Art Correction
While coloring in comic pages I sometimes need to correct parts of what has been drawn due to the artist having forgotten to draw something (like a missing hair accessory on a character) or a part of the image that has been drawn incorrectly. As I often work with tight deadline, often there is no time to contact the original artist and have them fix it. As long as it involves small changes, it is often faster and more efficient to make just contact the editor for approval to make the changes when I seem.
Note, the following examples are in no way meant to disparage the original artists, as mistakes do happen.
The figure shown here, Lunatia, has her right shoulder up to high. Anatomically speaking, it looks off having it that high up. Instead of sending the piece back to the artist to redraw, I took it upon myself to move the shoulder down to make the figure look more visually, and anatomically, correct.
For this, I need to draw a curved line marking the beginning of the should pad. To make sure the line I draw matches the line work of the artist I find a curve they already drew and copy it.
I isolate that copied section.
To start, I needed to make it clearer where the shoulder pad begins and where the arm ends.
Then I flip it to match the angle of the curve I need.
Next, I move the adjusted curve to the spot on the arm, marking the separation of the shoulder pad and arm.
With that fixed, I now need to lower the shoulder. Thus, I selected everything from the shoulder down.
Then I move the selection downward.
I clean up the line art.
Then I draw in the new shoulder.
Finally, I clean up the colors I initially laid down.