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<blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1429036" data-attributes="member: 1025">James, that's interesting enough that I'm going to try some of these things you mentioned in my own work and see how it goes for me.Usually, I find that unless I merge down the layers at some point and start working the whole image, I wind up with tones that don't really seem to &quot;touch&quot; each other--edges of things that should connect don't. &nbsp;So I might do a table in green and an apple in red as two separate layers, but at some point, when I've got things near to the end, I'd probably merge them down and work on the shadows in the spot where the apple touches the table. Otherwise the apple winds up looking like a circle hovering over the plane, instead of a sphere resting on it.&nbsp;Another thing I like to do is print out the image, water color it, and then scan it back in. This gives me a lot of nice texture, and I can always correct the color once it's scanned in. If you look at &quot;Citizen of Idle Fen&quot; in my gallery, you'll see one done this way. The original watercolor is not very interesting, and it's over a pencil sketch on a Post-it note, so everything had a yellowish cast. But I laid out the rough texture, and then I worked most of the color in Photoshop. It's nice to have something &quot;real&quot; to start from.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sialia, post: 1429036, member: 1025"] James, that's interesting enough that I'm going to try some of these things you mentioned in my own work and see how it goes for me. Usually, I find that unless I merge down the layers at some point and start working the whole image, I wind up with tones that don't really seem to "touch" each other--edges of things that should connect don't. So I might do a table in green and an apple in red as two separate layers, but at some point, when I've got things near to the end, I'd probably merge them down and work on the shadows in the spot where the apple touches the table. Otherwise the apple winds up looking like a circle hovering over the plane, instead of a sphere resting on it. Another thing I like to do is print out the image, water color it, and then scan it back in. This gives me a lot of nice texture, and I can always correct the color once it's scanned in. If you look at "Citizen of Idle Fen" in my gallery, you'll see one done this way. The original watercolor is not very interesting, and it's over a pencil sketch on a Post-it note, so everything had a yellowish cast. But I laid out the rough texture, and then I worked most of the color in Photoshop. It's nice to have something "real" to start from. [/QUOTE]

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