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