this one is a work in progress, but I feel it's worth showing as this painting to me was a fun experiment that ultimately led to me developing a new workflow that was displayed with my Strider Hiryu piece.

Starting with values of grey, I played around with layer options in photoshop to combine a base color layer with the greyscale layer to create this image.

It still needs work, but to me is important as it was a positive development for my skill and technique.