Enjoy this series of drawings showcasing my battle with colouring in Procreate using gradient maps. First pic is the greyscale drawing, then my first, second, and third attempt colouring it.

I struggled to find the balance between spending time rendering the greyscale base, vs fiddling with the gradient map to have the range of colours I wanted, vs the time spent rendering on top of the gradient map. None of these 100% got where I wanted imo but I like documenting the journey!

One of my key gradient map learnings from this? Make sure your greyscale layer is fully opaque. For a long time I couldn’t figure out why the gradient map colours weren’t applying everywhere, and it was because in the first greyscale drawing I used the eraser tool at varying opacities, and the whites were coming from a separate layer below. Combining these fixed it. Seems pretty basic but I didn’t realize 😅