I don't know shit about coloring and even less about digital coloring, so I'm trying to figure out which style would be more appealing. This is a black and white drawing of Larry Elmore, using the color palette I picked for my webcomic. I chose this artwork because it has a lot of the elements I think match the style I'm aiming for.
This is my attempt at adding highlights and shadows and holy shit is it hard. I want it to have a more classic flat look, so even if it's digital it could be possible to recreate on a piece of paper. I cheated and asked Grok to give me tints and shadows for each base color, otherwise I would've just spammed multiply for dark areas and overlay for the brighter ones. I probably should've made the sword brighter to add more nuance.
This is after adding noise filter on the colors only, ignoring the linework and the page border. I don't have the patience to remove the artifacts (?) around the dragon and the other dark areas so just pretend they're not there.
Noise filter on top of everything. I like it a lot but don't know if many people find the scanned page look appealing, especially if it's digital.
>>7738063>using AI to enhance art instead of just make artBASED.
Added a light shade at 10% opacity, without the linework or page border...
...and on top of everything. Probably an overkill
and this is the original
I like 3 the most but I feel like it'd be a better if the noise texture was in greyscale, like a paper overlay type thing or smth like this ? idk
>>7738075huh I just realised that I have my color settings off
The drawing was already composed and complete in black-and-white. I'm afraid adding color will simply always look odd no matter how you do it.
>>7738069you destroyed the value structure of the original. Congratulations.
>>7739259Do you want me to pick an illustration from a coloring book? I'm asking if it looks better with or without filters, not if it's good or bad
