Sijun Forums :: View topic - Hey Liquid!, help... ...uh por favor that is.

FrageNSTEIN · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2000 1:29 pm

Just wondering if someone from liquid might be able to do a quick demonstration of colors on this pic:

Here is mine so far:

Sorry for the file sizes.

Oh and anyone is welcome to comment, crit, or suggest stuff.

Drew "frageNSTEIN" Haynes

SporQ · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2000 1:45 pm

you're doing great man, just finish it up.

SporQ

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

Just a couple of things.. and don't take this as being mean.. just advice.

First thing is you might want to contribute to the forum alot more before you start asking the professionals to give you free demos. They come here on occasion when they have free time to show stuff they are working on. You are kinda asking Liquid! to work for you for free.

Second is you want to always give credit to the artist who did the linework. Even though they signed it you want to give em props so to speak.

Third.. the critique. You have the same problem I have it looks like. There isn't enough contrast and seperation in your tones. If you change your image to greyscale it all pretty much blends in together. You also want to keep in mind a lightsource. Your highlights are all over and don't seem to be coming from any particular source. Last but not least you want to make sure you are adding form to the lineart and not just coloring it in.

In any case, welcome to the coloring club. You will hear simular critiques over and over.

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FrageNSTEIN · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2000 1:55 pm

So sorry. I just seemed like they did that often, an about the artist, I never seem to be able to remember his last name!

But all credit to him, whoever he is, and I will put the advice to work for me.

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

heh... I've been here forever and Liquid! has never said anything to me about my colors, so... don't get your hopes up.

(Course now that I say this he will probably give you a critique to spite me. CURSES!!!)

Blitz · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2000 2:28 pm

Your coloring is coming along. I think the critique Chapel gave you sums it up for me.

Iv been coming here for a few months and finally got to talkn to Liquid at 3:00 in the morning about his Darth Vader. I got a chance to give him some friendly advice about the helmet. I was pretty tickled about it.

Blitz

Brue · Guest Member #

the first comment i ever got was from liquid! he even did a re draw and stuff for me. He's a cool guy with TONS of talent. I think everyone on the forum looks up to him or atleast knows who he is.

Matt Elder · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2000 2:57 pm

The image is coming along nicely but the colours are not seperated enough. Anyhow the following link has a couple of good short tutorials about comic colouring. I'd recommend checking out links 1, 5, 6, 7.

www.comiccolors.com/index1.html

Then click on 'tutorials' at the top of the screen

If you want some practice to try to match a 'professional', check out:

www.joemadureira.com

as he has a posting of a black and white TMNT and also the coloured version.

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Matt
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