colouring a spud

with the Noctureshire population growing, I'm still curious too see if there is a way to colour them that doesn't detract from the line work.

Here is a latest attempt on Spud.

The original

I tried going for a sepia look with a subtle paper texture

And then a watercolour effect

Colour experiment

Whilst I'm populating the monochromatic world of Nocturneshire, I have always been tinkering ways to possibly add colour to them.

For the old characters, I did colour them: examples here here and here. I always felt that the colouring detracted from the work rather than add to it.

A glutton for punishment, I have tried a different approach to colouring but still the same problem I think. I thought I would share anyway.

Here is The Rambling Man, posted today:

And here is the coloured version of him. The problem of the colour making it busy remain, but was an interesting experiment.


Here is the process behind it.

Nocturneshire progress

Just a quick post to display some of the rogues, weirdos and oddities that are populating Nocturneshire at the moment.

Nocturneshire

This has been in the works for a while. I have been chipping away at a sketchbook of characters, exclusively in black and white.

The book pages are 13cm square, the (now tatty) sketchbook has been carried around with me for quite some time, slowly being populated. It's been fun and challenging keeping to a set style for a long period, but that was a large reason for doing it.

I won't post each one to this blog, as it would swamp it. They have their own home in Nocturneshire after all!

Here is a small selection of what's on there so far...