Star Wars GM Screen: Round 4 WIP

So I've taken quite a long break from further developing this game master's screen because it was getting to be so overwhelming to work on. Working up tone in grey tones has been taking forever, and I am not confidant in laying down color on top of the grey tone work. Nor was I happy about the way I have been coloring in my illustrations in the past, and depending on the drawing so much (by that I mean the lines).

In fact, rendering and seeing my drawing disappear completely is a little scary. But after doing the mermaid piece for the CGHub challenge and being ok with the disappearance of my line work.....it made me reconsider coming back to this piece.

So in returning to this piece....

I decided to change up how I am working on this. I kinda nixed working up my tones in grey because I find that it's very hard for me to color over it that way. Why that is? I have no clue, it could be that it's because it's still a new process for me to color over grey. So instead I am doing what I did when I colored in my mermaid: working up color and tone on a flat tone drawing. I dunno why it seems to be easier for me to work this way, but it's whats working. For me at least....

So right now I have thrown in a little bit of color, trying to work out a pallet that will make sense AND look good. It's a struggle so far because 1) in reality nothing is color coordinated, so it's my job to make sure that in this picture the colors work well together, and 2) there is a lot of white on the right panel due to the stormtroopers. I'm really just laying in colors and figuring out my lights and darks right now, so things will get pushed back (saturation wise) as well as pulled out as I continue to work this up.

Hopefully this turns out well. I'm not really sure when this is going to be finished at all anymore, but hopefully it  turns out well in the end.