It's getting kinda crowded here

But that's a good thing!

I did this for Illustration Friday a while back, when the theme was Crowded. I always liked the way I worked the colors in this one. Trying something different.

For a little background on how I work usually, I draw in lead pencil (Black Warrior seems to do the best for me) on paper, then I scan it, go into Photoshop and then delete the whites surrounding the image. For a 'how-to' on this procedure, just check out this post. I describe it in more detail there. I then choose my nifty pastel brush in Photoshop and start to work on the colors (I work on a 'color layer' right underneath the 'line layer'). I use the eyedropper tool to help blend the colors in a more natural way, so it don't look too compootery. Keep manipulating the brush to get the colors just right -- the more you work on it, the better you get at it.