The color change that kept me up all night (Patreon)

I had the first five pages of Elephant Town up on my desktop for literally *a month* before the first three went up on Monday. I was struggling with how to color them, since the first pages would decide the color process for the next howevermany-hundred, and there's no going back after they're published.

Originally I was going to give each character their own linework color (in Kris' case, a reddish-purple), and drop a light overlay of the same color over the whole page to unify everything. But when I moved my "finished" pages to my laptop on Sunday night, they looked too dream-like and I panicked. I auto-leveled each of them (command+shift+L, for those who want a quick Photoshop trick), and resigned myself to the fact that they looked better with darker linework. I spent the next hour or so tweaking each page to make the leveled version suit the parts that still needed to glow (mostly windows) before I posted them here.

This is kind of a reverse sneak-peek since you've already seen these pages, but I thought you might be interested in my idiotic approach to coloring: spend days, weeks, months coloring a page, and then throw everything in the garbage and do something else at the last minute. ;)

(Apparently I have some kind of synesthesia because the original red-tinted pages make a buzzing sound in my head, while the final dark-lined pages are quiet. Anyone else??)