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Wetsuit Kanan and Maki - Color Commission
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This is a paid Color Commission, to find out more, click here: the-sakura-samurai.deviantart.…
Commission for shooter2170
Line art: Locked behind Patreon Sweating a little...
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Oh look! A line art from Saver I always love coloring these!
*A few hours later after coloring a bit*
...Oh look. A line art from Saver I always hate coloring these...Sweating a little...
So yeah this is something that I always say about Saver's artwork as they really are fantastic and Saver has done a bunch of work in both fan arts and has worked on several animation projects from Arthur to Family Guy. He is a legend for getting a chance to work in the animation division and it's always an honor to work on bring color to his work and I'm always proud of the end result whenever I color his pictures...but on that note getting to that point is an actual NIGHTMARE! (Good thing we are on October as the amount of work put into this is scary Sweating a little...
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So yeah another Saver picture for my 465th color commission and it's a pair of characters that I see in this gallery every once in a while, Kanan Matsuura from Love Live Sunshine and Maki Nishikino from the original Love Live on the right. So another crossover with these two which hey I don't might. Even though I haven't seen the series the girls are usually cute and I get the appeal even if I'm not into it too much. This is a picture idea by shooter2170 though so it seems to be water themed like most of the previous pictures. Seems that we caught them a bit after a dive as they are standing near the ocean with only their wetsuits no other diving gear and seems to be hydrating themselves with a couple of drinks that they bought. After all, swimming around in the water takes a lot out of someone so it's always nice to stay hydrated after a work out to maintain a healthy body. That's really it for the story though, what you see in the picture is what you get.
So onto coloring. I've already commented before how coloring Saver's line arts is both a blessing and a curse and I don't mean like he's a bad artist, far from it as he does tries his best to color the characters as closely to the source as he can. Sure the lines are a bit not too clean but the characters aren't hard to color, they just take some time...wish I can say about the background though. And yes I get it, Saver has a ton of pictures to draw, characters take top priority and not the background as why work 5 hours on a whole picture when you can work on 2 hours on just the characters and give a basic background just enough to tell you what location they are in. If I were in Saver's shoes I would have the same mind set. At the very least the majority of backgrounds were simple underwater pictures without too much going on. Some take some time to color but nothing to cry about...I filled up a bunch of cups with my tears after looking at this background Sweating a little...
So long story short, because that the lines are none existent for the backgrounds, I have to color it manually. And sure I could just erase the background and just add the lines to the background myself but then you forget that I can draw to save my live and would look very bad so that idea was out. While I could darken the picture just a little bit to make the lines stand out, it does darken the whole picture where it's not 100% white and sure it's close to 98% white I want to color this without using that method. So yeah, can't make my lines, can't darken the picture and I can't ask Saver for edits for easier color or asking him for the original file so that I can edit the picture, I'm on my own for this one and it's a long climb to get to the goal without any help. But at the very least I do have the saving grace that allowed me to not only push forward but making it one of the best backgrounds I've colored for at least a Saver picture. The background...is based on promotional art!
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It's not exactly 1 to 1 between the promo art and the background here but it gave me enough ideas on how to color it. Granted it still wasn't easy, it still took some time as I wanted to put in as much shadows and lighting the promo art had into this as much as I can to make this picture stand out quite a lot. Sure I'm limited on my colors based on the line art itself and it's not perfect by any means but dang it I'm very proud. I can't exactly fault the artist though as there are some things I want to add to the picture but I couldn't do. Like for example the water droplets on their bodies for example, I want to make the lines white and add some effects to make it look more water like but I've ran out of time to color this and I can't put in lines properly. Another example is the rosy cheeks that Love Live usually has as no matter what I do the effect doesn't look right for me so I just scrapped it along with a few other minor details here and there. I tried my best after working a bunch of hours here but hey the end result is still something I'm proud of and I'm glad to have color this...I just wish it didn't took too long. Maybe next Saver picture would be a bit easier Sweating a little...
Hope you love it :D (Big Grin)
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Love Live! and all related characters are © by Dengeki G, Sunrise, Tokyo MX, licensed by NIS and Madman Entertainment.
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Picture Concept by shooter2170
Line Art by Saver/ wave-lens www.patreon.com/savaster/
Coloring by The-Sakura-Samurai
Special thanks to k1234567890y for the help ^^