Complex digital color layers over ridiculously simple lineart.I didn't like doing digital coloring much in the past, mainly because of the time factor, but recently I figgered if all these people are doing all these comics digitally now, there must be a faster way than what I'm doing.
And there it was--the magnetic goddamn lasso tool. What a dope I am.
Weirdness in Space with the band of Victorian castaways on the asteroid "Caldathera".Here's another page showin' the whole merry bunch. The original pages had wash tones over the inkwork, so now that's lending a sorta hand-tinted-old-photograph look to the whole thing. Naturally, it suits the subject matter, in spite of being an accident.
Sexual repression and we got yer table-legs covered. Though I've already announced the thing is coming, I still am only 10 pages into coloring 60 of them, but I do a few each day in mah spare time so it shouldn't take too long.
Here's one more preview page.
Doctor Vale engineered moving the whole house, brick by brick, to Caldathera.
It's fun because I'm not reading ahead, but rather seeing new pages every day. I'd forgotten a lot of it.
8 comments:
I like the colors on the pages, but the cover could be more eye-catching, more colorful especially. Maybe by making each head in a different color so they will stick out a bit? I would also make the logo have different color than the rest of the cover. Just a few thoughts.
Why don't I send you the lineart and you can show us exactly what you mean?
Sorry Mike but I don't have the time. Maybe some other time?
Kids, this shows it's a lot easier to make criticisms than back them up.
The nay sayers, the critics, are indeed legion...... and all things must conform to their simple-minded, pedestrian views of the world, including art. But any creator with integrity will produce work as he sees fit, ignoring conventional mainstream views of what art "should" look like...anything else is a compromise.
I like muted colors for certain subjects. It looks good here Mike. Keep true to your vision. You can't please everyone. If you could you'd be unique among artists.
He's already unique :)
Dawid, coloring each face separately could be more "eye-catching", but artistically speaking, it would be worthless. Merely and exercise.
Hi Mike, maybe you should invest in a wacom tablet even if it's an old intuos 2 or something?
Makes digital colouring a lot nicer than with a mouse and a bit closer to natural media in that you can vary the marks with pressure and tilt etc.
Takes some time to get to grips with and feels a bit remote for actual drawing but excellent for colouring. You might even enjoy something like Painter which does pretty nice natural media effects like water colour.
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