Artist's commentary
NT10 271
Round 9 in NT10: Kamijou Touma vs. Index and Leivinia Birdway. This was delayed because that little Gungnir is a pain in the butt to properly color. Other gold objects as of late were shown with little to no shading in the black and white illustration, but here it is very detailed, so I had trouble in imagining how gold it should be. I have made 12 iterations of the spear, but in the end I settled with the seemingly bronze one, like fool's gold. It should represent that Leivinia's spear is a fake. It is golden of color but it appears as if it was wooden, and moreover it is not shining gold as is with the other golden colored spiritual items that I have colored up.
As for Index, all the descriptions of her hair is silver and this is conveyed in illustrations as bluish-purple. Here, I originally colored it as if it was some sort of metal, like the one I used with Agnese's Lotus Wand. I later saw that her hair was very dark, so I just put "blue" in the above layer and just linear dodged it and adjusted the opacity. I think it shows here that it a bit silvery. Did you know that in all of her "fully-clothed" official colored illustrations Index's habit uses shades of purple why her dress uses shades of blue?
I believe it is late afternoon here, so it is a bit orange-y and a bit dark.