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Okay, I'm going to be taking the final dip and will be opening commissions soon in the future for pixel art FR dragons. I gotta work out exact prices, but stay tuned 👀

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Example images:

Niki Lauda — Sunday 28th March 1976 Long Beach

Another go at colouring a black and white photo. The full colour image above is only 75% the size of the full colouring I did due to Tumblr's image size limit.

Some explanation to my process below.

From what I learned with the previous image, I did a lot more manual editing on this one to hammer out more of the small details. The days of colouring it took just to get the overall picture, aside:

Had to desaturate his hair and skin from my original colouring. Niki's a lot more ash-brown than first assumed. He's also a pale lil' rat with some notable five-o'clock shadow and some minor pockmarking.

The sunglasses also ended up being further desaturated because I think an aspect of the time's colour photography made the lenses appear much more orange than they were in reality.

Four different very shades of red I had to keep track of the palette for, please save me.

Manually went back and desaturated/detailed the shading on the fireproof and jacket's stitching, and the black of the inner-jacket.

Manually detailed his skin more where some shadow and flush was not captured in the original black and white, or was lost when coloured. Skin is the hardest part to capture in colouring, so please tell me how I did!

Manually painted in all his flyaway hairs and the temple and sideburn area.

Manually placed back in a lot of lost shadow throughout pretty much the whole thing.

Manually fixed some photo degradation and other photo issues, and ran it through Topaz to denoise the image to make it easier to detail the colours in.

Added a very minor warm lightening tint since the day was so bright. It also adds colour continuity, which helps it look more natural.

All of Niki is coloured fully accurately to the times and to real life. Only the background (not including the road and concrete barrier) has been coloured with some amount of creative liberty, though it still matches the colour of the area from other photos.

Please tell me what you think, and if you know any photos that might look really nicely coloured. Who knows, maybe I'll take coms for it.

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I originally was trying to decipher the design of his chest but then got distracted lol

Pixel art I did for my Niki Lauda fan-dragon. Depicted in his pre-1976 unscarred state.

Flight Rising [And Not Flight Rising] Commissions!

Finished Work Examples ^^^ All animated comms come with still versions

My Flight Rising account with my art shop forum post can be found in my Tumblr bio!

More details copy-pasted from there are below the cut.

Open to doing commissions outside of FR dragons. Good with most animals (canines, felines, equines, etc). The pricing will be discussed and will follow the above guides as close as possible.

Open to doing simple backgrounds that may increase cost, but I don't currently have art examples for it.

Post-Glorious Evolution. The brace maintenance.

Uh- are you aware of the meaning of proship?

Proship has never meant anything except a combination of three ideas:

Ship and let ship (your ships don't harm me and vice-versa) and YKINMK (your kink is not my kink, and that's okay; my kink stories don't harm you and vice-versa)

Harassment over fiction is not acceptable

Censorship of fiction is not acceptable either

Any other definitions are made by antis, not proshippers, and are an attempt at revisionism to justify harassment based on false claims.

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