Here I have added a little more detail and discipline to the drawing, putting in some architectural elements to the room, changing a few minor proportions, trueing-up the ellipse of the animation disk. These are things that are hard to change at a later stage in painting so are best done now.
Ready to Paint
Now the drawing has been uploaded to a Photoshop file, the background copied onto a new layer, and the layer set to Multiply (Layer/Layer Style/Blending Options/Multiply). This action with a gray-scale layer causes the white areas to become transparent, thus making my drawing useful as an overlay which I will keep above the painting layers throughout the painting process, turning it on anytime I want to check the painting against the drawing for accuracy. But the goal is to eventually make this drawing layer redundant as the painting becomes in itself fully detailed and complete.
The sepia color you see now is from a new layer added beneath the drawing layer. This is a mid-value tone that I will now paint over and is equivalent to the wet media painting technique of laying in a mid-value brownish wash as a starting point before applying color.
Next: Establishing the Palette
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