Nicki - Part 5

Portrait of my girlfriend that I'm working on.

Rather than re-paste the same information that's on all the previous versions, I'll give you a little more information on the process I'm using for this portrait. I'm working in only 3 layers at this point; the line layer, background layer, and the layer I'm putting all the color on. I had more layers in Part 2 and 3, which was required by the technique I was using at the time, but I went back to keeping it simple. This is still more of a learning process for me so I'm enjoying the simplicity of this set up quite a bit at the moment.

Most recent progress: Finally have my full color palette down. Pretty much all of my flat colors, and the darker and lighter variations, applied to the portrait. I have quite a bit of more work blending the colors together and making it look more "real".

Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]
Part 3: [link]
Part 4: [link]
Part 5: You're looking at it
Part 6: [link]
Part 7: Might be unnecessary
Final Lineart: [link]

Work-In-Progress.

Digital sketch drawn in Photoshop CS5 using an intuos 4 tablet.

Suggestions, comments, critiques etc. are much appreciated.