Here it is, by request, the colouring tutorial for Shivae! This is done on photoshop 5 with a mouse- I'm not sure how it would work with a tablet, as I don't have one, but I think it'll be much the same. I keep seeing this particular image popping up in different places, so I'm going to re-colour it for the demonstration.

1. Syke sends me the image just like this (Image © Tiffany Ross) & I then work it at 450 pixels per inch.

2. I lay down the base colours with the fill tool. It's all on one layer.

3. I use a large airbrush set at pressure 19 to quickly paint in the red on Vas's back & the gold on his belly (using 'colour range' under the 'select' menu to marqee an area, fuzziness set at 0). I use a small airbrush for the wings, just using a scribbly motion to get the furry effect.

4. I then use the 'burn' & 'dodge' tools set at 'midtones' with a low exposure to acheive lights and darks making Vas more three dimensional.

5. For the stripes I set the airbrush pressure to 45 & use the 'fade' setting- depending on the image size, anywhere frm 10 to 30 steps. Airbrush is set back to normal & at pressure 19 again to paint in Vas's paws, muzzle, & eartips. These are then shaded with 'burn' & 'dodge.'

6. Background is done the same as the characters. For grass and foliage I use 'clouds' as a base, & then do scribbley patterns overtop. Bark is the same. Scribbleys.

And that's it! I use a much different method for paintings on photoshop, but this is the one I use for comics.
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Hope you enjoy! <(^_^)>