This round, I focused on making the lead lizard-man stand out a bit more. At the very least, I wanted to continue experimenting with the coloring throughout the page.
In the first panel, I added some of the ground color to his back and added some reflected light to his arm. In the second and third panels, I covered him with some of the sky color. Even then, I feel like the lizard-man with the "hook/sickle"-like weapon wound up taking over the third panel. It's mostly because I made the cave area darker. That's the exact opposite of what I wanted to do. All the lizard-men kinda pop better now, but I think I like the bright red dirt in the old version better.
As if I wasn't indecisive enough, THIS happened when I was messing around with layering effects.
I really like the contrast going on there, but I can't figure out how to replicate it without the green (which helps give it that glow). It has such a soft painterly look to it. Maybe I can keep some green around their bodies and blacken out the cast shadows. If I brought back the redness in the soil, that would compliment the green.
Hmmm. I don't know what I'll do.
Now, here I pretty much did what I said I was in the previous Aztec post. I brought a little yellow back to the lizard-men in the second panel, added some value to the third panel, a gradient to the fourth. I decided to throw in that same gradient color to the first panel to tie the whole thing together. A big change I made was brightening up the glow in the second panel. I'm still iffy about that decision. I don't want the values to get too overbearing. I'll keep playing around with everything and see where it goes.
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