First time dabbling in digital painting. I must say, colour really brings out the life in any drawing, and resolves some of the issues of visually separating 2 areas with similar shading without needing to up the contrast considerably.

it's fun as hell too, but i never expected choosing a colour scheme to be so troublesome. the placeholder colours i had looked awful, as everything was a different colour. in the end i settled on only a couple of main colours...which worked out okay i guess.

chose this drawing because well, it's the one which took me the longest to do, i did it without proper references, AND it bombed. yeap, ironically nobody really liked it. so i thought maybe if i coloured it it'll look better. fortunately it's all a little cartoony and not based on a real person, i can afford to make it look a little less realistic when colouring. i'm not sure if i will be able to achieve a good effect with a realistic portrait.

might try someday though.