Been liking your Dungeon Meshi manga panel colorings a lot, keep up the good work!
There seems to be a texture to your colors, is that from a specific tool you use or is it the manga panels themselves that have the texture already?
Thank you, I am glad you like them!
I make all of my manga colorings on ibisPaint X which is an app like Photoshop, so the texture comes from two noise overlays at different levels of fuzziness, one below the colors and one above.
Recently I have also been experimenting with adding dotted/diagonal screentone overlays to get a more vintage, printed feel.
This is what my recent colorings look like with and without texture overlays ~
I really like the look and feel of vintage comics and prints, so I use texture in my digital colorings to try and replicate that gritty, rough feeling of physical paper. I started doing it with my first few manga colorings [which at the time were from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Demon Slayer] and it kind of stuck and has since become my signature style since. Whether they look better with or without texture is up to personal preference but I think it adds a lot of dimension to the otherwise flat colors.
Thanks again for the ask, and I hope you will continue to enjoy my future colorings!
Also, I may post some of my older works I originally shared on reddit since my Dungeon Meshi colorings are actually a very new hyperfixation and I have around 150+ colorings from Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, One Punch Man, Chainsaw Man, and more. If that interests anyone I will share them ♡
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I think I'm giving up on Wheel of Time after I finish the book I'm currently reading (The Shadow Rising). I feel like I understand why people like these, but they aren't for me! Among its other flaws, the gender stuff is just becoming intolerable. I know the line among its fans is that the series was "progressive for its time," but I don't really buy that; these books are from the nineties! Eye of the World came out the same year as Tehanu, for fuck's sake! I don't think that having a lot of female characters qualifies as "progressive" when these characters are almost universally terribly written (imo) and the magic system is intrinsically rooted in gender essentialism. Anyway.
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for a while ive sort of longed to be one of those girls thats gorgeous in a very messy way but upon realizing that i am actually that, my perspective on it has changed. i did try to embody it for years, but it turns out that you dont actually get that effortlessly, artistically frazzled look unless you live an actual frazzled life. and i like my frazzled busy life!
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