A Christmas party? With cats!? Can you imagine anything better? I made this drawing as kinda an early Christmas present to mat and star. If you’re wondering why Star’s on the tree, well where else do you suggest I put a star? Go check out @Mattanator4prez and @GazerOfStars (Although if you’re on my page then you probably already know them) The process for the background was kind of difficult so I thought I could explain it here. Scroll through the different photos to see what I’m talking about. #1 This is the original background. It felt pretty cluttered and the characters didn’t stand out the way I wanted them to. #2 turning the image black-and-white I could see how the values of the colors blend together and get messy in points. (to turn an image black-and-white easily make a full white layer over the others and turn it to color mode) #3 star was a pretty dark character in the image so I decided to lighten the background behind her and also Jeshu (Matt’s cat) #4 seeing how bright me and Lightpaw were I decided to make our background much darker #5 you can see that since I was working in pure black-and-white to adjust the values it looks kind of bad in-color. but I what I was doing was just testing what values the elements of the background needed to be. Now that I can see the characters now stand out, I can probably color the background. Finished I think the finished one looks awesome and much more coherent. If any professional artist have any tips, please let me know I’d love to absorb your knowledge.
