Gatillos

Today I decided to try and put a little more effort into coloring and shadows. Up to this point shadows are most of the time drawn on a separate layer on top of everything, with a filter of type 'darken'. That works great for some shadows, but it doesn't play well with other objects, as it needs to be on top of everything. It's essentially like drawing with a brush over the finished drawings.

I decided to combine that with a different approach: create shadows as just basic shapes with color and put them in the same layer as the rest of the picture, as regular 'citizens' in the drawing. That means I can draw the shadow of a table and then put a table on top of it, without having to spend too much time trying not to accidentally draw over the table while shading.

Mmmm. Maybe that doesn't really make sense, particularly if you've never tried to draw with a vector program like Inkscape.

Anyhow, you can find the result below. First is the draft by hand, then I outline it, then adjust it and make it more round, and finally I play with color and layers:

I created the color palette displayed below the pictures using http://kuler.adobe.com --I don't know much about color, but those just seem right. I've been using the same palette since the beginning, although I sometimes play with transparency and grays.