Decided to give this fanart project another try, and deleted all of the previous color layers. I had an idea to make it look more oil-paint-like and to try color it more "loosely" instead of locking layers/staying inside of the designated color areas and then try to figure out the color style from there. This preview is really really rough, but I kinda like it. The style isn't as stark/straightforward as the song/song beat is, but the different color palette areas might sorta fit in, and at this point I just want to get back to drawing/coloring it and stop wasting time fretting over whether it "matches" the feel of the song or not.
One thing that I will still be fretting over though is resizing the image/lineart on large canvases. I can't believe how horribly jagged the lines get. D: Even following the advice of resizing in percentages of 75%, 50%, or 25% it only minimally makes a difference, and the interpolation things don't make that much of a difference either, though the Sinc/Lanczos was the nicest one I guess. How do the artists on DA do it? Do they use thicker lines so that after resizing they won't be so thin? Maybe the more advanced paint programs have better options.. :/ I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask some of them.
