Bug Man

MY class was given this as a colouring task on Photoshop and here is what I have done;

We started with an outline and base colours, each stage of what we had to do is on the left hand side.

 After applying the base colour we have to move on to create where the shadows. This is done in a separate layer.

With the shade area slightly covered it creates the effect that you want to help produce with creating where the light falls on the subject. By doing this in a layer that's separate with the base colour you can use another overlay to do all the highlighting.

Shading is mostly helping with the light aspect of the image. Knowing where the light will fall helps the entire colouring process.

Just by adding a shaded area the character already looks as if it’s coming to life.

The last part would be adding the rest of the tone. One shade will not help in this situation as it still looks flat. What to do next would be to make all the areas with a brighter aspect show.

 With the image almost done getting rid of the areas that you no longer need such as the base colours.

After tiding up the image its seems pretty much done so here's my version of the little Bug Man;