Police Team Kazuo

At last, it's done. I poured my heart and soul over the last week to finish this piece, and not settle halfway like I usually do. I'd drawn all the characters (save for Goma) separately and layered them individually in Paint, then whited out the various overlaps.

The coloring first began as a normal, light-to-dark gradient, without any hard black shadows. However, I played around with coloring the larger patches of dark color pure black, and after shopping it around to a few people, they all seemed to find the hard shadows more interesting. As I revised the shadows on the existing characters I decided to add a pervading purple glow beneath, something I feel added a lot more dimension.

By the time I finished coloring Ito I didn't even feel like drawing Goma, let alone her giant robot (thanks to ~Rakugaki-otoko for the design), but over several sleepless nights - including this one - I pushed myself to add everything I'd imagined. Was it worth it? You decide, but in the words of DJ Kariu, "if you don't like it: fuck you. I'm serious, homie, kiss my ass."

MS Paint
15~ hours

EDIT: Uploaded upscaled version.