King of the Dead: The Lord and Keeper of the Underworld, His Majesty: the Taker and Giver
King of the Dead digital colour
original ink drawing
After sitting on this one for 4 or 5 months I decided to give a crack at colouring this, as it has been a while since I have coloured anything digitally. The colour scheme I used is a bit different then my usual palette as it is a bit more muted and earthy. I thought at first the colours I had chosen would be to complicated and make the illustration even more complicated, rendering it muddled and unreadable. This, however, was not the case, as I think I lets everything have its own space and quadrant, while the yellow/gold and blue pulling it in together. I also did some experimenting with the design by adding a sort of musculature “ghost” overtop of the kings face to try but ultimately abandoned it as, I thought, although it added to the creepy element, it ended up covering up much of the design and distracting.
