I’m really enjoying this colouring technique. Lots of clipping masked layers and liberal use of brushes and textures. Original document size is 4589x7100px, ~500mb.

I’ve been using the excellent free hi-res brushes available from BittBox, which you can download here for set one and here for set two. There’s also a great list of free watercolour brushes here.

The original sketch is below:

And the coloured image:

Edit 16/9/09

A repainted scene. I think this is more complete and visually pleasing, but I’m still not happy with some bits of it: