Yu Yu Hakusho - progress + process (Patreon)

Hey!

Hope you're well! Here is the current progress on the Yu Yu Hakusho piece I've been working on - this one was started so that I could try and use the same approach I had used previously in the Super Metroid piece but with a slight alteration in the initial drawing phase(something that I hoped would work!). 

I'm very happy with how quick this approach is for me - instead of using my lines/values as multiply layers like I did with the Super Metroid painting - which ended up taking me a long time to paint over - I'm instead using the "~" key set to my tourbox controller for easy access(you could also remap shortcuts on your keyboard to make it easier to hit in photoshop) to paint in black at varying levels of flow/opacity and erasing out(rather than using white as the eraser like I've done in the past) using the "~" key. This makes it possible for me to lock the value layer when it's done and very simply paint over those value marks and make it instantly blend into my under coloring. 

My apologies if this is all confusing to follow, I'll do a video on this approach shortly, but I'm excited about it and wanted to share!

 Thanks as always for your support! The whole team will be on this one and it shouldn't take much longer now.

Dave