Photoshop

After the line work was done and the pencil rubbed out I scanned them into photoshop to edit further and add the colour as I had decided to move into loose ink instead of screen printed. It creates the effect I wanted much quicker and simpler than screen printing. Once I had them in photoshop I started off by adjusting the levels and the canvas size so that they would all be standardised. after that I went over them all with a rubber to make sure there were no marks left.

After I had got the lines to a good standard I started on the ink tests and seeing how  it looked it be overlain with paper. I liked how this looked as it seems to give them a bit of extra depth, having the paper marks. I applied the paper to all and started on how to do the black. As the black is in every illustration with the hair and shoes I had to find out if the ink or digital would work better. I chose to go digital as neither the hair colour nor the shoes should be the focus of attention. I did however decide to do the shadow I'd added digitally with ink as I thought it'd give a better impression.

Once everything else was sorted I only had to ensure that the ink was applied correctly and to the best possible standard, for this one that meant that I had to fill out three different ink shapes to determine which looks the strongest. I chose to go with the first as I found the last overpowering and the second dull. 

These are the ink sections I used to fill in the colour, I got them to the right shape by colouring them with the light box and the printed off illustrations.