As well as 1971s items (see preceding tutorials) I also recently picked up a couple of Nursoda’s characters a while back and have only just had a chance to install and test along with the rest of the sales haul. Here are Nursoda’s new Onats and Blumi, together…
They led me to explore the possibilities of the colour merge slider in Poser’s Sketch render controls. It’s always been an annoyance before, as I was focusing only on painterly effects, line-art and then the Moebius dash shading. So I turned over a new leaf and started to explore it. Adding a slight merge-back to the Sketch preset can work nicely, and the results provides a base for very easy hand-drawn storybook look…
The disadvantage is not having an inks-only layer to edit, but the advantage is there’s no need to ‘blend colour back in’ via a colour-flats render layer (i.e.: Comic Book Preview without any inks, under a relatively flat light) in Photoshop.