Lately I’ve been revisiting old Photoshop files and seeing if I can improve on them. Also with this image in particular, I tried a new technique of adding colour to black and white sketches. Previously I had had limited success by using colour overlays in Photoshop. However the other day a mate at work showed me how to use gradient maps to add multi-tonal colours to images, this allowed me to get colours with nice saturated gradients which I was previous unable to achieve. For a first attempt it's not too bad; however I'm planning to use this technique a lot and hopefully will improve retrospectively. In the image I’ve added the original as a comparison. I eventually gave in and went on the net to look for references to help nut out the shapes of particularly the eyes. I find that if I look at references and other art work the quality of the final results is much greater.
