Just through the April Door.

We'll see if all my color dabbling/learning makes it into this piece.

The dabbling and math for complements helped a bit.

Sped me up.

Took me as long to do these touch ups as it took to do the original.

I'm told the body parts in the original hinted at a small scale.

I thought the bodies gave it an approximate size of 20 ft height.
Better to have no frame of reference and be informed it's 20 ft high in the playbook.

dabbing digital complementary color

I do the painting with a mouse since it's almost therapy level art making. Basket weaving with photoshop.

I did 3 versions of this on my tumblr.

More workpath art. Tumblr link

Because I posted it elsewhere

The Montag family review of Batman V Superman. Procrastinating now by doing something I ought to have done months ago. Slap dash execution using Ellis' make work path trick from a messy ink job.
I should be learning the software used in a job I start next week, but I didn't get where I am today by impressing my bosses with my preparation.

add or subtract 180 on hue for perfect complement.

add or take away 180. This is the link where I learned the cool tip

felt a much greater comfort picking colors doing this doodle enhancement.

It would be nice to time travel back to the early 60s with photoshop.

cropped

some great skin tones from Loni Anderson.

this approach of sampling a color and getting its exact complement, then staying in that exact color wheel degree setting for other color picks, works pretty well.

matte painting type of work using discrete color picks

Trying to make the gold work it became unnatural. If I had good color picks in the room for gold maybe I could pull it off.