“I want my sketches to look just like my favourite manga magazine growing up…” well, they can!
My favourite choice when I need a gradient map for my sketch pages. My friend said it reminds them of the ink used to print the shoujo manga magazine we read when young, and it made me really happy. I think pink makes everything feel a little bit more romantic and dreamy, right? it’s really cute even if you only want to use it for a valentine’s piece. that sounds cute, right?
While you’re here, enjoy some examples, featuring my catgirl. If you use a paper texture as your base layer and draw with an alcohol marker brush or watercolour paint brush on the layers above, you get some really nice traditional art looking effects. i like how screentones and highlights look with it, too. it was important to me to be able to achieve a wide value range.