Coloring Shading Question

[Madd Chef]

Hello, everyone im new here, and have a few questions. I did a bite of an apprenticeship till the artist got a job elseware and had no time for me. I was tought to do the line work, then shading and then your color. Iwas also told to go over the shading with color and the shading should show through. My problem is that It didn't it was just darker. Any suggestions :?: . Also could it be the difference in supplies? I was tought on an old rogers machine, with powdered inks. I now use Fantasia inks, and a Wolverine machine. Also I've seen a few times about the speed, for coloring, I know the slower machine does good shading, but color too?. when do you know its too slow? Thank you to everyone. :P

[Papa Gee]

Normally I just pull the color into the shade but not all the way to the darkest area. I've always understood that you could get a ghost tint or discoloration to your shading if you go over it with a bighter color. So I do the outline then shade then pull the color into the shade and blend it.

[framey]

:evil:

[Madd Chef]

thx, that does sound familiar :oops:

[voodoo]

a little bare skin can really set off the tat-like shading/highlighting with no ink!
know what i mean vern? :lol:

[Gator400]

Yea VooDoo I'm with you less is more!!
So many artist kill there work with to much :wink: