Complimentary Colors Yellow / Purples

I was reading a tutorial on colors and how to best harmonize them in an image and thought i would practice a bit on a sketch i had quickly doodled one day. I'll show the steps i took starting from the beginning image. 

Step 4

I tried harmonizing the yellow tones of her body with a deep purple background and a yellow hatch texture in the background. Its a bit rough but it all seems to come together. Comments?

Step 3

adding darker values of a warm color instead of black to create more of a feeling in the image. 

Step 2

 adding basic colors.

Step 1

Starting image.

The Guitar Man

"Operation Geekling Dinosaur Project"

My sister sent me this link www.thekarpiuks.com about a couple who are collecting dinosaur images for their new son's baby room around the first of the month [may]. I thought about it and decided to give it a go. I started googling some images of my old favorite types of dinosaurs. What i found... they were surprisingly scarier than i remember. So I continued to search and remembered that i didnt have to draw them looking so nasty... I put a scarf on my first doodle below. I had continued and thought i had a good one of a dino drinking some tea but then i started over and got this image of a sky diving dino. I figured for a little boy it should be adventurous!

dinosaur concepts

sketch

Work In Process with Color

I got as far as this before i had to let it dry. I just have to add my clouds and rescan it back in and submit it. Tried to stay away from going too much into the black colors and added as much color as i could. I hope you all enjoy! Suppose that will be all for now on this... keep checking for posts on the final image!

5/10/2011

Just a few quick doodles ive done over the past few months when I've had time of my man different characters. Theres a chance I will go back and add some color to them. Check em out :)

Character designs / Names / Concepts / Etc are all original and i would greatly prefer it if they were not copied in anyway. If you have the greatest need to borrow any of my images please email me first, you'll be surprised to find I do check my email frequently enough so that you would not have to wait long.

Thank you!

Nirvana - Shatter's Son

Fazzle Design Concepts

Pollution with other Wolfy Doodles

Frosty and Rue