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Quote: K, I am NO expert nor am I as good as this, but he has no shading on his suit which makes it kinda hard to see everything else. So, if you chose a kind of off-black, like almost a dark dark dark dark dark purple tone, and then shaded it, it would be awesome. But the rest of him is epic!
I am working on the suit. If I do slightly lighter shades it may help. But black is tricky. I am still learning. And thanks My book is epic.. I want epic illustrations!
You don't need to make the black lighter. Keep it dark and add highlights. It's the same concept of pushing values.
To experiment, take a sheet of black paper and use a piece of white chalk to draw one of your characters. You should be able to accomplish the same values by adding highlights as you would with black on a white piece of paper.
Thats what I meant buy lighter shades was highlighting I just don't want the uniform to appear glossy.