[dalickwid]

hi. my name is Brandon Young...im 20 years old and i am currently a junior in college doing a computer science and EMAC(electronic media arts and communication) major...

i rediscovered comic books a few months ago and decided that i wanted to pencil them professionally if not for my main source of income...here's some of the pencil work ive been doing since deciding on this goal listed in order of completion date beginning with the earliest picture completed:
http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/lara_croft.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/lara_croft2.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/The_Magdalena http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/cyclops_wolverine_sequential.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/ink01.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/gully2.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/merry_christmas.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~youngb/barbarian02.jpg

a few days ago i discovered this forum and i was blown away with the quality of coloring that is done here...and, although i myself like pencilling best, ever since i saw battle chasers i have completely come to acknowledge the importance and impact color has on a piece...i would go so far as to say i feel that skilled colorists add as much or more to a finished piece these days (these days as distinguished from the days i was collecting comics)

so being a colorist was something i kind of latently wished for...not that i had a huge drive for it or anything but i always thought it would be nice to do...but i just assumed that colorists were just magicians blessed with higher sight than everyone else because battle chasers blew my mind...

however as a result of studying the work on these forums ive come to realize that coloring has everything to do with penciller's renderings...i sort of came to the conclusion that pencillers were really just colorists who worked in a black and white digital world...whereas colorists have an effectively continuous range of tonal values at their disposal...

today someone posted a picture they drew and asked for people to color it and for whatever reason i just decided to throw caution to the wind and give it a go...despite the fact i only have photoshop 5...use a trackpoint mouse...and had about 2 MB free on my hard drive...

i was quite pleased with my results and ive decided that i will try to be both a professional penciller and colorist...so here's the piece...it was drawn by tita! and colored by me...first is the original inked piece and what follows is...obviously, the colored version:





although coloring is not quite such a mysterious art to me now i do acknowledge that--as with anything in life that im discovering for the first time--i most likely know approximately .00001% of what i think i know about the subject...not to mention im already aware that i have no clue about what colors go together design wise...so i would appreciate it if i could get some critique and insight from you guys on what's working and not working about my colors and/or pencils and/or inks...however, like i said, this first picture ive colored was not drawn by me...only colored by me...it was drawn by tita!

-Brandon

[This message has been edited by dalickwid (edited January 26, 2001).]

[Freddio]

welcome aboard...

cool art wook.

[EviLToYLeT]

Looks great. I love the santa one Anyway, your coloring looks pretty cool except rarely do the colors get so white and also the colors should be close in warmness.

[dalickwid]

close in warmness?...does that mean pick a shade of blue that's more purple?...or do you mean brightness or what...and with the whites...those are supposed to be those highlights of shinyness or whatever that liquid! puts on his surfaces...i guess i blew it though

-Brandon