Post-Glorious Evolution. The Brace Maintenance.

I would snap the red up in a second if made

my lunar new year skin that is available now , and some recolours that i am considering +v+

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.

Checking the Etalon horse genetics database start of every month just to make sure they haven't found another fucking dominant white.

Very lovely, Tumblr has shadowbanned this account. Sorry that I cannot reply to anyone sending me nice things right now.

"Bit the Hand That Fed You"

Illustration for me and @wi55iams' F1 dæmon AU.

A very large web-weave project under the 'read more' for context to a man and his fictional wolf.

And that's all, folks!

It only took 2 days to fix instead of the 1 and half months it took last time 🥳

Very lovely, Tumblr has shadowbanned this account. Sorry that I cannot reply to anyone sending me nice things right now.

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

The sun and the moon (Reibert edition)

Yeah I'm hm uh huh

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

A finished commissioned piece for Chanidae's beloved Unnamed (how mysterious). Thank you so much for supporting me!