Whilst I truly enjoy the sketching I have been doing, and i feel I have vastly improved (especially with all the recent commissions). I believe it's time to move on a bit. I have noticed that in general it's the colour pieces here on deviantart that get the attention, and as another deviant put it, when we dream up a concept, we see it in colour. Not in black and white.
So with that in mind, for colouring practice I'm going to start going back through my old sketchbooks (and there are quite a few LOL) and colouring some of the older sketches i find there. I've done some pieces in colour before but with the (hopefully) greater understanding of light and shadow that all this sketching has brought, I can produce coloured pieces that I can be as proud of as i am my recent sketches.
I'll post the new pieces here, with a link to the original sketch. Feel free to let me know if you think I've improved against earlier attempts or against the original sketch. Or where you think I'm going wrong (or right

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Harley Quinn

Mermaid