Finals - Process

Here are the basic steps I went through to create the final piece. I decided to do them as two separate images and place them together at a later stage to make it easier

I started with the girls.

1 - I started with the lineart. I traced over the original image, correcting the mistakes in the new lineart. You can see I altered the stance slightly of the second character. 

2 - Next I did the block colours. I stuck with my original basic colour scheme of pinks/lilacs and greens. The pink and green work as opposites but I kept them in the same tome so they still worked well together. The second character's colour palette is more similar to the background so you can still definitely see and notice her but not as much as the girl in green, obviously making her the central character.

3 - Next I added the background from the original rough sketch. I really liked the effect and didn't see the need to recreate it when that was exactly what I wanted anyway. I also shaded the image using the selection tool and gradient tool. That was a new way of shading for me, I usually paint in block shadows, but I feel this method worked a lot better.

4 - I coloured the lineart. The black looked good but was slightly too harsh and flattening. By colouring the image,I feel it brings it more off the page.

Next, the boys, following the same process as the girls mostly

1 - I altered the sketch slightly by redrawing the legs.

2 - Block colours. I was using the same colour scheme of green and purple/pink, going more purple with this character. I used slightly different versions of green and purple so they weren't identical to the girls, I felt that wouldn't have looked great. However by using slightly different colours, its easy to see they match the girls, who the couples are and the images work as a set and clearly look like they match.

3 - Shading. Again, I used the gradient tool.

4 - The line art was coloured