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    posted this a week ago but i fixed the colors

    cthulhu nouveau

    also just finished this one

    appetizer
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      CommentAuthordorkmuffin
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2011
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    @imaginary people, I am IN LOVE with that second one!!
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      CommentAuthorRooth
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2011
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    yeah, like @dorkmuffin said - that is an awesome piece!
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    Unfortunately in a place where I can't post much of what I'm working on, but here's some desk shots that are vague and random.


    desk shot - kevin mellon

    desk shot - kevin mellon
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      CommentAuthorstsparky
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2011
     (9364.5)
    Kevin? Mad use of the 22 panels! Larry Hama would be proud. Your work is stellar.
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    Ha! Thank you.

    I keep it taped to the desk as a reminder; sometimes the simplest shots are the best.
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      CommentAuthorstsparky
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2011
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    John Heebink has a high res scan of it - let me know ... Larry Hama was the one who articulated it for Woody. :D
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    @imaginarypeople: I love how much thought you've put into the design elements of this, especially the mermaid in the waterglass and the men's bones grinder. Very expressive!

    From a small project I'm working on, a piece I'm quite proud of: the Abdominal Snowman. Background may be forthcoming.

  9.  (9364.9)
    @ Imaginarypeople- great work! I feel like a little kid lost in the wrong damn fairy tale! Amazing!
    @Easelfish- awesome snowman, love those eyes!
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      CommentAuthorkperkins
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2011
     (9364.10)
    More from the sketchbook project:

    page 37

    page 38-39

    page 40-41

    page 43
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      CommentAuthorstaticgirl
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2011
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    I quite like this sketch I did of a commuter, even if I did fail at showing how beautiful she was.
    commuter
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      CommentAuthorkperkins
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2011
     (9364.12)
    @staticgirl: I think you did a pretty good job of it, actually
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    All right, this is IMPORTANT so I hope more than one person responds.

    I started coloring my new "short" comic (it's actually 28 pages, heh) and... I'm not certain the colors work as well as they could. SO if you could look at these first three pages and tell me what you think is wrong with them (and whether you would continue or switch to perhaps flat coloring or something if it was your project) because I need a fresh distanced look from someone else, I've been living with those pages since I pencilled and inked them end of December/early January and I don't know anymore.

    consequences of sowing fire
    consequences of sowing fire 2
    consequences page 3

    also, uncolored page 4, so you get some idea where this is going...

    page 4 bw

    Later stuff contains some speedlines during dynamic bits, stark b/w during darker scenes etc. so I don't know if the textured look is apt for the project.

    So, anyone?
    • CommentAuthor256
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2011
     (9364.14)
    Love the carving work in this thread - makes me want to get my woodworking tools out again (I don't think I ever did finish anything last time around...).

    @Aurora - I think the colouring on the first page is great. Maybe that's because it's quite a limited palette and is quite dark/dense - and that's the sort of thing I like to do. The second page (and to a lesser extent the 3rd) is a bit bright/saturated for my taste.

    I never studied colour theory or anything formally but, in my experience, colouring is a very less-is-more sort of thing. The fewer colours you can use, and the smaller the range, the better. (By range, I mean: rather than the entire scale from pure black to pure white, make the darkest bits dark grey and the lightest bits light grey - this avoids being garish, and I think colours feel richer in this range.)

    I definitely like the textured feel, and I think you should stick with it - it certainly gives depth to yr art.

    (Also, I apologise if I'm totally talking out of my ass here - you can assess the quality of my advice better than I can, by seeing the weird colour choices I make...)

    More public domain audiobook-covers:

    LV-TPIS-2-o2

    LVx-CC-4-1-o1


    And yeah, I know the warped text on the 2nd one is tacky but it was the only goddamn thing I could think of to make it hang together.
    Think the next challenge is to do something radically different within the same confines of space/format/content. Which should be... Annoying.
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    @Aurora
    I think your colors just need tweeked a little bit. The sign color on page two is the only thing off on that page. Page three like 256 said, I think just has too many colors going on. The greenish brown color at the bottom of the page--does it really need to be diffrent from the color you used more to the top? I don't think it's got much of a positive impact there.

    Mind that I could also be talking out of my ass. That's just my reaction.
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      CommentAuthorstaticgirl
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2011
     (9364.16)
    Definitely keep the texture; it's lovely. I don't have a problem with the colours myself. Everyone has their own unique palette which identifies them.I like the lineart too which is nice and expressive.
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    I've been doing a lot of commissions. Not a lot of my own work. I did, after months, finally get around to finishing this:

    Power Glove restroom art
  18.  (9364.18)
    Awesome Power Glove! Now I want a Power Glove in carbonite!!!! (you know, made to look like the Han Solo prop, but with a Power Glove...)
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    Thanks for the answers so far.
    Everyone seems to agree on the textured feel (the most time consuming part of coloring after the flatting, haha).

    @256:
    I'm not a master of coloring day scenes, I just stick to "grass is green, wood is brown, sky is blue" kind of thing on those.

    @mercurialblonde:
    The sign on page two was meant to stick out form the art in the "this is not part of the scene" way but I'll see if I can do it in a different fashion. I'll also see aboutthe colors on the last page, maybe that will help.

    @staticgirl:
    Thanks, one of my worries is actually whether I'm obscuring the lineart too much or not (I hate it when that happens in comics, you see a great inked page and then you see the finished color version and all the delicious lines are gone in deep browns and blues).

    Anyway, here's a flat colored page from another comic I did recently for comparison. Meanwhile I'll try to tweak the pages a little and see if I can do something good on page 4.

    canned test
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    @ Nixon; the only problem with that is (I learned after I bought it off eBay) is that the Power Glove is rather cheaply made. All the detail/surface pieces rely on the back of the glove. The hand and such is just thin material. For the Han Solo approach to look authentic, the palm would be toward the viewer/audience. You would lose all recognizance of it being a Power Glove. I had considered having it hold a Light Blaster or something else, but the more I added to the piece, the more it moved and really only a straight downward view worked best for me. That's not to say that you could pour some plaster around it, have it rising up, spray/paint it silver/chrome and the effect wouldn't be awesome but it couldn't be mounted to a wall. I do think it would make a bad ass center-piece for a table/desk.

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