Most of the time when I start an illustration I try to roughly figure out what colors I should use, I generally do 3 or 4 of these roughs.
These are the ones I used for the Broken Cipher illustration, I still like first one a lot, I think if the blue was a little more subtle it could've worked perfectly to contrast the light of the spell the shugenja is casting, maybe I'll use that color scheme for another illustration, you never know.
