Decided to color this Vader head that I had posted the pencil and inked version of before.
It started out as the pen and ink version below.
I take the inked version into Corel painter and copy and paste the image onto a new layer and turn it into a "gel" layer. What that means is it becomes transparent where it is white and still solid black where it is black. That allows me to color behind the black line work.
In the picture below I created one layer and colored it purple as a background and then on another layer I used the airbrush tool to color in some orange/light purple and yellow.
I then use the gradient tool to introduce a little orange into the purple background to match the lighting coming from below.
For the final, I took the "hurricane" FX tool and warped some of the purple and orange background together to make it look smokey. All the hurricane tool does is just spin the pixels in sort of a hurricane pattern. One of my fave brushes for a nice quick smoke or steam effect.
After that I airbrushed a few spots with more color and a little more black in areas. Then I took the "glow" tool and on a layer above everything else used the glow brush to make the nice golden glows so that the color overlapped the black areas and wasnt underneath them.
Hope you dig it!
