Artwork Update (Patreon)

Phew, busy night! First I drew the most recent comic and then worked on the artwork from yesterday. Getting close to midnight for me, but here's an update. Here's part one if you missed it. First, I basically used the last color scheme I posted yesterday. The main change was that I altered the alien lasers to be red instead of green.

Now it's time to start shading and highlighting! First. I shaded and added details to all the foreground elements: the person, table and cards. The result was:

Next, I shaded the flying saucers and their lasers:

After this, I added some dramatic shading to the background sky:

Finally, I shaded all the mushroom clouds and background explosions:

At this point, it didn't feel quite finished to me. I felt like the explosions didn't carry enough weight. So I colored in the lines of the explosions with a dark red. This gives more of a sense that they are far away, and thus bigger. The final result was:

I need to look at this more carefully to clean it up a little bit, but it's mostly done now. Hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes look at my progress!