Colour this picture.

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I can do much better than that any given day. (I'd say, would take me 30 mins to do too) Just pay me 10$ and I'll happily shade and do anything for it too. For christ sakes, there's no shade at all! Not on her, not on trees, nowhere but under his ASS. And even that I think was already there.... There's some highlighting in the trees to upright and it makes no sense in the said context either.

Indeed, I cannot do highlights or shading to save my life (not because I can,t draw them, but because I'm horrible at figuring where to put them. See for example the claws on Tailmon's paw), hence the flatness. While I agree actual shading would help, I still think the color is an improvement on the original (and oddly enough, nobody would ever have criticized that original for having no shading).

There's no whiteness at all visible, and all the colors are right aside the weird highlight.

Well, I went lazy over the trees (and I didn't want to color them all flat), so as I mention above I generate a series of green layers with random highlights that, combined together, don't look too terrible.

I do find the trees being all different colors a bit weird too but that's just nitpicking.

I used five different colors, which is not all that much, though I should probably have used less.

Here's something I did in 5 mins. If you don't want to pay me, I'll just be on my merry way to comment more colorizations and help more people who'll take potential customers from me.

I know it's a bit nasty given it's a five minute job, but I have to take a turn critiquing. I'm not clear there were any added shadows (so it's not exactly the best way to show me up), and the lineart cleanup is, quite honestly, horrible. Whatever you've done, it unsharpens the lines and make the shadows all wonky. Even what should have been white from the start doesn't actually look like it was. The compression artefacts are downright scary (Seriously, compression more than 80~85% is the best way to ruin an image), and the background is a hack job. Featureless white would have done it just as well, if not way better (it makes the lighting look way off).

If it's a manga scan, and you tried to take away the half-tones, that was IMHO a stupid move: half-tones in manga are part of the style itself, and getting rid of them is not only a massive hassle (you need very high-res scans to have a good chance) but ultimately pointless.