And Evil shall reign o'er all.

[Hoeloe]

He means that Wizard thread you did, unless you deleted it.

Ah, I was a little confused because he mentioned an edit, though there were no edits in that thread.

What, wasn't the shading example I gave you before enough or something? You can use dark colours just fine, jusat don't use heavy amounts of black. Ever.

Ah okay. When you said "alternative methods", I assumed you meant something other than you had already put in your edit, my bad.

I remember in high school out art teacher never gave us black paint when we did pieces; the only times she did was when one of the better students requested for it and she agreed. It's because pure black will KILL a work; especially one as small and jubled as the ones you're posting here.

You may have noticed a newer version on this page with much less black in it, though whether this is enough or not, I'm unsure of.

I'm actually giving up here. I honestly don't feel like whatever (limited, inexperienced) help I'm trying to give is getting through to you. Peace.

I'm trying to get to grips with this, but I'm quite unsure how to go about colouring an object that is supposed to look almost black (ie. the coat) without actually making it almost black.