#im really glad you like my pfp its an old artwork but it was a starting point for me when i started applying for zines iirc :))

[caelanglang]

Did you draw your own pfp? If so, how did you color it? Especially the lineart. It's so pretty!

aww thank you! i'm so glad you noticed! yes, i made the pfp myself :)) it's my favorite character of all times ;w; Allen Walker from D. Gray man! here's the full work!

i colored the lineart and changed the layermode to Multiply, i also duplicated the lineart and set it under the Multiply layer then gave it a layermode of Colorburn! this gives it a crispy color in my case (but you can always play around with colors and different layermodes to get the best effect which different from each drawing, in my case it just happened to be this) I like duplicating line arts and changing their colors/layermodes when i play around :))

i used mostly flat colors but added slight hue variations along with a simple shadowing! I only have one value for the shadows but instead of using a single color, i used different colors with the same value to give it a more colorful and lively look:

for example, when i turn everything into black and white, you can see that the fur has only 1 value in terms of shading but in reality i used different colors that have similar values to make it livelier!

Hope this helps! thank you for noticing Allen in my pfp xD he is my angel crying in the bar over the recent manga update

#should i tag this as d gray man lol #dgm #wip jail #im really glad you like my pfp its an old artwork but it was a starting point for me when i started applying for zines iirc :)) #hope this helps and thank you for asking! #inbox replies #protip: you can make an entire layer filled with white and set the layermode into Color so that it can act as a black and white filter! #<- i use that all the time to conveniently check my values when i color! #color and values and very closely related :)) if you want me to make a mini tutorial let me know (i'll try to find time TT)