#aha I really really like playing art teacher and talking abt my process a lot

[ashwii]

i really love the way you paint your art esp with the 4 portraits of the turtle bois! do you have any tips with how you shade and blend the lineart with the coloring? ive been analyzing your art for while and i couldnt wrap my head on how you do that style where theres a lineart but at the same time on some places its lineless i hope im making sense

Oh yeah I totally get it! So what I do (for my full renders anyway) is digital painting. It's when after I have my sketch and all the main colors I want, I merge all the layers together and start painting and blending over everything. Basically my line art, base colors, shadows, and highlights are all in one layer and I start working everything in together.

I'll put a gif of my process down below to visualize what im talking abt, but essentially the idea is to get this soft painted look I like, while also knowing that I'm not married to whatever line art I made. You can even see during the process that I changed the shape of donnie's face and his hand, and that's because I just picked the "line art" and "background" color and drew over thoes places again and again until I liked it. The reason that some places look lineless is because I painted over them, and I just kinda like how that looks and don't bother to go over it with the line art color again XD

TL;DR: The reason that the line art looks blended in with the colors is because I merge everything down into one layer when I have all the general colors I want, and then I start painting and blending over everything. Over time, with all the blending, the line art and colors naturally star to look blended in together <3