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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storn" data-source="post: 1271950" data-attributes="member: 6698">Trainz, I do a lot of photoshop over Pencils and I have some advice for you.  Take it with a grain of salt, but this is what works for me.  (Khan, forgive the thread hijack).First thing I do is punch up the darkness of the pencils and clean it up... A combo of Adjust>Levels or Adjust> Brightness/Contrast does a lot.  Go after a few stray pencil lines with the eraser.Create a duplicate layer.  Set the layer to "multiply"... very important.  Now, the pencil lines will not be erased as you use various paint tools over them.  You can change the pencil line to monochromatic color, like the raw sienna that you did for yours.Create another layer above the duplicate, I call it highlights.  On this layer, you can paint over the lines that you wanna paint over.Then the majority of work is done on that multiply level.  Everything has to be done by hand (meaning brush or pen tool), no fills... too many little, niggly marks and motes.  I tend to go for a watercolor effect as seen here:<a href="http://www.stornc.rpggallery.com/new%20off/New%208.07.03/Page%201%20loRes%20F.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.stornc.rpggallery.com/new off/New 8.07.03/Page 1 loRes F.jpg</a>I accomplish this by doing most of the paint work from 30% to 70% opacity and putting in layers, sometimes using the water setting on the brush tool, sometimes not.Why I like this technique is that it keeps the integrity of the pencils.  Your color job really needs those lines punched, there is some weird stuff happening in the pants.An as just a color choice, I would have gone with a cooler background (blue, green, cool grays) over the purple that is there because the figure is really warm colors.  And the outside of the cloak is almost the same color, but more chromatic, than the background... making it very confusing to figure out what is going on with his arms.I hope you take this is in the spirit of me trying to help, not tear down.</blockquote>

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