Steem Cartoon : The Digital Inking Process to Capture a Mood

This is part of a story where the bounty hunter has brought the head of a monster/criminal to claim for the reward of his hunt. The mood to capture is the ego and confidence in the lead character and I am trying to recreate this by using digital inking through photoshop.

The first step that I will start is with basic colour for every character in the panel first. The layer with the background and the character has to be first separated.

Then I use base colour for the background. The use of colour in the background must go according to tone colours and the emotion of the characters in each box.

The process of detailing on the background must be done according to the base colour that was chosen.

the final process I will concentrate on the detailing of each character by using multiply as shadow and the highlight I will use overlay and linear light on the brush.

This is the result of the work that is completed as a whole.

Till we meet again. I stress on the need to choose the right base colour to capture the mood through the digital inking process and the use of multiple layers.