I did something a bit different this time around, namely not working with a huge-ass file. I typically scan and do all of my clean-up and colouring at 300dpi... which is pretty large. Mostly this is because I'm used to thinking in a print mindset; you want anything printable to be at least 300dpi to make sure that it prints nicely. When I worked at the printshop, I would make prints and stuff of my own drawings all the time, but now I'm solely digital, and I don't use those high-res versions for anything. So, I still scanned at 300dpi (so the raw scan is that large, at least), but resized down to 100dpi before cleaning and colouring, in the hopes that it would make my workload significantly less. And it worked! I spent MUCH less time cleaning and colouring than I usually do and I'm still left with a nice picture in the end, just not one that would look super great if printed, which, OH WELL.
I did duplicate and rotate the entire arm for the right arm, just to make sure it was positioned nicely, and also dicked around rotating the eyes and such. My old thick marker that I used to use for these thick-line scans is actually dry so I had to use a different one that I actually didn't like as much, but it got the job done well enough. I left the eyes with the thinner pen only so they wouldn't turn into blobs. Originally I outlined the inner flowers in the thicker marker, too, but I didn't like how that turned out so I ended up cutting and pasting the inner flowers from the thinner-line scan that I made first, then later thickened those lines up a bit with the paint tool. So, in the end, they ended up at a thickness somewhere in between the the two tools.
Overall, I'm pretty pleased. The background is boring, but mine usually are; I'm not a fan of making backgrounds, which is partially why I'm so partial to adding the holo effect. >_> Speaking of which, not sure if you can tell, but I used a different holosheet this time. This one is CMP's, the one he has to match his Neo Redux set. I had the holo downloaded since I plan on hopefully making some fake cards with his blank set soon so figured I'd give this one a try this time to see how it worked. I was very pleased!
I only had my initial CaC stuff to post when I started, mostly because I'm too lazy to sift through my old art, though I'll probably add some of it one of these days when I'm not lazy.
