All my life I thought these lizards in Hawaii were Chameleons. As I was searching the interwebs for reference photos of a Hawaiian Chameleon, all I could find were the horned Jackson Chameleons. But, these green dudes as it turns out are anole and not chameleons at all–even though they change their color from brown to green to match whatever they are standing on, which I thought was a trait specific to chameleons. Apparently not. Also, octopi change their colors, way quicker and more fluid than this anole dude.
This is still a work in progress. Edges need to be cleaned up a lot and the bleed of colors needs to be reined in. Tried a new process to quick start. This explanation will only make sense to users of Clip Studio Paint Pro or a similar program but here’s my process…
Step 1: Here’s a lizard outline.
Step 2: On a separate layer, I made the tree outline.
Step 3: On an even separat-er layer, the background…
Step 4 is my sloppy color slapping.
Step 5: I’ve been trying to get as much mileage out of the colorize feature in CSP. This time though, I did three separate auto-color steps. First, I set the lizard layer as the reference layer, hid everything and used that sloppy paint layer to auto-colorize with. It gave me this.
Step 6: Do the same thing for the tree layer
Step 7: Once again for the background sky/seascape.
Step 8: I hid all the outline layers. Un-hid the 3 autocolor layers. I also made a duplicate of the top lizard layer so that it would stand out more. Then since the default layer-type for a layer when you use the auto-colorize is “Multiply” if you make all the layers visible it is like stacking transparencies on top of each other. Came out with something like this…
After that, I merge all four layers together and change it to a Normal layer. Still in process, but just a matter of pushing a bunch of paint around my virtual canvas. Hopefully, tourists in Waikiki will buy this print when it’s complete.
WIP to now:
And here’s a gif for your visual entertainment:
