CD: Lysander Head Colour Test

So, recently, I've been messing around with colouring styles on behalf of a challenge by my mentor. I've been having a tough time trying to emulate a style of one of my school's alumni, so I've been messing around with that and other things in both Photoshop and SAI and have been using this doodle of Lysander that I did up the other day. Here's some things that I got while playing around and figured I'd share.

The first image, at the furthest left of the picture, we have the flat colour of the lineart. I just put it here as the starting point to all of these.

The second version is basically my general way of a "painterly"-ish style when it comes to colouring. It's when I just usually have a grayscale shading layer multiplied over the colour layer. Here, it's the same basic principle, but I was using a green tone for the shading.

The third image is actually the same setup as the second image. Only here, the shading layer is overlayed over the colour layer instead of multiplied. I thought this one had a nice, soft look to it and find it a lot nicer looking than number 2.

The fourth image is again the same set up as the second - with the green-based shading layer over the colour layer. However here, the shading layer is screened. This one kind of gives it this... light marker or watercolour-y effect and again, I kinda like that. Nice and soft-ish

The last one... I'm not particularly proud of. This was the attempt to copy the one person's style and I... just can't get it. I only included it, because there are some nice things about this method of colouring - mainly the smaller details that are present on the face here compared to the others.

Oh and yeah, I was kinda playing around with lineart styles too here I guess

But yeah Yay for experimentation... Err. Kinda