Well, I... (Colored)

I finally got around to coloring this one. I didn't realize how tricky it would be to color a character as dark as Velvet Remedy. The white in her hair made it tough to balance the gray I needed to to giver her hair some texture, and the need to avoid making her coat too dark, and the need to contrast the two! It was a learning experience.

I re-realized my love of the colorless blender. I think it did a great job smoothing out the strokes in her coat and hat. It looked more grainy on my camera that the actual drawing, so I added a very subtle blur to try to compensate. Who knows.

I  tried a little different technique with the hair, then realized it wasn't really a good drawing to be trying it out on. I'm not particularly happy with her mane.

Looking between them, I honestly can't decide if the coloring looks any better than the pencil sketch version. What do you guys think?

Original: paulicus1.deviantart.com/art/W…