On and on

Still working in photo shop. I'm trying to improve my coloring and shading, focusing on that and leaving fancy backgrounds aside for the moment. The coloring on this one shows marked improvement, I think, but not a lot of varied texture. I'll post a picture again when I can jazz up the textures a bit more. Maybe make the hair look different from the coat, you know?

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Right now I have two thick volumes of comics, Fantastic Four and The Green Lantern. They're older and these volumes were printed in black and white. However, they were originally in color. Black and white suits my purposes, though, as I'm copying poses from them for practice. Jay's pose here is thanks to Mr. Fantastic hanging onto a building for dear life. Mind you, I don't trace, I copy freehand. Also, I have to completely change the faces, outfits, and hair. Also, in this case, gender.

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Jay's design has been tweaked a little bit. There's a belt added, for more color, and the boots are higher, also for more color. Her imagine was getting a bit boring to color with only that orange triangle to contrast the blue. Have yet to get my sister's input on the changes. Hopefully she approve of what I've done with her character.

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Suppose I should mention, but Jay is falling not flying. Jay is impervious to most damage, strong, able to jump extraordinarily high, but she cannot fly. My sister and I have made a sort of rule about arbitrarily giving our heroes the gift of flight. Nearly every superhero out there has the ability to fly, one way or another and it gets a bit boring and whenever a character doesn't fly you feel as if they are at a huge disadvantage. So Jay doesn't get to fly.