fanart, Weighing of the Heart (Sandman)

[ratcreature]

Fandom: Sandman
Characters/Pairings: Morpheus, Matthew
Media used: pencil drawing, inked with fine liner pens, acrylic paint
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: This was my yuletart gift for Rasetsunyo. Besides Morpheus and Matthew, Rasetsunyo mentioned in the requests (for another, non-Sandman fandom) the Egyptian pantheon, and also liking crossovers. This isn't really a crossover with the other fandom, but I thought it would still work to mix Morpheus into in one of the classic scenes of the Egyptian afterlife, i.e. the Weighing of the Heart. So there's Anubis weighing the heart against the feather of truth, Thoth keeping the records, and Ammit (the crocodile/lion/hippo mix demon) waiting to eat the unworthy hearts. I decided to show the waiting soul as Ba with a bird body and human head. I'm not sure why Morpheus is there, but I figured that the Egyptians connected their afterlife underworld to the night and to the journey of the sun might be good enough for this Endless to show up there.
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Comments

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately the scanner killed some of the effect,

Man, yes... mine does that, too. It's a crap piece I bought at ALDI for 50 Euro ages ago, and it swallows nuances. When I looked over that last comic page the next day, I noticed that the scanner had turned my turquoise ocean plain blue. And it was mostly the cyan-blue-green tones that were affected, so I couldn't just shift the color scheme for the entire page or else the faces would look yellow. I guess I'll have to spring for a decent scanner sooner or later.

I think coloring on paper is much easier, too. But then, I find coloring on the computer entirely frustrating. ;) Though it's great for fixing bits and pieces later.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, mine mangles different colors to different degrees as well, so it is hard to fix. Though I try changing the color balances and curves separately afterwards to get a bit closer to the original.

I'd love to have a decent A3 scanner because that I can't scan larger formats without piecing the image together frustrates me almost as much as the color distortion. I don't really have the inclination to draw tiny, and would much prefer to work on at least A3 for most stuff to get decent detail, but somehow parts never fit together right when I scan in two halves.