For the most part, I’ve just been posting my fan art creations on social media (Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter specifically), but this one I wanted to show here as a before/after thing, comparing my first ever effort at digital coloring with my most recent. So here’s the just-completed Izzy in Drag piece, line art done in natural media, coloring done in Photoshop:
![](http://www.studiondr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-IzzyDrag-color200-750x1000.jpg)
![Taxonomically Unbound puns about math and food](http://www.studiondr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/horsedoover.png)
I would say that’s a bit of an improvement, no? To be fair, I did install a bunch of digital brushes in the intervening 13 years, so I had more texture options for coloring Izzy. Even so, I have learned a lot about flatting and clipping masks and transparency and so forth.
This is all self-taught, by the way. I would love to take a class in digital coloring someday, but it ain’t happened yet.
Cheers,
Dylan