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How are you rendering these? You have such amazing talent and patience!
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First, thank you. It IS a ton of work, though less than when I was painting these in color. I've been uber-nervous about what people would think about the grays, so again, thanks!
Somebody else asked me on one other page, so I'm going to copy and paste my reply, 'cause I'm like, brain-dead tired right now.
I have several approaches to doing grayscale.
For this one, since it was going to be night, I made the white of the page a dark gray. If you have an art program, like photoshop, manga studio, or sketchbook pro, you have layers that you can work on. I make a dark, but not black, layer behind the line art that I drew, and set the line art layer to "multiply", which makes the white of the original drawing clear.
Then on the darkened layer behind the line art, I just start painting in the highlights using white, or sometimes color dodge. If anything needs to be darkened, after I'm all done with the highlights, I will go in and use the burn tool, to subtly add darker shades.
If you don't have one of those programs, and want to practice on paper, I would suggest getting vine charcoal, a kneaded erase, and some sort of art paper that has texture. There is charcoal paper, also, but you can pick whatever you like. Oh, and a chamois, if you can swing a few extra bucks.
Using the side of the charcoal, cover a whole sheet with a layer of charcoal. Then use your hands, or the chamois, to smear it around and make a nice dark gray sheet.
As you start drawing whatever your subject is, just lightly use the charcoal and focus on adding the light to your forms with that eraser, and less so on delineating them with outlines.
There are some good tutorials on youtube. One series that you'll probably like is by "idrawgirls": [link]
Also, TixieLix, if you need an art program, this is a free demo that you can use. The only provision that I'm aware of, is that the program won't save files with multi-layers. But you can cheat and get around that, by saving each layer of art as a seperate image, so that you can come back and work on the files later if you don't get them done in one sitting.
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Thanks again!
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Thanks for your reply. I use photoshop at the moment and I'm still experimenting and such so it's great to get some tips from someone who's already got a proven method!
Thanks for adding me to your watch too - hope I don't disappoint you
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You do good work! I also haven't mentioned it much, but i have been drawing and toning these on an ipad. (Something I constantly read can't be used by serious artists. Also something I am trying to disprove.)
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Oh, and now that I've seen your work, I'm somewhat sure you already have art software. 
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i prefer the greyscale on this, mainly because i felt the color versions washed away a lot of your lineart, and it's some of the best you've done, in my opinion.
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Thank you very much, man. Tanya's been saying it for some time, and I've been giving it a lot of thought, so I figured I'd give the grayscale a try, once again. I'm pretty happy with it, too! So thanks for your input, dude!
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it's hard to say. I like both, I see pros and cons in both cases. Comparing the two versions i can see thet grayscale is more "readable", in the color version some lines are more confused and part of your drawing sign is not visible as it deserves. On the other side we lose the color magic vibe.
However if i have to vote I vote greyscales for the rason i said
Good work in both!!!!!
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Thank you very much, Simone! It's hard to let go of the color stuff, but for now I think it's best. Keep it simple, and such!
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I gotta say, I do prefer the greyscale a lot. ...Mr.I'mgonnabeonlinemoreoften.
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I swear I hop on like once a week, and I haven't seen anybody on lately. Not even Loston "hot links" Wallace!
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Oh, also, thank you! Glad to know the grays are liked.
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